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...

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,...