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Peter Kaldor
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Managing director, and evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Converted at the tail end of uni, Peter embarked on a promising career in finance as a keen evangelist. After 5 years skiing, banking and marrying in Switzerland, Peter retrained for Christian ministry and later teamed up with his old buddy Craig Josling. Proving that you can take the boy out of banking but you can’t take banking out of the boy, Peter’s better moments are spent dreaming and implementing new ways of reaching people with the gospel of Jesus, both in the workplace and elsewhere. |
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Craig Josling
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Founder, and evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Originally from country NSW, Craig moved to Sydney in 1980 to study Commerce at the University of NSW. A young Christian man in the same residential college on campus invited Craig to do the four "Investigating Christianity Studies". Craig was struck by how the Bible seemed to know the human condition (sin) and was amazed that Jesus would die to take his punishment. After uni Craig worked as an accountant for 5 years in the Sydney CBD before undertaking two years of ministry training with his home church. He started Ecom (now the City Bible Forum) in 1991. Craig tries to keep fit and enjoys gardening and relaxing in front of a good movie. |
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Barry Allan
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Evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Barry has worked as a commercial accountant for over 30 years. In 2004 Barry joined our street evangelism team and began learning to explain the message of Jesus with strangers around the Sydney CBD. Barry joined the City Bible Forum to do street evangelism full-time. He and his wife make regular missionary trips to Indonesia. |
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Rudi Hochstetter
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Accountant
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| Born at the beginning of the Second World War, Rudi left Germany on Christmas Day 1957 at the age of 18 to come to Sydney for a year or two. He stayed on and married Raylee in 1963. Rudi became a Christian at the age of 38. Rudi is also involved in the Kairos Prison Ministry and attends St Aidan’s Anglican Church Longueville. |
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Janet Jones
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Evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Born and raised in Hong Kong, Janet immigrated to Sydney with her immediate family in 1992. She studied Fine Art at uni before working in the animation industry for several years. Janet recently completed 2 years at Sydney Missionary and Bible College and attends Chatswood Baptist Church. In her spare time, Janet enjoys being with friends & family, making (and teaching) arts & crafts, photography, and discovering new cafes and international eateries. |
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Tho Luu |
Evangelist in Sydney CBD |
| Tho was born in Vietnam, and grew up in a traditional Chinese Buddhist family in Sydney. He became a Christian while studying Commerce Law at the University of Sydney. After legal work in the Sydney CBD and tax work in Parramatta, Tho trained in Christian ministry at the universities of NSW and Wollongong. He has recently completed studies at Moore Theological College in Newtown and loves sharing what he's learnt from the Bible. He also enjoys hunting for inexpensive places in the city to eat and beautiful places in and around Sydney to go exploring. |
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Russ Matthews
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Evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Russ started following Jesus when he was 14 years old in the United States. After high school, he obtained a business degree from University of Maryland and a masters from Faith Baptist Bible College. Russ worked in business management and sales for Pfizer and Gap for 14 years prior to moving to Australia. The veteran of numerous marathons, Russ is known to rise very early for his morning run. |
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Ian Powell
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Evangelist
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Ian grew up near Bondi and became a Christian at age 19. He was surprised to discover that Christianity is not only true but great fun, deeply exciting and stretching. Amongst other things Ian has worked as a youth worker, Chaplain at Shore School and Rector at St Barnabas Broadway and he loves working in the city. Ian is considered by many to be one of Australia's leading Christian communicators, but he says that if that's true the quality mustn't be all that good. He loves people, fishing, all sports except perhaps synchronised swimming, and high energy music, from the Gurus to Beethoven.
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Polly Seidler
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Evangelist in Sydney CBD
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| Polly has worked as a copyright and film distribution lawyer. She served with the City Bible Forum as a part-time ministry apprentice in 2002-03 before completing 4 years of study at Moore Theological College. In addition to her work with the City Bible Forum, Polly also works 2 days per week with her mother in Milsons Point administering commercial leases and the film & sound archives of her late father. She is hoping her involvement with Wellbeing will result in her becoming fit. |
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Caroline Spencer |
Evangelist in Sydney CBD |
| Caroline worked in the corporate world of IT before completing a 4 year Moore Theological College degree in 2003. She currently works full time for City Bible Forum as a women’s evangelist and trainer. In her spare time she enjoys being with family and friends, drinking good coffee, learning to run with the 'couch to 5k' running program and dreaming of being on Masterchef. |
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Ken West
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Evangelist in North Sydney, Chatswood, St Leonards, and Macquarie Park
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Ken started following Jesus in 1980 while at university, when he came to understand that Jesus has the strength to save people completely, the authority to call people to follow him, and the power to transform their lives. Prior to joining the City Bible Forum, Ken worked for 20 years in the information technology industry, developing software and managing projects. Ken loves the music of Radiohead, and annoys his family by singing very poor renditions of them.
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