Chris Johnstone (PhD), Principal & Academic Dean; Lecturer: Biblical Studies
Chris is a licensed minister with the Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Australia, where he has served since 1992 in various roles, including teaching pastor, associate pastor, college principal, state board member, and state assistant supervisor. Since 1996, his primary ministry has been in tertiary-level theological and ministry education, serving for 26 years with Tabor College (Perth campus) as lecturer and in several academic administration roles, and currently as principal and lecturer with Sparrows College. He is married with two married mature-aged children and three grandchildren.
Warren Ison (MMin), Administrator; Lecturer: Pastoral Ministry and Cultural Studies
Warren’s ministry experience has included primary school teacher, sergeant in the Royal Australian Army Education Corp (PNG), Youth Pastor, TAFE Lecturer, Senior Pastor (Foursquare Gospel), Denominational Leader (Foursquare Gospel), CEO of a welfare organisation (Calvary Welfare), College Principal (Tabor WA) and College Lecturer (Tabor, Nations, Energise and Sparrows). Warren has been married to Ann since 1974 and they have three children and eight grandchildren.
Sandra Basham (PhD), Health and Wellbeing Officer; Lecturer: Pastoral Counselling Studies and Practice
Sandra relishes in teaching, training and counselling people to empower them to identify their path forward into healthier relationships with self, others and within community. She enjoys supervising counsellors and chaplains within a reflective and clarifying space. Sandra has worked as a secondary teacher, been involved in youth leadership in church and pastoral counselling. Sandra worked for years as Coordinator and crisis counsellor at a child sexual assault NGO. She lectured at Tabor College for 10 years in humanities and social sciences. She maintains a small clinical practice for individual, relational and sexology counselling. Sandra loves good science fiction, the company of family and friends, gardens, quiet forest spaces and some harmless fun.
Jenny Cox (PhD), Librarian; Lecturer: Theological Studies, Research Methodology and Supervision
Jenny has been married to Peter since 1984. They have four adult children. Jenny has worked as a school teacher, been a full-time mother and lectured theology. She has also written academic books on disability theology and intersex theology, and non-academic books on a variety of topics, plus some academic and many devotional articles and a blog. When not teaching theology, Jenny ponders theological topics, has taught in several churches, and likes cross-stitch, reading and watching science fiction and police procedurals, and dreams of one day writing a novel.
Peter Elliott (PhD), Lecturer: Church History, Theological Studies
Peter escaped from Mormonism in his early twenties, and became a Christian in Israel in 1981. Since 1997 he has been lecturing in tertiary institutions and Bible Colleges, primarily in Church History and Theology. Peter is grateful that his embryonic understanding of both these subjects led him out of Mormonism and towards the truth that is Jesus Christ. He is convinced that study and assignments are acts of worship!
Michael Bullard (DMin), Supervised Ministry Coordinator; Lecturer: Pastoral Ministry
Mike has experience in both large and small churches and has worked in leadership roles at a State level with various denominations. Mike has also taught at several Bible colleges, served as a missionary overseas, and is a Board member of a not-for-profit that focuses on lowering maternal and neonatal mortality in Papua New Guinea.
Jeanette Rigley (M.Couns.Pract.), Adjunct Lecturer: Pastoral Counselling Studies
Mick Stringer (PhD), Adjunct Lecturer: Theological Studies
John Finkelde (MA Lead), Mentor: Pastoral Practice
