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Enoch Lavender

Enoch Lavender was born in Australia, raised in Norway, spent time living in China and is now based in Melbourne, Australia.

He has been studying Hebrew and the Jewish roots of our faith for the past decade, and has a keen interest in the Middle East from a Bible prophecy perspective. Enoch writes regular articles about current events as they relate to Bible Prophecy, and is a regular contributor to the Australian Newspaper Christians and Israel Today, as well as the international news web site Prophecy News Watch. 

Enoch is an assistant pastor at Living Way Christian Network in Blackburn, Melbourne. Grace Buckman caught up with him recently, listen in to his story!

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Liesl Field

Leisl Field is an Author and a Singer/Songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from South Africa, Leisl shares about her faith journey and about her passion for writing songs that impact people. She also shares about the pain she’s endured after suffering a miscarriage, and how the Lord has strengthened her and helped her through her trials.

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Mark Matthews

Mark Matthews is the Empowered Faith Communities National Manager and Indigenous COACH Lead. Mark has worked in the social welfare sector of Melbourne for 30 years. He holds Diplomas in Social Science and Business and is trained in providing professional supervision and counselling. Mark’s work has involved providing direct casework to clients, leading teams of Social Work and Health professionals in service provision, and being instrumental in designing, developing and managing major crisis accommodation centres and housing programs across Melbourne. Since 2007, Mark has been responsible for the ongoing development of the COACH Community Mentoring program. Mark currently leads a community church in Rosebud (Victoria) that is offered to people who don’t feel they could easily fit within a mainstream church. Listen in to Mark’s story, and about his new Book, co-authored with Toby Baxter called, “Ordinary Mentoring for Extra-ordinary Transformation.”

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Bethany Bolmers

Bethany Bolmers is a singer/songwriter and worship leader from Gateway Church in Melbourne. In this interview she shares about her faith journey, her songwriting and how her Church is passionate about using Creative arts to connect with their community.

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Linda Bailey

Linda Bailey is well known for her daily devotional spots on radio stations all over Australia. She became one of the first State Primary School chaplains in Victoria and she’s also worked as the breakfast program producer for 89.9 , the Christian radio station in Melbourne for three years. She’s also worked for , a not-for-profit organisation that assists people living in poverty with disabilities. She’s married to Cameron and they have had three foster children, a foster grandchild and their own biological son.

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Bob Field

Bob Field is a Church of Christ minister based in Victoria. He has ministered in rural Victoria and among the homeless in Melbourne. Bob was raised in Coffs Harbour, as a Pastors kid, and was active in his local Church. Bob walked away from the Lord while he was at University, and after coming back to the Lord, felt a strong call to ministry. Listen in to his story!

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Mark Matthews

Mark Matthews is the National Training and Technical Manager for the COACH Community Mentoring program. Mark has worked in the social welfare sector of Melbourne for 30 years. Mark’s work has involved providing direct casework to clients, leading teams of Social Work and Health professionals in service provision, and being instrumental in designing, developing and managing major crisis accommodation centres and housing programs across Melbourne. Mark currently leads a community church in Rosebud (Victoria) that is offered to people who don’t feel they could easily fit within a mainstream church. Listen in to his story!

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Paul Molyneux

Paul Molyneux is an ordained minister who leads Mission Australia’s national team of chaplains. Prior to joining Mission Australia, Paul was a Pastor at CityLife Church Melbourne. He has also served as State Director of Youth Alive Victoria and is on the Board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse International Relief Australia. Listen in to hear about his faith journey and his passion to reach people with the good news of the gospel.

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Jason Golden

Jason Golden is an American Evangelist based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder and leader of Maranatha Kingdom Ministries. He shares his testimony of coming to Christ during his university years and about his Messianic Jewish background. Jason has an inspiring Passion for the gospel, this is a must listen!

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Steve Addison

Steve Addison has a calling to fuel movements that multiply disciples and churches everywhere. He and his wife, Michelle, lead MOVE, an Australia-based mission agency dedicated to making disciples and multiplying churches around the world. Steve began his research into Christian movements in the late 1980s while serving as a church planter in Melbourne, Australia, and he is the author of Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel, and What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World.

Steve loves walking, historical novels, Shakespeare, anything written by G K Chesterton or C S Lewis, Sunday afternoon naps, watching Australia beat the Poms at cricket, and the Kiwis at Rugby and supporting the Collingwood Football Club.

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