St Andrew's Church Brighton

The Reverend Kenyon McKie - Vicar

Kenyon McKie

The Reverend Kenyon McKie has been the Incumbent of St Andrew's Church Brighton since 13th January 2004.

Prior to this, Kenyon was Dean of Goulburn at St Saviour's Cathedral Goulburn (the Anglican Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn) and also had oversight of the Archdeaconry of Goulburn.

Kenyon has also ministered in several parishes of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn (Bega, Southern Monaro, Queanbeyan) and has served as Archdeacon of the South Coast and Monaro, where he was involved with various senior committees.

Other church related activities include Kenyon being a member of the General Synod and National Spiritual Adviser to the Cursillo Movement in Australia.

Having attended the University of London from 1989 - 1991, Kenyon was the Lucas Tooth Scholar at Kings College. Kenyon also holds a M.Th. (Lond.); BTh (Hons), BA, Dip Ed, Dip Min.

Kenyon's ministry goals for St Andrew's Church Brighton are:

Kenyon is married with children.

 

Reverend Sam Goodes - Assistant Curate

Sam Goodes

Sam comes to ordained ministry after working for 20 years as a Nurse.
Born in Adelaide, he moved to Melbourne in 2002. He began studying at Trinity College Theological School in 2004, and completed a Master of Divinity and Diploma of Ministry in 2007. He was ordained as a Deacon in February this year, and then commenced as Assistant Curate in the parish.
Sam has a great love for a wide variety of musical styles, and enjoys all aspects of liturgical planning and worship.
He is looking forward to serving God amongst the people of St. Andrew’s, Brighton.

 

Mr Tom Healey - Director of Music

Tom commenced as Director of Music at St Andrew’s in August of 2006. He was previously on the staff of Geelong Grammar School for many years, which included eleven years as Director of Music at the school. He was also Director of Chapel Music and a teacher of senior English and History, as well as Music. Tom brings long experience as a choral conductor, organist, singer and teacher to St Andrew’s. His choral conducting studies have included time at the Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and the University of Melbourne. He has a wealth of experience working with both youth and adult choirs, including direction of the ‘Youth Sings’ choir of the 2006 RSCM Summer School at Newman College. As an organist, he has studied with Douglas Lawrence and his appointments have included time at Trinity College (University of Melbourne), Ballarat Cathedral and St Francis’ Church Lonsdale Street, as well as assisting at Ormond College when a student there.

 

Lisa Bornyan — Parish Administrator

Lisa very much enjoys working at St Andrew's and the environment within the church. She is always happy to assist people with information and advice, all with a friendly smile. She will endeavour to answer all enquiries and also is happy to direct you to the relevant committee or the appropriate person to assist.

Lisa joined the team of St Andrew's as the Parish Administrator in October 2003.

She has over 20 years experience in small business, her skills include all aspects of office management with a thorough knowledge of church activities. Her private interests include Ceramics and playing Social Tennis.

Please contact the Parish Office for any of the following enquiries:

Fiona Gumbrell - Parish Accountant

Fiona commenced employment at St. Andrew’s in January 2009.  Currently, Fiona is self employed in the Bookkeeping industry whilst raising a young family.

Fiona has worked in the accounting industry for over ten years, including the last three years in her own business.  Fiona has a Diploma of Accounting and is currently working towards her Advanced Diploma of Accounting.

Fiona and her family are long standing Parishioners and she is enjoying working in the Parish Office one and a half days a week.

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