24/02/2026
Meet a Sojourner. This is Matt Pullar and this is his story…
Something we say every week at Sojourners is that wandering hearts can only find rest in Jesus. Rest is something I’ve always found difficult. My mind and body always feel like they’re racing — I was recently diagnosed with ADHD at 41, which explains a lot to me about myself — and as you get older it’s very easy to become overwhelmed by responsibility. I have three wonderful boys — an eight-year-old and twins who are nearly seven — so life is full, often hectic. But church each week reminds me to enter God’s rest, to come to Him with my weakness and exhaustion and let Him give me rest.
We moved to Werribee when our eldest was just a year old. I’m a teacher locally at Heathdale Christian College, and we felt like it was time for me to stop commuting each day and for our family to start building more local community. Sojourners has been a big part of that community building for us. One of the ways God gives us rest is in His people, and as a family with young kids we have found so many others at church who are on the same journey as us, discipling our kids together and keeping each other going in the challenging but precious path of parenting.
For my family, nature is a big part of our lives. We live just behind the Werribee River and are so happy when in the beauty of creation together. God also uses poetry in my life to help me process the mess and glory of living in Him. Faith has never come easily to me; my neurodivergent brain doesn’t sit comfortably with a lot of things, but God has used that to deepen me and make me more open to the mysteries and complexities of faith. I recently wrote a book called This Teeming Mess of Glory, which explores a lot of this, and I’m working on a new book at the moment. Poetry for me creates a space for mess and beauty to sit together, which feels so important for a long-lasting walk with God. One of the great gifts of being at Sojourners is the space our community makes for such different people to come together before Jesus, bring our mess to Him and be continually changed, as the Bible puts it, from glory to glory.
