Our Team

Andrew Lim
Pastor and Trustee

In my early teenage years I found myself at a critical milestone of my life when I suffered the loss of my mother. Providentially, it was in that season that the Lord saved me through the ministry of the Boys’ Brigade.

Fast tracking some years forward, I trained and worked as a school teacher, got married to my beautiful school sweetheart, Gloria, and subsequently answered God's call on my life after years of trying to dodge it. Studies at the Bible College of New Zealand in Auckland and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago led me down the paths of pastoral ministry and seminary teaching.

The call on my life to found and pastor Christ Sanctuary offers me an enormous opportunity to bring glory to God through preaching, teaching, discipling and mentoring. I have the joyful privilege of guiding Christ Sanctuary to be a place where a steady voice speaks to a shifting culture. It also opens up fresh opportunities on Massey campus with the philosophical mandate to help students see that the Christian commitment is intellectually defensible.

For refuge, I retreat to my cabin to read, tie fishing flies, and mess about with vintage brass stoves and plumb bobs and be caught napping! My two daughters, Hannah and Rachael, keep me informed with what’s up and about with the pop-culture out there!

Gloria Lim
Trustee

I was in my last year at high school in Malaysia when I responded to a visiting Indian evangelist's challenge to give my life to Jesus. Not long after that I sensed God wanting me to be in full-time ministry and tried, unsuccessfully, to get in to Bible College. It was years later when Andrew came back into my life (we were in school together) that I understood why God shut that door then.

Some 30 years later, strengthened and kept by God, we are still ministering together. I count it a privilege and honour to serve God alongside Andrew, helping people journey with God and discovering the reality of Him through His Word and prayer.

In the last 10 years I have learned that it is when I walk through the darkest corridors of life that I get to see and hear God more clearly and experience His unending faithfulness and nearness.

Della Hadfield
Trustee

Moving from our family farm to town when I was a mid-teen meant many changes for me, one of them being the experience of regular attendance at church and youth group. It was the influence of excellent youth leaders that pointed me to Christ and I gave my life to Him when I was 15.

I became involved in Sunday School teaching, learning more than I ever taught the kids. Over subsequent years I have worked with kids and youth, and also served in leadership roles in churches in the various cities we moved to. As a family we have taken strong interest in world mission for over 45 years, through prayer, giving, mobilisation and a few months in West Africa.

I believe Christ Sanctuary is where God has placed me, and I like to serve in whatever way I can. I love to see people identify where they can best serve, and go on to be equipped for all God plans for them.