Ray Tiller answered the call in August 2007 to be the main speaker and leader in our inaugural Staff Retreat.  Ray’s brief was to introduce the staff to a framework for Christian Worldview.  After a highly successful retreat, Ray was invited to address the Board of Directors and conduct a follow up day at the beginning of 2008 to enable the staff to move ahead with the substantial task of adding a third (Christian) dimension – Ray’s words – to our rewritten curriculum.

Ray was well received by staff as author and practitioner.  Ray’s practical approach, yet one with a well-articulated theological underpinning, to the whole area of articulating a Christian Worldview through and across a school’s curriculum, posed solutions and challenges to a staff wanting to make its curriculum ‘more Christian’.  Subsequent development work in the school, and regular revisitations (and analysis) of Ray’s text, (now titled Rubber on the Road Christian Thinking), continues to focus our College on the stuff of life…how to transmit the Gospel successfully and interestingly through the curriculum. 

Ray Tiller is a consummate professional, with the added dimension of a depth of theology which not only underpins his work with teachers, but affords a level of credibility when tackling the ‘hard questions’ with a group of individuals.  Ray showed a humble yet knowledgeable approach to his work in our college which allowed him to not only postulate his thesis but subsequently defend it.  Ray is not at all an ‘inch deep – mile wide’ presenter.