South-West Evangelical Church is a church in the south-west of Sydney that aims to be vibrantly Biblical, Spirit-led and missional.
Our vision is to grow worshipping communities overflowing with the good news of Jesus so that people from all nations will experience Christ’s transforming love and Lordship.
The mission of South-West Evangelical Church is to make, mature, mobilise and multiply disciples of Jesus Christ.
SWEC is a member church of the Australian Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (fiec.org.au).
Our statement of beliefs can be found here.
Meet the pastoral team
Peter Ko, Lead Pastor
Peter is the founding pastor of SWEC and has been in pastoral ministry full-time since 2005. Since then he has also played a key role in the RICE Movement (Renewal and Inter-Church Evangelism), a high school and young adults ministry to reach, equip and refresh the thousands of second and third generation Asians in Sydney. He is a graduate of Moore Theological College and a church planting coach with the Geneva Push church planters network. Peter is married to Karen and they have four children.
Stephen Fei, Mandarin Pastor
Stephen studied medicine in China. Seeing the pain and sufferings of patients caused by various diseases, in search of the meaning of life, he became a Christian in a house church in the city of Hangzhou. He worked in the University of NSW for four years and then went to study theology in Sydney Missionary & Bible College. Stephen is married to Miriam and they have one son.
Marshall Scott, Maturity and Mobilisation Pastor
Marshall is married to Julie and has 3 boys - Douglas, Bill, and Daniel, and one mischievous dog called Genghis (Odie). Marshall is passionate about teaching God’s Word and seeing people transformed as they understand His truth. Marshall and Julie served as missionaries with CMS in Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia for 12 years. Marshall is responsible for the Maturity and Mobilisation areas of ministry at SWEC. Outside of ministry, he also enjoys running and reading.