Testimonials

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...

Stephanie graduated from Moore and now oversees the teaching, training, and discipleship of women at City on a Hill, Melbourne. Stephanie chose Moore because of the fine Bible teaching she received from Moore graduates and the rigorous language component. In preaching, evangelism, discipleship and apologetics, she has found herself increasingly up against strong cross-pressures of secularism. She regularly gives thanks to God for the rigorous disciplines learned at Moore, which...

Married to Charlotte, with two daughters, I’m working at Church by the Bridge, focusing on integrating new people and youth. The work is immense but I love it. To see people wrestle with sin, delight in the grace of Jesus, and seek to serve others is such a joy. When I began at Moore I was petrified about the communal living and learning focus. But I came to see that...

As a tradesman from South West Sydney, I chose Moore because of its high academic standards, figuring it would push me the hardest, and be the best use of my time. I try to spend my time in ways that bring the greatest degree of profit for Jesus’ name and Kingdom. Clare and I now head up a Church Plant in the Fairfield area. Since we began meeting together, we...

Though born in London and raised in a Christian home, it was at St Matthias in Paddington and Sydney University that I understood grace as I was taught how to read my Bible well. I chose Moore because graduates had such clarity and trust in God’s word. Moore is not only about informing but transforming people by God’s word. Learning in community gave me precious relationships that would be a...

Gary is Sydney born and bred, and the son of Malaysian migrants. His parents were not Christians, but his mother’s death from cancer, midway through his time studying medicine at the University of Sydney, caused him to question his atheist views and ultimately put his faith in Jesus. After university, Gary worked as a doctor, then did a ministry apprenticeship at Chinese Christian Church Sydney and the University of New...

Serena had the privilege of growing up in a Christian home and doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t know of God’s great love for her. She put her trust in Jesus while in primary school, continued to grow in relationship with God throughout high school, and became very involved with the Sydney University Evangelical Union while studying at university. Serena came to Moore straight from university to study a...

Kellie was born and raised in Canberra in a non-Christian home, although she grew up going to church with neighbours and friends. She committed her life to Christ in year 12, and then while studying Education at the University of Canberra she was very involved in ministry to international students. She continued with this after university while doing a ministry apprenticeship with MTS before coming to Moore. “Moving to College...

Stu was brought up going to church in South Sydney. Although he was baptised as a baby and then confirmed as a teenager, Stu remembers truly asking for forgiveness from God in his mid to late 20s. Before coming to College, Stu was self-employed, worked for an electronic security company, and then served as the president of Ambassadors Christian Motorcycle Club Sydney. Moore was Stu’s first experience of university when...

William grew up in Cabramatta in South West Sydney. His parents were refugees to Australia from Vietnam. A friend of his mother convinced her that she should go to church, and that taking her children was a good idea “to avoid them going down the wrong path”. So that’s how he ended up going to Cabramatta Anglican church from age 6 years. During college, William spent two years at MBM...

Pedro grew up in the northern suburbs of Wollongong and studied at the Conservatorium of Music (University of Sydney). He is from a non-Christian home and saw himself as an atheist at university. But he became curious about the Bible and read it from cover to cover. He found it was speaking the truth about life in this world, and came to faith in Jesus after university. After a few...

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,...

Peter grew up in Kingsgrove in the 1940s and attended Kingsgrove Primary School followed by Canterbury Boys’ High. He was a keen scout and a leader of the Kingsgrove Troop. In the Parish of St Thomas’ Kingsgrove, he attended Sunday School, was confirmed and joined the youth group. He later taught Sunday School and was a Leader in the CEBS Group. His Christian Commitment was made at St Thomas following...

There are so many questions one should ask about the best way to train for full time gospel ministry. Are the languages really necessary? What about church involvement? Why not study part-time while also working at a church? These were my thoughts in 2014 as I thought about the next step in training for local parish ministry in Scotland. We knew our nation was desperately gospel poor, especially when we...

Studying at Moore is “disciples making disciples” in action for me, having been born on Little Queen while Dad was studying at College, and now living on “Big” Queen Street while I study. For both my husband Craig (who finished last year) and me, taking time to study at Moore College is about being equipped for a lifetime of raising up disciples of Jesus who will make more disciples of...

My introduction to Moore College was unexpectedly early. Fourteen years before I set foot on campus as a first-year student, I was already studying core course content. The Biblical Studies unit at my school had the somewhat dubious idea of distilling Moore College’s bachelor degree into a high school curriculum. In a school where most students weren’t Christians, Biblical Studies was barely tolerated. But there was always that one freak...

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...

Before coming to college Rebecca and I lived in Carcassonne (France). She was a nurse and I was working in an engineering firm. We were very involved in our local independent reformed evangelical church and I was being encouraged to consider further training. One of the things that tipped it for us was me having to take a funeral. The reality of death and the need to prepare people to...

