Malcs grew up down South on a farm. He
started playing in bands when he left school, touring nationwide with ‘Y-One’
and later with ‘Somebody’s Cousin’. More recently he’s played with Dunedin
based ‘Mephymology’ and now has his own album, ‘One Voice’ which is played on
Life FM and NZ’s Rhema. He’s working on a new one at the moment. He began
studying theology in 2003 at Otago University, loved it so much he even went to
Canada to keep doing more of it. Once he graduated he went on to study at Knox
and was ordained as a Pressie minister at the end of 2008 in St Paul’s
Presbyterian, Katikati. He grew a beard so people wouldn’t think he was too
young to be a minister. It worked.
When he was 18, with a few mates he started
the South Island music festival Samstock in 2000, and directed it until 2004.
He has worked for YFC as a youth worker and events manager and Student Soul as
a ministry intern. He has also worked for his Dad plucking dead sheep. He only
lasted a few days on that one.
In 2008 he married Vanessa and in 2009 they
went on a world trip, checking out the Middle East, the UK and Canada over 4
months. They discovered that Scotland is awesome and Israel isn’t very
friendly.
Malcs also heads up a thing called the ‘One
Voice Project’ which aims to help NZ churches develop their own worship
resources and songs. If you can write songs or poems, or know when a worship
song is crap – he probably wants to meet you.
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