About Murdoch Christian Union

AKA – St. Gregory of Midland. While not studying, Greg moonlights as a professional Tennis player. A little known fact is that Leyton Hewitt learned the ‘COME ON!!!’ method from Greg! Greg has used it for many years in an attempt to give him a psychological edge in self-motivation. Greg is conducting experiments on his own body to work on a cure for Michael Jackson’s skin condition. It is working a treat. Dr. Greg is studying Psychology at Murdoch. He is in 3rd year this year. The search continues for more belly button fluff. He attends Mundaring Community Church.

Ben loves Rocky Balboa. So much so that he never wants to be confused with Sylvester Stallone. Ben lifts no weights, he eats little food, he cannot run up more than 6 or 7 stairs at a time, and he speaks in a way that you can understand. It’s also pretty obvious to everyone that he has also never taken anabolic steroids. One area, however, that Ben is very similar to Sly is in the area of ‘hard hitting’. Ben is doing Journalism, and as part of his course he needs to ask some pretty tough questions. Given that this could potentially confuse people, he is even thinking of changing courses! Ben loves 80’s music and his favourite station is Mix FM, because every now and then they play ‘Eye of the Tiger’.

Alex is the most organized member of the MCU Committee and, in a nutshell, that’s why she is our Secretary! You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl (or horse manure out of her boots)! Alex is a Mt. Barker girl – but she knows the dazzle of the city lights are slowly beginning to hypnotise her. In order to counteract this, she is studying psychology to find way through this phenomenon. Thankfully she has asked some Vet students to administer doses of the cutting-edge, and still very experimental, ‘horse contact therapy’ in the Vet paddocks as needed.  Her church is ‘Rivo’ – ie Riverton Baptist Church, where other people experiencing ‘country-city macro mega intercontransferralistic behaviourisms’ (a complex psychological phenomenon best said with a German accent that you wouldn’t understand unless you’ve studied it) seem to congregate.

Heidi would rather be peddling a racing bicycle wearing ridiculous amounts of lycra than pretty well just about anything else. That’s not quite true…she gave up a chance to do ‘elite’ cycling (ie Institute of Sport stuff) because she knows that “life does not consist in the abundance of carbon-fibre monocoque frames, Kevlar-bead tyres, derailleurs, cranks, hubs, headsets or the number of chainrings”. She is the Committee member who keeps us all on our toes in terms of eating well, and getting some exercise. This is her hardest job of all. Being the treasurer is easy compared to getting Ben to eat healthy food – or eat anything!  It’s great to know that if ever Heidi decided to ‘cook the books’, at least they would be done so in a low fat way. She is studying Environmental Science and is

The prayer co-ordinator's job is to keep prayer on the front-burner of the MCU stove. Brian is our interim prayer coordinator – that is, he keeps reminding us all to pray, encouraging us all to pray, and giving us things to pray about. If you would like MCU people to pray for you, please send an eMail to the following address :-

Our Murdoch Prayer Triplets are affectionately known as mp3's [mp3 being a wonderful compression format without losing any information, and therefore ideally suitable for the abbreviated name of a small prayer group]. If you would like to form or join an mp3, please contact us at the above email address.

As 'Crusty the Clown' has 'Sideshow Bob' and 'Batman' has 'Robin', so 'MCU' has ‘Staffworkers'! Staffworkers are here to help us at MCU. In Biblical terms, Ephesians 4:11-12 is where they come in! They are here to help us students to be equipped to do the work of ministry at Murdoch University. We are partners together. They help us, train us, support us, encourage us to stand strong as Christians at uni and to reach out to our campus.
Staffworkers are not paid by any denomination, rather, individuals, friends and graduates financially support them by giving through AFES (www.afes.org.au) so that they can be on campus with us full-time. It is so good to have Bible-College trained staffworkers with us full-time, day by day. PS - If you would like to financially support our Staffworkers, please click here to download a form to fill in and send off. They are always struggling for financial support, so please be generous :-) 

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Steve McKerney has been our very own full-time Staffworker since very early in the 21st century. Steve does most of the Bible teaching in our Bible Talks, arranges guest speakers and trains us in things like how to explain Christianity to other people, how to prepare a Bible study, etc,. His brain regularly gets rummaged as he is asked 'all questions great and small'. He became a Christian at the age of 23 after reading and investigating the claims of Jesus in the Bible. Steve and his wife Melinda and their 4 sons (Jaidon, Lewis, Ezra and Sheamus) live in Leeming. He really enjoys a Thai Green Curry, soccer, movies, music, photography, fonts (he intensely dislikes Times New Roman and Arial!) and technology.

Clare Deeves, AKA ‘Clare Bear’, joined us on campus as a full-time staffworker in 2005. Bible-College trained, like Steve, God has given Clare a clear and sharp mind. She enjoys helping people comprehend what the Bible says and its implications for life. Clare particularly wants to encourage and strengthen the girls of MCU. She is a fantastic person to have around! Clare became a Christian when she was at uni, and is keen to help Christian women grow in their understanding and love of God, and for others to come to understand who Jesus is for themselves. Clare lives in Coolbellup and enjoys board games, cards, ‘red label’ Coke, social sport, and ‘hangin’ out’ with people.

Every week the Committee meets to review the previous week and organise the upcoming week. If you would like us to do something, stop doing something, change something, say thanks, or have a (loving) whinge, please feel free! We are here to serve you. We are willing to consider any suggestion. We are always looking for new ideas and proposals.

The MCU Committee goes away for 3 or 4 days twice each year to pray and plan for each semester. These are important times and we really value your prayers. Like many things, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes and MCU is no exception. The Committee is always hard at work. Our goal is to serve the Lord and His people by trying to ensure MCU is the most effective it can be. 'Convergence' ensures we have an extended time of review and planning, rather than adopting a 'fly by the seat of your pants' approach.