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Introducing ‘Help Project’- the what and why

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?...

27 January, 2022

Outreach Today Magazine – 2022

Would you like your outreaching efforts and focused challenged or provoked - to grow? Check out our 2022 'Outreach Today' magazine....

12 January, 2022

Key pulpit themes in view of the global reset

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?...

11 January, 2022

An observable process in reconciliation of Māori with the wider Church

A profound reconciliation between Māori and the wider Church has been taking place under our noses. Here's how it is happening....

04 January, 2022

Nativity Ideas – Getting 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...

04 October, 2021

Why and how church leaders could engage better with local Māori

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...

07 September, 2021

Overcoming threats to the bicultural journey of the NZ Church

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....

25 August, 2021

NZ Politics – Why I’m concerned but not at all depressed

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...

25 August, 2021

Nativity Ideas

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....

10 August, 2021

Nativity Story – Get In The Frame

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?...

16 June, 2021

Bicultural or multi-cultural? (Defining some vocabulary – and why it’s important)

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? ...

06 January, 2021

CommUnity – Six reasons I’m excited about this innovation

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...

15 December, 2020

Delivery Coordinator – What’s the role involve?

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...

11 November, 2020

Time to take responsibility to educate our own children and youth again

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...

02 November, 2020

Story – Nativity Float

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!...

07 October, 2020

Kingdom minded – more radical than many think

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...

03 August, 2020

Change theory – and how to read the news

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...

03 August, 2020

Story – The Auckland Story 2020

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?...

06 July, 2020

Story – Miracle delivery where pastors declined

If most pastors in a place don't support a city-wide outreach, does that mean the Church there is dis-united?...