It’s the time of year when we receive receipts from churches and char­it­ies that we give to and get tax dona­tion credits from IRD. If you haven’t decided what you’ll do with this money, do con­sider sup­port­ing the Māori Evan­gel­ists. The impact of their min­istry has been sig­ni­fic­ant. Archdeacon…

Our Inter­cul­tural Com­munit­ies Enabler gives some ideas for cel­eb­rat­ing Pente­cost Sunday.

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…