SPEAKER PROFILES - Associated Christian Schools...Ethiopian immigrants and severely abused girls in...
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Letitia Shelton Founder of City Women Toowoomba, Letitia is sold out to making her city a better place for girls and women. For the last 25 years she has worked closely with teenage girls. She co-ordinates City Women, which is an umbrella organisation for 15 ministries that are reaching out into the city to help women and girls. City Women seeks to mobilise women from all different churches to work together to reach the city and heal the pain. City Women continues to expand into other cities & towns, including the Gold Coast, Illawarra, Caboolture, Liverpool, Townsville and other regional towns. In 2016 Letitia launched The City Free from Porn campaign with her Mayor Paul Antonio. This campaign seeks to raise awareness & education around the harms of porn. She has recently authored a book titled “Fighting for Our Daughters.” Letitia is passionate and will certainly stir you to take responsibility for your city and make a difference. www.citywomen.com.au Dr Jeannie Trudel Dr. Jeannie Trudel is currently the President/ CEO of Christian Heritage College, Carindale, Queensland. Jeannie has a global background, having lived and worked in three countries. Her calling to Christian higher education involves serving in a couple of American universities before returning to Australia. Through various organizations, she was a mediation trainer and organization development consultant in the corporate and non-profit sectors in the U.S. As an academic, she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and led a business school. Formerly a solicitor in Melbourne, she enjoyed her time as a court-appointed/ approved mediator in Los Angeles, Boston, and Louisville. She has a strong interest in conflict management in the workplace. She enjoys traveling and learning different languages in order to connect with others. Her passion is for students to be ignited with the love of Christ and she loves to pray for people. ACS Women’s Symposium - 6 June 2019 SPEAKER PROFILES Jesma O’Hara Jesma is married to John, a Sunshine Coast businessman and they have five children and four grandchildren. Jesma is also a founding board member of Nambour Christian College Board since 1989 and has served as Chairperson since 2002. With her husband John, she serves on the Board of Neighbour’s Aid Community Stores, an organization they established in 2002. The organisation is based on the Sunshine Coast and has opened 6 charity shops throughout Queensland and Fiji. They have over 200 volunteers in Australia and employ over 150 indigenous folk in their overseas projects. Over 1200 children, as well as the communities in which they live, are supported through their programs. The organisation has established and fully funds 3 primary schools, a high school and 2 children’s homes, medical clinics and camps, along with farming initiatives in Malawi and Kenya. They have also established literacy programs, medical camps and tailoring schools for tribal women in India and a primary school for 100 children in a Kolkata slum. They also support tutoring and mentoring programs for the children of Ethiopian immigrants and severely abused girls in Israel. Jesma travels widely throughout Australia, Israel, Africa and the Asia/Pacific region teaching in Churches and Bible Colleges. She has post graduate degrees in Early Christianity and Judaism, and has studied in Israel, majoring on the Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith. She is the author of numerous books and articles. At present she is writing a doctoral thesis on using a business model to raise financial and human resources for aid and development in the Majority World. Ruth Gravestein Ruth Gravestein was born in Calcutta, India and emigrated with her parents to Australia at a young age. She studied at Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Carseldine Campus and obtained a Diploma of Teaching (1986). She graduated with a Bachelor of Education (1991) and Masters of Education (2014) from Christian Heritage College, Brisbane. After teaching for 15 years Ruth was appointed Head of Primary of Citipointe Christian College in 2007, a position she has held to the present day. She is presently a Member of Australian Council for Educational Leaders, Australian College of Educators, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Independent Primary School Heads of Australia, on the Management Committee for Citipointe Childcare and is the Deputy Chair of Christian Heritage College. Areas of particular interest in education include the development and implementation of a holistic Christian education, the advancement of Christian Worldview thinking, Staff development: personal, spiritual and professional, increasing pedagogical creativity and building communities of learning. She has been a member of Bardon Anglican since 1974, the same church where her father was the minister and serves through leading worship. Recreational interests include reading across areas of Christian worldview, spiritual growth, leadership, educational change and innovation as well as a wide range of fiction. Entertaining family and friends, travelling, enjoying movies, theatre and music as well as holidays at the beach are favourite past-times.
