With a diverse history as church planter, pastor and lecturer, Tania ministers across the globe to all traditions and age-groups and is a popular voice on radio and TV in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Tania consults with denominations and movements, and trains ministers in Spirit-led discipleship and the development of organisational cultures that facilitate hearing God experiences. Her publications, academic research, media broadcasts and books God Conversations, The Church who Hears God’s Voice, Hearing God’s Voice: Towards a Theology all aim to equip everyone to recognise the Spirit in the context of their local church.
For more of the story behind God Conversations, click here.
University was over and the future stretched out like a plain waiting to be landscaped.
Growing up in church, I knew that God had a plan for my life, but faith still felt like a list of ideas somebody else believed in. I knew a lot about God, but I’d not experienced him personally. I wondered what God sounded like and how hearing his voice would effect my life. So I made God a promise. If he spoke to me clearly, I’d do whatever he said.
The answers I received became the signposts of an unlikely journey that started with working in the Majority world with Wycliffe Bible Translators, teaching school students sport and caring for youth-at-risk with YFC Australia.
Then at 26, God called me into full-time ministry. At the time I had no idea what he meant. In my conservative background, women weren’t allowed to carry the offering bag in church, much less be pastors. Back then, my ‘career’ aspirations amounted to perfecting a chocolate triple-layer torte and crafting the mitered corners of a patchwork quilt.
So it was back to study and a Masters degree, before pioneering a church in a beachside suburb of Melbourne with the Australian Christian Churches. Later I ministered in two different ministry training colleges in Melbourne and Sydney. Today you’ll find me speaking in churches and conferences, training and consulting with pastors and developing resources for the website, TV, radio and various publications. I attend a local church in Sydney and have a fabulous leadership team who are also my spiritual family. I couldn’t do this without them.
When not working, I’m likely to be found hiking a tall mountain and skiing down it, or paddling a kayak in the early morning on Sydney Harbour! I love to explore unknown places and can still bake a decent chocolate cake (though admittedly I’ve lost the flair of those early days).
Hearing God’s voice not only led me to unexpected places, but drew out the best of who I am. God’s heart is for every person to know him for themselves. His words are powerful and transformative, revealing a God who is eminently personal, creative and surprisingly funny. Hearing God speak gives us the faith and inspiration to live beyond our wildest imaginations. My prayer and the prayer of my team is that you will recognise the voice of God in your own life, and in doing so, find the courage to follow.
Popular
God Conversations: Stories of How God Speaks and What Happens When We Listen. Milton Keynes: Authentic Media, 2017.
God Dreams: How to Hear God’s Voice in Dreams and Visions. Milton Keynes: Authentic Media, 2024.
Leadership
The Church Who Hears God’s Voice. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2022.
Academic
Hearing God’s Voice: Towards a Theology of Contemporary Pentecostal Revelatory Experience. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
“Hearing God’s Voice: The Role of Revelatory Experience in Ministry and Mission Among Australian Pentecostals.” In Encountering God: Practical Theology and the Mission to Heal, 236–55. Victoria, Aust: Coventry Press, 2023.
“The Place of Contemporary Revelatory Experiences in Pentecostal Theology.” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 41, no. 2 (2021): 93–107.
“Hearing God’s Voice: The Theology of Extrabiblical Revelatory Experiences Among Australian Pentecostals.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 30, no. 2 (2021): 242–62.
“Where Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism Part Ways: Towards a Theology of Pentecostal Revelatory Experience Part 1 and 2.” Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 23, no. 1 (2020): 31–56.
“The Wacky, the Frightening and the Spectacular: Hearing God’s Voice in Australian Pentecostal Churches.” In Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins, edited by Rocha, Cristina, Hutchinson, Mark P., and Openshaw, Kathleen, 194–213. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies 36. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
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