Pastors and Directors

Malcolm and Diana Dow are the Pastors of Williamstown Baptist Church and the Directors of Beth Tephillah Ministries and the Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre. They have one son, David.

Malcolm is a former University Lecturer, Electrical Engineer and Mathematician. He has worked at the former Department of Civil Aviation, CSIRO and Victoria University of Technology, and has carried out research and teaching in computer technology, robotics, vision systems and artificial intelligence (He says this was because they couldn't find enough of the real stuff!), He has degrees in Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Theology. He is also the church's musician - his keyboard skills being in demand for conferences and community festivals. More details are available here or here

Diana is a former Librarian, working first in a research library in England, then as Deputy Librarian at Williamstown Public Library. She has academic qualifications in Librarianship and in Christian Ministry. Diana was International Know Your Bible Director from 1999 - 2004 for Christian Women Communicating International. During this time she travelled internationally sharing the message of KYB. She runs two KYB groups in Williamstown.

They are both experienced teachers and prayer ministers, trained by Elijah House Australia and Wholeness Through Christ Ministies (Australia), and Malcolm has served on University, Christian school, and prayer ministry training organisation boards.

Malcolm & Diana have previously run three courses in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne for WTCMA, including Carroll Thompson's Possess the Land and the WTCMA Basic Course - Healing the Whole Person. Malcolm has taught the WTCMA Advanced Course with Pat Shepherd. They have assisted in other courses and conferences for Elijah House, Vineyard and Ellel Ministries, as well as runing Beth Tephillah's own prayer ministry courses. In 2001 the Prayer Ministries Network organised the very successful Deliverance through Deep Healing conference in Melbourne with Dr. Charles H. Kraft. In 2003 Beth Tephillah Ministries invited him back for a week of wonderful seminars at Crossway, Werribee and Ballarat. See our Library & Resources page for video and audio tapes of these conference. In 2003 they taught the Come Out! Be Free! prayer ministry course at Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre, and in 2005 they took seminars on Hearing God's Voice, Intercession, Spiritual Warfare, Prayer Ministry and Prophetic Ministry. In 2006, as part of BTMC's 10th anniversary celibration, they invited Peter and Heather Toth of Anazao Ministries from the Gold Coast, to do a seminar on ministry to DID and SRA victims, followed by four weeks of ministry at BTMC.

Malcolm and Diana are founder members of Intercessors for Melbourne and commenced the Intercessors for Hobson's Bay group, now coordinated by Jessikah King, so they are experienced in intercession and spiritual warfare.

In December 2000 Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre helped to found the Prayer Ministries Network, a communication and support network for prayer ministry centres and prayer ministry training organisations. They have also helped to establish prayer ministry centres in Ballarat and Geelong.

In his 'spare time' Malcolm runs Roaring-Mouse.com, a business which provides communication resources for the 'little people', including website design, construction, hosting, and promotion, domain name registration, and video, audio and print production, publication and distribution. He maintains numerous ministry websites, including those for Awakening West and Hobsons Bay Churches, and websites about speaking in tongues, how to be a Christian mystic without throwing your brains away, listening to God's voice, an amateur radio blog about antenna design, simulation and construction called antennablog.com, and The Blog Works, where you can learn all about building your own weblog. You can find out more about Malcolm at www.malcolmdow.com.

Administrator

The Church Administrator is Arthur Donohue. Following a long career in the transport industry, Arthur has 'retired' and when he is taking a break from ensuring that our lives run smoothly, devotes himself to competition lawn bowls and ministering to the Lord Jesus and his people with his fine tenor voice. The choir to which Arthur belongs is in great demand at numerous churches, nursing homes and retirement villages.

Prayer Ministry Team

We have a trained volunteer staff of 26 people from many different Christian denominations who regularly give time to the Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre, leading, supporting and interceding for ministry. These include Jim, Margaret, Cally, Joyce, Suzanne, Heather, Anita, Ann, Jessikah, David, Mary-Ann, Angela, Sam, Maureen, Gwen, Peter, Francine, Glenda, Brett, Albert, Gail, Nenia, Joyce and Jewell.

Sonrise Family Ministries are ministering to children at Beth Tephillah and providing the opportunity for some of our staff to intern. In addition there are a number of people who frequently assist with training courses - in particular Pat Shepherd (Restoration - Dingley), David Pither (Ears INC), and Mal Austin (Givenworks) have taught in various courses. Thanks guys!

If you would like to contact Malcolm and Diana you can do so by clicking here: . Here you can make comments or ask questions in an email to us. We would love to have your feedback and to hear your own story.

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