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Meet the Staff
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Garry Marquand
Senior Pastor
- Family: married to Val, four adult children, 3 daughters-in-law and 4 grandchildren - wonderful people.
- Occupation: 30 years in local church leadership.
- Likes: landscape photography, walking in National Parks, kids.
- Dislikes: waking up in the middle of the night with a brain buzzing with ideas.
- Fairly interesting fact: Has been known to frequent the Cinema on his days off
- Passionate about: the amazing potential and experience of the local church
- History: a Waikato boy. Primary School teacher.
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Val Marquand
Office Administrator
- Family: Married to Garry. Four adult Children, three married, four grandchildren.
- Occupation: Church Administrator.
- Likes: Reading, cake decorating, playing with the grandchildren.
- Dislikes: Computers that won't do what you want them to do!!!
- Fairly interesting fact: Has been a cake decorator for 23years.
- Passionate about: Caring for and servng my family and the Church family.
- History: Born in Tauranga. Was a Primary school teacher.
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Neil and Jill White
Lay Pastors
- Family:
2 daughters
- Occupations:
Lay Pastors at Discovery, Neil is a Painter and Guitar teacher and Jill tutors English at River City Training Academy.
- Likes:
Neil - Music, Sailing (catching the breeze), talking (shooting the breeze), not necessarily in that order
Jill - Anything social that involves coffee and dessert. - Dislikes:
Neil - animal organs served on a dinner plate.
Jill - Social occasions with no coffee or dessert. - Have been quoted as saying: "Life is hard, people are strange, but God is good" or "There are no calories on
Sundays".
- Passionate about: Loving people and seeing them equipped and flourishing in all that God has for them.
- History: Neil and Jill
were involved in music ministry with YWAM in Amsterdam
for 6 years, followed by many years ministering in Church settings in New Zealand.
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