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Letitia Shelton
Founder of City Women Toowoomba, Letitia is sold out to making her city a better place for girls and women. For the last 25 years she has worked closely with teenage girls. She co-ordinates City Women, which is an umbrella organisation for 15 ministries that are reaching out into the city to help women and girls. City Women seeks to mobilise women from all different churches to work together to reach the city and heal the pain. City Women continues to expand into other cities & towns, including the Gold Coast, Illawarra, Caboolture, Liverpool, Townsville and other regional towns. In 2016 Letitia launched The City Free from Porn campaign with her Mayor Paul Antonio. This campaign seeks to raise awareness & education around the harms of porn. She has recently authored a book titled “Fighting for Our Daughters.” Letitia is passionate and
will certainly stir you to take responsibility for your city and make a difference. www.citywomen.com.au
Dr Jeannie Trudel
Dr. Jeannie Trudel is currently the President/ CEO of Christian Heritage College, Carindale, Queensland. Jeannie has a global background, having lived and worked in three countries. Her calling to Christian higher education involves serving in a couple of American universities before returning to Australia. Through various organizations, she was a mediation trainer and organization development consultant in the corporate and non-profit sectors in the U.S. As an academic, she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and led a business school. Formerly a solicitor in Melbourne, she enjoyed her time as a court-appointed/ approved mediator in Los Angeles, Boston, and Louisville.
She has a strong interest in conflict management in the workplace. She enjoys traveling and learning different languages in order to connect with others. Her passion is for students to be ignited with the love of Christ and she loves to pray for people.
ACS Women’s Symposium - 6 June 2019
SPEAKER PROFILES
Jesma O’Hara
Jesma is married to John, a Sunshine Coast businessman and they have five children and four grandchildren.
Jesma is also a founding board member of Nambour Christian College Board since 1989 and has served as Chairperson since 2002.
With her husband John, she serves on the Board of Neighbour’s Aid Community Stores, an organization they established in 2002. The organisation is based on the Sunshine Coast and has opened 6 charity shops throughout Queensland and Fiji. They have over 200 volunteers in Australia and employ over 150 indigenous folk in their overseas projects. Over 1200 children, as well as the
communities in which they live, are supported through their programs.
The organisation has established and fully funds 3 primary schools, a high school and 2 children’s homes, medical clinics and camps, along with farming initiatives in Malawi and Kenya. They have also established literacy programs, medical camps and tailoring schools for tribal women in India and a primary school for 100 children in a Kolkata slum. They also support tutoring and mentoring programs for the children of Ethiopian immigrants and severely abused girls in Israel.
Jesma travels widely throughout Australia, Israel, Africa and the Asia/Pacific region teaching in Churches and Bible Colleges. She has post graduate degrees in Early Christianity and Judaism, and has studied in Israel, majoring on the Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith. She is the author of numerous books and articles. At present she is writing a doctoral thesis on using a business model to raise financial and human resources for aid and development in the Majority World.
Ruth Gravestein
Ruth Gravestein was born in Calcutta, India and emigrated with her parents to Australia at a young age. She studied at Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Carseldine Campus and obtained a Diploma of Teaching (1986). She graduated with a Bachelor of Education (1991) and Masters of Education (2014) from Christian Heritage College, Brisbane.
After teaching for 15 years Ruth was appointed Head of Primary of Citipointe Christian College in 2007, a position she has held to the present day.
She is presently a Member of Australian Council for Educational Leaders, Australian College of Educators, Australian Institute of Company Directors,
Independent Primary School Heads of Australia, on the Management Committee for Citipointe Childcare and is the Deputy Chair of Christian Heritage College.
Areas of particular interest in education include the development and implementation of a holistic Christian education, the advancement of Christian Worldview thinking, Staff development: personal, spiritual and professional, increasing pedagogical creativity and building communities of learning.
She has been a member of Bardon Anglican since 1974, the same church where her father was the minister and serves through leading worship. Recreational interests include reading across areas of Christian worldview, spiritual growth, leadership, educational change and innovation as well as a wide range of fiction. Entertaining family and friends, travelling, enjoying movies, theatre and music as well as holidays at the beach are favourite past-times.
