Faculty

Jill McGilvray presents some of the lectures in the Pastoral Skills and Methods subject.  She has an M.A. in Chaplaincy, a Graduate Certificate in Loss and Grief from UQ and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling Bereaved Children.  She has worked as a Bereavement Counsellor at the National Centre for Childhood Grief, and on the ministry team at St Matthews Anglican Church West Pennant Hills as well as lecturing at Mary Andrews College. 

Her book God’s Love in Action, Pastoral Care for Everyone was published in 2009 and has meant that she has spoken and taught about pastoral care and understanding grief, at churches and conferences in several states of Australia.  She has been involved for several years in the Kairos team at a women’s prison.  She lives in the beautiful Blue Mountains with her artist husband Ian and they love worshipping at Springwood Presbyterian Church.