He lectures on a part-time basis in missiology at Sydney's United Theological College (UTC).
He has received a BSc (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, a BD from the Melbourne College of Divinity and a PhD from the Chicago Theological Seminary.
He served as a minister in three congregations, Westbourne Park and Salisbury in South Australia and DePue, Illinois in the United States while writing his doctoral thesis.
During 1997, he spent time as a visiting professor in evangelism at the Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas.
[3] He has travelled widely in Australia practicing evangelism and mission, worked extensively with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress and with the NSW Synod Pacific Island Council and Synod Korean Advisory Council.