CCC Oxford Falls

It seems I've been kidding myself, living under the misapprehension that if Pastors from within the Christian City Church group of Churches in Australia were informed about the ordeal at Christian City Care, they'd take it upon them self or themselves to motion Pastor Peter McHugh to address these issues in the manner that they should have been from day one.

A few days in to this blog being started, I wrote an email (sent 22/05/2008) to the PA for Pastor Phil Pringle at Christian City Church Oxford Falls. My final sentence read "Personally I'd like to see this matter dealt with in the manner it should have been from day one. Maybe with your influence this can be achieved."

In addition to the email sent to CCC Phil Pringle Oxford Falls, I also sent an email to other Pastors of Christian City Churches in Australia.

It's now the 31/05/2008 and although the blog has received numerous Google hits from the same ip addresses using a wide selection of keyword phrases, I've yet to receive one single email from Pastor Phil Pringle, Pastor Peter Mchugh, or for that matter, any Pastor from an Australian Christian City Church.

CCCare 2003 2004 Annual Report

Paragraph 3, first sentence, of the letter I received from Peter McHugh Chairman of Board for CCCare states "We further confirm advice to you that Mr Ryan is employed by our organisation on a part-time basis as an unqualified welfare worker."

Ref: (click link below to view above quote).
Chairman of the Board for CCCare Peter McHugh

Just so we all know what unqualified means:
not qualified; not fit; lacking requisite qualifications: unqualified for the job.

CCCW/CCCare Staff Titles 2004: (click link to view web site listing)

Tony Ryan - Social Worker Christian City Care

CCCW/CCCare Staff Titles 2005: (click link to view web site listing)

Tony Ryan - Social Worker Christian City Care

Further to this in the Annual Report for the year 2003 - 2004 the then Chairman of the Board for CCCare Dr Ian Richardson states, and I quote "Christine’s resignation at the end of the year led to the appointment of Tony Ryan as a Welfare Worker."

Ref: Page 2 AReport04.pdf (click below link to view CCCare Annual Report above quote)
CCCare 2003-2004 Annual Report

So the million dollar question...Who is telling the truth?

Chairman CCCare Board Letter

I have scanned the letter I received from Peter McHugh the Chairman of the Board that oversees Christian City Care and have added the link to this two page letter below.

However I'd like to point out a couple of discrepancies which cloud the real truth which Peter McHugh has stated as facts.

1. I did not received a computer from Christian City Church. I received an AT 486 computer (around 15 years old) from another organisation.
2. Christian City Church Whitehorse did not give me a motor vehicle. A member of the congregation donated it. In fact I was not the first choice, it only came to me because the other person could not be contacted. (please view included scanned copies of letters concerning donated car).
3. I did not receive furniture from Christian City Care, I received it from the same organisation that gave me the computer.
4. In so far as Mr Ryan's business involvement with Connections Consulting Pty Ltd & the director Frank Greco, I have further proof that both Both Mr Ryan and Mr Greco were in cahoots. (I will be posting this signed letter by Mr Frank Greco also).
   

Peter McHugh Chairman CCCare Board Letter:

CCCare Letter Page 1

CCCare Letter Page 2


Donated Vehicle Letters:

From Owner of Vehicle

Letter From Stewart B. to VicRoads (servant of CCCW who chose worthy recipient)

CCCare Welfare Worker Client Loans

As promised I have scanned the original loan documents I received from Tony Ryan my (welfare worker) at Christian City Care.

For the record, Peter Mchugh the Chairman of the board for Christian City Care stated in his letter to me, and I quote, "Mr Ryan is adamant that no discussion for a loan occurred in his capacity with our organisation."

That's a muot point.

The first time I visited Christian City Care was for welfare assistance. Any future visits, appointments, outings ect connecting me with Tony Ryan period, fall directly under the guise of CCCare and his capacity as the CCCare Welfare Worker.

Reiterating this loan was signed on the 21'st Day of December 2004. In fact I'd met Mr Ryan at his office at CCCare and he'd driven me to Connections Consulting Pty Ltd and the loan documents were signed in the coffee shop next door. Mr Tony Ryan was working for CCCare in his capacity as their Welfare Worker on the 21/12/2004.

Further more the closing sentence of this letter from Peter McHugh states and I quote, "Notwithstanding, we have instructed Mr Ryan to not provide his services to any of our future clients of our organisation."

(Clients meaning I was not the only welfare client of Christian City Care to receive a loan from Brontobyte Financial Solutions which is owned by Tony Ryan).


