Our Graduates
Men and women come to study at SMBC from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds such as teaching, trades, medicine, nursing, information technology and from the corporate business and rural sectors.
Graduates of the College are serving the Lord faithfully and effectively in a wide variety of areas. Some return, better equipped, to serve in their local churches or in their chosen trades or professions. Others have proceeded to denominational colleges for further denominational training and are ministering in Anglican, Baptist, Churches of Christ, Congregational, Presbyterian, Uniting, and independent churches, and various Christian organisations. Some denominations also ordain graduates directly from the College.
Many are serving through mission agencies including:
AFES
AIM International
Australian Indigenous Ministries
Australian Presbyterian World Mission
Chaplaincy-Hospitals and Schools
Christian Radio Missionary Fellowship
Church Missionary Society
European Christian Mission
Far East Broadcasting Company
Global Interaction
International Teams Australia
Interserve Australia
Global Recordings Network
Middle East Christian Outreach
Missionary Aviation Fellowship
OMF International
Operation Mobilisation Australia
Pioneers of Australia
World Team
SIM Australia
WEC International
Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia
Testamonials
John and Karine
We live in Loja, in the deep south of Ecuador with our two children, Evie and Mattias. Our ministry is in leadership development within churches and encouraging local believers. We are also team leaders pastorally caring for local missionaries.
'At SMBC, I studied the Bachelor of Theology and Karine studied the Graduate Diploma.The importance of our study has helped us realise that we need to keep the gospel our number one priority. Here, we find that Jesus is not always the priority and it has been a good reminder for us to keep pointing people to Jesus. At SMBC, the deep grounding in the Bible as well as the mission subjects prepared us well for working with various nationalities (as well as our own!), and equipped us to accept more easily and understand cross cultural differences in approaches to ministry and other activities.'
Keith and Naomi
‘We are in Anglican pastoral ministry in country NSW. I am involved in general pastoral work, preaching, scripture and youth work, while Naomi is involved with children's and women's ministries. The church consists of five congregations with approximately 300 members. I completed the Master of Divinity in 2005, while Naomi completed the Graduate Diploma in 2003. The grounding in theology and the Bible obtained at SMBC has been foundational in all aspects of ministry. Also, the exceptional tuition in exegetical preaching at SMBC has been invaluable for my sermon preparation.’
Chandra
Chandra completed her Diploma of Theology in 2003 and is now working in Ecuador doing Rural Health Care with SIM. She said her time at College has helped her to ‘apply God’s words to life on the (mission) field...live a life which will demonstrate God’s love without being culturally incorrect…put God first in everything…and apply and teach God’s Word to people in a different culture’.
David and Ashleigh
‘We are serving at a Bible Training Centre in Mongolia with mission organisation Pioneers. I am teaching Bible and Mission subjects, and also oversee the youth and student ministry in our local church. My wife Ashleigh completed a Diploma of Divinity and Mission, and I completed a Master of Arts in Theology. Our study at SMBC has not only provided us with incredible ministry opportunities in Mongolia, it has also given us the training to confidently handle them. What a joy it is for us to see Mongolian faces light up as they comprehend more deeply the greatness of God and his Word.’
