CHRIS ENGLAND

EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER

Chris is the Executive General Manager (EGM) of City to City Australia. Chris has spent 21 years at Wesley Mission (a large Christian not-for-profit organisation, based in Sydney, with a $280m annual turnover). He recently finished in his role there as Chief Operating Officer, as well as being a member of the executive team. Chris loves Christ, has a ‘city mindset’, and has deep experience both in the church and corporate space. Chris will lead the business functions at CTCA: staffing and HR, budgeting and finance functions, systems and processes, spearheading new growth into what CTCA does best. Chris knows how to get things done, and with grace and kindness too.

ANDREW KATAY

EXECUTIVE For COntent and ministry | DIRECTOR OF COACHING

Andrew is City to City Australia’s Executive for Content and Ministry (ECM) and the Director of Coaching, and closely works with the EGM in this shared executive leadership structure. Andrew is responsible for ministry matters, oversight of content in the various programs of CTCA, network and movement, and promoting the work of CTCA to ministers and donors. This role enables him to work across denominational boundaries to be part of seeing a Gospel movement take hold of cities across Australia, which is a driving passion for Andrew.

Andrew is also the Senior Minister of Christ Church Inner West, a multi-site church in Sydney's Inner West, where he commenced over ten years ago. He has considerable experience in University ministries and has served as Chaplain to Sydney University.

He is married to Catriona and they have three adult children. The things that animate Andrew are sharing the Gospel, seeing God’s grace at work in the community of the Church as well as in the wider community through cultural renewal, and when he has time, a decent game of golf.

CHRIS SWANN

DIRECTOR OF CHURCH PLANTING

Chris loves working with those who serve Christ’s people in leadership. He is passionate about seeing them do this in ways that express a growing personal experience of the grace of the Lord Jesus, a humble confidence that all of life belongs to Christ, and a desire for spiritual fruitfulness and kingdom impact.

Before joining City to City, Chris helped to identify, raise up and equip Christian leaders in university student ministry, local churches, hospital chaplaincy, cross-cultural mission agency, and theological education roles. He is particularly stirred by the challenge of helping people take seriously the power, purpose, and presence of God’s grace in shaping their Christian lives and ministry. In this vein, his PhD in theology examined Karl Barth’s use of the language and imagery of discipleship in the context of his late doctrine of sanctification.

Chris lives in Melbourne’s Inner North with his wife Natalie and two school-age kids, where they are part of a local Anglican church.

ANNA BOXWELL

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CHURCH PLANTING

Rev. Anna Boxwell focuses on helping the Church Planting department strategically develop our offerings in assessment, training, coaching, and resourcing of planters, potential planters, and their teams. Anna is one of the planting pastors of an Anglican church in Canberra, and appreciated the training and support she and their team received from City to City in planting. She has led the development and delivery of courses and ordination formation training for St Mark’s National Theological Centre. Anna loves spending time with her husband and their four boisterous children at her parents’ farm. Her ministry training was from Moore Theological College, with a thesis exploring the theological ethics of embryo donation and adoption, and from St Mark’s National Theological Centre.

Anna is particularly interested in the way God’s grace to us in Jesus Christ helps us change and grow; pastoring people experiencing infertility and navigating assisted reproductive technologies; leadership and discipleship; and coming alongside the many great churches and ministries in the Canberra region, seeking to share Jesus in the most secular city in Australia. Anna loves teaching and training and watching those ‘ah-ha!’ moments our planters and pastors have during training sessions as we read our culture, our hearts, and our Bible with one another.

adrian tam

assistant director of church planting

Adrian is our Assistant Director of Church Planting, focussing on our flagship cohort program for church planters and church planting residents. Having planted a church in Sydney himself some years ago with help from City to City, where he had the opportunity to attend a month-long intensive in NYC in 2016, he considers it a privilege to now be able to guide and coach other planters on a similar journey. Adrian brings to the team a broad-based skill set and a diverse range of experiences, ranging from corporate law, local church pastoring and teaching scripture in high schools. He is also (slowly!) working his way towards a Masters of Theology.

Adrian lives in the lower north shore of Sydney with his wife Jess and three young children. They are on the leadership team of Glow Church Sydney, which is part of the ACC.

CAMERON MUNRO

DIRECTOR OF TRAINING | LEAD CONSULTANT

Cameron is Director of Training with City to City Australia, as well as a Lead Consultant for the Revitalise Australia program.  He is committed to seeing Christ proclaimed, “admonishing  and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that everyone may be presented fully mature  in Christ” (Colossians 1:28).

