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…

Are you pas­sion­ate about cross-cul­tural mission? Do you have a heart for pas­toral care and sup­port­ing those serving on the front­lines of mission? NZCMS is looking for another Per­son­nel Manager to join our team. This role is primar­ily about offer­ing care and support to our Mission Part­ners, helping…

By Nikki Wheeler Mission Partner in Papua New Guinea Kapuna, in the swampy jungle isol­ated bush, has a cap­tiv­at­ing nature to it – life is more simple. We thirst for rain if there hasn’t been any for a few days because we are con­scious of how much water we use on a daily basis and how the tank…

Te Hauoter­angi (Howard) and Gladys Karaka serve as Māori Evan­gel­ists with Te Pīho­patanga o te Manawa o te Wheke in the Port Waikato area. The Māori Evan­gel­ist ini­ti­at­ive was an invit­a­tion for NZCMS to renew the old rela­tion­ships the first CMS mis­sion­ar­ies had with Māori in the 19th century. Howard…