Every year we set this time apart to encounter God and he always moves in powerful ways.
Join us again in 2026 as we prepare a place for him to move in our lives.
Darlene Zschech
Guest Speakers
Few voices have shaped what praise sounds like across the modern Church quite like Darlene Zschech’s. The Australian singer-songwriter, worship leader, pastor, author, and speaker wrote “Shout to the Lord,” a song now sung in languages she’ll never speak, in rooms she’ll never stand in — sound outliving its source and becoming something a whole generation carries. Her catalogue of over a hundred songs, including “In Jesus Name,” “Victor’s Crown,” and “Worthy is the Lamb,” has earned three GMA Dove Award nominations, GMA’s International Award for influence in praise and worship, and 16 Gold and one Platinum ARIA album.
Alongside her husband Mark, Darlene serves as Senior Pastor of Hope Unlimited Church (HopeUC) on the Central Coast of New South Wales, now planted in the US and India. She’s spent decades raising up worship pastors, leaders, teams, and writers, and has written six internationally translated books on the craft. At Conference 2026, she brings that same conviction to the platform as a speaker: that what we sing is never just heard, it moves. Darlene and Mark live on the Central Coast with their family and six grandchildren.
Trent Membrey
Trent Membrey’s testimony reads like proof that no one is past reach. Rescued from the depths of addiction and gang culture by the grace of God, Trent and his wife Jade have become living evidence of that same grace at work, now pastoring multiple locations and leading transformative ministries at C3 Auckland.
Trent and Jade have since stepped into an itinerant ministry across New Zealand and Australia, and more recently became senior leaders of three new C3 churches in Northland, NZ. Trent brings that same dynamic, passionate communication to the platform at Conference 2026, having witnessed countless lives saved, delivered, and healed along the way.
Jason Mendis
Jason Mendis leads Revive Church in Sydney’s inner west, alongside his wife Katie, where they’ve served as Lead Pastors since 2021. What they lead is older than they are: Revive traces its roots back a hundred years, planted in the 1920s under the ministry of Smith Wigglesworth as the first Pentecostal church in Sydney, the same conviction carried forward another generation.
Under Jason and Katie’s leadership, Revive has grown across Petersham and Parramatta campuses and stands as an affiliate of Australian Christian Churches. At Conference 2026, Jason brings a pastor’s heart for the local church and a vision for raising leaders who carry that same fire further. Jason and Katie live in Sydney with their three children, Aniyah, Zion, and Ember.
