Conference agenda

Day 1: Friday, 13 March 2026

TIME

EVENT

8:30–8:45

SPEAKER

High School Students

Praise & Worship

8:45–9:00

Welcome & Conference Storytelling Introduction

Elise Jasper

MC

Kara Martin

Conference Storyteller

  • Kara Martin, Adjunct Professor, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston and Author of ‘Workship: How to Use Your Work to Worship God’

    Kara Martin is the author of Workship: How to Use your Work to Worship God, and Workship 2: How to Flourish at Work; co-author of Keeping Faith: How Christian organisations can stay true to the way of Jesus, and was co-editor of Transforming Vocation: Connecting Theology, Church, and the Workplace for a Flourishing World. She is a lecturer with Mary Andrews College and Adjunct Professor with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston. Kara is also a Visiting Fellow with the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Public Square and on the Board of the Theology of Work Project in the US. She has worked in media and communications, human resources, business analysis and policy development roles, in a variety of organisations, and as a consultant. Kara has presented, taught and run workshops in churches and theological colleges in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the US, New Zealand and throughout Australia. She is the 2024 winner of the Australian Faith & Work Award (presented by Ethos/Evangelical Alliance).

9:00–9:45

Keynote: A Judge’s Perspective on Living Faith in the Justice System

The Hon. Justice Debra Mullins AO

  • The Hon. Justice Debra Mullins AO, President, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland

    Justice Debra Mullins AO holds the degrees of Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Laws with Honours and Master of Laws (Advanced) from the University of Queensland. After first being admitted as a solicitor in 1980, Justice Mullins was admitted as a barrister in 1984 and practised at the Bar in Queensland becoming Senior Counsel for the State of Queensland in 1998. Justice Mullins was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in March 2000, a Judge of Appeal in January 2020 and the President of the Court of Appeal in May 2022. Other positions held by Justice Mullins include Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane and a member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Church of Australia since 2014 and a trustee of the Sylvia & Charles Charitable Foundation since 2005.