The following links are to these scanned Documents:
(NB - I have blurred full signatures of both parties and also other sensitive data).

please click on the following URL links to view each loan document.

Loan Document Page 1

Loan Document Page 2

Loan Document Page 3

Loan Document Page 4

Loan Document Page 5

C3Centre Vermont

This blog's been getting a fair bit of interest from poeple doing searches for the follow today:

same ip address
C3Centre Vermont
CCCW Rooks Road Vermont
Rooks Rd Christian City Church Whitehorse
Rooks Rd City Church

same ip address
Whitehorse CCC
CCC Whitehorse

same IP address
Pastor Peter McHugh
Minister Peter McHugh
Rev Peter Mc Hugh
CCC Whitehorse Peter McHugh

One could very well assume that it's possible that someone connected to CCCW Vermont or CCCare or cccw.org.au instead of contacting me to start addressing these issue raised in this blog, have instead opted to gauge the number of search engine listing this blog now has. Maybe this is a way to determine if further action should be taken to address these matters.

Let me say the longer the issues raised in this blog continue to go un-addressed by CCCW and or Peter McHugh or the CCCW board of Directors, the greater number of page one (1) search engine listings will grow on a daily basis.

Minister Peter McHugh

What Minister of a Church, could possible sign a letter that so blatantly vindicated Tony Ryan the CCCare (bogus) Social Worker from responsibility, is out of my comprehension. The mere fact that CCCare had sanctioned the employment of a non qualified Social Worker is shocking. But allowing this unqualified Social Worker to deal with CCCare Clients is deplorable.

How can one say it's OK, alright, for a Social Worker of Christian City Care to do as they please in their own time when it directly impedes, negatively affects and ultimately encroaches on a clients freedom of choice.

Lets not forget that I was a Client of Christian City Care first and more most.

The position that Tony Ryan held within the welfare organisation of Christian City Care was one of supreme trust. Allowing clients of Christian City Care; allowing me to believe, that Tony Ryan was a qualified Social Worker for CCCare was an atrocity. Especially given your welfare arm operates under the guise of a Christian Church.

How on earth is it possible to justify something like this!

The buck on this entire unsavoury mess stops at the feet of Minister (Pastor) Peter McHugh.

CCCW False Social Worker Claims

For those that don't know there is a handy online tool called the Way Back Machine. It's an online archiving bot that crawls the web and takes snap shots of web page URL's and store these in for future reference.

When both Christian City Church Whitehorse and Christian City Care informed me that Tony Ryan was not a qualified Social Worker, I produced the following records.

Instead of realising their goose was cooked, they continued to play semantics and tried to claim that both entries on their staff contact web pages were actually typos.

Finding that they (CCCW and CCCare) had an unqualified Social Worker employed was a big shock. However what was a further shock was that they systematically deleted every page & record that refer to Tony Ryan being their Social Worker.

Obviously their IT guy was that clued up to know about the Way Back Machine.

Web Archive URL's:
(click urls to view archived web pages of CCCW/CCCare staff and titles)

Archive URL Link - CCCW/CCCare 2004

Archive URL Link - CCCW/CCCare 2005


Below are screen captures taken of the above listings.

Screen cap of CCCW/CCCare 2004 staff listings



Screen cap of 2005 CCCW/CCCare staff listings

CCCW Letter From Peter McHugh

A couple of weeks after the meeting between Margaret Fazackerley the Development Manager of CCCare, the CCCW solicitor George Neophytou and my witness, I received a letter from Pastor Peter Mchugh on a Christian City Church Whitehorse letter head.

This formal letter was supposed to be their way of addressing the issues I'd raised concerning Tony Ryan the Social Worker for Christian City Care. However as expected it was a white wash.

I will be adding a scanned copy of this letter to the blog and the Loan agreement documents in the next couple of days. (my printer/scanner is away being serviced).

One important factor that I think everyone should be aware of:

It turns out that Tony Ryan my so called Social Worker for Christian City Care was not qualified. In fact Tony Ryan held no professional qualifications in social or welfare backgrounds.

Intimidation Claims Voiced at Christian City Church

Ref (url link):
Planning: Vermont development

Victorian Parliment 9 April 2003

Quoting The Hon. B. N. ATKINSON (Koonung):

"Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking I would like to raise a matter for the Minister for Planning or maybe the Attorney-General in another place. It concerns the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, but it is a planning issue. A group of residents in my municipality has been intimidated by a legal firm in regard to a planning matter which is to go before VCAT."

