I’m the pastor of nine churches in Melbourne, Australia. It didn't start with me. It actually started with a small group of dedicated church members under the leadership of Pastor Eddie Erica about 27 years ago.

I serve the community, I serve other people, I serve God, and for me that is the major part of what I do. I’m a third-generation Adventist. I grew up in the church, served God in the church, but as I continued to live my life and go and travel, I started to see some things that were not in harmony with what I believe at this stage.

I still believed in God, but I went wild. It was during that time when I came out of a pub in Wellington and I heard a voice. The voice said, ‘What are you doing here? This is a Friday night.’

The voice was not judgemental. I heard this voice which was connected with me, and so I turned around and I said, ‘Well God, I know I left you so I'm coming back to you, but not necessarily to the church.’

When I came here, called to be a minister or pastor here in Melbourne, I found myself in a type of hierarchical system. I found the picture that Paul presented in Philippians 2, clearly saying that Jesus decided to be a servant. When you're there you are connected. I found it to be something that makes you connect with all the people.

This church started off graphically not here. Then, they decided to plant their first church - North Melbourne Church.

I’ve been a Christian all my life. At the end of 1992, we discussed with the pastor and some elders in the church that we needed to plant another Samoan church here on this side of Melbourne. Our church planted two more mission hubs. Out of those two mission hubs they planted another two mission hubs. From my experience, the way I look at it, with all these hubs, instead of a pastor doing all this work, we work together to make disciples and God is leading everywhere we go. That's how we have all these hubs and everything going.

We have one on the southside, we have one on the northside of Melbourne, and now we have three on the westside of Melbourne. Now we're covering all three corridors of Melbourne. They kind of continued to change the culture as a result of the training. Leaders got equipped and they realized that there’s not just one way of doing church or ministry. A lot of Discovery Bible Reading groups emerged out of these churches. I think this story relates to all other cultures and I think these small ministries and church plants are trying to reach and bridge the gap.