Full name: Sunita Esther Pala
Position: Afternoon Service Pastoral Staff & PA to Senior Pastor
Scope of responsibility: Senior Pastor Office, Afternoon Service
Education Background: Bachelor of Business (Major in Marketing); Masters of Information Technology, UQ
Hobbies: Movies, catching up with friends and family
Contact Email: sunita@hope-church.com.au
Sunita helps as a personal assistant to Ps. Wilson Lim and assists in the Afternoon Service with the UQ student ministry, service programs, and events. She is also overseeing the pioneering work at Ipswich.
Full name: Joy Sia
Position: Afternoon Service Pastoral Staff
Scope of responsibility: Afternoon Service
Education Background: Masters of Social Science (Human Services); Graduate Cert in Community Development; Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
Hobbies: Reading, Taking walks along the river, playing mind-challenging games
Contact Email: joy@hope-church.com.au
Joy is the sub-district coordinator of a student district. She also oversees the expansion department in the Afternoon Service, which includes e-club, Chinese interpretation, coffee corner, follow up & follow through departments.
Full name: Benjamin Seah
Position: Project Manager
Scope of responsibility: Hope International Ministries (HIM) Education, Spiritual Development
Education Background: BBA(LaTrobe), BEng(QUT), PhD(CQU)
Hobbies: Reading
Contact Email: bseah@hope-church.com.au
Benjamin oversees the running of Hope Institute of Training (HTI) with over 180 fully enrolled students. Set-up and service Moodle web server for Hope Training Institute and Christian Development School. He also looks after Hope Resource and Hope Bookshelf.
Full name: Peter Truong
Position: International Evangelist & HIM Journalist
Scope of responsibility: Hope International Ministries (HIM) Education
Education Background: Bachelor of Medical Imaging
Hobbies: Swimming
Contact Email: petruong08@gmail.com
Peter travels around the world and minister in many churches in the body of Christ through evangelism training and healing meetings. He also work part time for HIM & HMA to produce Advance Newsletter, Eclub Newsletter and Rivers of Hope Newsletter.
Full name: Jace Toh
Position: Church Administrator
Scope of responsibility: Administration department
Education Background: Bachelor of Engineering
Hobbies: Reading, shopping, watching movies and spending time with husband
Contact Email: administrator@hope-church.com.au
Jace oversees the Administration department and overall running of the Church office. She is also involved in developing Human Resource, Communication, and Administration systems of the Church.
Full name: Chris Bee
Position: Pastoral Staff (Ablaze Service) / Service Programs Director
Scope of responsibility: Service Programs, Ablaze Service
Education Background: Bachelor of Business (Marketing & E-Business), QUT
Hobbies: Spending time with people I love, reading, playing my guitar
Contact Email: chris@hope-church.com.au
Chris leads the service programs department which oversees the programming, communications and management aspects of all of our services across the weekend. He is also involved in pastoral leadership in the Ablaze Service
Full name: Steven Lee
Position: Events and Project Manager
Scope of responsibility: Events Department
Education Background: Bachelor of Business (Marketing and Event Management), UQ
Hobbies: Watching movies
Contact Email: steven.lee@hope-church.com.au
Steven oversees the Events department, which organises all church-wide events. He also work closely with Service Programs department to coordinate service-based events.
Full name: Li Zhenfeng Jason
Position: Church Administrative Assistant
Scope of responsibility: Administration Department
Education Background: Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), UQ, Diploma in Information Technology (E-Commerce), Singapore Polytechnic;
Hobbies: Blogging, Cooking, Music, Movies, Extreme sports, Graphic Design, Photography, Learning new skills.
Contact Email: office@hope-church.com.au
Jason holds an administrative support role in the church office. His role is to provide efficient and quality results in the day to day running of the Church in the field of administration.
Full name: Angelene Tan
Position: Finance & Administrative Assistant
Scope of responsibility: Administration and Finance Department
Education Background: Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), UQ
Hobbies: Spending quality time with people, Music, Movies.
Contact Emails: accounts@hope-church.com.au
Angelene oversees the daily financial operations. In the administration department, she is responsible for Church Communication and Church Statistics.
