Luke: One of the ways that God humbles planners and schemers like me is to throw a spanner in the works. I grew up as a Christian in a country town in New Zealand, but when I moved to Christchurch to study Engineering I gave up on my faith. It wasn’t until my third year that I started investigating Christianity again and came across a Moore graduate who was planting...

We’re a couple of country kids who’d love to see the nations praise Jesus. I grew up on a ‘hobby’ farm in Armidale, while Sarah was on a ‘real’ farm in Oberon. We both were blessed with Christian families at home, and benefited hugely from joining a ‘family’ of Christians when we came to Sydney for University. I was studying Engineering, but the most valuable thing I learnt at Uni...

Asking a Northern Irish man to be brief with words is a challenge, but here it goes. Prior to college I was working as a Medical Doctor in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Before I started studying Medicine there had always been an intention to complement my medical studies with theological training. The idea of serving God with both ministerial and medical skills in the 3rd World sounded pretty cool to a...