FRESH IS BACK!
IT’S TIME TO SAY NO TO BEIGE, BLAND AND BORING! It’s time to ban beige, go on a beige rage and join the team at Beige Busters Unite!
Dave Gilpin is an Australian creative and a disrupter of everything BEIGE! His calling is to chimney sweep all things bland and boring out of both house and heart! He’s on an all consuming mission to FIND YOUR FRESH!
His book ‘Rage Against Beige’ was bought by IKEA UK to be used as part of their product range catalogue inspiring fresh, out of the box thinking!
Using humour to encourage people to beige against the machine, be too big for their beige, don’t visit Beiging etc (you get the gist), he’s on a war path for to get you and your organisation back into being kings & queens of reinvention and elevation!
Dave’s an ordained pastor who loves to curve the ball.
Va va Voom isn’t just a great expression, it’s an attitude. And it’s both your birthright and destiny!
Faith always bleeds hope that radiates optimism that triggers oomph that unlocks opportunity.
But it’s more than attitudinal. The Future You will arise from the unburying of the Created You, mixed thoroughly with the becoming of the New You! The result: the Next You- full of fresh faith, fresh fire and fresh ideas! The Next You is the truly authentic you that always precedes the next big thing in your world.
Dave’s degree in Civil Engineering from Sydney University reflects a mathematical creativeness that took him to raise leaders and plant churches across Great Britain and other parts of the world. His influence in the UK helped modernise the church world with the current President of the Assemblies of God in Great Britain being his former Youth and Associate Pastor. Alongside his wife Jenny, who spent time preaching, prophesying and raising an organisation that launched safe houses across the country for survivors of human trafficking, they currently travel the world accelerating people into their next!
THE STORY
After 5 years of Youth Pastoring in Life Church in Brisbane Australia, Dave and Jenny Gilpin felt a call to the heart of England to build a church that would impact the northern industrial cities of the nation. They spent almost 30 years pioneering a multisite church and building a mercy ministry that would have national impact. The church eventually rose to an aggregated average weekend attendance of around 2250 people.
Out from the church, Jenny established a ministry restoring the survivors of human slavery in Britain, with her last 5 years safe housing over 600 people and outreaching to over 3000 more. For 14 years, Glyn and Sophie Barrett were the Associate Pastors who went on to establish Manchester’s largest church, Audacious Church, as well as seeing Glyn become the National President of the Assemblies of God Churches in Great Britain.
Dave’s commitment to creativity, leadership training and the raising of young adults led to the establishing of congregations not only in Britain but also in Ghana, Germany and Malaysia. From his creative flair came the current global logo of C3 churches. The invitation of the Harrogate Symphony orchestra to play alongside their church’s worship team at a special event in Sheffield’s City Hall led to the inspiration behind the establishing of the Australian Christian Orchestra by Ryan Gilpin over a decade later in Sydney, Australia.
Through all of their experiences, Dave and Jen are well placed to help both churches and organisations come alive with fresh inspiration and fresh passion to move them from the conformity of the past to the amazing creativity of the future. Their goal is to bring both fresh faith and fresh fire into every place across the nation.
Dave and Jen currently live in the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia. They see themselves as global citizens!
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Dave Gilpin was born in Birkenhead, just across the Mersey from Liverpool. At 5 years of age the family moved to blistering heat of Brisbane Australia. Jenny Gilpin was born Kim Anne Salter in Brisbane, but was immediately given up for adoption to her new parents Enid and John Stewart.
At 16 Jen’s father died and her world was shattered. She finished school and went straight to Bible College. At 18, Dave left home to study Civil Engineering at Sydney University. After being expelled, along with others, from his residential college, He began his journey of reflection and upon returning to the residency, gave his life to Christ.
After meeting each other ‘street witnessing’ in the middle of Brisbane, Dave and Jen immediately felt destiny and were married 13 months later. They soon became youth pastors at what is now Life Church Brisbane. In 1989 their hearts were moved by the Hillsborough stadium disaster in the north of England where almost 100 Liverpool fans died through overcrowding.
After a quick trip spying out the land, they returned to the UK to begin their planting adventure in Sheffield where the tragedy occurred. They knew no one. A few years later Jen got in contact with her birth mum to discover that she was the outcome of a gang rape. This formed the catalyst for all of the restorative ministries of the church, particularly for women.
Church planting was turbulent and after a sheering in the fifth year, the church regrouped to purchase a 5000 square metre abandoned warehouse near the heart of the city. After 11 years, the church expanded to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Newcastle. At the 14th year mark the church hit an average attendance of around 1000 people. The Manchester plant became Audacious Church, now one of the largest churches in England.
After 19 years the church planted into Birmingham, Ghana and Frankfurt. Later it planted into both London and Malaysia. Around the time of the Covid Pandemic with racial unrest increasing in both the USA and Britain, tensions were rising within the church (and many churches) over claims of racial bias that eventually resulted in Dave and Jen concluding their ministry and returning to Australia.
After settling back to their homeland, they began to itinerate across hundreds of churches encouraging people into both freedom and destiny! In 2025 they felt inspired to expand their ministry to the USA, basing themselves in both Sunshine Coast Australia and San Diego USA.