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...

Manoj Chacko was born and brought up in Malaysia. His father was from India and moved to Malaysia before WW2 as an “economic migrant” looking for work. However due to racial riots in Malaysia in 1969, his parents moved back to India. He completed an MA and worked in Christian Education before migrating to Sydney aged 40, with his wife Ramabai and two young children. They attended Anglican churches at...

Sam came to Australia as an Assyrian refugee from Iraq. He was born into the Church of the East tradition, and finished high school in Baghdad. He studied a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical, Electronics) at UWS Nepean (now Western Sydney University), graduating in 2003. During Study and after graduation, he worked with global software companies for 17 years primarily as a Sales Engineer at companies like IBM. Along the way,...