Craig Mitchell is the Christian Education Research Fellow for the Assembly in 2011- 2012. He is on secondment from Uniting College in Adelaide, South Australia, where he is Director of Christian Education and Discipleship. Craig is a faculty member of the Adelaide College of Divinity and the School of Theology of Flinders University. With 30 years of ministry experience in the Uniting Church in Australia, Craig has worked at congregational, presbytery, synod and Assembly levels in the areas of childrens and youth ministry, Christian education, mission planning, leadership development and communication. He has qualifications in economics, youth work, Christian education and communication, and is currently studying for a PhD through Flinders University. He and his family live in the Adelaide Hills.