Previously she presented weekend weather on Ten Capital[6] and worked for five years in Canberra for the National Media Liaison Service. She was also an news anchor on Ten Capital.[3]
Church spent several years in the late 1980s to early 1990s as the host of a Sunday morning radio show "Church on Sunday" on 2SSS-FM,[3] later called Triple S,[7][8] covering music and happenings in Canberra with notable guests such as Marilyn Dooley, National Film and Sound Archive[9] and regular phone in guests like Keith (KC Bell) from Scullin, a rock and roll trivia buff, among others.[10] 2SSS-FM was a community sports radio station, managed by James Patterson,[7] covering the Canberra region. It ran from 1986 to 2003.[8][11] Another notable that started out on Triple S was Gaven Morris,[12] who was later with CNN before returning to Australia to rejoin the ABC as Director of News (2015).[8]
Church won the New York Festival's TV programming award (silver) for coverage of the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.[2]
^"SUNDAY APRIL 2". The Canberra Times. Vol. 63, no. 19, 528. Australian Capital Territory. 27 March 1989. p. 36. Retrieved 23 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.