Kia ora e te whanau Lynne and I are about to head out for a week away touring Northland. None of my siblings have been there, so four of us (including my youngest brother – out from the UK), with spouses – seven all up, are hitting the road together. Read more…
Kia ora e te whanau I’m sitting at a dining table deep in the King Country. After a rich Friday with the Waikato-Waiariki Methodist Synod at Camp Epworth, I’ve been privileged catching up with groups and individuals from a Parish that is charting new ways forward. Having come from a Read more…
Kia ora e te whanau I’m about to hit the road – the end of this week will find me passing through Auckland, into the Waikato, and down into the King Country. Then returning home to Lincoln late next Tuesday. I hope to have another Newsletter ready for you – Read more…
Kia ora e te whanau Again because it has a limited distribution, what follows is my latest offering to the Methodist Monthly publication ‘Touchstone’. In Christ Born in 1884. E.Stanley Jones was an American Methodist Missionary to India where he served 50+ years. Jones abhorred racism and worked tirelessly in Read more…
Kia ora e te whanau Personal and Leadership Resources This week, a few articles I’ve found useful Starting with the occasional article where one feels like one is looking in a mirror. Is Your Leadership Style Unintentionally Aggressive? I was in a couple of meetings last week and came away Read more…
Kia ora e te whanau Personal and Leadership Resources 50+ years ago I started my working life in the Quantity Surveying office of the Ministry of Works in Dunedin. Eventually, I was given my first ‘Adjustment’ job – managing variations to a contract from the QS perspective. It was, naturally, Read more…