Growing the Victoria Australia RCs team

Published 11th September 2015 by jane leadbetter

Chris Barnett in Melbourne, Australia, is doing a wonderful job finding Regional Coordinators to support the growing numbers of Messy Churches in Victoria. We welcome Murray Purkiss to the Victoria RC team! Murray will be supporting the Messy Churches in the Northern Victoria region.What an encouragement he is to us as he joins this rapidly expanding network.

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