Faculty Directory

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Andrew Brown
BA (Bible); BTh; BMin; BA (Hons)
Lecturer
Old Testament

Andrew grew up in coastal New South Wales. His Ph.D focuses on the interpretation of the six days of creation.

His desire is to impact the hearts and minds of students with the profound theological significance and the exciting unity of the Old Testament. He is married to Naomi and has three wonderful children. Andrew lectures at MST in the areas of Old Testament, Hebrew and Preparing for Ministry.

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Bernie Power
Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Bernie studied and taught science, mathematics and computers in Australia and the UK. He was then involved in teacher training in Pakistan, where he also taught at the Aga Khan University in Karachi and was on faculty for Pakistan’s first MBA program. In Jordan, Oman and Yemen, he established Arabic language courses and also taught English at various universities and institutions. Bernie completed a Bachelor of Theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, and an MA in Theology from BCV where he is undertaking a Doctor in Theology program while lecturing in the CSIOF.

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Colin Kruse
ThL; BD; MPhil; PhD
Senior Lecturer
New Testament

Colin and Rosemary came to BCV after 16 years at Ridley College. In the 20 years following his ordination into the Anglican ministry, Colin gained practical experience in parishes in Australia and the USA, also five years of missionary service with CMS as a theological lecturer in Indonesia.

He is a prolific writer. Besides journal articles on the New Testament, Old Testament, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, he has authored several books including New Testament Models for Ministry: Jesus and Paul (Marshall, Morgan and Scott); The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (IVP/Eerdmans); Paul, the Law and Justification (IVP/Hendrickson), and commentaries on The Letters of John (Eerdmans/IVP) and The Gospel according to John (IVP/Eerdmans).

Colin is currently writing a commentary on Romans for the Pillar New Testament Commentary series (Eerdmans/IVP).

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Delle Matthews
Cert IV WT&A; BEd; GD Reading Ed; MA (Ling); MEd Admin
Dean of Studies
Church History, Formational Issues for Intercultural Ministry

Delle has a background as a remedial reading teacher that led her into literacy work with a passion for enabling others to read God's word.

She has been a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL International for 22 years as Literacy Co-ordinator for SIL Indonesia serving in West Papua and teaching Literacy and Training Across Cultures at SPSIL.

Delle began working in educational administration while there and completed a Masters in Educational Administration in order to develop what she believes is a gift from God. She is dedicated to serving God through education, furthering His kingdom by helping to ensure others are skilled and qualified for their ministries.

Her hobbies include knitting (she belongs to the Handknitters Guild), gardening and walking.

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Greg Forbes
BTh(Hons); MTh; PhD
Head Department of Biblical Studies
Greek, Hermeneutics, New Testament

Greg has had close ties with MST since he commenced undergraduate studies at the college in 1986. After completing a BTh in 1991, he has since completed an MTh on Revelation 20 and was awarded a PhD from Deakin University for a thesis on the parables in Luke.

Greg is married to Anne-Maree and they have three sons. Both Greg and Anne-Maree have considerable experience in small group ministry, and currently attend Yarra Valley Vineyard Church.

Greg’s particular study interests lie in historical Jesus research, and Greek grammar as it relates to exegesis.

He is a keen golfer, and both he and Anne-Maree are avid gardeners and enjoy relaxing at the beach.

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Janet Reeve
Associate Lecturer
Pastoral Care / Liaison Officer for International Students

Janet teaches Certificate IV 'Help People': Introduction to pastoral care, and is part of the MST Student Services Department. As Liaison Officer for international students she organises orientation and offers ongoing pastoral and practical support. Each year she offers seminars for student wives on thriving long term as a missionary or pastor's wife. She loves being involved in the lives of students and student wives and sharing their spiritual walk often challenges her.

Moving from Sydney to PNG at the age of 14 profoundly influenced Janet spiritually and challenged her to share Jesus overseas as a missionary. She worked as a Speech Patholgist before studying at Moore College with her husband Sam. 14 years in southern Pakistan with Interserve were the most challenging and growing years of her life. She taught their 3 children through Distance Education for 7 years while living in a Hindu desert village, and then in a rural Christian conference centre. For 5 years they were involved in the pastoral care of missionaries in Karachi.

At Wollongong Baptist Church, a multicultural church, Janet spent 10 years as a pastor's wife involved in pastoral care, playgroup management, women's ministry and depression workshops.

