Andrew is going to be the new vicar here at Holy Trinity Doncaster where I work as the Youth Minister. Currently Andrew is a faculty member at Ridley Melbourne (where I study). Here is his bio, ripped straight from Ridley's site:Andrew is married to Heather and they have two married sons and one grandson. Prior to coming to Ridley in 2005, Andrew worked in IT while leading an independent evangelical church plant at Curtin University. He has also been the senior pastor of St Matthews Anglican Church in Shenton Park, WA, Anglican Chaplain at Macquarie University, and National Director of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES).
Andrew is also the author of a number of Christian books on the Old Testament, hermeneutics, and apologetics and has a passionate interest in helping people understand the Old Testament as Christian scripture and in training preachers. He regularly speaks at conferences around Australia, volunteers as an international facilitator for Langham Preaching, and has trained preachers in expository preaching in Australia, Pakistan, South East Asia, South America, and Papua New Guinea.
I think this is a great appointment for HTD, and I'm really looking forward to working for him, when he starts in May 2010!
See the official post on the HTD site here
This will be great for HTD. It's a move in a more conservative direction. It's interesting that Andrew, unlike Paul, is a complimentarian. I wonder what this means in the long term for Ridley?
ReplyDeleteNot sure HTD could get much more conservative! ;)
ReplyDeleteThe 1 Tim 2 sermon I heard from Paul Barker was surprisingly 'progressive.' (I hope you don't mind me commenting on his sermon but I assumed since the sermon was in public view -on the HTD website, it was open to comment.)
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