A Little About Me
I’m Brian Medway, and I live in Canberra, Australia with my wife Nola. We
have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren scattered
in various directions.
For more than 60 years, my life has been shaped by discovering God’s plans
and purposes in the company of some of the greatest people going around.
I was a farmer when Nola and I were married in 1968, but not long after, God
called us to get some training: first at the Illawarra Bible College in
Katoomba, NSW, then at Moore Theological College in Sydney. When we started
having children, I got a job as a Home Missionary at Balmain Methodist Mission.
I was ordained in 1977, the first year of the Uniting Church in Australia, and
we moved from Balmain to Dorrigo, near Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid-North
Coast.
While considering further theological study at Fuller Seminary in Los
Angeles, we were invited to join Dan and Sue Armstrong at O’Connor Uniting
Church in Canberra. And we are still here, forty-plus years later.
In 1994, we separated from the Uniting Church to plant a new church in
Australia’s capital, and three years later, we were among five churches that
worked together to form Crosslink Christian Network.
In 2022, I was promoted from Pastor of Grace Canberra to being a member of
the congregation, and in 2026, I retired from my role as Chairman of Crosslink.
I still think a lot of things and try to road-test most of them. This
website might double as a series of reports on those road tests. Someone has
commented that you might be able to take the boy away from the farm but you
can’t take the farm from inside the boy. As a farmer, everything was judged by
crop and animal yields – in other words, the proof is in the fruitfulness or
not. Its the same with the kingdom of God.
That’s why the journey never ends. Nor does the need to know and grow, or to
fight and win. A lot needs to change, and we happen to serve a God who makes
all things new.