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…

By Ven Dr Lyndon Drake Lyndon (Ngāi Tahu) serves as Arch­deacon of Tāmaki Makaurau in the Māori Anglican bish­op­ric of Te Tai Tokerau. He is married to Miriam, and they have three chil­dren. Way back in March 2018, I presen­ted a vision of Māori evan­gel­ists to the NZCMS AGM. I quoted Jesus’ words:…

By Rosie Fyfe NZCMS National Dir­ector  Co-Sending Mission Part­ners with AsiaCMS This year, NZCMS started a new ini­ti­at­ive with Asia CMS to ‘co-send’ Mission Part­ners together. AsiaCMS is part of the global CMS network. They were founded 10 years ago with the inten­tion of part­ner­ing with and…

On Sunday, 12 Feb­ru­ary, a crowd gathered at the Church of the Holy Sep­ulchre in Grafton, Auck­land, for an ordin­a­tion service and to com­mis­sion J&Z, NZCMS’ newest Mission Part­ners. J&Z’s home church, St James Anglican Church in Māngere Bridge, is part of Te Pīho­patanga o te Tai Tokerau, and…