Our Staff

Put a face to a name: here are the fab­ulous staff who work in our office in Christ­ch­urch, New Zealand.
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Bruce White

Bruce White

Per­son­nel Manager

Bruce part­ners with Carolyn to look after our Mission Part­ners. Together they support, equip and encour­age our people serving over­seas. Bruce pastored at a Baptist church for ten years before he and his wife served with the New Zealand Baptist Mis­sion­ary Society in south asia for seven years. They then returned to New Zealand to pastor again for another seven years before God opened the door for Bruce to join our team. 

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Carl Tinnion

Carl Tinnion

Mission Cata­lyst

Carl has worked in global mis­sions for the last 30 years, mainly based in England, and trav­el­ling to over 50 coun­tries! He has a back­ground as a mis­sion­ary, theo­lo­gian and artist and is also working part time as an ordained curate in Te Puke and Papamoa focussed on pion­eer­ing. Carl is con­vinced by God’s love for the nations and his desire to bless all people groups, drawing them into rela­tion­ship with himself.

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Jairus Robb

Jairus Robb

Com­mu­nic­a­tions Officer

Jairus is respons­ible for NZCMS Com­mu­nic­a­tions. Having lived in Papua New Guinea as a toddler, and in Cam­bodia as a teen­ager, Jairus has had many exper­i­ences living in global mis­sions. Before joining NZCMS in 2017, he was a youth worker for 8 years and received a Bach­elor of Min­is­tries from Laidlaw Bible College. He is married to Jasmine and helps to lead the young adults’ min­istry at their church.

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Ian Yong

Ian Yong

inter­cul­tural min­is­tries enabler — Auckland

Rev Ian works along­side Rev Alice Kinyua (based in Nelson). As a Malay­sian born Chinese he has done a lot of work with the Asian com­munit­ies in Auck­land. Ian sees himself as a trail­blazer, called to walk the edges of the Pākehā world and min­is­ter to many inter­na­tional stu­dents. Ian is married to Daisy.

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Paula Masterton

Paula Masterton

Office manager

Paula comes from a cor­por­ate back­ground and is based in the Christ­ch­urch office. She looks after the incom­ing dona­tions, builds part­ner­ships with churches who support our Mission Part­ners in their min­istry and assist with various admin­is­trat­ive duties.

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The Board of NZCMS

The Board of NZCMS 

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The Right Rev.
Richard Ellena (Pres­id­ent)

Graeme Mitchell (Chair)

Joanna Framp­ton (Deputy Chair)

Anne Segedin

Rachel Pet­ti­grew

John Corban

Rebekah Sussex

Rev. Rangi Nicholson

Rev. Claude Fong Toy