BCSANT Office & Support Team
Baptist churches in South Australia and the Northern Territory are supported and encouraged by the BCSANT Office and its Support Team.
The BCSANT Office provides a range of services to support, encourage, influence, and extend the life and mission of our local churches. BCSANT Support Team members work to resource churches, advocate mission, cultivate leaders, facilitate connections and inspire imagination across our movement and beyond.
The BCSANT Assembly, representing the whole movement, appoints our Director of Ministries, who works together with the Assembly Board to resource the BCSANT Office in order to support, encourage, influence and extend the life and mission of our local churches.
The BCSANT Support Team is made up of passionate people from across our movement who bring their gifts and skills to work on behalf of the movement. The team includes pastors and leaders who facilitate the areas of church development and mission, leadership development, pastoral training and support, next generations and intercultural ministries. The team also includes operational staff who manage areas like finance, administration, media and communications, events, policy, and property for the association, and these staff are available as a resource to churches as well. Alongside them are representatives from affiliated organisations as well as our Independent Director of Professional Standards.
What we do
We are a growing group of local churches that are thriving in Jesus, and with him, transforming the world.
The BCSANT Office and its ministries will, with godly stewardship, support, encourage, influence, and extend the life and mission of the churches. Its Support Team seeks to:
Inspire
imagination
Advocate
mission
Facilitate
connections
Cultivate
leaders
Resource
churches
What we do for Churches
What we do for Pastors
Support team
A passionate team operating in diverse roles to support local churches and the wider movement.
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Melinda Cousins
Director of Ministries
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Mark Sanders
Church Development Facilitator
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Tony Ling
Ministry Accreditation Facilitator
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Elliot Keane
Leadership & Mission Facilitator
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Darryl Bishop
Intercultural Ministries Facilitator
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Scott Berry
Next Generations Team Leader
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Mary Ackers
Youth Ministry Facilitator
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Tash Pillay
Childrens’ Ministry Facilitator
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Mark Foley
Pastoral Services Facilitator
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Glenn Dixon
Operations Manager
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Tam Battersby
Office Manager, EA to Director of Ministries
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Jenny van Tienen
Receptionist
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Sheryl Klaffer
Events Coordinator
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Katrina Levi
Operations Assistant
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Bridget Townsend
Accountant
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Alison Jeisman
Bookkeeper
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Benito Carbone
Media & Communications
Other organisations
Staff and state representatives from affiliated organisations regularly share our office space. These include:
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Carl Collins
Independent Director of Professional Standards
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Glen Thornley
State Relationship Manager SA/NT (BFS) & State Insurance Manager SA/NT (BIS)
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Lisa Cornish
State Director SA/NT, Baptist Mission Australia
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Rachael Foster
Church Liason Coordinator, Baptist Care SA
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Steve Woods
Church Relationship Manager SA/NT, Baptist World Aid Australia
Get in touch today!
The BCSANT Office is open Monday to Friday, from 9am – 5pm.