Peter Smit
Peter Smit pastors a church he planted in Baldivis, WA, the Hope Community Church. This church was planted out of his first congregation, Gateway Community Church (Cockburn Central, WA). Peter serves on TRAIN as a member of the Western Australia Classis. Peter also serves the denomination as a member of the Church Planting Taskforce.
Bernard Cane
Bernie Cane pastors the Summerleas Christian Church in Kingston (TAS), a congregation closely linked with the Kingston CRCA network of churches in southren Tasmania. Previously Bernie served the Good News Christian Church in Hobart (TAS) and partners with the TRAIN Workgroup as a link among the growing number of churches in the state of Tasmania.
Clinton Berends
Clinton Berends serves the CRCA in the role as Ministry Development Coordinator (MDC). Reporting to the TRAIN workgroup, the MDC collaborates with pastors, elders and other ministry leaders in the growth & development of established churches and gospel workers in the CRCA. The MDC serves on the Church Planting Taskforce which coordinates the planting of new churches. A key initiative currently of the CRCA is identifying and developing new gospel workers. Previously Clinton served the South Barwon CRC in Geelong (VIC), Redlands CRC in Ormiston (QLD) and the Willetton Christian Church in Willetton (WA). Clinton also serves the CRC denomination on the Candidacy Committee which oversees the process of men becoming ordained ministers of the Word and Sacrament in the CRCA.
Murray Capill
Murray Capill has lectured in the pastoral ministry subjects (preaching, pastoral care, worship and leadership) at the RTC - Melbourne since 2001. From 2001 to 2005 he was also part-time pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of South Barwon, and prior to that he was pastor of a Reformed Church in Auckland, New Zealand for 10 years. From 2008 through 2019 he also served as Principal of the RTC. Murray is a graduate of the College, and also has a Doctor of Ministry degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in California. He currently also serves at dean of students at the RTC.
His work at the College allows him to invest in the lives of people training for various areas of ministry. In particular, it gives him the opportunity to help the next generation of pastors, preachers, church leaders, church planters and evangelists to know God’s Word well and minister it with accuracy and urgency. It is God’s Word that changes lives. And when it is ministered faithfully it never returns void. Our vision for the advance of the gospel in Australia and beyond must be a vision for God’s Word to be spread – unleashed! We need a multiplication of Word-centered ministries and a great army of men and women who are mighty in the Word and effective in ministering it to others. We particularly need a new generation of Spirit-empowered preachers who know the Word and know the times in which we live, and can speak the former into the latter.