Shepherds Conference
Pretoria Dates: 19-21 May 2025
Pietermaritzburg Dates: 22-24 May 2025
Registration Fee: R550
Day Attendance Fee: R220
Speakers

Steve Swartz
Steve Swartz is a gifted expositor who pastors Grace Bible Church in Bakersfield, California. He is a graduate of The Master’s Seminary (M.Div. and DMin.) and teaches in Grace Advance, a church-planting and church-revitalising ministry run by Grace Community Church.
Topics:
Holy leaders make for holy churches
Fire in the soul: preaching like Peter in Acts 2
Loving your fellow leaders
Prophecy and consistent hermeneutics

Rocky Wyatt
Rocky Wyatt has over forty years of pastoral experience, including twenty-six years at Countryside Bible Church in Southlake, Texas. He founded XL Ministries in 1992 to help local congregations train men within the church.
Topics:
Preparing the next generation of church leaders
The Great Commission
Shepherding difficult people
Holiness: a call to sexual purity

Joel James
Joel James has been the pastor-teacher of Grace Fellowship, Pretoria, since 1995. He is the academic dean of Shepherds Seminary South Africa, where he lectures in expository preaching, pastoral ministry, and Bible exposition.
Topics:
Paul’s guide for handling church conflict (2 Cor 2:1-11)
Gaining victory over ministerial discouragement
Four essentials of pastoral ministry