Staff and contact details
Principal
Rev Dr Graham Redding
BCom (Akld); BTheol, PGDipTheol (Otago); PhD (London)
Email: principal@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Phone: 03 473 0784
Teaching: Worship
Before taking up the position of Principal in February 2007, Graham had fifteen years of ministry experience in two churches – Somervell Memorial Presbyterian Church in Auckland and St John’s in the City Presbyterian Church in Wellington. He has held the position of Moderator of the General Assembly, and has served the Church in a variety of capacities, including as Co-convenor of the Equipping the Leadership Policy Group and Convenor of the Doctrine Core Group. His research interests have lain mainly in the fields of theology, liturgics, ethics and the arts. His book, Prayer and the Priesthood of Christ in the Reformed Tradition, was published by T&T Clark in 2003. He is married to Jenni and they have three children.
Lecturers
Rev Dr Kevin Ward
MA(Hons) (Canterbury); BD, DipEd, DipTchg, PhD (Otago); DipMin (NZBTC); MCAIRANZ
Email: kevin@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Phone: 03 473 0786; 021 490 913
Teaching: Church Leadership, Church and Society, Preaching
Kevin joined the team at the School of Ministry in 2003. His previous experience has been as a secondary school teacher, Baptist minister and then for thirteen years as a lecturer and Associate Dean at the Christchurch Centre of the Bible College of New Zealand. His research interests are in religion and church in contemporary society and in congregational studies. He has published widely in these areas in New Zealand and overseas, for both academic and more general readers. He is currently working on manuscripts for two books in this area. He keeps himself balanced by running, tramping, golf, movies (he has taught on Spirituality in Film at Otago University) and enjoying red wine and good coffee.
Rev Dr Jason Goroncy
B.Ed (Melbourne); BTheol, ADipMin (MCD); PhD (St Andrews)
Email: jason@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Phone: 03 473 0785; 0210 210 9222
Web: Per Crucem ad Lucem
Teaching: Theology, Pastoral Care, Presbyterian and Reformed Studies
Jason Goroncy is a Presbyterian Minister of Word and Sacrament who teaches in the areas of theology, church history and pastoral care, and serves as Dean of Studies. His general interests include cooking, reading, the arts, gardening, ornithology, painting, coffee, Myanmar, fishing, photography, and the Chelsea Football Club. His current research interests lie chiefly in Reformed identity, theological anthropology (particularly a theology of childhood and a theology of disability), ministerial formation, and theology and the arts. His doctoral thesis, undertaken at the University of St Andrews, is titled ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All Things in the Soteriology of PT Forsyth‘. He sometimes dreams of being a postman on one of the Western Isles of Scotland.
Auckland Coordinator
Rev. Mark Johnston
BSC (Hons) Victoria; BD (BCNZ); Dip Tchg (Christchurch)
Email: mark@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Phone: 021 242 3735
Landline: 09 638 6676
Address: c/o Epsom Presbyterian Church, 10 Gardner Road, Epsom, Auckland 1023
Mark is an accredited Secondary School teacher who served for five years in student ministry with Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship before being ordained in the PCANZ. He served at Wadestown Presbyterian Church in Wellington before leaving for the U.K. to work with the Church of Scotland in a church planting and community ministry role in Aberdeen. He has been instrumental in exploring and pioneering new patterns of worship and community, and latterly community ministry. He maintains interests in the missional development of church, leadership, and youth ministry.
Adjunct Tutor
Rev Dr Lynne M Baab
MDiv (Fuller); PhD (Washington)
Email: lynne@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Web: http://www.lynnebaab.com
Lynne is a Presbyterian minister and author of a number of books on pastoral and spiritual issues including Sabbath Keeping: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest and Beating Burnout in Congregations. She has a background in parish, self-supporting overseas mission, and campus ministry and as a writer and editor. She recently completed a Ph.D. in communication at the University of Washington. She lives with her husband in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she is a lecturer in pastoral theology at the University of Otago.
Registrar
Catherine van Dorp
BA (Edin)
Email: registrar@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Phone: 03 473 0783
Catherine emigrated from Scotland to NZ in 1982 and lived in Gisborne, Auckland and Orere before shifting to Waikouaiti in 2000. Her background is in accounting and administration management. She is married to David and they have three children. Catherine enjoys reading, entertaining friends and walking on Waikouaiti Beach
Hewitson Library
Phone: 03 473 0771; Email: hewitson@knoxcollege.ac.nz
John Timmins
BA, NZLSCert, PGD Museum Studies
Andrew McPherson
LTC BMus NZLSCert
Lynley B Trounson
DipILS
Presbyterian Archives
Phone: 03 473 0776 X 7851; Fax: 03 473 8466
Email: pcanzarchives@knoxcentre.ac.nz
Web: http://archives.presbyterian.org.nz/
Yvonne Wilkie
Director of Archives : BEd, BA, PGDip (History)
Donald Cochrane
Curator of Photographs, Assistant Archivist & Webmaster
Jane Bloore
Research and Reference Archivist : BA, BD (Dist), Dip Grad, NZLA Cert.
Andrew Smith
Archives Assistant (Data Input & referencing): BA
John Irving
Library Collection Referencing : TTC.
Gifford Brown
Marriage & Baptism Register Cataloguing
Postal address
Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, Arden Street, Opoho, Dunedin 9010