Team Leader (Senior Pastor)

 

 I was previously serving as the Senior Pastor of Torquay Christian Fellowship (Baptist Union of Victoria) on the Surfcoast of Australia for more than 15 years until mid 2018. Following which I spent a period engaged in Interim Pastoral ministry, consulting and assisting in church leadership and ministry strategy.

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I was born in the 60s and grew up in a rural city in NSW Australia, feeling called to ministry as a teenager, I began pastoral ministry in Torquay, VIC, in 2003. Prior to that, along with my wife Robyn, I worked in the publishing industry, pioneering a digital prepress business in Canberra ACT.

 

Selling the business to pursue the calling to pastoral ministry, I lived and studied in the US in the late 90s, and have since completed postgraduate studies in Theology in Australia with a research focus on how beliefs about Jesus as human and divine shape the way people practice their faith.

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I will read anything put in front of me, and have a love of photography, word puzzles/games, history and science, and leading and listening to live worship.

Generations Pastor (Children, Youth and Young Adults)

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I loved, and now miss my time studying, and would be keen to make
use of any opportunities for further formal development.
I love bringing theology into people’s hands, heads and hearts. Whether
discussing epistemology and ‘Truth’ with my agnostic classmate, or using a Peppa Pig episode to discuss
forgiveness with my 3 year old.
​I am an encourager. I love helping people to recognise, practice and
utilise the gifts that they have.
​I come from a large family, and find that I am able to connect with all ages from
babies through to seniors at a meaningful level. I also have a heart for those at the edges (disabled, socially anxious, sitting on spectrums etc)