What if we were to engage more wisely and pro-actively as united churches around FAMILY / PARENTING / MARRIAGE? This is one of our strengths - and a gateway for the hope we carry. To...
With a vision to engage more widely in the community, Ps Keith Harrington of Invercargill Central Baptist proposed a day given to serving the community in practical hands-on ways - on a Sunday. Now engaged...
If we are concerned as Christians, the challenge isn't merely policy. It is worldview. WHAT is the actual challenge - and HOW might we engage. Read to hear three unexpected courses of action I propose...
Our democratic freedoms and wider societal well-being only exist because of the Christian faith. But if we don't understand this we won't protect and history evidences that we will then lose it! So here's...
As part of Hope Project Christmas here are some adaptions of existing ideas that we (the Hope Project team) think could really work. This is about nothing more than getting a little bit creative...
As part of Hope Project Christmas here are some adaptions of existing ideas that we (the Hope Project team) think could really work. This is about nothing more than getting a little bit creative...
This is about a systemic problem in which church leaders with POSITION meet, while leaders fulfilling the FUNCTION are not in the room. The key stakeholders aren't heard. But what if God called them to...
My sensing from global news is that we're reaching a tipping point in public culture in the West. Mistrust in power - and a reawakening of spiritual interest, are all part of it. Here's 12...
There can be no freedom of conscience, thought or choice without good INFORMATION! This article expresses concern at the corruption of public media, gives examples, then suggests alternative sources of information, to enable a balance...
A 'gap' in NZ outreach currently is connection around supporting marriages and parenting. How could we change this? What is needed? Here's an approach any church could apply....