The leaders of 15 of New Zealand’s leading outreach organisations met recently to affirm the importance of dialogue between Church leaders like themselves, and others. At the ‘Engage Conference’ that followed, many pastors, city leaders, passionate believers and other outreach leaders also joined.

While the group shared many positive stories together, they also noted that the NZ Church is facing some considerable challenges in it’s outreach. It was affirmed that innovation and adaption are needed to meet with new opportunities – like immigration, as well as to adapt to continuing changes in perspectives that are taking place in the public square toward religion in the West.

The group affirmed that they are united together in God’s mission, and prayed that God would continue to bring increased unity among all of God’s people in their mission, right throughout the length of Aotearoa-New Zealand.

Aimee Mai (CAP), Jo Hood (Mainly Music), Lew Meyer (Outreach And Church – OAC), Stephanie Sewell (Churches Education Commission – CEC), Jay Matenga (Missions Interlink), Morag Paton (yesHEis), Lincoln Rout (International Teams), Tony Collis (SLT), Monika Clark (Church Army), Barbara Sutton (SLT team), David Munn (Thinking Matters), Norman Sutton (SLT team), John and Shirley Jones (Assist Ministries).

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