We can do Kingdom things in Kingdom ways.

Leadership doesn’t have to coerce.

The Church can bless the world.

The Gospel is actually Good News.

The Kingdom is truly powerful…in a very peculiar way.

Meet Mandy Smith

Photo Credit: Sarah Topp

Photo Credit: Sarah Topp

Mandy Smith is a pastor, author and speaker who, after living and ministering in the US and UK, now ministers in her homeland of Australia. She is a cohort co-leader for the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination and regular contributor to Missio Alliance. Her books include The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry (IVP) and Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture and Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader’s Journey from Self-Sufficiency to Reliance on God. Mandy and her husband, a New Testament professor, live in the parsonage at St Lucia Uniting Church where the teapot is always warm.

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Reimagining Leadership

We can be as human as Jesus in our leadership.

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Reimagining Faith

We can be as human as Jesus in our daily faith.

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Reimagining Gender Dynamics

We can be as human as Jesus in our relationships.

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.”

– Zechariah 4:6