General Giving Donations Now Qualify for Tax Receipts

Jun 9, 2025 | News

By Rosie Fyfe, NZCMS National Director 

NZCMS can now issue dona­tion receipts to people who give towards General Giving (ie dona­tions to NZCMS as an organ­isa­tion). The reason NZCMS can now issue dona­tion receipts for General Giving is because of approval received from IRD (Inland Revenue Depart­ment). Any dona­tions given for NZ work (money spent within NZ) from 1 April 2025 are now eli­gible for a dona­tion receipt, includ­ing General Giving, Māori Evan­gel­ists, and the Wheels Ministry.

General giving is incred­ibly helpful to NZCMS as an organ­isa­tion. These dona­tions support NZCMS to keep doing our core mission — sending out global Mission Part­ners and Māori Evan­gel­ists, con­nect­ing the NZ Church to global mission, equip­ping NZ churches for cross-cul­tural mission, and dis­cip­ling young people for mission.

We have a new giving page on the NZCMS website to reflect this change. This clearly shows which dona­tions are eli­gible for dona­tion receipts and which are not. You will notice that giving to our global Mission Part­ners is not eli­gible for a dona­tion receipt because their min­istry is over­seas and Gospel-focused.

Thank you if you already donate to General Giving through NZCMS. If you would like to start donat­ing to General Giving, this would be a great help to us.

Donate to NZCMS here.

9 Comments

  1. Liz Hay

    Thank you, Tessa. I remem­ber Ray (and Jean) very warmly from our time at St Tim’s before we left for St John’s College at the begin­ning of 1987, and was excited many years later to learn of their visit to the Elli­otts in Uganda. (We visited them in 1997 on study leave.) That visit, and a later one, showed their quiet growth in faith and mission during the years. I praise God for Ray’s life and service, and pray for the Com­fort­er’s pres­ence to be so close to Jean.

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  2. Caleb Croker

    Hey there,

    A friend of mine told me about you guys and I’d love to come along on Monday!

    Cheers,
    Caleb Croker

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    • Rosie

      Hi Caleb, I’ve just seen your message. I apo­lo­gise that this was missed. I assume you’re talking about the Ser­i­ously Inter­ested in Mission group? The next one is August 11 and we’d love you to join. Can you email us at office@​nzcms.​org.​nz (Rosie writing here)

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  3. Pamelq

    Thank you Tessa

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  4. Katherine

    Thank you Arch­deacon Fran. Mothers Union appre­ci­ated your input when we visited the Far North recently. Your wisdom and wise counsel made it a mem­or­able weekend. God bless you in your new role.

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  5. Rosie Fyfe

    Rev Fran, you and Rapiata are a gift to the Church. May the Lord bless you as you serve in this next season

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  6. Pauline Elliott

    With ref­er­ence to the article ‘By invit­a­tion not inva­sion’. My husband and I were involved with CMS from the 1960s onward and this was always the atti­tude of CMS lead­er­ship. They deferred to the church lead­er­ship opin­ions whenever pos­sible, wherever there was a local church. I’m not aware if this has change. It isn’t some­thing new.

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    • Rosie Fyfe

      Hi Pauline,
      I agree with you!! I don’t think this has changed, just good to re-iterate why and we send mission part­ners. This is Rosie writing — hope you’re doing well!

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  7. Pamela McKenzie

    Yes Pauline it was the same for Alan and me. When we went to Singa­pore 1966–69 it was in response to a request from the Bishop oof Singa­pore and Malaya.

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