Bev Lade (Church of Christ)

Bev has been involved with various committees over the years. She is presently a member of CWCI Gippsland Convention Committee and has served in various positions and has been President for the last 6 years.

Bev is married to Robert and they have 5 children and nine grand children. She is a member of Latrobe Regional Church of Christ in Morwell and has been involved in various church ministries during her 45 years as a Christian.

Bev has a passion to see Life FM continue to serve Gippsland.

Clinton Tepper (Baptist)

Clinton is a Forest Scientist with Heartwood Plantations. He has been on the Life FM Board since the 2009 AGM.

He serves as a Christian Religious Education (CRE) teacher at both Ellinbank and Trafalgar Primary Schools and is a member of the Missionary Committee at Rokeby Baptist Church near Warragul.

Clinton established not-for-profit foundation, 'Beyond Subsistence', which partners Christian organisations in Africa to provide forestry expertise where required.

Clinton and his wife Michelle have three children.

Heather Toms (Anglican)

Heather has been involved with Life FM since 1999 when she joined the Steering Committee and has held various executive positions during that time.

She is a Hospital Chaplain and Prison Chaplain for the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland and is licensed to St Mark’s, Rosedale, as Honorary Deacon Assistant.

Heather holds a Diploma of Christian Counseling and Family Therapy and is an Accredited Spiritual Care Director and Co-Mentor for Education for Ministry.

She leads the Wednesday Prayer session for Life FM which has been meeting since 1999.

Heather is married to Max with five adult sons and eight grandchildren. She loves traveling and spending quality time with the family.

Ivy Goodwin (Uniting)

Ivy is an ordained minister of the Uniting Church and recently retired as minister of the Stratford parish and now worships at St. Andrew’s in Maffra where she has become involved in the School Breakfast Programme.

She and her husband Morris have a corgi dog named Muppet as well as an arthritic (beautiful, old) cat named Oscar.

They have three married children, and four grandchildren who keep them up to date with “Hairy McLairy”.

Malcolm McKenzie (Church of Christ)

Malcolm has been in senior management roles for the past 17 years in the Government and private sector and is currently the Regional Manager for CFA Gippsland. He is also a Director of Bridge Builders Ltd.

Malcolm holds a Masters Degree in Management, is a Graduate Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and has a Graduate Diploma in Risk Management.

Malcolm lives in the Yarra Vally where is a member of Careforce Church Mt Evelyn, but spends most of his time in Gippsland with the CFA.

When at home with wife Julie and two sons, he is a member of the church tech team providing media support for services.

We currently have 3 vacancies on the Board - call the Office for info on how you can be involved.

Station Manager

Deb Bye

Deb currently holds the Station Manager's position on GCB Board and was appointed as Life FM's 1st Station Manager on 23 June 2003.

She is the visionary of Life FM and has been involved with Christian Radio in Australia since 1982. Deb‘s radio career includes 17 years with ABC Radio, nine of those as Manager, ABC Gippsland. She holds a Diploma in Management with RMIT and tutored Journalism (technical) at the University of Central Qld.

She is an inaugural Fellow, Gippsland Community Leadership Program Alumni and serves on the Board of the Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault (GCASA).

Deb does freelance media training and consultancy through
Manna Media .

She shares her home with Boris (the cat).

Reception & Administration

Yvonne Hope

• Started working with Life FM 22 Nov 2004
• Cert II in Business
• Married to Donald
• 7 children, 8 grandchildren
• Sale Catholic Church
• Loves people, books, music and sightseeing

Robyn Bruhn

• started working with Life FM 20 April 2005
• very active on St Paul's Mission Committee
• married to Stan