I'm sometimes asked for a Curriculum Vitae for speaking/teaching engagements. Here's a bare-bones version of it:

REV. DR. ROWLAND C. CROUCHER
(DIRECTOR, JOHN MARK MINISTRIES)
CURRICULUM VITAE as at July 1999

Full name : Rev. Dr. Rowland C. Croucher BA, BD, MEd, LTh, DipRE, DMin.

1. BIODATA: Born 5 December, 1937, Sydney, N.S.W.
Parents Reg (deceased) and Sadie Croucher ('Open Brethren')
Married Janice Ruth Higgs on 9/1/1960. She has just resigned from the position of associate pastor for children and families, Syndal Baptist Church, Melbourne; has BA, BTheol, LTh, DipRE.

Children:
* Paul (Ph. D cand. intermitting Monash University): full-time father/househusband, poet, intellectual and married to Lai Kiong BA; they have two sons, Jay (8) and Will (4)
* Karen: BA, medical writer; married to Ross McPhie BEd, a teacher; two daughters Abbie (18) and Coralie (16)
* Amanda BA, DipEd, teaches English as a second language; married to John Southwell BSc, a geotechnical engineer and part-time surfer. Both live downstairs at our place.
* Melinda BA, currently masters' student in theology, Bible College of Victoria, and Dip. Ed. student at Monash University; piano teacher, therapeutic masseur, has had for the last five years a ministry to women in Victoria's prisons; still living at home

Hobbies: Enjoying leisure activities with my wife Jan; family/grandchildren, fine music, reading, writing, most sports, chess, checkers

Main aims in life: Helping people, leaders and churches to reach their spiritual/emotional/relational potentials; exposing the evils of institutional injustices; avoiding moving physical objects across the face of the earth :-)

2. FORMAL EDUCATION:

Mortdale Primary School (Sydney) 1943-1949
Sydney Boys' High School (1950-1954). Leaving Certificate. Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship
University of Sydney, 1955-1956
Bathurst Teachers' College, 1957-1958 (athletics blue, top male academic honours, 'A' practice teaching grade)
N.S.W. Baptist Theological College, 1964-1968: Sister Sanders Scholarship, college awards for dux (each year), theology (twice) and preaching

Ordination, N.S.W. Baptist ministry September 24, 1968

L.Th., Dip. R.E., Melbourne College of Divinity, 1966, 1968
BA, University of New England, 1969. (Majors - English and modern American literature)
M.Ed., University of Sydney, 1974. (Coursework: Educational Psychology, Education and Social Change, Sociology and Education, Communication and Educational Technology; Long Essay: 'The Diffusion of Innovations in Religious Organizations')
BD, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1979, majoring in pastoral theology and pastoral care
D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary, 1990. (Units: Theology of Ministry, Theology and Practice of Preaching, Spirituality for Ministry, Pastoral Care and Counseling, Renewal in Church and Ministry. Manuscript for publication: 'Your Church Can Come Alive: A Practical Handbook for Pastors and Church Leaders' (409 pp.)

3. VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.

Preaching since age 13 (and non-stop since: in 37 countries, most Christian denominations)

Vacation/ part-time jobs : Sales assistant, taxi-driving (1964-1971), tram conducting, lift-driving (Sydney pylon lookout), salesman (books, subscriptions to charity), labourer, geography teacher St. Andrews' Cathedral Choir School, Sydney; national military service (infantry - 1956, 1957)

Teaching : Five years in N.S.W. State high schools 1959-1963 (English, Social Studies), NSW Baptist Theological College 1967-1968 (English, New Testament Greek), Sydney Missionary and Bible College 1966-1968 (Communication theory, NT), visiting lecturer in many theological/Bible colleges

Staff-worker Intervarsity Fellowship (now Australian Fellowship for Evangelical Students), working with Christian student groups in Australian and PNG universities and colleges, 1968-1970

News-writer/broadcaster for Christian Broadcasting Association, Sydney, (1971-1972)

Senior Pastor , Narwee Baptist Church, Sydney (1964-1967) with two other staff; Blackburn Baptist Church, Victoria (1973-1981), with 25 salaried staff, seven pastors. Plus associate and interim ministries from two weeks to 18 months in other Baptist churches: Ashfield, Ettalong, Sydney Central, Gymea, Narwee (NSW), First Baptist Church Vancouver B.C.

Leadership Enhancement Consultant with World Vision of Australia, a resource to clergy and lay church leaders (1983-91)

From April 1 1991 Director John Mark Ministries - a specialised ministry to Australia's and the world's pastors, ex-pastors, church leaders and their spouses

4. PUBLICATIONS

1986/1996 RECENT TRENDS AMONG EVANGELICALS, 96 pp. (Also translated into Portugese) (John Mark Ministries)

1987 STILL WATERS DEEP WATERS: Meditations and Prayers for Busy People , (Ed.), (Sydney: Albatross; England: Lion Publishing) (Reprinted many times: 30,000 in print).

1991 HIGH MOUNTAINS DEEP VALLEYS: Meditations and Prayers for the Down Times (Albatross/Lion 393 pp.).

1991 RIVERS IN THE DESERT: Meditations and Prayers for the Dry Times (Albatross/Lion).

1992 GENTLE DARKNESS: Meditations and Prayers for Illumination (Albatross/Lion).

1991/1997 YOUR CHURCH CAN COME ALIVE: A Practical Handbook for Pastors and Church Leaders (J.B.C.E., 1991, JMM 1997). Plus videos: 4 1/2 hours teaching for church leaders.

1991 GROW: Meditations and Prayers for New Christians (JBCE)

1993 LIVE: More Meditations and Prayers for Christians (JBCE).

1996 THE FAMILY: At Home in a Heartless World (HarperCollins)

1996 SUNRISE SUNSET: Prayers and Meditations for Every Day of the Year (HarperCollins).

1999 A GARDEN OF SOLITUDE (Albatross/Lion): final book in the Still Waters series.

Booklets etc.: chapters in various books; 'Baptist Church Membership' (used in Baptist churches in Australia and New Zealand); 50+ Television programs; 100-200 journal articles, 100 hours+ radio programs, was editor of GRID (World Vision of Australia's Leadership Letters - quarterly: 23,000 circulation. Ten years of GRID articles are published in a book - 'THE BEST OF GRID').

Updated: September 2000.