As our nation's pastors' groups increasingly accept that there are necessary things we can do together but not apart in our cities and towns, how on earth are we to juggle or manage this?...
When public media seem to only tell your negative stories, what are you to do? Stay silent? What if there was a way to to tell your story yourself?...
Would you like your outreaching efforts and focused challenged or provoked - to grow? Check out our 2022 'Outreach Today' magazine....
What if global leaders are being honest? If you suspect significant change is coming, how could you prepare members to thrive - without saying what you suspect?...
A profound reconciliation between Māori and the wider Church has been taking place under our noses. Here's how it is happening....
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...
If you believe it is important for local pastors to engage with local kaumatua, here are a few tips that might help your group with this - because it really is important! (And the article...
In connecting with pastors' groups across the nation this year I've identified some 'threats' to the bicultural journey we are on together. Here is what they are - and how we could address them together....
In our rejecting of Christian things our nation we have 'cut off the roots' that enabled our remarkable freedoms, equality and prosperity. Yet, while a tree will die without it's roots - here is why...
Focusing on Hope Project Christmas we look at community involvement – why not try some of these great ideas? The New Lynn Bible Chapel share their story and some fantastic ideas for anyone to use....
This brilliant story shows a way of putting the Nativity story right in the centre of a local Christmas market. Could you use this idea in your city or town?...
Terminology is important - because it's hard to discuss and apply something we don't have a terminology for! So, are we a bicultural nation, or a multi-cultural nation? ...
As an innovator I get very excited when I see a GREAT innovation. It is rare in a lifetime to see a new stream of charity funding created. CommUnity is a new stream of charity...
While we trust schools to educate our children and youth in areas of math and literacy, increasingly they bring a moral and social agenda that is nothing but religious - because all morals come from...
This article articulates a change in thinking I suggest is needed regarding how we (as the Christian Church) view and engage with the discipleship of our young. 'Education for all' came from us to the...
With 5 scenes to the story their 5-stage float included, the Nativity story was told - AND they won the float parade! Hear what they did and freely borrow the idea!...
In this CHALLENGING reflection on what 'Kingdom minded' means, I explain why I have concluded that many who talk about it don't actually mean it - because it's not merely about thinking beyond ourselves. It's...
With a change-theory illustration (micro chips implants), the point of this blog is to feed a conversation about how we read the news, because a think called 'neutral' does not exist, and our culture not...
In Auckland many church networks were at first reluctant to directly help with the Hope Project delivery. So how did the Auckland Church achieve a volunteer delivery to 347,000 homes?...
If most pastors in a place don't support a city-wide outreach, does that mean the Church there is dis-united?...