By Rosie Fyfe, NZCMS National Dir­ector   Anyone who has served glob­ally knows that when inter­na­tional events hit the news, you connect in a dif­fer­ent way if you’ve lived in that part of the world. The con­flict in Sudan has been close to my heart, having pre­vi­ously served as a NZCMS Mission…

By Ian Dally, Former NZCMS Board Member Making the decision to step down from the Board last month has promp­ted some moments of reflec­tion on what my asso­ci­ation with NZCMS and the South Amer­ican Mis­sion­ary Society has meant to me over the years. Back in 1975, while still a newly-minted teacher, I…

By Anne McCormick, Former NZCMS Mission Partner Alison McMil­lan (nee Rowe) passed away on 3rd Feb­ru­ary 2023 after a short illness. The fol­low­ing details of her early life, includ­ing her mis­sion­ary service with NZCMS, were provided by her younger brother, Rev. Alan Rowe, at the cel­eb­ra­tion of…

By Nikki Wheeler, NZCMS Mission Partner to Papua New Guinea Nikki works along­side her husband Scott with the com­munity at Kapuna Hos­pital in Papua New Guinea. They support several pro­jects around the hos­pital and local vil­lages, includ­ing water san­it­a­tion and hygiene, and school­ing and building…

By Rose New­big­ging, NZCMS Intern Who do you call your family and where do you come from? I was born In Christ­ch­urch, then when I was about 7 we moved to England and then back to NZ when I turned 16, set­tling in Nelson because my Dad’s parents live here. While the rest of my family still live in…

By Anna Smart Anna par­ti­cip­ated in NZCMS’ gap year program in 2019. She is now in her fourth year of her Bach­elor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws, and is involved with the Karuwhā Trust on a vol­un­tary basis. She respon­ded to an invit­a­tion to the Karuwhā Trust to attend and support the Wil­li­ams Family 200…

By Rosie Fyfe, NZCMS National Dir­ector It seems appro­pri­ate to send out our NZCMS Annual Report on Maundy Thursday. This is the day we remem­ber Jesus washing the feet of his dis­ciples. After living in the Middle East, I have a per­sonal appre­ci­ation of what those feet might have looked like! The…

By Cassie Lee NZCMS Youth Mis­sions Enabler Kia ora koutou, Cassie here the new NZCMS youth enabler. I have now been working with the NZCMS team for one month so we thought it would be a good idea to intro­duce myself. My ancest­ors are from Scot­land, England and Ireland, my Grandad was a gold miner…