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Julie was born in Sydney in 1972 and baptized at St Jude’s Anglican Church, Randwick when she was six weeks old. Her parents, Bob and Christine, were school teachers and with her older brother, Greg, they worked in a number of rural towns in New South Wales before ‘settling’ in Woy Woy on the NSW Central Coast in the early 1980s. In 1991, Julie moved with her parents to Brisbane so her father could train for ordained ministry in the Anglican Church. In 1993, Julie moved out shortly before her parents moved to the Gold Coast.
Julie worked in a number of administration positions including a computer software development business which she was a director of and assisted in providing the computer training; a chiropractic clinic where she was the clinic administrator; a telecommunications company working as a team leader in a call centre and a variety of temporary office positions establishing office practices and principles for new businesses.
In 2002, Julie entered St Francis Theological College to study full time for ordained ministry, where she obtained a Bachelor of Theology Degree in 2004 and was ordained Deacon on the Feast of St Andrew. In 2005, she graduated with a Graduate Diploma of Ministry through Melbourne College of Divinity and was ordained Priest on the Feast of St Thomas. From December 2004 to April 2007, Julie was Assistant Curate at Christ Church, St Lucia.
In May 2007, Julie was commissioned as Priest in Charge of Cooroora Parish and in 2009 graduated with a Master of Ministry Degree from Charles Sturt University.
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