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…

By Fran Hoki­anga Māori Evan­gel­ist Ko Ūpokonui te Maunga Ko Waikeri te roto Ko Man­gonui te Moana Ko Ruakara­mea te Waka Ko Ngati Kahu te Iwi Ko Te Paatu te Marae Ko Ātirikona Bert raua ko Ani Karaka oku Mātua Tupuna Ko Omokonui oku Tupuna Whenua Ko Te Haahi Mihingare toku whaka­pono Ko ahau Te…

By Mike Jessop NZCMS Mis­sions Intern From Decem­ber 2022 to January 2023, a group of 38 kiwis went to Nairobi, Kenya for 3 ½ weeks. We were led by Waweru and Mato, two Kenyan pastors serving in min­istry here in New Zealand. We partnered with Nairobi Chapel and got to exper­i­ence their different…