Gary & Anne Marie Ezzo - GFI Founders

Gary and Anne Mare Ezzo know the science of parenting and understand contemporary challenges facing the modern family.  This pioneering team has spoken to millions of mothers, fathers, educators and medical clinicians through their best-selling books and weekend seminars.  Gary holds a Masters of Arts degree from Biola University School of Theology; Anne Marie is a Registered Nurse and Childbirth Instructor. 

Together the Ezzos have written twenty-three books on parenting and reside in Charleston, South Carolina.  Gary and Anne Marie have eight grandchildren.

Growing Families Australia

This amazing ministry has been available in Australia since the late '80's. In November 1996, Bill and Joan Grosser (left) were appointed as National Directors of Growing Families for Australia.  They began using the materials in 1990, after they had met Gary and Anne Marie, and realised that this material was urgently needed in Australia.  They are delighted and amazed to experience what God is doing in families around our nation.  In 2007 Andy and Robyn Hamdorf became the Business Administrators for Growing Families Australia and the distribution and administration  operates from South Australia.  There are State Teams in every state who are available for support, encouragement, fellowship and leadership training.

Bill and Joan were married in 1965, they have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.  Bill has been a TAFE lecturer in trades for many years and Joan was a registered nurse and midwife.  Together they have been involved in "Christian Nurture" since they were teenagers. 

Andy and Robyn Hamdorf are the GFA Administration Managers and live in Happy Valley, South Australia. They were present in 1996 when Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo held their first meeting in Adelaide at the invitation of Les Crawford. They have raised their 3 children, Annika , Corinne and Ethan using the firm biblical principles that GFI programs support. They have been abundantly blessed by the Ezzo's ministry and now believe it a privilege to give back to the ministry for all that they have received. Andy and Robyn run the GFA National Office administration and distribution centre.

All general GFA emails to Office please:

Email: enquiries[at]gfi.org.au

Our regional leadership is a vital element of Growing Families Australia's efforts and a valuable resource to the local community. These leadership families desire to serve you and your local church by answering your questions, finding classes in your area, providing class support and facilitator training, and assisting in the formation and maintenance of a biblical parent ministry throughout the whole country from Darwin to Hobart, Brisbane to Perth.

MISSION STATEMENT

The worldwide mission of Growing Families International through its staff and ministry partners is to provide the family, church and community with parenting resources that will help instil, encourage, and perpetuate the passing on of biblical values from one generation to the next.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God (literally God-breathed), inerrant, verbally inspired, and infallible.

We believe there is one true God, manifested eternally in three distinct Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, who possesses all the divine attributes and is coequal, coexistent, and coeternal with the Father. We believe in His virgin birth, that He was God incarnate (both God and man), for the purpose of revealing the Father, redeeming men and ruling over God's Kingdom. He accomplished man's redemption by the vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood and sacrificial death on the cross. By His literal, physical resurrection from the dead and His ascension to the right hand of the Father, the sinner is justified. We believe Jesus to be the mediator between God and man who will return in glory to judge all mankind.

We believe the Holy Spirit is the third member of the Trinity, possessing all the divine attributes with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit is the super-natural and sovereign agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ at the moment of conversion. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, and empowers all believers for spiritual service.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit who administers spiritual gifts to each believer for the purpose of equipping the saints and for the building up of the body of Christ.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and lost, the saved to eternal life and the lost to everlasting punishment.

We believe that all who place their faith in Jesus Christ are placed by the Holy Spirit into the spiritual body of believers known as the church, with Christ established as the head. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by the teaching and instruction of the Word, by building the faith of its members, by providing an atmosphere of worship, by providing fellowship, and by fulfilling the great commission to reach the world for Jesus Christ.

We believe that man is a sinner and that the penalty for sin is eternal separation from the Father. We believe that eternal life is a free gift of grace bestowed upon each repentant sinner who responds in faith to the provision of salvation in Jesus Christ. Regeneration is instantaneous and is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit. Genuine regeneration will manifest itself by righteous attitudes, edifying conduct, and good works to the extent that each believer submits himself to the control of the Holy Spirit.