E NEWS 19TH MAY 2023  By the time you get this I will be in Queenstown at the PCANZ National Assessment weekend.    We continue to hold in prayer all the families that lost loved ones in the fire at Loafers Lodge in Wellington.  There will be many hospital and shift...

E News 12th May 2023   When you bury your loved ones you expect that they can now rest in peace and that their resting place will become your go to place when you need a listening ear and want to go and share your joys and sorrows with that loved one.  My family laid...

 E NEWS 5TH MAY 2023 Talofa lava.  The UCANZ (Uniting Congregations Aotearoa NZ) Forum in Christchurch over last weekend was an intimate gathering.  Dr. Peter Lineham was our keynote speaker.  I thought it might interest you to see the Mainstream Protestant decline...

E NEWS 28TH APRIL 2023 Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” The role of a minister in a parish is quite challenging and complex we...

E NEWS 21 APRIL 2023 I had the privilege and honour of doing the opening devotion and blessing for the inaugural Pacific Criminology Symposium at Victoria University yesterday. I stayed until after the keynote speaker’s presentation. A man in his mid fifties named...

E NEWS 14TH APRIL 2023  I hope you all had a blessed Easter.  Well for me Easter was indeed a very busy time.  The Maundy Thursday Passover meal was well attended we had 22 people from our church participate.  Good Friday service was incredibly special with fourteen...