"I would like the minister to take note of the letter I have here and to perhaps give some indication to the residents and the firm involved, and perhaps to other firms, that this sort of intimidation is not on. It concerns a development by the Christian City Church of a church in Rooks Road, Vermont."

"Legal representatives for the Christian City Church, George Neophytou Law Pty Ltd, have written to a body corporate which has lodged objections against this development. What concerns me is the last paragraph of that letter, which says that the legal firm believes the position of the objectors cannot be substantiated and should their appeal at the hearing before VCAT be unsuccessful, the client - the church - will seek an order for costs pursuant to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act. The paragraph further indicates that the cost to the firm's client of a protracted hearing would be in excess of $200 000 and should an order for that sum be granted the firm would vigorously seek payment jointly and severally from body corporate funds and/or unit holders individually."

"This is an outrageous letter because people have an ability under planning legislation to object to developments that they believe will have an adverse impact on their amenity and enjoyment of their property. That is a legitimate opportunity. For this company to suggest that it has judged the objections of the objectors and decided that those objections are not substantial objections and then suggest it will pursue an order for $200 000 in costs if these people proceed with their objections is outrageous and in total contravention of the rights these people enjoy at law at the moment in being able to have their case heard by VCAT. I hope the Minister for Planning shares my view that this sort of letter is not on. "

Foot note:
George Neophytou Law sounds very similar. I'm of the opinion that this is the same solicitor (George Neophytou) who was acting on behalf of CCCW and CCCare when I had the meeting with the CCCare Development Manager as I described in http://www.liquidpixel.biz/2008/05/cccw-mediation-request.html

CCCW Mediation Request

When this entire fiasco about the dodgy Social/Welfare worker at CCCare hit the proverbial fan the majority of emails; least the ones I were sending, were being addressed directly to the CCCare Development Manager. At the time this was Margaret Fazackerley.

Obviously I'd dropped a bomb shell and cast dubious aspersions onto a staff member, I guess no one likes to receive information like this. Especially a Welfare organisation which operated under the guise of the CCCW board of directors and under the umbrella of a Christian Church.

At the time CCCare was made up of about 5 staff & a handful of generous volunteers, but, it was definitely not structured on the size of well known welfare organisations. To put it simply it was a small welfare organisation located in Box Hill, Victoria.

Maybe CCCare and even CCCW were not au fait with Government guidelines when accepting Grants. Though from what I've seen of their proposal submissions, they didn't have any trouble compiling these to meet Government Dept. guidelines.

So in this sense I found it rather hard to comprehend how they (CCCare and CCCW) would not be well versed in the fact that by accepting a Government Grant, the virtues of this also curtails the expectation that the aforementioned organisation, by proxy, must also abide by general Government Dept. protocols when dealing with such issues as I raised with both CCCare and CCCW.

Unfortunately this was not the case.

Instead CCCare, CCCW, Christian City Church Whitehorse Board of Directors and even the Senior Pastor Peter McHugh (who incidentally at the time was the head of the board of directors) all seemed happy to play semantics.

It was pretty clear that I was not going to get a fair hearing; rather ironic when you consider they preach a doctrine that's supposed to based on fairness and goodwill to all.

Anyway because of this I put forward the recommendation that an outside third party mediation service be used to address these matters.

NB - At the time I was still not working, I'd still not received payment for the 1,400 hours web development work I'd completed for Frank Greco of Connections Consulting. Who turned out to be Tony Ryan's Mate and owed a $10,000 business loan to Brontobyte Financial Solutions (also owned by Tony Ryan), which Frank Greco could not service. Hence my Social Worker and Frank Greco devised a plan to scam me into working for Frank to so Tony Ryan could get his loan repaid. Come to think about it that's almost verging on a conspiracy to commit fraud.

Reiterating CCCare was a small welfare organisation and although I didn't expect negotiations to be finalised in a week, a reasonable time frame to me did not include 8 weeks or more. This was just further proof that they were playing semantics.

When I suggested 3'rd party mediation, there was no rebuff, no dispute, so naturally I assume this was acceptable and would be the way these issues would be handled. However when the time came (9 weeks later) 3'rd party mediation was flatly denied.

The only choice (loose term), option given was to meet with the board of directors solicitor and the CCCare Development manager. Originally they also expected me to front at CCCare for this meeting. That wasn't going to happen. Instead I opted for a public venue and also took alone a witness.

I don't know what information was given to the solicitor but he certainly came unprepared. For some reason he attempted to treat me like a village idiot. Whilst addressing that mindset, my witness cast an eye into his brief case, instead of seeing papers all he saw was a pen and a cheque book; maybe he'd planned to do some banking.

