Pastoral Staff

The Tabernacle has a team ministry of four pastors, each having key responsibilities for different groups of the church.

Neil Baker
Senior Pastor

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Neil is the team leader at the Tab and has been in full time pastoral ministry for over 24 years. He has a passion for Jesus, and a desire for the church to be 'the hope of the world'. He also delights to see people growing as life-long followers of Jesus and exercising their unique God-given spiritual gifts and callings.

Neil's qualifications and training are in the area of theology, church ministry, counselling and Not-For-Profit management. His spiritual gifts include leadership, preaching/teaching, pastoral ministry and encouragement.

He has been married to Jennifer for over 27 years and together they have two adult children, Jono & Zoe.
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In his spare time Neil enjoys going to the gym, mountain biking, playing guitar, reading (theology and a good thriller!), travel and good coffee!
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neil@tabernacle.org.nz

Mike & Lin van der Vlugt
Global Congregation Pastor

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Church for us is a welcoming Multi-Ethnic family, bonded by the love of our Lord God Almighty.
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mike@tabernacle.org.nz

Kok Soon Lee
Mandarin Congregation Pastor

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He joined the church as Chinese pastor in 2003. He also serves in the Northern Baptist Association as a board member, Carey Baptist College Chinese Department on the advisory board, & in the Baptist Union Ethnic Group.

He has been a pastor for more than 20 years.
Before coming to New Zealand was senior pastor of a multi-congregational church in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He also served as director of Canaan Community Service Centre, Secretary of the Malaysia Baptist Convention, director of the MBC Building Fund & Chairman of the MBC Education Board.

Kok Soon has degrees in Business Management, Theology & Ministry.

He has been married to Moey Yong over 25 years and have one child. 

​koksoon@tabernacle.org.nz
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