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Meet the Staff
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Garry Marquand
Senior Pastor
- Family: married to Val, four adult children, 2 daughters in law, 2 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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Ruth Shute
Lay Pastor/Office Administrator
- Family: Recently Married, 3 daughters, 1 daughter in law, 1 son and 2 sons in law, plus 5 grandchildren.
- Occupation: Office Administrator, Pastoral Assistant, plus anything else that comes her way. Does accounts for a Builder.
- Likes: Reading, Gardening, Embroidery, Cooking.
- Dislikes: Housework? Computers when they don't do what you want them to.
- Favourite quote: A rebel at heart who God loves and has never given up on.
- Passionate about: Building Christians up in the Word of God, so they may go out and fulfill the great commission. Matthew 28:18-20
- History: Served for 20 years in India in a school for Mish kids.
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Neil and Jill White
Lay Pastors
- Family:
2 daughters
- Occupations:
Lay Pastors at Discovery, Painter and teaches 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. - Has 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 to Churches in New Zealand.
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