Deb Kuhna
NSW & ACT State Director
Deb has been involved in Chaplaincy Australia for the past 10 years.
Her experience in chaplaincy includes hospitals (mental health) Church and Community and disaster response. Deb is an ACC pastor and an accredited Professional Pastoral Supervisor with Australasian Association of Supervision
Her pastoral roles have been diverse; leading teams to facilitate care across multiple platforms and to build spaces that the community love. In 2017 Deb became the Venue Manager of the iconic Woolshed in the Illawarra. Deb’s passion is to develop healthy leaders and teams, to lead and care across their areas of influence, especially in the area of pastoral care and Chaplaincy.
Leeanne Cameron
State Leadership Team
Leeanne has been employed as a pastor in the ACC for over 20 years.
She has experience in diverse leadership roles, providing quality pastoral care both in the community and the church. In 2016 she became the program director for chaplaincy with Alphacrucis College.
Leeanne is also a disaster recovery chaplain and a qualified professional pastoral supervisor. She has a passion to see chaplains, pastoral carers and ministers trained and equipped to provide quality care, and to have longevity of ministry.
Peter Ainsworth
State Leadership Team
Peter is currently the Pastoral Care Pastor of Lifehouse Church in Coffs Harbour, and NSW Ambulance Chaplain in the North Coast Sector.
He also is the regional representative for the Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network (DRCN) on the north coast region.
Previously to this, Peter and his wife Jennie were the senior pastors of All Nations Church in Woolgoolga for 21 years, having seen this church well established and now functioning as the Lifehouse Northern Beaches Campus.
Peter and Jennie have 3 grown children Ben, Joel and Tara and are living their passion for the local church being a flourishing place for missions and chaplaincy to reach out into our communities and to the nations.
Andrew Murray
State Leadership Team
Andrew is passionate about chaplaincy and believes it is a key connector for the Church and the wider community. He has a desire to see the profile of chaplaincy lifted across all sectors. Andrew is a credential holder with the ACC, and along with his wife Bec, are part of the Beyond Church Team in Cessnock.
Andrew is also passionate about seeing chaplains well trained, well-resourced and well supported. He has been a school chaplain for a number of years where he was a leader in the NSW-first-of-a-kind General Practitioner in a public school program at Mount View High School. He is also trained for Disaster Recovery and in a range of mental health and family violence concerns.
Richard Feeny
State Leadership Team
Richard Feeney has been involved in full-time Christian ministry as an ordained ACC Pastor.
He always has had a passion to reach those who are outside the walls of the church, which led him in recent years to become the Hillsong CityCare Centre Manager (5 years) and State Manager of Prison Fellowship in NSW/ACT & VIC (11 years).
Becoming an ordained Chaplain with Chaplaincy Australia is a perfect fit for him as he currently sits on the CA NSW State Leadership Team and Prison Fellowship NSW/ACT State Advisory Council. He is currently working full-time as the Group Opportunity Manager for the Interclean Group in Sydney.
Richard is married to Jo and they have 2 children and 3 grandchildren