Prayer is such a vital part of your support for BCA. Greg Harris gave supporters the challenge to pray each day while they make their morning coffee or tea. He asked that we pray to the Lord for more workers for his harvest field with BCA. God has answered your prayers in amazing ways over the past year. We have welcomed six new Field Staff since the start of 2025, and today we welcome four more plus new Nomads Coordinators.

Former BCA Indigenous Theological Bursary Student, Lonny Bendessi is now serving as Field Staff with the Aboriginal Berean Community Church. Here he will receive practical ministry training amongst First Nations People. Lonny will combine his work with completing his associate degree at the Bible College of South Australia.

“First and foremost I would like to give thanks & praise to God for His calling on my life,” says Lonny. “I would ask BCA supporters to please pray for my studies; that God will give me wisdom & understanding and uphold me as I seek to do His will.”

After two and a half years without a minister-in-charge, King Island have new Field Staff who started in August. We welcome Tom & Tanya Killingbeck together with their kids Calimë, Tristan & Chiara.

Tom has been a Chaplain in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for the past 10 years. He most recently served in Queensland.

“I believe that Tanya, our kids and I are in a good place to contribute to the mission of BCA, as we are fundamentally country folk, and we fundamentally believe the Gospel is urgently required in hard-to-reach places like the bush,” says Tom. “Tanya’s skills as an early childhood educator will be a great asset on the Island, and I have the training and experience to operate as a minister in a remote location.”

David & Margy Williams have commenced serving in the Anglican Parish of West Coast Tasmania, which includes the townshipsof Queenstown and Strahan. They have a passion to encourage the faithful to be more like Jesus, and to see people come to know him.

David was most recently a country pastor in Strathalbyn, South Australia and previously worked as the CMS SA/NT Regional Director.

“We hope to make a contribution by being faithful to Christ and sharing his truth and love with the local churches and community on the West Coast of Tasmania,” says David. “I aim to teach God’s word clearly and faithfully, engage with current secular challenges and equip the saints to love one another and engage with the world.”

Pat & Issy O’Keeffe are moving to Katherine in the Northern Territory in October, a parish we last supported in 2020.

Pat has been the Assistant Minister at Northbridge Anglican since 2019. Issy is a NESA accredited teacher and registered psychologist.

“I am excited for the ways that we might be able to contribute to BCA in Katherine and beyond,” says Pat. “I would love to find ways to give others a similar insight in the way God is working beyond what we normally see and experience.”

Rod & Amanda Haywood have taken on the role of BCA Nomads Coordinators. Rod has served on the BCA NSW/ACT Regional Committee for the past two years and they’ve been Nomads for many years.

“Since becoming BCA Nomads we have seen God use our existing skills and equip us in new and surprising ways,” said Rod & Amanda. “As we start as Nomads Coordinators please pray that we will seek God’s leading and encourage others.”

Please join us in praying for Lonny, David & Margy, Tom & Tanya, Pat & Issy and Rod & Amanda, and thank God for their willingness to go the distance with BCA.