John Hemans is the senior pastor of Open Heaven Church.
John was radically saved in 1996 in a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.
In his own words…
“I ran away from God as a teenager, having been brought up in a Christian home. In my years of rebellion I fell into drug addiction and lived a life that was as far away from Jesus as I could get.
But Jesus is a redeemer, and now he uses the very things I fell into as a testimony of God’s power to save, deliver, heal and restore all who are broken.
You can read my testimony here.
God called me as an evangelist just a few weeks after I gave my life to Jesus Christ in 1996. I started serving in worship teams a few months later, and began giving my testimony and performing outreach concerts in prisons in 1997.
In 2003 I began to feel a burning desire to take the gospel to areas of our community that the church doesn’t always reach, and founded Church in the Park that year, in the process founding Unchained Ministries.
In 2004 I felt the call to go to Bible College, and graduated in 2007 from LIFE Bible College in Sydney Australia.
My wife Kerry and I felt called to take up the role of senior pastors of Open Heaven Church (previously River of Life Church) in June 2011.
We are passionate about seeing Christians rise up into the call of God that He places on each believer, and passionate about the Church reaching out to those who don’t know Jesus with the full power of the Gospel.