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Cameron became a Christian at age 13. He worked as a Physiotherapist before training for pastoral ministry at Moore Theological College and Fuller Seminary.  His doctoral thesis explored the challenge of equipping churches to address key challenges presented by contemporary Australian culture to the discipling of children and youth.

For more than twenty years he has pastored churches in Sydney, Wollongong, and most recently, in beautiful Adelaide. As pastor within the Trinity Network of Churches for fourteen years, he has been involved on the ground in church planting. He has also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Bible College SA since 2016.

He enjoys going on (really) long hikes, reading Puritan theology (amongst other things), good movies, and spending time in the garden.

Cameron is married to Karen and they have four adult children.

JULIE-ANNE LAIRD

specialist consultant - evangelism & mission | CATALYST, MELBOURNE NORTH

Julie-anne is the Specialist Consultant of Evangelism & Mission and also serves as the Melbourne North Catalyst for City to City Australia. Julie-anne has a real heart for people to know Christ and would love to see real gospel movement across Australia and to see churches doing this better. She is also the Canon for Church Planting for the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne.

For the last 20 years, she has worked with AFES helping students reach out to the Uni Campus in Melbourne. She is the Chair of Lausanne Australia and has been a Victorian Coordinator for Arrow Leadership for the last 14 years.

Julie-anne is married to Andrew and they have 4 young adult children who are only 5.5 years apart.

JAMIE BESTER

DIRECTOR OF REVITALISE AUSTRALIA | CATALYST, TASMANIA

Jamie is the Director and a Lead Consultant of the Revitalise Australia Program. He is an ordained Minister with the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania and leads a working group for the Diocese, developing new ministries throughout the state.

Jamie has a science and business background, previously working as a consultant to rebuild failed businesses and start new ones. These experiences and gifts have transferred into ministry roles focusing on church planting and parish revitalisation.

Jamie studied Ministry & Theology at Ridley College and completed the City to City Asia Pacific Church Planting Intensive and Preaching Incubator prior to planting Southern Beaches Anglican Church. Until recently he has led the Anglican Parish of Clarence South in Hobart through a season of revitalisation before starting full-time with City to City.   

Jamie is married to Claire and has seven children (yes, that’s right!) covering a wide range of ages. When he's not spending time with his family he loves nothing more than exploring Tasmania's rivers and lakes with fly- rod in hand.  

Jamie and Claire have a deep God-given passion to serve the Lord with a particular call to develop organic ministry opportunities, believing that God is planting His plans into the hearts of local communities and cities for the growth of the Kingdom.

AMY MASKELL

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF REVITALISE AUSTRALIA

As the Assistant Director of Revitalise Australia, Amy Maskell supports churches, denominations and organisations across Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand through the revitalisation process. City to City Australia has a heart for seeing healthy and fruitful churches across Australia and Aeteroa/New Zealand, and Amy brings specific expertise to help us serve these churches.

Amy has been involved with City to City Australia for some time having completed the Incubator training program and participating in a Revitalise Australia project with the church that she serves in Tasmania.

Amy has a business background with majors in accounting and entrepreneurship. She enjoys using this knowledge to think deeply about the effectiveness of church ministries with a particular interest in shaping culture within communities. Amy has worked in parish contexts in the inner suburbs of Hobart for more than seven years. In these roles, she has used her background and skillset to create predictable systems and processes for the administrative activities of the church to allow churches to navigate the unpredictable parts of ministry with greater resilience. She has also been central in drafting and implementing church vision.

Amy is a Chartered Accountant and has also undertaken studies with Women & Leadership Australia.

Amy brings a wealth of experience to support individuals, churches, denominations and organisations through the revitalisation process in their context.

Claire Bester

administrator, revitalise australia

Claire works as the Administrator of Revitalise Australia. Married to Jamie, she has served alongside him as City to City church planters and in parish ministry roles within the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania. Together they have four school-aged children and have co-parented a further three to adulthood.

Claire is a Built Heritage Advisor with a love of the built environment. With degrees in Australian & Architectural History, qualifications and experience in Cultural Resource Management, and an active membership with ICOMOS Australia, Claire is part-way to completing a Masters of Architecture.

