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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 21 October 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Home again Jiggety-Jig. NDCU (National Dialogue for Christian Unity) were, among other things, blessed with an insightful presentation on Tiriti issues by Alistair Reese. After a few hours as a guest in Koru with great company (where I did most of the talking ), it was […]
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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 14 October 2024
Kia ora e te whanau I’m on the road this week – In Wellington on Friday for the National Dialogue for Christian Unity (an annual meeting between leaders of the Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Society of Friends Churches), and on to Gisborne for the weekend. I’m looking forward […]
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UCANZ Update week Beginning 7 October 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Forum 2025 – Our Future Together Please post and share as appropriate Personal and Leadership Resources 1. Leaders: Is Your Desire to Be Right Holding You Back? This one’s serious – I could have written it (bit didn’t). It’s written with brutal honesty about the need […]
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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 30 September 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Charities Commission Requirements I’ve been asked a question. It goes like this: With the necessity of all groups with charity status to update their constitutions we wonder if U.C.A.N.Z had a basic draft constitution that might save Co-operating and Union Parishes from spending hours redrafting their […]
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UCANZ Update week beginning 23 September 2024
Kia ora e te whanau On the day before Daylight Saving kicks in (that will be this coming Saturday), I invariably work my way around the house – appliances, clocks, watches, cars, – in changing time in anticipation of the following day. Remember to put your clock forward by an […]
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UCANZ Update Week Beginning 16 September 2024
Kia ora e te whanau Sunday found me at a CV’s AGM. It was warm, open, and honest. There was a healthy acknowledgement of the head winds that the Parish faces. And no intention of giving up. There was, however, a piece in the Treasurer’s report that bears addressing. It […]