Welcome to Ambassadors for Christ International – Australia
Our team is made up of individuals who are passionate about accelerating the spread of the gospel through local churches. We turn up to work every day because we want to see local churches in Australia become effective in evangelism. We want to teach believers to become effective witnesses in their daily lives and relationships. The problem we are trying to solve is this: People all around us have little interest in the God who loves them and calls them to him. The way we are going to solve this problem is by helping churches move from event-driven, leader-owned evangelism to congregations with a culture of living as witnesses in their daily lives. We believe that as we begin to teach people how to witness in the normal relationships of their lives we will see more Australians than ever being invited to church services, entering through the doors of church and accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.
Aaron & Shelly Daniell
Aaron Daniell is the National Director of Ambassadors for Christ International–Australia.
Aaron is married to Shelly and they have three young adults. Together they enjoy serving at Raymond Terrace Community Church where Aaron is an Elder.
Born and raised in Australia, Aaron became a Christian as a young adult. With an interest in Agriculture he completed his Bachelor studies at the University of Western Sydney. After working for local and state government Aaron was led to Christian Camp Ministry before working in Industry prior to joining the AFCI Australia team in 2014.
Aaron loves to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and inspire local churches everywhere to participate in the mission of God. Co-founder of EvangelismSHIFT Aaron equips church leaders to live as witnesses for Jesus and to pass on the witnessing lifestyle to their people.
With a Masters in Transformational Leadership and decades of ministry experience, Aaron mentor’s leaders in Jesus’ approach to multiplying disciples helping them to implement a disciplemaking pathway for their local church.
But most of all Aaron loves to help people encounter Jesus personally and live for him passionately.
Aaron and Shelly love interacting with people from all cultures, enjoy good food, good conversation and enjoy the great outdoors.
John & Lois North
John North has been working with Ambassadors for Christ International–Australia for 30 years, building a team focused on accelerating the spread of the gospel through local churches.
John was born in India to Australian missionaries. He developed the LifeWorks evangelism tool which has seen thousands of Australians come to faith in Christ and is used by many churches around the world.
John is on the radio each morning in Sydney with the Time With God devotional spot, and authors the Time With God daily devotional email read by more than 30,000 people each day.
John trains church leaders to follow Jesus’ process for building a disciplemaking approach to evangelism and multiplication. But beyond all these things John loves to preach and teach God’s word in a penetrating way that changes people’s lives.
Andrew & Tracey Lincolne
Andrew Lincolne is the Director of Operations of Ambassadors for Christ International – Australia. Andrew is married to Tracey, they have three boys and live in Devonport, Tasmania. Andrew and Tracey attend Village Church.
Born in Tasmania, Andrew moved around a lot, both within Australia and around the world. He because a Christian at the age of 16. On leaving school, Andrew joined the work force as an administrator and later manager. He was called to AFCI to run the ‘back-end’ to enable the up front staff to fulfill their calling, joining in 2014.
Andrew is continuing in his role, helping create and shape EvangelismSHIFT, Life2Life and other resources that are used around the world.
In his spare time, Andrew loves to get involved in the local soccer club, go mountain bike riding in the beautiful state that he lives in and is taking flying lessons. He and his wife, Tracey love so spend time exploring and finding new gastronomical delights.
David & Olivia North
David North is a Youth Strategist at Ambassadors for Christ International—Australia, and also serves as youth pastor at Wentworthville Presbyterian Church, where he attends with his wife Olivia and their two children, John and Gloria. He is also studying a Masters of Divinity at Christ College, Sydney.
David has served with AFCI since 2023 and has been preaching locally and abroad since 2020. He has created a year-long youth group series to build the practices of a disciple of Jesus into students’ lives, and he is currently developing a ‘Foundations’ series of disciplemaking tools for teenagers to mentor their peers in following Jesus. David also trains church leaders to think through how they can build a culture of disciplemaking based on the pattern Jesus set for ministry in the Gospels.
Over all these things is a passion to see Christians, and especially teenagers, learning to live as witnesses for Jesus and teaching others to do the same.
In his free time David enjoys reading, the gym, and spending time with his family.