Meet Trevor Geddes
Trevor co-leads the Leadership Team with Bruce. His overall role involves mentoring and developing unity within the leadership team, working with the team to define their roles, and developing the Vision of the Church with the Elders. Trevor typically preaches twice a month, leads the preaching team, leads the team of worship leaders and is involved in the building team.
Trevor and Helen were called to DCBC in 1985 and have been leading the way ever since. Over the years Trevor has been instrumental in leading many courageous decisions that DCBC people have made- including: developing new models for mission and discipleship, relocating from a site the church had occupied for 133 years, acquiring land and more recently building our future church facilities.
What did you do before becoming part of the DCBC leadership team?
Trevor trained as a physicist, completing a PhD and working for several years as a scientist for NZ Geological Survey in Wellington, before taking up a God-given call to ministry. He went to the NZ Baptist Theological college, completed a theology degree and then was called to Dunedin... the rest is history...
What about family life?
Three of his children have physics degrees and another has completed a PhD in Anatomy and Physiology. This leads to furious debates whenever they get together. Three children are married and there are now seven grandchildren.
What else do you do?
Trevor writes language development software for children with special needs which started off with the lack of resources for their own youngest son, Kevin, who has Downs Syndrome and is Autistic. Trevor and Helen run a company called Geddes Software Ltd. through which they produce these software products for use in homes and in schools. They take seminars around NZ on their software and also overseas to China and Malaysia. This year the church has released Trevor to work 2 days a week on software development.
Trevor co-leads the Leadership Team with Bruce. His overall role involves mentoring and developing unity within the leadership team, working with the team to define their roles, and developing the Vision of the Church with the Elders. Trevor typically preaches twice a month, leads the preaching team, leads the team of worship leaders and is involved in the building team.
Trevor and Helen were called to DCBC in 1985 and have been leading the way ever since. Over the years Trevor has been instrumental in leading many courageous decisions that DCBC people have made- including: developing new models for mission and discipleship, relocating from a site the church had occupied for 133 years, acquiring land and more recently building our future church facilities.
What did you do before becoming part of the DCBC leadership team?
Trevor trained as a physicist, completing a PhD and working for several years as a scientist for NZ Geological Survey in Wellington, before taking up a God-given call to ministry. He went to the NZ Baptist Theological college, completed a theology degree and then was called to Dunedin... the rest is history...
What about family life?
Three of his children have physics degrees and another has completed a PhD in Anatomy and Physiology. This leads to furious debates whenever they get together. Three children are married and there are now seven grandchildren.
What else do you do?
Trevor writes language development software for children with special needs which started off with the lack of resources for their own youngest son, Kevin, who has Downs Syndrome and is Autistic. Trevor and Helen run a company called Geddes Software Ltd. through which they produce these software products for use in homes and in schools. They take seminars around NZ on their software and also overseas to China and Malaysia. This year the church has released Trevor to work 2 days a week on software development.
