Introducing our very own Meg Matthews who is part of our South Head Anglican Parish community!

My earliest memory … sitting on our balcony wall with my three older sisters and falling off into the bushes. They clearly ignored Mum’s direction to look after their little sister. 

I grew up in … Maroubra for my first 4 years, and I loved having big sisters (still do).

As a child I dreamed of… ​being as good at tennis as my sisters. Not achieved. 

My favourite vacation spot is … Greenpatch in Jervis Bay, where we went for lots of camping holidays with our 3 children. 

I came to faith … at age 16 by attending St Michaels youth group. I came along because I met some boys at a party and they invited me. My faith has continued to change and grow over all these years, and I still look back and see the Lord’s hand in my life at each step, even when I’ve fallen off into bushes along the way. 

An item on my bucket list is … to play ukulele and sing in a pub open mike night. I just need to find some talent first.   

The best decision I ever made was … , apart from sticking with Jesus, was undoubtedly to marry Tim. He’s the kindest, nicest person I know, and frankly, nobody else would have put up with me for 46 years. 

I first came to SHAP … as a Kambala primary school student with Dr Guinness (who I was scared of). We used to come up for the end of term service, which I loved because it meant holidays!

Currently I am reading/listening/watching… I’m one of those people who has several books on the hop at once. Tom Wright’s “Surprised by Hope” has helped me to grasp a more real hope for life after this life, in “the new heaven and earth.” I’m in a bookclub with my sister and her golf friends and we are currently reading “Forty Autumns” by Nina Willner, about life on both sides of the Berlin Wall. I got interested in Cold War Berlin when we were visiting our daughter who lives there, and visited the Stasi Headquarters. I listen to a lot of podcasts; some of my favourites are the ABC Science Show, ABC Conversations and a current favourite called Questioning Christianity with Tim Keller. Tim and I enjoy SBS series and we’ve been recently watching Das Boot about German U-Boats in WW2. Not for the faint hearted. A series we really loved is The Durrells on ABC IView. 

In my spare time I like to … ​do stuff with Tim: ride our ebikes in and around Kiama & Jamberoo, swim at various south coast beaches, ocean pools and the Minnamurra River, and go on coastal walks. 

The best advice I ever received was … “Marry that guy.”