Backyard Missionary

About

Biography

I am Andrew Hamilton - ‘Hamo’ to my friends - born in Belfast Northern Ireland on the 17th May 1964, I lived there for 10 years before my family moved to Australia in Oct 1974. I am a leader of a group of people who have left their homes in the hills of Perth and have moved into the new suburb of Brighton. Our dream is to create a gutsy missional community that will connect with Australian people and share the story of Jesus in ways that are engaging and compelling.

For the seven years before this I was a staff member at Lesmurdie Baptist Church, initially as the youth pastor and then for the final two years as the pastoral team leader. Prior to that I shared my life between ministry at Scarborough Baptist and Phys Ed / English teaching at Scarborough High School.

I am married to the very lovely Danelle and am dad to Ellie (6 y.o) and Sam (4). The other lesser loves of my life are eating, reading surfing, swimming and basketball.

The title of this blog is quite deliberate although it happened by accident! I needed a blog title and the idea of being missionaries in our own backyard described precisely what i feel we are on about. Of course anything that is ‘backyard’ is rough and ready, made up on the go and more concerned with practicality than with theory. That’s not a bad image!

My other roles include being the WA & National Director for Forge.

Its been a great adventure so far and I’m pretty sure the best is yet to come! This ‘blog’ is a way of keeping in touch with what we are doing and also a place for me to think out loud about some of the issues we are trying to come to grips with.

You can contact me on email or on 0403438559.