Having become a Christian at age 28, Claire is thankful to be known and loved by God and feels so privileged to use her gifts to serve alongside the greater City to City team in reaching and revitalising Australia and New Zealand.

When not organizing the Revitalise Australia team, Claire can be found spending time on their family farm in South-eastern Tasmania, drinking coffee, op-shopping, and swimming in the ocean (but not all at the same time!)

ROD MORRIS

LEAD CONSULTANT

Rod is a Lead Consultant within the Revitalise Australia program. He has worked in corporate management, corporate change and management development roles, and prior to joining City to City, served in a range of ministry roles within various churches and parachurch organisations, including a training role with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Europe. Rod has an enduring interest in developing people for Christian ministry, particularly in the areas of leadership, preaching, and bible study groups, and together with his wife, Karen, has written a book on small group bible studies called ‘Leading Better Bible Studies’. He has degrees in Theology, Economics, Adult Education, Professional Development, and Professional Supervision, and has conducted ministry training workshops internationally and around Australia.

LEE HINKLE

LEAD CONSULTANT

Lee has lived in Fremantle, Australia since 2015 when he and his family moved from Indianapolis, Indiana U.S.A. Lee was called by the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Australia to plant a new work in Fremantle (a sub-city of Perth). Lee was able to make this move with the help of Mission to the World , the sending arm of the Presbyterian Church of America. Prior to moving to Australia, Lee spent 15 years serving in churches in the United States. He served in roles including youth pastor, equipping pastor, formation pastor.  Serving in churches of 50 members to 4500 members. 

After moving to Australia Lee has pastored a unique church plant/relaunching of a 120 year old congregation. This work began in 2016 with 30 average attenders and a median age of 70. Today Fremantle Church average Sunday morning attendance is 90 with the median age of 35.  Lee has worked hard to honour the legacy of the church while not being held back by its heritage.  The church is currently a Church of Christ/ WPC church.

Lee is ordained for Christian ministry by the Presbyterian Church of America, the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Australia and is an accredited minister in the Churches of Christ Western Australia. Lee holds a BA in Youth Ministry and Biblical Studies with additional course work from Reformed Theological Seminary.

Lee has been married to Shannon for almost 30 years and has one son and daughter-in-law who live in the United States and four daughters who live in Fremantle. 

DAVID RIETVELD

LEAD CONSULTANT

David has worked in local church ministry for almost 30 years. He has worked in Sydney, Tasmania, and Victoria. He is ordained as an Anglican and Baptist. He has worked in big and small churches, while they were growing or, at times, declining. He has planted congregations and closed churches, led a merger, built a new church building, and sold others. He has followed predecessors who fell into misconduct, and transitioned churches back into health and growth. He has worked with Anglo and ethnic congregations and staff. David's broad experience will help him empathise and walk alongside your church, whatever season you are in.

David is a published author - his book Being Christian after Christendom explores four questions: Where are we? How did we get here? What went wrong? What is the solution? This book is a dialogue between sociology, philosophy, history, and theology about the state of the world, and the church's role.

David commenced a PhD and has published journal articles on listening to preaching. He is also trained to lead Intentional Interim Ministry with TMAA, and in Conflict Management with the Alban Institute.

David has a heart for cross-cultural mission. He has led partnerships between Australian churches, and sister churches in Cambodia, Myanmar and Uganda. He was the chair of CMS Tasmania.

David is married with four adult children.

GREIGORY WHITTAKER

DIRECTOR OF MOVEMENT

Greig is the Director of Network and Movement at City to City Australia. Greig has served and explored his faith journey within the context of The Salvation Army as part of a multigenerational Salvo family. He planted with others the Ryde Salvation Army 27 years ago and now assists his wife Amanda as team leaders. Greig also established the Together for Ryde pastors network that is now several years into the journey of growing trust and exploring serving the city together.

Greig’s working life finds expression in 25 years of building a family business that operated in several retail sectors including entertainment sector via Video Ezy and food sectors with Gloria Jeans stores, Subway stores, and juice bars. The business also developed several management systems and services such as payroll and rostering, retail management, finance support. During this season Greig established a marketing company ‘Blueflame Marketing’ that served the retail sector and held the account for the Video Ezy group nationally and internationally.

In 2012, Greig commenced a role with The Salvation Army nationally that was the development of a new mission delivery model, ‘Hubs’ that saw unity established between the various front line TSA expressions within geographical contexts. On the journey Greig received his Bachelor of ministry at Morling College. His passion is for the beauty of Jesus to be seen and His kingdom glory expressed in the cities our churches serve. Personally experiencing the presence and love of Jesus is the greatest delight of life.

