SAMANTHA JENSEN

With experience working in administration roles in churches, as well as for both secular and christian organisations, Sam is a committed Christian who wants to help churches take care of the 'behind-the-scenes' jobs so that Pastors are freed up to do their most important tasks.

Married to Dave (a Pastor himself), Sam works from home where she also cares for their children. Sam started VCA  to help churches and ministries flourish without the burden of disorganised and chaotic administration, as well as to help train and resource pastors and staff to increase their productivity, and subsequently their joy in the ministry/workplace. 

Malina Mumbi

Malina has over 10 years experience as a Graphic Designer. Having worked for  Large Corporates and Christian Not-for-Profits. Malina brings great knowledge to the team around branding, concept design and layout. In her local church she serves by managing all design and publications. Malina is a committed Christian, married to Julius and they have 3 children. In her spare time you will find her cooking, drinking good coffee with friends or Op-shopping!!! 

Malina looks forward to being able to help churches design collateral that communicates their message well, whilst being aesthetically engaging.

AMANDA HUNTER

Amanda has over 12 years of administrative experience working as a personal assistant and project administrator and 4 years working with Virtual Church Assist. Despite taking a break from formal work to raise her three boys, she has spent this time indulging her love of all things admin by serving in her church, organising rosters and logistics, and sitting ​on the Parish Council. 
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Amanda has a passion to see people use their talents; especially encouraging ministers to focus on their gift of preaching and teaching and let go of the admin tasks. She is keen to assist in utilising the most appropriate tools for your church to ensure administrative tasks are taken care of efficiently and seamlessly. 

LAURA SMITH

Having worked for Anglican Youthworks coordinating admin, events and managing compliance data for SRE, Laura understands well the ins and outs of all kinds of admin when it comes to ministry! With experience in Kids and Youth ministry in a small parish as well as in larger parishes, she understands the different administrative needs of churches in different contexts, as well as the importance of good systems to support ministry. Laura is passionate about making small, manageable system changes to create huge results in ministry efficiency and joy! 

Laura is currently studying at Moore College with a desire to pursue full time vocational ministry and has been involved in, and is training for, ministry in both Parish and para-church ministries for a number of years.

ANNA COX

Anna has been around churches her whole life and been serving on ministry teams for many years. She is passionate about helping churches and Christian organisations run smoothly.

With a professional background in editing, attention to detail is her specialty and she enjoys anything that involves proofreading and correcting punctuation. 

When she’s not working, she’s looking after her four kids, watching bad tv with her husband Matt and enjoying all the perks associated with living in Newtown.

ALICE FROST

Alice is passionate about using her administrative skills to support others. She loves that admin can be relational, not just practical. She enjoys getting alongside people to figure out what processes or tasks they would most benefit from, and then putting those into action. She is thankful to be able to serve churches and Christian organisations in this way.

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In her spare time, Alice loves to eat pizza, ocean-gaze and spend time with her cats!

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TAMARA ROBSON

Tamara has been a part of small churches & big churches, ministry to young people & ministry to the hurting. She has been on the ministry team in a paid capacity in the past, and currently plays a role as a layperson who loves to be involved where ever she can. These experiences have shown her the importance of having staff that are well supported with administrative systems that work, and she is passionate about meeting the needs of churches to see that communities are served, ministers are free to care for their flock, and stress is relieved as much as possible. 

When she's not working, Tamara is studying a Masters of Pastoral Counselling, hanging out with her husband drinking coffee or stand up paddle boarding in her hometown of Wollongong, playing with the dogs and cats, or reading a good book.

DANI TREWEEK

Dani Treweek brings a unique combination of skills, experience and insight to her role as the VCA designer. She has over 12 years of graphic design experience, the vast majority of which has been with churches and other ministry organisations. This, alongside 5 years of experience as a church administrator and over 6 years experience in full-time parish ministry, means that Dani is in the ideal position to understand and meet the design needs of churches as they seek to proclaim Jesus to their communities.
 
After studying at Moore Theological College, Dani worked as the women’s ministry trainer at St Matthias Anglican Church, Centennial Park before embarking on a PhD in theology in 2016. Her role as the VCA designer provides her with the creative outlet she craves in the midst of the many, many (oh, so many) books on her desk!

KATHY ZHAO

Kathy has been working as a Graphic Designer for the last twelve years, seven of which as a Freelance Designer. She has worked with clients from an array of industries including Corporate, Events and Not-for-Profit organisations. Kathy is a committed Christian and has served in Children’s and Youth Ministry, Music Ministry and part of the Branding Team at her local church. Through design, Kathy hopes that the Gospel can be shared with more people!

Outside of work, Kathy loves to travel and also dabbles in a bit of photography!

GEORGIA CONDIE

Having worked in both a church context, and for various Christian organisations, Georgia has experience designing with the Gospel in mind! 

​She is passionate about churches communicating well, and having the right tools to do so.

​With a degree in Visual Communication from The University of Technology, Sydney, Georgia is well-equipped to design material that is both effective and aesthetic.