Brian Winslade has been involved in pastoral ministry within Baptist Churches (in New Zealand, Australia, USA and Bangladesh) since 1979 – including serving as National Leader of the Baptist Churches of NZ and National Director of the Baptist Churches of Australia.
Born in 1958, Brian is a graduate of the NZ Baptist Theological College and Bethel University, MN, U.S.A. from which he holds a Doctor of Ministry degree.
Brian’s dominant spiritual gifts are in leadership and teaching. He describes himself as an ecclesial missiologist with a passion for leadership, the local church, facilitating organisational reformation/effectiveness in reaching 21st century people with the gospel. His denominational leadership work, along with doctoral studies, focused on organisational systems and change management. He has travelled extensively training church leaders and consulting on mission, church health and growth. He has been a speaker at Churches, Leadership Conferences and Seminaries in Australia, New Zealand, India, Bangladesh, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand, U.K, Canada, USA, South Africa and Nepal.
He is married to Elizabeth, and together they have three adult children and eight grandchildren.
