Meet our staff team

Bruce has been the Senior Minister of St Philip’s since 2015. He oversees the ministry of the whole Church, and also pastors the 8am, 9:30am and 6:30pm English speaking services.

Bruce is married to Heather and they have 3 children – Flynn, Jonah and Asher. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity at Moore College in 2001. Bruce previously served as Rector of Waitara Anglican Church for 9 years.

Bruce's day off is Friday.

Christine pastors our Mandarin services with Lane, focusing on women's ministry and evangelism. Christine has worked around Sydney for several years and has more recently worked in Beijing with CMS and with the Alpha course. She completed her Bachelor of Theology at Sydney Missionary Bible College in 2008. She speaks Mandarin and English.

Lane pastors our Mandarin services with Christine. He is married to Jamie and they have three children - Hannah, Nathan and Esther. Lane completed his Master of Divinity at Chinese Theological College Australia. Lane speaks Mandarin and English.

Andrew is the site Pastor at St Mark’s Ermington. He’s married to Liz and has 4 married sons and 8 grandchildren. He was previously Rector of Gerringong Anglican Church for 20 years before spending nearly 4 years in Cambodia prior to joining the team at St Phil’s & St Mark’s. On Sundays, Andrew pastors the St Mark's morning congregations, and pastors alongside Bruce and Cathy at the St Phil’s night church congregation. He & Liz both enjoy travel, music, movies, food, hospitality and conversation. Andrew loves motorsport, cricket and fixing things – particularly cars!

Clarence joined us in 2020 as the pastor of the 11am Cantonese service. He is married to Doris and they have two children – Nicole and Mitchell. Clarence completed his Bachelor of Theology at Morling College in 2014 and Master of Arts (Theology) at Moore College in 2020. Clarence speaks Cantonese, English and Mandarin.

Kian is the pastor of St Phil’s Indonesian Church Eastwood (SPICE, previously known as MITC), a new congregation at St Phil’s that specialises in reaching out to Indonesian students and community in Eastwood. Kian’s other job is working with AFES at Macquarie Uni, reaching out to international postgraduate students.

Kian graduated with MTS (MA), from Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan, USA. The Indonesian congregation meet at 11am every Sunday on site, and Kian is thrilled to meet you there. Kian is married to Liza, and they have two sons – Josiah and Joel. He speaks English and bahasa Indonesia.

Joe is our Korean worship pastor for our 11 am Korean service which began in December 2019. Joe completed his Theological training at Hanyoung Theological University. He is married to Youngjin and they have 4 children.-Abigail, Jireh, Elisha And Faith. Joe speaks Korean and English.

Cathy commenced at St Phil’s in April 2022. Cathy is married to a Baptist Minister, Paul, and has two young adult children, Emma and Melissa.

Cathy has a background as a Registered Nurse. In 1998 she completed her Diploma of Theology at Morling Theological College, before serving as a church planter with Baptist Mission Australia in Thailand for 15 years. Prior to coming to St Phil’s, Cathy worked as a Pastoral Carer with Anglicare for 2 ½ years. Cathy's love for Jesus, people and pastoral care led her back to Morling College for further studies in 2020. In 2023 she completed her Grad Dip in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care at Morling College and would love a friendly chat with you in either English or Thai!

Greg is married to Pat and they have three adult children. Greg joined the staff team as Associate Minister (Honorary) after retiring from full time ministry 2021. He has served in churches in Chatswood, Cambridge (UK), UNE Campus in Armidale, East Lindfield and Ryde. Before training at Moore College Greg worked as a Civil Engineer on freeway construction projects in Sydney.

Jason is our Children’s ministry co-ordinator. He oversees all of the regular children’s programs, including our Sunday school programs and SPARK Kids Club. He also teaches and coordinates SRE at Eastwood Public School. Jason is married to Abigail and they have two daughters – Hazel and Olive. Jason studied at Youthworks College completing his qualifications in 2011.

Bec joined us in 2023 as our part-time youth pastor (2 days). She oversees our weekly youth group Amplify and other youth ministries.

Swapping an admission into an Architecture degree for the completion of "Year 13" (Youthworks Discipleship Program) in 2012, was what lead Bec to a more 'people focused' vocation, beginning with a Bachelor Degree in Psychology, later followed by a Graduate Diploma in Divinity (SMBC).

Ten years experience in Youth Ministry and a background in Disability Support Work are some of the tools she believes God has used to shape a passion for ability facilitation, empathy and evangelism in her so that young people might know and uniquely express the love of Jesus within the body of Christ for it's flourishing as part of God's worldwide mission.

Jo began in late 2020 as our part time Children’s ministry assistant, helping Jason with the weekly children’s ministries at St Phil’s. Jo oversees the new 11am Sunday School for the Cantonese and Korean services. Beginning in 2023, Jo has also taken on the role as Youth ministry assistant helping our new Youth Pastor, Bec Faggion with weekly youth ministries. In 2016 she completed the Youthworks Year 13 Christian Gap year. Jo attends our 6:30pm English service and is also a youth leader.

Suzanna began in 2020 as our part time Children’s ministry assistant, helping Jason with the weekly children’s ministries at St Phil’s. Suzanna attends our 9:30am English service along with her husband Milton and their 2 children – Jared and Wesley. Suzanna speaks English and Mandarin (and a few other languages).

Sharon joined the St Phils staff in August 2023 as our Office Administrator for English ministries. She assists the English pastoral staff with services, rosters, events, database management and other parish wide admin tasks. Sharon is married to Chris and they joined St Marks Ermington in 2021.

Ningjia is one of our student ministers. She is currently studying an Advanced Diploma of Bible, Mission and Ministry at Moore College and assisting Lane and Christine with mandarin ministries at St Phil’s. Ningjia speaks Mandarin and English. She is married to Shawn Chen, and they attend our 5pm Mandarin service.

Andy is one of our student ministers. He is currently studying part time at Moore College and will be serving at St Mark’s Ermington in 2023 alongside Andrew and the team, whilst also assisting with some mandarin speaking ministries at St Phil’s. Andy is married to Cindy and they have four kids – Alex, Annie, Arthur and Anya. Andy attends our St Mark’s 10am service.

Wilston is an ordained Anglican minister from Malaysia and is currently doing his Master of Arts (Theology) at Moore Theological College. He previously completed his Bachelor of Divinity from Malaysian Theological Seminary in 2016 and was an Assistant Minister of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Diocese of Kuching.

Wilston has been married to Vivian since 2021 and is passionate about preaching the gospel and seeing gospel growth in God’s people. He enjoys travel, reading and watching football—particularly Manchester United!

He will begin serving as a Ministry Intern here in February 2023.