During those years Janet completed a Graduate Diploma in TESOL, and did casual work in orientation and pastoral care of Chinese TESOL students at the University of Wollongong. Since moving to Melbourne in 2008 she has been teaching English to migrants 2 days a week at Swinburne University of Technology, Wantirna.

Janet and Sam relax by visiting family and friends, and love walking, reading, listening to music, exploring the city and the Dandenongs and going sailing.

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Jeff Pugh
Dean of Nash Institute
Change Management, Ethics, Homiletics, Leadership, Practical Theology, Research Methods

Jeff was a pastor in Victorian Baptist churches for 14 years prior to entering teaching at Malyon College Queensland in 1998, then Burleigh College SA. in 2001. Jeff has organized postgraduate studies at MST since 2005. His research interests are in the area of the correlation between leadership styles, culture renewal and theology.

For Publications see the Faculty profiles on the Nash Institute web site: postgrad.mst.edu.au

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Neil Amery
Associate Lecturer
Know the Truth

Neil is passionate about Jesus and our missional God; about seeing people totally abandoned to Jesus and encouraging them to find their place in God's Global Agenda. Late last millennia he’d worked in the automotive industry (mechanic & management) but since graduating from BCV in ’99 he’s stayed involved in theological education through the Distance Education program and as an adjunct faculty member since 2009.

Neil lives with his family (Helen, Zach & Eliza) in the outer east of Melbourne. His day-job is as Interserve Australia’s Personnel Director which is a constant challenge, inspiration and blessing. He loves teaching at MST and prays that he can foster love (which leads to action) for our Great God and His word through the subjects he leads.

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Peter Orr
Lecturer

Peter born in Ireland currently lives in Durham England where he is completing his Ph.D on the exalted Christ in Paul at Durham University.

For the few past decades he has worked in various roles within the Kingdom, from preaching to being a missionary with Operation Mobilisation to lecturing at various Theological Schools around the world.

Peter became a Christian in high school through a combination of reading the New Testament and hearing the Gospel at a Billy Graham Crusade. He is married to Emma and has four sons.

You can find out more about Peter though his blog site http://butnowblog.blogspot.com/

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Peter Riddell
BA; DipEd; GradDipDiv; PhD
Dean of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Peter Riddell took his PhD on Islam in Southeast Asia at the Australian National University and has taught at the ANU, the Institut Pertanian Bogor (Indonesia), the London School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Theology, where he served as Professor of Islamic Studies.

Peter has published widely on the study of Southeast Asia, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. His books include Transferring a Tradition (Berkeley, 1990); Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (London, Hawaii, and Singapore, 2001); Islam in Context (with Peter Cotterell, Grand Rapids and Leicester, 2003); and Christians and Muslims (Leicester, 2004).

He supervises Masters and Doctoral theses, and works at MST on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

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Richard Coombs
Dip. Theol; GD Ministry;
Associate Lecturer
Early Church History

Richard was brought up in New Zealand and studied theology and for the ministry in the New Zealand Baptist Theological College.

He had two churches in New Zealand before crossing the Tasman and pastoring two churches in Melbourne - Beaumaris Baptist and North Balwyn Baptist.

Richard has been interested in Missions and in 2002 took up the role as Australasian Director for MECO (Middle East Christian Outreach). He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and preaches regularly in different churches about the opportunities and challenges Islam and the Middle East.

Richard is married to Margaret and they have three sons – Jon (married to Jen), Tim and Nick (married to Julie). He is an avid cricket fan (his second Bible is ‘Wisden’); supports the All Black rugby team; and plays golf.

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Rowland Ward
Associate Lecturer
Theology

Rowland S. Ward was born and raised in Melbourne. Brought up in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, Rowland moved to the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia [PCEA] in 1968. Rowland commenced correspondence studies with a view to the ministry, and then resigned from his position as Senior Account Executive with a large firm of international insurance brokers. He holds the BA and Hons BTh degrees from the University of South Africa, and the Diploma of the Free Church of Scotland College, Edinburgh (which he attended 1972-75). In 1994 he was awarded the degree ThD from the Australian College of Theology, Sydney for his dissertation on "Divisions and Unions in Australian Presbyterianism 1823-1901 with Special Reference to the Church's Attitude to its Creed".