Although it was a meeting that I felt was not conducive to a fair and reasonable out-come, I was prepared to keep an open mind and come to the discussion table with both hands laid open. Obviously they had another strategy.

The final straw came when a further barrage of back handed slaps were deflected directly back to the solicitor. Maybe he's also a bad sportsman, but my counteractive words in defence certainly sealed the end of that meeting.

Unethical Duty of Care by CCCare Social Worker

Since this nasty set of circumstances with the Social Worker of CCCare my sleep patterns have been a total mess. I could say that, but, as I'm not a teller of untruths, the truth is I just don't sleep much. Found an interesting article on the cccare.org.au web site and thought I'd share it with you.

I took a screen cap, so click on the following insert to see the full web page image:



Oh just so you know the guy in the photo is Tony Ryan the dodgy Social Worker for CCCare Whitehorse. What I found rather humorous "most need reliable advice on how to extricate themselves from it." [debit]

Rather ironic coming from someone who was using his position to feather his own pocket. Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel!

CCCW

CCCW is the acronym for Christian City Church Whitehorse. Just so we're on the same page, they (CCCW) are Pentecostal evangelists. Actually they run things like a corporation than under the guise of a church but that's their business I guess.

So what's my beef again?

The CCCare Social worker Tony Ryan (was my social worker) who performed the following unethical acts which voided my client duty of care.

• Conned me into working for his mate Frank Greco (Connections Consulting) so Frank Greco could pay back a business loan of $10,000 to Tony Ryan who also owned Brontobyte Financial Solutions.
• Repeatedly promised (gave his word) I'd be paid for work but never was. (worked 1,400 hours)
• When I didn't finally get paid I approached Tony Ryan and he said, "I only introduce people, what's between you and Frank you need to sort out with Frank Greco and not me."
• Tony Ryan as my social worker at CCCare signed me up to a personal loan with Brontobyte Financial Solutions. He was my social worker, social workers don't do this.

My Beef with CCCare (Christian City Care Whitehorse) and CCCW (Christian City Church Whitehorse) are:

• I brought the above claims to both CCCare and CCCW however they did nothing. Instead decided to make me out to be a trouble maker. Even though I provided some pretty solid facts and evidence.

Granted almost three (3) years have passed since these ugly events about the CCCare Social Worker (Tony Ryan) were brought to the attention of Christian City Care Whitehorse; Christian City Church Whitehorse; Peter McHugh and the board of directors who reside over both CCC and CCCW.

However I'm the one who lost out here on a number of fronts. It was the CCCare social worker who was as fault and not me. So in keeping with this fact(s) I will continue to keep this blog open and active until such time as CCCW; CCCare; and or the board of directors of CCCare & CCCW decide to address this in the type of protocol and direction that it should (I should) have received from day one.

Christian City Church Whitehorse

Christian City Church Whitehorse is also known by the acronym of CCCW.

Although I was not able to locate Frank Greco at the offices of Connections Consulting Pty Ltd on the 17/02/2005; he magically disappeared, I grabbed a worker from an adjacent office as a witness and entered the Connections Consulting, grabbed my personal items and exited, tossing the keys through the letter flap in the office suite door.

The effect this had on my health wasn't good, so as you can image I took a few weeks out to grab some R&R. When the dust finally settled and I could actually take some time to figure out my next move, I decided to approach Tony Ryan. After all he was my Social Worker at the time, he was supposed to be in care of my welfare.

Again I received the same stonewalling from Tony Ryan who again stated "I introduce people that's all I do. What's between you and Frank is between you and Frank Greco, it has nothing to do with me."

Since getting mixed up and associated with Christian City Care Whitehorse, I'd also been introduced into the fold of Christian City Church Whitehorse. In fact Mr Peter McHugh the Pastor for CCCW had been more than friendly towards me. I felt a genuine feeling of being wanted in the Church.

So I thought instead of getting myself stressed out further it would be better to contact both Christian City Care Whitehorse and the Pastor Peter McHugh and let them in on exactly what has happen and hopefully they'll be able to sort this mess out.

Well you think you know some people, well let me tell you how wrong was I.

Instead of trying to sort this out, they rallied the wagon around Tony Ryan and didn't want to know a damn thing. The Pastor of CCCW refused to speak with me. Even though I could provide dates, times and facts.

The entire process went from worse to worse.

Having very little money means you can't get a solicitor in turns means you can't fight for the truth.

