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Reverend Moyes to support young Christian leaders in politics

The high profile Christian and now former New South Wales politician, Reverend Gordon Moyes, has announced he’ll focus on writing and supporting young Christian leaders following his loss in the recent state election.

The 72 year old former Churches of Christ Minister lost his seat in the Legislative Council to the Christian Democrats, marking the end of his colourful 9-year parliamentary career.

“I will continue to encourage young ministers and young people aspiring to enter Christian ministry or Parliament as a Christian politician. I have a strong emphasis on not playing politics using the ways of politicians.

“I have never described myself as a Christian politician – I was always a Christian Minister who happened to be in Parliament. I hope to instill integrity in a new generation,” said Reverend Moyes.

Mr Moyes’ entered Parliament in 2002 for the Christian Democrats, later joining the Family First Party following a disagreement with fellow Christian politician Fed Nile. Mr Moyes said he is committed to working with Family First and helping their new breed of political hopefuls.

“I will continue in helping Family First grow. When we started in NSW, the only money we had was what my wife and I gave to cover expenses. But support during this election means we have no debts and a surprisingly large cash surplus for the next election.

“We are planning to make an impact in the future and the young average age of our members gives us a good future,” he said.

However, before doing any of this Reverend Moyes said he will first be committing some time to his family, and in particular his wife.

“Over the years I have given guest lectures at Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, but the schedule was so busy we did not have time to look around. Beverley and I will shortly go to Britain for two weeks to see what we missed on previous visits.”

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