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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…