Education:
BA, MTCP (Sydney)
BTh (Hons) (Morling)
LGCertTCP
(NSW Dept of Local Govt)

Peter Green has been pastor of Marrickville Baptist Church since 4. February 1984.

FAMILY
Peter is married to Christine, a Community/Welfare Worker with Marrickville Anglicare. Their four children are Luke, Joshua, Naomi and Hannah. Joshua and his wife, Helen, have a son, James. Born at Fairfield, NSW in 1946, Peter is the elder of two children.

FAITH AND CALLING
Peter was not raised in an actively Christian family, but, at about 14, he first "came under conviction" through a Methodist Scripture class at school, but took no action. From early 1962, he began attending Fairfield Baptist Church. In mid-1962 he surrendered to Jesus as Lord and Saviour at an open-air street meeting in Sydney.

In 1964 he was praying for God's will for his life. He had little interest in or aptitude for his engineering studies.
 
God suddenly seemed to say, "Full time ministry." -- An unattractive option for a stammerer! Would he have to be a missionary -- the kind who does the books in a grass hut with spiders and snakes in the walls while someone else preaches and teaches? Worse still (for a 17-year-old) he was sure that the grass hut would be too small to fit him, his work and girls!

However, if it were God's will, he was prepared to do it... as long as God confirmed the call through someone else. Meanwhile he said nothing to anyone.

That Sunday, the Pastor bailed him up at the door. "Peter," he said, "I believe you have pastoral gifts..."

A 1968 application for admission as a ministerial candidate was rejected because he didn't seem sure of his calling. This left him confused and uncertain.

In 1970, he and Christine married, and with children arriving, dreams of ministry dimmed, but never entirely disappeared.

Conflicts late in 1982 confronted him with the need to make a choice about the ministry. A late application was accepted by the Baptist Union. A range of "impossibilities" then occurred leading to his entry to Morling College at the beginning of 1983 as an accepted Ministerial candidate.

In 1984, he was assigned to Marrickville as student pastor, and he has been there ever since.

Because the church periodically struggles financially, he has several times worked part-time. He has lectured, edited a Christian magazine, and has worked in various aspects of market research.

Early in 1999 he invited M B C to make him redundent, to continue as honorary pastor from July. This was a trigger for the church to become Silver Street Mission to affirm its mission focus and openness to all people in the sphere of its ministry.

He has a special interest in Revivals, both from an historical point of view and from having experienced, on two occasions, a special move of God's Spirit among groups of Christians.

 

Education:

BSc(Commerce) (Lyceum of the Philippines)

Computer programming courses

FAMILY
Neph is married to Divina. Their three children are John David, Jay R, (Nephtali Junior), and Joyce. Born at Bailen in Cavite Province, The Philippines, in August 1951, Neph is one of several children.

FAITH AND CALLING
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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Neph completed High School (Manila's Methodist-run Union High School), and followed this with a Bachelor of Science (Commerce) degree at the Lyceum of The Philippines. While working as a civilian with the Philippines Navy, he completed a course in computer programming, which has since become his profession.

Neph worked for a number of years with Bankers Trust as a programmer on Vax equipment, until their division was bought by the Macquarie Bank. He converted to UNIX, but was recently made redundent in a company reshuffle, and presently works for a internet based shopping company.

GENERAL
Neph and Divina have a long-established ministry to Filipino people around Sydney, and have more recently seen ways of providing a more structured ministry in this area. They have also been well-accepted for their caring ministry among all members of the congregation regardless of their ethnic background.

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