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Lead Ministers - Pastors Lorelle & Wayne Magee

Wayne & Lorelle Magee have been in Christian ministry for over forty years. Wayne has served as the General Supervisor of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel Australia from 1998-2001. He was elected to the position of Australian Foursquare Church President in May 2004 and retired from that position in 2020. During his time as President, he also chaired the South Pacific Regional Council - Foursquare Churches and was one of the fifteen members of the Foursquare Missions International Global Council based in Los Angeles. Lorelle and Wayne have served in local church pastoral ministry positions at Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Sydney and Brisbane.

Lorelle served as Foursquare Australia Women’s President for eight years and produced annual denominational conferences for a fourteen year period. She continues to lead overseas’ group mission trips and oversees all pastoral care and ministry oversight within the local church.

Both Lorelle and Wayne have extensive ministry experience in deliverance of those in spiritual bondages, pastoral care, church administration and counselling to the broken- hearted. They have ministered extensively throughout Australia and in a number of overseas countries and both are sought after conference and seminar speakers. Each has a deep desire to see their homeland swept into the fullness of its destiny in God through restoration and revival.

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Associate Pastors – Brian & Kay Eyre

Brian & Kay Eyre, former Lead Ministers at Bethel Christian Centre Coffs Harbour (now called heartbeat Church) have been in ministry for many years and have had a vast experience in education, administration, and pastoral care. Brian oversees the accounts departments for all areas of heartbeat Centre. Kay Eyre assists in the women’s and children’s ministry and is still active in teaching at Christian Community primary and high Schools in the area.

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Associate Pastors – Desalegn & Ruth Kitila

Desu & Ruth are originally from Ethiopia, and came to Australia via Kenya as refugees, escaping from the civil unrest in their homeland. They have settled into their new home here and their three children are all in school. Desu and Ruth conduct a Connect Group and oversee the Monday prayer group. They both assist with pastoral care and minister powerfully to the members of heartbeat Church – Coffs Harbour.

ASSOCIATE PASTORS – BEN & TANIA VAN LIESHOUT

Ben and Tania have been married since 1987 and together have four children and 16 grandchildren.

They both became followers of Christ around 1996 at C3 Church Coffs Harbour, and it wasn’t long before the leadership there recognised their great potential in ministry and they were blessed when both were asked to become leaders in the children’s church and also serve in the youth groups where they had responsibility of mentoring others and served for 6 years. From 2010-2022, Ben and Tania were busy with ministry, undertaking outreach to the local aboriginal community in Bourke NSW serving and preaching the Gospel in Tamworth NSW, Deepwater NSW and Warwick QLD. In early 2023, they became a part of the church family at Heartbeat Church Coffs Harbour.

In 2024, as a part of the ministry team and leadership within the fellowship, they were invited to join the pastoral team as Associate pastors.

When asked about the new role, both Ben and Tania said they love serving and ministering to the body of Christ at Heartbeat Church – Coffs Harbour.

ASSOCIATE PASTORS (EMERITUS) – RICK AND PHYL DE VERTEUIL

Rick and Phyl have been married for 39 years and have been in Christian ministry for over 30 years. They began pastoring the Bethel Church at Wauchope NSW (west of Port Macquarie) in its infancy in 1992 - taking over from Ps John and Denise Drew.

Rick, a licenced builder, built the Bethel Church building at Wauchope with the help of the congregation. He travelled with Ps Graham Baker to Vanuatu to build a cyclone proof church at Port Vila. He later returned to Vanuatu to help a team build 11 village churches on Tanna Island and also Vila after cyclone Pam. Phyl also had a mission trip with Ps Georgina Hamilton and a team to Vanuatu visiting Port Vila and Tanna Island to minister to the ladies there.

Rick and Phyl have been involved in several methods of Christian counselling, hosting schools at Bethel and training attendees in ministries including, Elijah House and Cleansing Streams. They were involved over the years in several Australian Prayer Network outreaches (40 Hour Prayer Weekends) for the region. Bethel also joined with other Wauchope churches for many years to reach the community presenting “Celebrate Jesus” weekends.

Phyl taught SRE in local schools for approximately 20 years. Rick was involved in “Student at Risk” programs at the Wauchope High School for over 20 years, helping to enable students to continue their studies through personal and family difficulties.

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ASSOCIATE PASTORS (EMERITUS) - ERNIE & EILEEN WING

Ernie & Eileen Wing have been married and in ministry for 55 years. They have four children, 11 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Both are graduates of the AOG Commonwealth Bible College, Graceville, Brisbane in 1965. From 1966 to 1970 they lived and ministered in New Zealand. From 1970 to September 2003  they pastored at Swansea NSW.

During the 33 years in Swansea,  Ernie also served for a number of years as a denominational Company Director of the Foursquare Gospel Church (Aust.) Board located in Sydney. He has also served as a Foursquare denominational Area Supervisor and a LIFE Bible College lecturer.

Eileen and Ernie have both taught SRE in schools, ministered in Fiji, Vanuatu , PNG , The Solomon Islands, the USA  and South Africa. Diploma in Counselling from The Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors Pty Ltd.

They also pastored the Foursquare Church at Redcliffe for 8 years in Qld. Not content to sit back in their semi-retirement, for the past three years they have also been supporting a new pioneering church work in Newcastle.

Eileen Wing is also the daughter of Albert and Nellie Booth who were the first Foursquare Australian missionaries to go to PNG on 25th April 1957.

Eileen has also served as the SRE co-ordinator for the local Ministers Fraternal to Caves Beach, Swansea, Blacksmiths and Pelican Beach Schools and taught in these schools with teams twice weekly. She has also ministered at Women’s Aglow.

Church Elders

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Rick Madssen and Marcia Wrigley are true servants in the church family. Apart from their role in eldership supporting the pastors in ministry each also has an active role in the overall life of the fellowship. Rick oversees the men’s ministry and has pastoral oversight of junior youth, and Marcia is a vital part of the church intercessory prayer team.

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