BIO

Trav is a husband to Pixi, Dad to four adult kids, and loves his newest moniker: ‘Pop’.  

He likes green curry, a good game of football, and listening to David Bowie.

On a ‘professional’ front, Trav has always loved facilitating spaces for people to discover their place in the world through the lens of the Christian story.

Beginning as volunteer youth leaders in their local church in the early 1990s, Travis and Pixi followed a joint conviction of calling as Christian workers through a season of Bible College training, then they partnered in serving together as Trav took on the role of pastoring in three churches from 1997-2008.  Local church-work saw them serve in Perth WA, Hervey Bay QLD, then back in their hometown of Adelaide SA.

In 2008 they made the decision to join Youth Ministries Australia to develop an innovative learning experience that saw hundreds of young people engaged in the narrative of the Christian story - first with YMA, then founding AccessTheStory Inc in 2014.  The impact of this experience was felt in communities across five Australian states, and in four South-east Asian countries.

COVID-19 put a halt to Trav’s aspirations to provide professional learning for educators.  With a slower pace, and some time of further study in the field of Mental Health, came the opportunity to recognise AccessTheStory’s accumulated expertise of ‘sustained innovation’ in the ministry sector.

Trav has recently transitioned AccessTheStory from a program-based agency to a platform for sustained innovation.  This not only enables ongoing access to the learnings of the previous 15 years, but also provides an exciting opportunity to be overseeing a number of strategic projects in the Australian ministry sector.

Never thinking of himself as ‘old’ (despite being a Grandpa!), Trav is grateful for the fruit he has seen in people’s lives - sometimes in response to the environments he has created, but also often incidentally - and he is committed to intentionally stewarding his experience through opportunities as leadership coach and team-health consultant.