Glenroy Oak Park
Baptist Church

Grant has been involved in pastoral ministry with the Baptist Church for nearly forty years, serving Churches both in New Zealand (Mt Roskill and Remuera) and Australia (Mitcham, East Doncaster and Ashburton).  Grant trained initially as a Secondary School teacher before spending three years completing an M.Div. through Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas and an M.Min. through the Melbourne University of Divinity. Married to Cathy, and father to three adult children and five grandchildren, he is an avid sailor and sea-kayaker.  Growing up in NZ he spent his early years playing rugby and squash, then became a keen distance runner and triathlete before morphing into a Masters Athlete.  He has combined his passion for Sport and Pastoral work by being the inaugural and only Sports Chaplain ('Rev') with the Melbourne Storm Rugby League team, serving for the past twenty-five seasons, from early 2000 until the present.  Grant has also been involved in advocacy and mediation work, is a qualified Spiritual Director and is trained in Church Health Coaching and Consultancy and spent four years serving as a Regional Minister for the Baptist Union of Churches in Victoria, Australia.