MEET THE AUSTRALASIA TEAM
DAVE & LISA PURNELL
LAM & SLW AMBASSADORS
Dave & Lisa have been married for 20 years and have 3 children. They live in beautiful Kingscliff on the Queensland and New South Wales border. Both have been involved and served in the church for over 30 years, and have a passion to see lives changed. They believe that their ministry is to see marriages strengthened, so decided to attend a LAM Workshop in Redding, California in 2013.
Dave and Lisa have been involved in facilitating LAM Workshops since returning and recently broadened their calling to include singles and are now facilitating the Single Life Workshop.
Both have a passion to see all relationships strengthened and individuals positioned for healthy, Godly marriages. They love to see Holy Spirit move and bring about healing and restoration.
BRANKO & SUE MARIC
LAM LEADERS
Branko and Sue Maric were married in March 1994 and have three children, two adult girls and a teenage boy.
They attended their first Love After Marriage weekly workshop in Feb 2016 and have seen tremendous breakthrough in their own lives and the lives of their family.
Based in Melbourne, Branko is the National Sales Manager of an international IT company and Sue is ministering in a local inner city church.
The tools and skills that they have learnt through the workshops have been so effective that they have integrated them into their everyday lives.
They have seen the Holy Spirit do incredible things in marriages both in the weekly workshops and the intensives and feel both humbled and blessed to have been able to facilitate in these workshops.
They long to see marriages set free to be all that God intended and know that nothing is impossible with God.
OUR FOUNDERS & DIRECTORS
BARRY & LORI
BYRNE
FOUNDERS & DIRECTORS
Barry Byrne has been a marriage and family therapist for over 30 years, as well as a devoted student of God’s Word. He has ministered at Bethel Church in Redding, California, in the Transformation Center both as a teacher and supervisor to the counselors. His wisdom, experience and anointing in the area of Spirit-led inner-healing are powerfully matched with the Father’s heart of love to bring about life-changing breakthrough for hundreds of clients and participants.
Lori Byrne is a fourth-generation pastor with a strong gift of discernment and the prophetic. Having counseled people for years within the church, she draws from a vast wealth of wisdom and experience in connecting and building intimate relationships in the body of Christ.
Barry and Lori have been married since 1979, and currently reside in Redding, CA and are on staff at Bethel Church. The delight of their lives are their 4 adult sons, daughters in law and grandchildren, who are all involved in various ways with their ministry.
SHANE & CAROL MACFARLANE
REGIONAL COORDINATORS
NHM AUSTRALASIA
Shane and Carol have been married since 1987 and have experienced the faithfulness of God in leading them into a healthy and fulfilling marriage. They have 4 adult children and 6 grandchildren. They live in South-East Queensland, having shifted from New Zealand in 1990. Shane has worked as a baker pastry cook and a registered nurse and Carol as a primary school teacher.As pastors in the ACC, Shane and Carol have served in many different capacities in their local church, which they have been members of since 1990. They have always had a passion to see relationships and individuals restored, healed and transformed, being released into the calling and purposes of God.
Shane and Carol have been associated with NHM since 2023, both participating in and facilitating LAM and SLW intensives, LAM and SLW weekly workshops and Spirit Connect Training intensives. They accepted the role of Regional Coordinators-AU in July 2026, having been blessed and released by NHM Directors, Barry and Lori Byrne and fully supported by previous NHM Regional Coordinators-AU, Graeme and Andrea Peak.
Shane and Carol are honoured and excited to partner with an incredible team of people around Australia, Asia and New Zealand who have a heart to see the fulfilment and blessing of God’s promises released in marriages and single people’s lives.
