As I write this on Wednesday 1st June 2022 today is the 60th Anniversary of Samoa’s Independence celebrations. It is also Samoan language week and the theme for this week is: Fa’aāuāu le Folauga i le Va’a o Tautai - Continue the Voyage with Competent Wayfinders of the...

I was invited as a VIP guest to the Hutt City Sports Awards last night 1,500 people were in attendance. It was a black-tie event and had all the glitz and glamour complete with Wellington Orchestra, Signature choir, dances and singing trio who entertained us all...

I hosted the monthly “inner-city” ministers’ luncheon yesterday. We had eight people from the Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist church attend. The first to arrive was a “pastor” from the Baptist church, he told me that he was a pastor in one of the Southern...

In real estate It’s either a buyer’s market or a seller’s market. TV One news tonight says it’s a buyer’s market. For me trying to both buy and sell a house means it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other. Unfortunately, on 9th February when I won the tender on...

Another lovely day in the capital.  I’ve just returned from chaplain’s assembly at Queen Margaret’s College.  It was a live-stream service led by Rev Deborah Wilson the chaplain in which girls participated with readings and prayers.  The theme was Mother’s Day.  I...

I have just finished reading Very Rev John Murray’s notes on his time as minister of St. Andrew’s on the Terrace from 1975 to 1993. An amazing vision for an inclusive city church. 29 years later I sit writing this as the newest minister of St. Andrew’s on the Terrace....