Who's who

Kanishka Raffel – Rector

Kanishka was born in London to Sri Lankan parents and was raised as a Buddhist. While studying law at Sydney University a friend gave him a copy of The Gospel according to John and he subsequently became a Christian. Kanishka has served as Rector of St Matthew’s since 1999. He is married to Cailey and they have two daughters. He loves curry, cricket and having gelato at the beach with his family but knows no pleasure so great as sharing the news about Jesus with people who have no idea who Jesus is or how much he loves them.

Rory Shiner – Associate Minister

Rory is responsible for the two University-based congregations of St Matthew's, Unichurch and Unichurch International. He was born in Albany, and moved to Perth aged thirteen. Being on the staff at St Matthew's means that he now gets to live and work in the same postcode he grew up in. He is married to Susan and they have three small sons, Miles, Theodore and Oscar.

Ben Underwood – Associate Minister

Ben oversees the wonderful 5pm congregation, and seeks to see everyone there, himself included, grow in spiritual maturity. Ben is married to Michelle and they have two (delightful) children. Ben grew up in Sydney, studied science at university and taught mathematics before becoming a minister. He has been on staff at St Matthew's since 2009.

Jenny D’Souza - Associate Minister

Jenny grew up in Perth and has worked at St Matthew’s since 2001. Her main responsibilities are the oversight, training and discipleship of women in both the Thursday Bible study groups and 5pm service, and also the oversight of women’s evangelism in the church.

Jennie worked as a teacher before signing up as an intern with Unichurch in 2008. This year she’s working with the women and working age members of Unichurch, as well as studying part time at Trinity Theological College.

Mary Jane Turner – Children’s Minister

Mary Jane Turner oversees the 4-10 year old Children's Ministry at St Matthew's Rosalie. She has just completed a Graduate Diploma of Divinity at Trinity College after having spent a year doing a ministry apprenticeship in Oxford at St Ebbe's Church. She has a Bachelor of Music Education and in addition to doing the Children's ministry, she will be teaching Music, Art and the Bible at St Augustine's School in the Swan Valley.

Ministry Training Interns 2010

David Entwistle

After working as an English teacher, David is in his second year of a ministry internship at Unichurch. His responsibilities include the Unichurch service on Sunday evenings, and ministry on the UWA campus. 

John Rumble

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Ed Surrey

Ed is from Sevenoaks in Kent and he studied Psychology at Exeter University. He then worked for St Leonard’s Church in Exeter as an intern, and taught Maths at a school nearOxford. He is married to Sally and moved to Australia in September 2009. 

Sally Surrey

Sally was born and raised in Cape Town, and moved to England as a teenager. After studying Sport Science at Exeter University she worked as an apprentice at City Church inBirmingham, then became a Sports Teacher. She is married to Ed and they moved to Australia in September 2009. 

Andrew Wong

Andrew is in the first year of his internship at Unichurch International. He studied and worked in Singapore and was attending a Chinese Congregation Church before heading to Perth. He is married to Linda and they have twins, a boy and a girl.

Wardens 2010

Ann Tarca, Geoff Claughton, Mark Morrison