AARON TERRY

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MOVEMENT

Aaron has been in ministry for over 13 years, both in local church placement in predominantly Baptist churches, plus a Pentecostal Church, as well para-church organisations such as Gideons Australia. Most recently Aaron has served with Compassion Australia as their Ambassador for the Sydney Metro area. For the past 6 years, Aaron has been helping to develop Church unity groups across local areas in Sydney and NSW. For 2 of those years, he developed these through Greater West for Christ in Western Sydney.

Aaron loves his wife and three children, surfing with friends anytime the temperature is above 20 degrees, food and bringing churches together to share the good news in their local community.

TIMOTHY LAU

director of asian ministries

Tim serves from Melbourne and works alongside Chinese leaders across Australia. He was the first national, and non-geographic catalyst, to join the team at City to City Australia. He is now the director of Asian Ministries. After developing Mandarin ministries, he hopes to develop trainings in other Asian languages. He is also overseeing Second Generation Ministries, is involved in training Chinese church planters and Revitalise Australia’s projects.

Tim comes from a pastoral and theological education background, and has served in Australia and overseas (Europe and East Asia). He is currently involved in leadership training, mentoring, preaching, writing and lecturing.

He and his wife Resa have an adult daughter and a high school son.

刘利宇

亚洲事工主任

利宇位于墨尔本，但与澳洲各地的华人领袖配搭。他是加入澳洲CTC的第一位不是以地区界定的全国推动者。目前他是澳洲CTC的亚洲事工主任，希望在已发展的普通话事工之外，能再发展其他语言的培训。澳洲的第二代事工也在他主导之下。他也参与华人植堂者培训和《更新澳洲》的项目。

利宇来自牧会和神学教育的背景，拥有在澳洲和海外（欧洲和东亚）服事的经验。目前他主要的事奉为领袖培训、导引、讲道、写作和教授神学。

他和妻子有一位已成人的女儿和一位中学年龄的儿子。

PETE GREENWOOD

Trainer

Pete Greenwood is the planter and pastor of Inner West Church in Flemington, Melbourne. He loves helping people see how the Gospel transforms all of life, and how everyday Christians can live with missional intentionality. He finds great joy in God's generous gifts of good coffee, great beer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Though his church ministry has a focus in the Kensington/Flemington area, Pete has long nurtured a passion that the western suburbs more broadly would see a movement of spiritual renewal as new churches are planted, established churches are renewed and Christians gain a new willingness to be on mission. To that end, in 2019 he helped start a prayer movement of pastors and planters called Together for the West. Pete also works one day a week to help network and resource church planters and pastors in the West with the great tools and training that City to City Australia has to offer.

Pete is husband to Jackie and dad to Jonathan.

BETTY MARY

COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR | Administrator, church planting

As the Communications Coordinator for City to City Australia, Betty's responsibilities encompass creating marketing and communication strategies, maintaining the CTCA website, and lending support to the team for events and programs. Her prior experience entails serving as a project manager and media lead for non-profits, and she finds joy in creating visually appealing designs. Betty also assists the Church Planting team in their administrative needs and networking with church planters.

In addition to her professional role, Betty and her husband, Samuel planted Lighthouse Church in 2019 in the city of Delhi. She also runs a small business called Inkgraved where she sells her hand-lettered art and paintings. Her deep desire for people to experience the love of Christ drives her to contribute to her community in any way possible. During her free time, Betty enjoys hosting game nights, and having deep conversations over a cup of coffee.

TAARIKA CHANDY PAKKI

COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Administrator, revitalise australia & coaching

Taarika is the Communications Coordinator for City to City Australia. Her role includes developing communications strategies, maintaining social media presence and other front-facing comms, and assisting the team around delivery of events, programs etc. She also assists the Revitalise Australia team and Coaching team with their administrative needs.

Taarika previously worked in the development sector in India for 10 years and enjoys being able to communicate in creative ways to get more people interested in the things that matter.  Working with City to City Australia is giving her the opportunity to communicate about the most important thing - the grace and love of Jesus Christ.

Taarika is married to Felix, an assistant pastor in the city of Bombay, and together they have a son Avy. Taarika is currently absorbed by finding different ways to entertain her son, drinking copious amounts of tea, and reading as many pages of a new book as she can before she falls asleep. 

