Rod Denton ENG - Personal

A Testimony of Rod's Ministry
at Gateway Church of Christ in Warrnambool, Victoria

Rod Denton has been highly recommended to us through some of this countries great men of God such as Andrew Evans (Paradise AOG, Adelaide) and Stuart Robinson (Crossway Baptist, Melbourne). We employed Rod for a period of 3 weeks to do an audit of our Church. Through that time Rod met with all our department leaders and carried out a personality and spiritual gifts (S.H.A.P.E) assessment with each department leader which was highly beneficial both for the department leaders and the eldership and Pastor of the church. Rod's wisdom and noteworthy gift of intuition has been of great benefit in assisting our leadership with focusing on the direction and structures we need to implement in order to take the church to the next level in preparation for continuing growth. Rod presented us with a great documentation of recommendations and summary of his audit of our church (leaders, ministries, areas of need etc...)

Some of Rod's Recommendations were in the area of
a) Governance
b) Senior Pastor and his job description
c) Ministry department eg. youth and young adults, small groups
d) Making Disciples
e) Prayer
f) Newcomers
g) Church services
h) Ministry team and appointment of staff'
i) Other Matters (Role or women in the life of the church • Property security • Caretaker • Office staff • Goverment grants • Church purpose statement
j) Service times
k) Transition from a small church to a large church paradigm

Since then we have been constantly reviewing Rod's audit and following through. We have recently appointed a full time Pastor of Administration which was the most obvious and urgent need and are now in the process of continuing to address other recommendations. We continue to keep in touch with Rod as a mentor and advisor to us through the great process of change and growth we are experiencing at Gateway Church of Christ Warrnambool. I believe that Rod's ministry is essential to today's Church especially in this country. His International experience in mission, evangelism, mentoring and counselling along with his personal pastoral experience in two large Australian churches makes him an authentic expert with an amazing call and anointing upon his life.

Pastor Sandro Schietroma
Senior Pastor Gateway Church of Christ Warrnambool.
186 Raglan Pde. Warrnambool, Vic 3280
Office (03)55620244
Mob 0433 608 538