Rowland commenced his ministry at Ulverstone, Tasmania PCEA in October 1975, and was ordained 16 March 1976. He returned to Melbourne in August 1981, established the Wantirna congregation in 1987 and two daughter churches subsequently (in Narre Warren and Mulgrave). He has lectured in a number of countries and written numerous books. Rowland is married to Anna Hilliard and they have five adult children and 5 grandchildren.

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Sam Reeve
BE; BTh
Vice Principal
Discipleship, Introductory Greek, Missiology, New Testament

Sam joined BCV in 2008. After being brought up on a dairy farm on the edge of Sydney, he left home to train as an engineer with BHP at Port Kembla. After working in various engineering roles, he and his wife Janet studied theology at Moore Theological College in Sydney. In 1983 they moved to Pakistan with Interserve to work with the Church of Pakistan in evangelism and discipling of new believers. Over the next 14 years he worked in outreach to tribal Hindus, training ‘barefoot’ pastors and bible teachers, bible teaching, theological education and mission leadership. Returning to Australia in 1997, Sam became senior pastor of Wollongong Baptist Church, a multi-cultural church in the centre of the city, with a ministry to students and internationals.

Sam and Janet have 3 adult children. Sam enjoys sailing, hiking and relaxing with friends and family, or a good book.

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Scott Harrower
Lecturer
Theology and Church History

Rev Dr Scott Harrower teaches theology and church history at undergraduate and graduate level at MST and is also involved in supervising postgraduate research at MST Postgraduate.

Scott has strong leadership and pastoral skills, having worked in Anglican and Independent churches in Melbourne and the USA. He holds a Masters of Divinity, a Graduate Diploma in Bible and Ministry, a Research Masters in Historical Theology from Ridley Melbourne and a PhD in Systematic Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. Scott has lectured in the USA dn in Germany and has contributed to books and scholarly papers alongside Don Carson and Graeme Cole.

Scott's interests include travel to Germany every year, American Football and hanging out with his mates playing Xbox or watching Sci-Fi films.

Scott grew up as the son of missionary parents in Argentina, returning as an adult missionary with his wife Kate many years later. Scott is a devoted father and family man, married to Kate with a son Dante and twin daughters Angela and Grace.

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Ted Woods
LTh; DipRE; DipTheol; BA(Hons); MA(Oxon); DLitt et Phil (Biblical Studies)
Associate Lecturer
Old Testament

Ted trained at the Baptist Theological College of New South Wales, and then pursued post-graduate studies at Bristol University and Oxford University in the UK. He was then involved in the pastoral ministry in NSW and missionary service in Zambia (with ABMS), principally as a lecturer in Old Testament at the Theological College of Central Africa. In March 1990, he received his doctorate in Biblical Studies from the University of South Africa.

In his busy schedule, Ted finds time for sporting interests, reading, commentary writing, and preaching. He is currently writing a commentary on Deuteronomy for the Tyndale Old Testament commentary series.

Ted has been a moderator for the Australian College of Theology in Old Testament.

He is married to Jenny and they have three daughters.

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Tim Meyers
B.Ed (Melbourne), ThM (Dallas)
Principal

Tim Meyers is the Principal of Melbourne School of Theology.

He joined MST at the end of 2011 following 12 years in senior leadership roles with mission agency Pioneers and almost a decade in pastoral ministry with Baptist churches in Queensland. Tim also trained and worked as a professional musician and secondary school teacher and also trained as a commercial pilot with Mission Aviation Fellowship, prior to moving into ministry.

Tim completed his Masters of Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary (Texas, USA) in 1991, with majors in Systematic Theology and Bible Exposition. He is currently a (deferred) candidate for the Doctor of Ministry with Fuller Theological Seminary and has completed advanced studies in Missions at Moody Bible Institute.

As well as solid academic qualifications and a strong interest in postgraduate research, Tim has great skills in leadership and administration, and strong gifts in teaching and preaching, cultural and organisational change, as well as entrepreneurial abilities.

In his time with Pioneers Australia and Pioneers International, Tim became known as a strong leader and innovator as well as a church preacher and teacher and conference speaker in Australia and overseas. While in leadership at Pioneers, he oversaw strong growth in the public profile of Pioneers as well as healthy numerical growth in the number of mission workers sent, support raised and countries served by Australia. He also completed a fitout for an income-generating office and lead the merger of Pioneers with Arab World Ministries globally.

Tim grew up in a missionary family in Papua and New Guinea before moving to Melbourne during high school, where he later met and married Kathryn. They have five children.