Which in these events it had clearly shown me that in my honest opinion neither my Social Worker Mr Tony Ryan, Frank Greco, Christian City Care Whitehorse, Christian City Church Whitehorse or even the Pastor Peter McHugh of Christian City Church could be trusted further than I could throw any of them.

CCCare Welfare Worker in Cahoots

In late January 2005 and having worked 3 long months; by this stage clocking up 1,250 hours, on the shopping cart for Frank Greco and only receiving a total of $300 cash, I was growing tired of the lies and the project changes. The shopping cart had more changes that a Broadway Musical. Frank Greco of Connections Consulting had no idea what he was doing. In fact I'd learnt that he'd quoted the job at $3,500. When in fact the job was worth in the ball park of $50,000.

I remember after working all Christmas whilst Frank Greco had holidays, I phoned Tony Ryan my CCCare Welfare Worker and said "that's it I'm not going to do any more work for this bastard!". He (Frank Greco) is a person who holds the truth very loosely.

What's worse is your supposed to looking after my welfare. Instead your looking after your Mate by allowing him to take advantage of my situation, in fact you've helped him take advantaged of me also.

I still remember Tony Ryan saying no that's not how it is. Frank Greco is really in a bind. He went on to say that Frank Greco owed Brontobyte Financial Solutions $10,000 and couldn't pay that loan back if the project was not finished. If you don't help him out then he loses everything and you don't get paid.

For whatever reason I still trusted Tony Ryan. I still bleieved that he held my best interests at heart even though my gut instinct was telling me different. So I returned to finished the last few weeks of the project.

However in the final weeks Frank Greco was getting more and more hostile, abusive and being a down right prick! On a number of occasions I simply walked out. It took Tony Ryan to coach me back.

A few week earlier and thanks to a generous person at Christian City Church Whitehorse, I was given a car that they no longer needed. A 1989 Mazda 929. On Wednesday 16/02/2005 I was going to get the car registered. So I informed Frank Greco on Tuesday night that I would not be in to work until Thursday after noon the 17//2005 when I would put the finishing coding into the shopping cart.

On the 17/02/2005 I met Tony Ryan my welfare worker from Christian City Care at Box Hill Central for lunch at about 1pm. We'd be together no more than 15min when I received a phone call from Frank Greco in another of his usual abuse rages. At that point I said..."When you've calmed down and can speak to me is a civilised manner then call me back." I then hung up on him.

Within minutes Tony's phone rang and I could hear Frank Greco yelling and losing the plot. Tony Ryan simple said "ok Frank I'll tell him.".

What I was told was...Frank Greco wants his keys back and your not wanted back at the office, your fired!

I refused to hand over the keys saying..."really"...Oh and what about my pay?

Tony Ryan turned to me and said... "I only introduce people. What Frank owes you is between you and Frank it has nothing to do with me."

Instead of blowing a gasket I turned from the table and proceeded into the city to take the matter up with Frank Greco of Connections Consulting Pty Ltd.

CCCare Social Worker Gives Out Personal Loans to Welfare Clients

By Mid December 2004 I'd still not received any payment for work from Mr Frank Greco of Connections Consulting Pty Ltd. Even after asking Tony Ryan many times I was told Frank will pay you but probably not until the project is finished. At the time I was collecting a social security payment from the Government however spending this on getting back and forth to the city every day and other expenses left me with very little money. Especially when I was working 7 days a week and on average 15 hours a day to complete projects for Connections Consulting Pty Ltd.

I told Tony Ryan my Social Worker from Christian City Care Whitehorse that I was financially struggling to meet costs associated with helping Frank. Tony responded with..."I don't know if your aware but I own a finance company, Brontobyte Financial Solutions. From time to time clients that I trust I've given loans to through Brontobyte Financial Solutions and I'd be happy to give you a loan to tie you over till Frank pays you."

On Monday the 22'nd of December 2004; Tony Ryan was on that day in the employ of Christian City Care Whitehorse, I met him at his office at CCC and he drove me to Connections Consulting Pty Ltd. In the coffee shop next door he produced a personal loan agreement for $1,000, this was between myself and Brontobyte Financial Solutions Pty Ltd (ACN# 106690895) owned by Mr Tony Ryan my Social worker from Christian City Care Whitehorse. We both signed the agreement and I was told Tony would then dish out money as I needed it up to the $1,000.

He also said he'd place me copy of the loan agreement is safe keeping, however I decided to keep it myself. At the time I thought it a little strange why he was insistent that give him my copy to keep. Fortunately I refused and that's how I still have it in my possession. (A scanned copy of this loan agreement along with other Documents relevant to this fiasco will be added to the web site within the next week).

