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UCANZ Update week beginning 9 September 2024
Kia ora e te whanau This update is being ‘assembled’ in the early hours in an Auckland motel room. I had the joy of sharing Sunday worship with Kaurasi Langi and the 10am Grey Street congregation of the Onehunga Co-operating Parish – probably one of the most culturally mixed (seemingly […]
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UCANZ update week beginning 2 September 2024
Kia ora e te whanau I’m in Auckland this coming weekend. I’ll be preaching at Onehunga Co-operating Parish, Grey Street, at 10am, Sunday. On Monday afternoon I’m engaging with the Methodist Tauiwi Strategy Meeting. I still have a little space in my diary and could be available to meet with […]
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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 26 August 2024
Kia ora e te whanau I was shocked to hear of the death of Rev Siosifa Pole. He died peacefully on Sunday morning. Siosifa, as one of the Mission Resourcing Directors of the Methodist Church, faithfully represented the Church on the UCANZ Standing Committee until his term concluded at the […]
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UCANZ Update week beginning 19 August 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Earning the right I’ve reflected from time to time on the importance of Church leaders loving the people they’ve been called to serve. As I was coming into ‘ministry’ I’d often hear of the importance of being ‘prophetic’ – the priority of calling people to […]
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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 12 August 2024
Kia ora e te whanau I’ve been musing about the issue of leadership. The tradition I come out of hasn’t been strong on it – it’s almost as if we have to discover how to do it as we go along. And it’s just possible that it’s not our strong […]
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UCANZ Update week beginning 5 August 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Once again I’m going to start with an article I wrote for the Methodist Monthly Touchstone: Maybe we got it wrong “Mission is what the church does when it is dying”. Attributed to Deitrich Bonhoeffer, this is an uncomortable challenge. We don’t want to believe it/him. […]