Pastor Ray Minniecon is a descendant of the Kabi Kabi nation and the Gurang Gurang nation of South-East Queensland. Pastor Ray is also a descendant of the South Sea Islander people with deep and abiding connections to the people of Ambrym Island. Pastor Ray ministers at St John’s Church in Sydney, is a resource worker for the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, honorary pastor at St. John’s Scarred Tree Ministry in Glebe and Director of Bunji Consultancies. He was a former National Director of World Vision Australia’s Indigenous programs. Pastor Ray has a BA in Theology from Murdoch University and assisted in the establishment of Aboriginal studies and employment programs at that university.
Dave Andrews, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than forty years. He now lives in a large joint household with his wife, children, grandchildren and others in an inner city community in Brisbane. Dave is particularly interested in radical spirituality, incarnational community and the dynamics of personal and social transformation.