CCC Social Worker Meeting with Connections Consulting Pty Ltd

CCC is the acronym used by Christian City Care Whitehorse.

I met both Tony Ryan and Frank Greco outside the offices of Christian City Care in Box Hill at 9:45am Wednesday the 27/10/2004 and we all proceeded to Box Hill Central for coffee. After usual breaking of the ice chit chat, Frank Greco ask if I could develop online shopping carts and payment gateways, to which I said "Yes".

At this point Frank Greco offered me the following work:

• To develop an online shopping cart for www.coffeehit.com.au
• To change a payment processor payment gateway for www.sunflowersoncollins.com.au
  

I'd receive $200 for setting up the payment gateway. The shopping cart was a basic project that should only take 4 days to complete. What would I accept as payment? Before I could say anything Tony Ryan interjected and said "he'll do it for nothing, you can give him office space and use of office facilities to allow him to get his web development business on its feet again".

Thinking that I was fortunate to be in a position to at least get a foot in the door and having access to a computer, internet and office use, I decided to accept the deal.

The next day I began work at Connections Consulting Pty Ltd situated at suite 207, 620 St Kilda Road Melbourne Victoria. I was given a small brief on what was required for the Coffee Hit online shopping cart, I expected based on this information that I should have a working model finished by Tuesday the 2'nd of November 2004.

On the Tuesday I had a working model of the shopping cart for Coffee Hit and showed this to Frank Greco. Although he was pleased he then produced a project brief that resembled the Magna carta. This transformed the very basic shopping cart I had orginally been told was required, into a space trolley with titanium rocket boosters.

At that point I asked "why was I not told about this from day one? This is certainly not a basis shopping cart! The entire Microsoft Development Team could not have a working model based on these specs completed in four days.

I was then asked how long then? I said with only myself working on the project I may have it finished in 3 months. I then said what about payment for my work on this project now? He said ask Tony Ryan he'll take care of things for you.

If I can interrupt for a moment... At the point where I'm met Tony Ryan the social worker for Christian City Care Whitehorse I'd been very sick and was in an ongoing vulnerable situation. I had no family to take care of me, I was alone. I placed all my trust and faith in Tony Ryan believing that a Welfare organisation like Christian City Care Whitehorse would hold the welfare of its clients and the intentions of its employees honourable towards the safety and well being of their clients.

After leaving the offices of Connections Consulting Pty Ltd I contacted Tony Ryan about being paid for the updated shopping cart brief. I was told don't worry about it, I'll take care of it. Frank will pay you, don't worry.

Christian City Care Whitehorse

My life in June 2004 fell into a big heap. If losing just about everything I had wasn't bad enough, I ended up in Hospital for a seven week stint in August 2004. After being discharged, I spent the next 4 months living in dodgy rooming houses in and around the Melbourne suburbs of Dandenong, Mooroolbark, Box Hill and Blackburn South. With each change of rooming house I moved to a better situation; meaning less junky needles in the bathroom.

When I shifted into the rooming house located on Whitehorse Road Box Hill, I was told that I could get assistance with food parcels and household goods if I visited Christian City Care Whitehorse & asked for an appointment with their Social Worker Tony. I got appointment for the next day. This was early October at 2pm on a Thursday.

Arriving for my appointment a middle aged guy introduced himself as Tony Ryan the Social Worker for Christian City Care and motioned for me to follow him to his office. The usual formalities took place, name, address and so forth. Also the big question why I was in this situation. Once this was taken care of we both sat back and had an informal chat. In the course of out conversation I mention I was a web developer and that I was hoping to try and get some contract work to get me back on my feet.

Anyway I received assistance, I was welcome to come around any time for a cup of coffee or to just mix with a few people. Was also informed that Christian City Care had day time activities and I would be welcome to attend.

Over the course of the next 3 weeks Tony and I become pretty close. At that point I thought finally someone upstairs had cut me some slack. In one of our informal chit chats Tony Mentioned he had a friend who owned a IT company. He went on to mention that maybe his friend could help me re-establish my web development business.

Of course hearing something like this raised my spirits and I really hoped that my Social Worker's friend would give me a leg up and help me out. A couple of days later and Tony asks if I'd be interested in meeting his IT friend. Stating that it is possible he has some work for me. Of course I agreed to meet him. At that point I'm told his name is Frank Greco of Connections Consulting Pty Ltd.