I’m Brian Medway, and I live in Canberra, Australia with my wife Nola. We\r\nhave four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren scattered\r\nin various directions. For more than 60 years, my life has been shaped by discovering God’s plans\r\nand 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\r\ncalled us to get some training: first at the Illawarra Bible College in\r\nKatoomba, NSW, then at Moore Theological College in Sydney. When we started\r\nhaving children, I got a job as a Home Missionary at Balmain Methodist Mission.\r\nI was ordained in 1977, the first year of the Uniting Church in Australia, and\r\nwe moved from Balmain to Dorrigo, near Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid-North\r\nCoast. While considering further theological study at Fuller Seminary in Los\r\nAngeles, we were invited to join Dan and Sue Armstrong at O’Connor Uniting\r\nChurch 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\r\nAustralia’s capital, and three years later, we were among five churches that\r\nworked together to form Crosslink Christian Network. In 2022, I was promoted from Pastor of Grace Canberra to being a member of\r\nthe 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\r\nwebsite might double as a series of reports on those road tests. Someone has\r\ncommented that you might be able to take the boy away from the farm but you\r\ncan’t take the farm from inside the boy. As a farmer, everything was judged by\r\ncrop and animal yields – in other words, the proof is in the fruitfulness or\r\nnot. 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\r\nfight and win. A lot needs to change, and we happen to serve a God who makes\r\nall things new. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmedway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}