KEITH LAM

CANTONESE CATALYST

Keith is our Cantonese Catalyst. He has a background in planning, architectural design, and construction management in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Furthermore, Keith played a role in establishing companies within the cultural and creative industries.

Keith's connection with Australia began when he and his wife, Kally met in a Melbourne church thirty years ago as a result of the church's commitment to evangelistic work for overseas students. This is the reason why Keith transitioned into Mandarin and Cantonese church ministry when he returned to Melbourne seven years ago.

Recently, he witnessed the impact that Hong Kong’s geopolitical changes has contributed to a significant influx of immigrants and returnees to Australia. This paradigm shift has marked a new stage in the development of church planting in Cantonese churches, which resulted in Keith joining City to City Australia to pursue this vision. Keith and Kally now cherish their family life with two daughters and their beloved dog in Melbourne.

STEVE BOXWELL

CATALYST, CANBERRA

Steve is the Catalyst leader for Canberra. He has been praying for Canberra, since he was 18, that 10% of Canberrans would be part of gospel-hearted churches in his lifetime. Canberra is a city full of smart people talking about important things. Canberra is a city for the nation, and so his prayer is that Canberra would be marked by gospel-literate workers who, in turn, bless the nation.

In 2017, with a dedicated and delighted team, he planted Renew Anglican Church in Canberra's South.

Steve is married to Anna and has three small people.

JUSTIN MOFFATT

CHAIR

Justin Moffatt is the Senior Minister of St Philip's Anglican Church in Sydney. He was born in Perth, but raised in Sydney. He studied at Sydney University and at Moore College, and was ordained in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Justin is married to Laurel, and God has given them four fun kids. He's been in ministry at St Ives and more recently in New York City. Then God moved him from one urban centre to another: Manhattan to Sydney where he continues to serve at Church Hill Anglican. Justin is a founding Director of City to City in Australia. 

CHRIS ENGLAND

executive director

DAREN ARMSTRONG

After practising for 17 years as a partner at Kemp Strang, Daren Armstrong joined Banki Haddock Fiora in 2013 as a partner. Daren is highly regarded for his expertise in complex corporate advisory, restructuring and financing matters. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

GREG FENDLER

Greg is a Director in the Marketing and Client Relations team at ICG. Before joining ICG, Greg worked at UBS from 1998 to 2013. He held various leadership positions at UBS in New York, Zurich and Sydney, including his most recent role as Executive Director, Institutional Sales for UBS Global Asset Management in Australia. Greg has held a number of business development and sales strategy positions across a range of asset classes such as equities, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds during his time with UBS. Greg joined the City to City Australia Board in 2019. 

CYNTHIA DEARIN

Cynthia is an international business strategist and lawyer, and the Founder of Dearin & Associates. Before establishing the company in 2013, she spent 12 years working in the UK, US, Europe and Middle East, as an Australian diplomat and as a management consultant. She was also the CEO of the Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry and is proficient in Arabic and French. She is a Graduate of The Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Cynthia is married to Pete and has two young children, Lachlan and Saskia. The Bridge Church in Kirribilli has been her home church since 2009.

PAUL SYMONS

Paul is Senior Director of PC Locs, an international, IT physical-storage and deployment Company he established 20 years ago. Paul is now ‘mostly’ retired but sits on a number of committees and boards. He is married to Sue and lives in Rockingham W.A. They have 3 married children and 8 grandchildren. Paul was appointed to the City to City Australia Board in 2018.

MARY LAW

Mary comes from a Big 4 chartered background in senior management for over 15 years, and is currently in a senior finance role at an ASX listed 200 company. Mary’s expertise is around financial reporting, internal controls, and being a business partner with other teams.

Mary is married to Howard and has three young daughters, and she and her family have been serving at St Georges’ Hurstville Anglican Church, where Mary has been a church warden since 2022. Mary joined the Board of CTCA in 2024.

Mark edmonds

Mark is a security and risk expert with 30 years management experience in intelligence and security risk. He has worked for the Defence Signals Directorate, Qantas and Sydney Trains in various capacities and has recently started a small consulting company to help not-for-profits with security risk management. Mark serves in a number of Non-Executive Director roles and is a parishioner at an Anglican church on the Northern Beaches. He joined the Board in 2024.

ANDREW KATAY

Executive for Content and Ministry (ECM)