60 Paisley Street, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia
A rough guide to our location in Footscray, Melbourne
|
60 Paisley Street, Footscray, Victoria 3011, Australia A rough guide to our location in Footscray, Melbourne
|
|
Pictures from the family camp at the Campaspe Downs country resort
|
Rev Rainer Schack (Phone: 0425 751 921, Email: ) Rainer was born and grew up in Konstanz, Germany. He studied theology in Hamburg, Germany, and received a Bachelor of Divinity from the international Baptist Seminary in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. He continued his theological studies at Whitley College in Melbourne where he graduated with a Master of Theology and a Diploma in Ministry.
Rainer has a strong interest in other cultures. He worked as a student pastor in Germany, Switzerland, Brasil, and Australia. He was on the pastoral team of the St. Kilda Baptist Church, a sole pastor in Stawell, country Victoria, and a lecturer in Papua, Indonesia. Rainer was ordained in 1997 and has been a minister with the multicultural Footscray Baptist Church since 2001. He is also a guest lecturer at Whitley College, the Baptist College of Victoria.
Rev Ron Ham (Phone: 0419 335 296, Email: )
Ron was born in
Australia, received his primary and secondary education in Melbourne, and
studied for his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Divinity degrees in
Melbourne (Melbourne University and Whitley College) and in New York (Union
Theological Seminary). He was Minister of the Ashburton Baptist Church in
Melbourne (1966 – 1973), Central Baptist Church in Sydney (1973 -1976), and
the Collins Street Baptist Church in Melbourne (1982 – 1994). Ron
taught Theology and Homiletics at the NSW Baptist Theological College from 1977
-1981, and was visiting lecturer at the international Baptist Seminary in
Switzerland in 1995. For three
years in the early nineties, he was President of Whitley College, the Baptist
College of Victoria. Ron joined the
Pastoral Team of the multicultural Footscray Baptist Church in November, 2001.
He
is married to Jan who is a teacher at RMIT. They have two
children, Lisa (and Greg), and Anthony (and Marina), and two
grandchildren, Alexandra and Greta.
Marcus has been involved with Urban Seed, a Christian community based ministry of hospitality and advocacy in the heart of Melbourne since 1996. He started by volunteering with the anti pokies campaign when the introduction of Crown Casino adversely affected Cambodian families he was living with. Marcus has worked as a youth worker in a variety of cultural contexts and now convenes a regional expression of Urban Seed (Seeds Footscray) in partnership with Footscray Baptist Church and the Baptist Union of Victoria. He resides in Footscray with Rachael and their three kids and lives close to lots of ex-Urban Seed residents who hang together around a the Western Organic Food Coop which they helped to start back in 2001. He has degrees in Nursing and Theology. He believes that Jesus chose twelve in order to play cricket; that Bible study shouldn’t suck; that good liturgy requires risk; that Cornwall (the home of his forebears) is not England and that when in doubt, “Its the Economy of God stupid”! It has oft been said that he could use a bit more sleep. |
Pastor Marcus Curnow (Phone:
0421 076 804)