Tim Matton-JohnsonRev Tim Matton-Johnson. B.A. B.Theol. M.Theol. Grad. Cert. Com. Tim was ordained as a minister in the Uniting Church in Australia in 1985. Initially he served in three rural parishes in Victoria and Tasmania. After a break from full time ministry, where he worked in the accounting profession, he returned to ministry and served in urban ministry and, also with the Uniting Aboriginal Christian Congress. Some of these placements were part time, some fulltime. Tim is now retired and living with his wife of over 40 years, Lynne, two cats and a Whippet on a small rural residential property north of Hobart. Tim grew up in a complicated family. Hence the double-barrelled surname. A few years ago, when his mum died, aged 86, her will left her estate to her children, as is quite normal. However, eight children were named instead of the six that most might have expected. Tim has three full siblings, one half-sister, one adopted sister, a foster sister, and the eighth was an ex-sister-in-law, to whom his mum felt a deep maternal commitment. She was the matriarch of quite a substantial mob and had outlived two husbands. Family research had also linked us to Aboriginal Tasmania through her side of the family. For her the actual lived relationships within family were more important than the simple genetic lineage. An attitude that Tim also shares along with all his siblings. An attitude that is more reflective of aboriginal culture than European. Read More Read Less