My wife Shupi and I come from Zimbabwe and in December 2016 God blessed us with our beautiful daughter whom we named Unathi which means “God is with us”.  Before coming to college, we lived in Harare (capital of Zimbabwe) where I served as a full time campus staff worker with The Fellowship of Christian Unions in Zimbabwe (FOCUS) while Shupi worked as an IT auditor with Deloitte. Our story...

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...

My family and I came to Australia from Singapore when I was 3 years old. My parents were not Christian at that time but God in his graciousness has worked through various people and contexts to bring the gospel to bear fruit in my family’s life. Looking back I’m so thankful for generous friends and ministers who taught the Bible faithfully, modeled faith in action and cared for us. Before...

Before coming to College, I worked as a lawyer at a large city-based law firm. I had become a Christian in my final years at Law School, and having interned at the firm at the same time, I became convinced it was where God wanted me to speak and live out His Word. I really enjoyed working in Law. I loved the intellectual rigour of work, and working with really...

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...

Veronika was born and raised in Belarus in a post-communist environment. No one from her family was Christian. As a child, she attended a Russian Orthodox Church (the national church in Belarus) with her grandmother. From a young age, she had an idea about God but in her words, “it was a very general one, as the Gospel wasn’t presented clearly”. As she grew up, she came across a variety...

Dan grew up in a Christian home and attended church religiously every Sunday with his parents. In his words, “this was mainly due to being forced by my parents. In fact, my parents were quite strict, and made us read the Scriptures daily.” Dan shared that while this led to a great deal of head knowledge, he wouldn’t have said he was genuinely saved. As a teenager, he tried to...

Tom was at College from 1966 to 1969 and lived on campus as a single man, as was required. At that time boarders needed to fulfil many basic tasks on rosters to keep the College operating. There was much to enjoy in community life. He shared that one area he particularly enjoyed “was the challenging debates among my peers, as we tried to ensure a right understanding of the Scriptures....

Events in my life and ministry seem to have drawn me back recurrently to Moore College. At the same time, ministries in cross-cultural and diverse settings have called me out into the public space. I spend my ministry working at the interface between church and society, clergy and laity, theology and practice – sometimes as the host and sometimes as the guest. My story so far: I came to college...

“I teach PTC because I want the folk around me at church to know and love God, serve him and grow his kingdom as they proclaim the gospel of Jesus” (Lower Mountains)

“I think PTC is a brilliant way to start students off on an excellent theological certificate they can pursue beyond school. I have also done it with staff members, which is awesome training for teachers in Christian schools” (Christian Studies Teacher, WA)

“People are growing in their knowledge of God and of his word. They are using this in their conversations, the groups they lead and other preaching and teaching that they do. People are developing in their leadership potential and roles” (Albury)

I started studying the Moore College PTC course back in 2007, shortly after becoming a Christian at the age of 16. My large, suburban, Sydney Anglican Church offered the ‘Intro to the Bible’ subject to all new believers, and I loved it so much that I simply kept studying! I quickly completed all the PTC subjects and planned to move on to more study, but, my studies were put on...

“PTC is firmly embedded in our school as part of student courses and as part of our school’s professional development program. The way Introduction to the Bible has transformed staff understanding of Biblical theology means that we now teach it as a routine part of our Stage 5 Christian Development classes. PTC courses are also a major part of a Stage 6 NESA endorsed subject that our school runs. It...

“I lead a Ladies Bible study and am involved in Women’s and Children’s ministry at my church. Doing PTC has given me knowledge, insight and understanding that has blessed me very much in these roles and also in appreciating how the Bible fits together, and how we have come to what we believe and teach today. I have loved seeing how God is at work all through the Bible and...

Moore helped form me into a well-rounded Christian! Through classes training me in the biblical languages, as well as a richer understanding of theology and church history, I have a deeper appreciation of God’s Word and the shoulders of giants I stand on. The community and faculty pushed me in lots of informal conversations to put into practice what I was learning, and have shown their availability to support me...

Between the years 2014 to 2019 I had the opportunity to teach PTC to a number of pastors and church workers in Kigali, Rwanda. Earlier in 2012 I had been in Rwanda and had been invited to lead some morning devotions with the staff at the African Evangelistic Enterprise (AEE). When I was leaving their Leaders asked if I would come back and help teach their church leaders how to...

I am now on my 12th study book [in the PTC]! My favourite study was Old Testament 3, written by Graeme Goldsworthy! I have even bought his book The Goldsworthy Trilogy. I thank the Lord so much for godly teachers to help us in our study of God’s Word. Thank you Moore College too, may God bless all that you do.