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Meet Pastor Matt
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I was brought up in the Anglican church in Coffs Harbour until I was 12. I then attended a charismatic Baptist church for a few years, and answered an altar call as a 15 year old at a Wesleyan Methodist youth camp. I became born-again and also filled out a card pledging to work in full-time ministry. I started my first Christian radio show on the local secular radio station, and lead a Wesleyan Methodist youth group and high school outreach until I finished school at 18. I was then approached by the local Christian City Church Pastor and offered a position as Youth Pastor. The church paid for me to go to Bible College for a year in Sydney. I studied under Pastor Phil Pringle and received a Diploma in Creative Arts majoring in drama and singing.

I then moved back to Coffs City Church and pioneered a youth group for three years, ran a church theatre company, worked at the local radio station selling advertising to pay the bills, and continued my radio show. It was during that time that I met and married my first wife. I then served as Youth Pastor for 3 years at the church I was raised in, a charismatic Baptist Church in Coffs Harbour. During that time I continued Bible College via correspondence.

I then moved to Brisbane, and worked for a company selling websites. During that time through a series of sad circumstances my first marriage broke down. I was at my lowest. I had lost this marriage of five years, the company that employed me went into liquidation. I felt like Job where everything was taken away. But in that valley, I saw the Lord more clearly than ever. I went through counselling with my pastor at Vineyard church Pine Rivers. It was a real time of brokenness and healing.

I felt like my potential of marriage and ministry was over. I thought I’d never marry again or be a pastor again. But our God is a God of second chances. He touched my dormant dreams.
 
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