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Rev Stephen Poisat
Principal, Counselling Programme Co-ordinator & Lecturer
TAE Cert IV, DipMin, AdvDip (Coun & Family Therapy), BMin (Pastoral), GradDip (Coun & Psychotherpay), MTh
Steve Poisat is an ordained minister and leads the team at Redeemer Church in Landsdale, Perth (CoCWA). He has also worked as a chaplain in the WA Government school system and is a registered clinical counsellor (CCAA & ACA). Steve loves the ongoing rewards and challenges of leadership, pastoral counselling and teaching. He lectures in pastoral theology and counselling and is pursuing further research (PhD) into the implications of biblical theology for professional Christian counselling.
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Dr Andre van Oudtshoorn
Academic Dean, Lecturer
BA, BD, Dip Th, DTh
Previously Andre has served as a Church pastor and as a TV director. Originally from South Africa, he has lectured in many lands and seeks to place Christ as the central focus in all he teaches and lives.
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Dr Stefano Salemi
Senior Lecturer and Dean of Studies (Postgraduate)
BA and MA (Relig.), AA and BA and MA (Theol.), PhDs, AFHEA
Prof. Stefano Salemi currently holds an Associate Professorship and Research Supervisor status at the Sydney College of Divinity, and is a scholar of biblical studies, languages, and theology. He has also held or continues to hold research and/or teaching posts at various universities, including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, King’s College London, University of London, Chichester, Pretoria, Sheffield, and Jerusalem. He possesses the rare expertise of someone with multiple doctorates from the UK and Italy in Theology and Biblical Studies. He teaches, conducts research, and publishes in these fields of studies, with particular interests in biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, Hebrew and Greek languages and semantics, biblical theology, systematic-historical theology, reception history, and intertextual studies. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).
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Dr Stephen Young
Senior Lecturer and Dean of Studies (Undergraduate)
BA (Cross-Cultural Ministries), BA (Sociology with an Emphasis in Anthropology), MA (Th) and PhD (NT)
Steve Young was born in Ecuador and grew up in Argentina as part of a
missionary family. Prior to moving to Perth in 2022 he lived and
taught in the United States (Seattle, WA; Pasadena, CA; Houston, TX).
He loves the New Testament, and especially the Gospel of Luke, (“I
have fallen in love with the God of the Gospel of Luke!”). His current
areas of research are social identity in relation to the New
Testament, and a missional reading of Scripture. Steve is married to
Susan, and they have a daughter, Freya, who also lives with them in
Perth. He enjoys living creatures, especially dogs, and is quite taken
by the Australian birds.
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Dr Shannon Hood
Dean of Counselling and Chaplaincy
Cert IV TAE, Dip Couns, Dip Man, B Eng (Hons), B Th, GradDip (Coun & Psychotherapy), Grad Dip Min, M Couns, M Ed, M Comm, PhD
Shannon lives in Melbourne with his wife, 4 teenage children, and pepper the Labrador.
Shannon is a clinical Counsellor and supervisor with the Australian Counselling Association and was the founding member of the College of Christian Counsellors.
Shannon concluded his first career as a senior manager with Deloitte and now is an ordinand for the diaconate ministry in the Anglican Church. He read theology at the University of Cambridge and now teaches, researches and practices where faith and therapy collide.
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Dr David G. Michie
Senior Lecturer
BA, BSW, MA, DTh
David is the director of Journeylines Counselling & Training Services, and has over 35 years of counselling experience. David also works with the Ebenezer Aboriginal Corporation. He has been a lecturer for PBC since 1992 and has a desire for people to know, explore and live the realness of Jesus in all of life.
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Dr Jenny Cox
Lecturer
Cert IV TAA, BSc, GradDipEd, BTh, BTh (Honours), PhD
Jenny has been married to Peter since 1984. They have four adult children. Jenny has worked as a school teacher, been a full-time mother and lectured theology. As well as her role as an adjunct lecturer, Jenny writes theology books for ordinary people, ponders theological topics, and regularly teaches in church. In her spare time, Jenny likes cross-stitch, science fiction and police procedurals (both books and TV).
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Mr Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
Systems Administrator / Lecturer
BCM (Hons), Grad. Cert. Ministry, MDiv
Nick has a background in systems administration. As well as serving us in the IT sphere he is also pastoring a church. Nick works for PBC part time to ensure all that our IT services are functioning and improving.
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Mrs Kari Minetto
College Administrator
BSc (Hons) Bus Admin
Kari grew up in Norway and completed a Bachelor of Business Administration at Bath University in the UK. Kari meet her husband Marcel in London and they moved together to WA in 2003. They now have three soccer crazy boys.
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Mr Nicholas van Oudtshoorn
Systems Administrator / Lecturer
BCM (Hons), Grad. Cert. Ministry, MDiv
Nick has a background in systems administration. As well as serving us in the IT sphere he is also pastoring a church. Nick works for PBC part time to ensure all that our IT services are functioning and improving.
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Mrs Judy Smith
Librarian
Judy is a passionate book lover and has worked at PBC as the College Librarian for over ten years. Judy also loves music, particularly from the Baroque period, and plays flute and piano. Judy is married to David and together they have three children, the oldest two are now married.
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Mrs Debbie Allbury
Receptionist
Dip BusAdm
Debbie immigrated to Australia from Zimbabwe with her husband Peter and two little boys in May 1992. Debbie has extensive experience within the area of administration ranging from marketing to running a training department for a large non-profit organisation to managing a market research company.
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Mrs Sarah Park
Office Assistant
BSc(BA), BMin
Sarah, originally from South Korea, studied business before coming to Perth with her husband Samuel and their two children. Sarah is part of the JDM mission organisation which reaches out to university students. Sarah works in the office at the College part-time.
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Mrs Becky J Shaw
Dean of Students / Admissions Officer
BA(ELing), MDiv
Becky completed a Master of Divinity at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, South Korea, and served in church ministries in various capacities before moving to Perth, Aus via Exeter, UK.
Becky is married to David and has three children together. Becky is constantly seeking a way to express her creative flare whether it’s decorating a four-tiered cake or preparing a Sunday school craft.
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