Whenever I travel out to meet our scattered brothers and sisters I return encouraged by their faithfulness, love and connectedness.  They ask after you and I in turn pass on your greetings to them.  And then we talk for about 2 hours (typically), sometimes more, on all...

FESTIVAL REPORT FOR FIJI – 2019        by Isei Colati

We have just returned from 8 days of a most enjoyable Festival 2019, celebrated with the theme “Celebrating our Inheritance in the Kingdom of God.”

The following nations were represented:...

Hi there.  We had a wonderful Festival at Waikanae. 

Upcoming Events: Next year’s Festival will be back at El Rancho from Tuesday 29th September (set-up day) until Sunday 4th October.

There will be no Refresher Weekend in February next year because of the Gold Coas...

Around 40 people gathered at El Rancho Christian Camp, Waikanae, for this year’s Pastoral Training Weekend. This included 7 pastoral leaders from Fiji, 6 from our Masterton Filipino congregation, and 4 from Vanuatu.

The weather was often cold and wet, but this didn’t da...

The Fiji church celebrated their 40th anniversary with a special church service in Suva on 29 June. Attendance was 105, including members from all parts of Fiji and 6 from overseas

Les and Kaye Evans flew to Vanuatu on May 3rd. After arrival in Port Vila they met up with members Evelyn Kanas and Giselle Taren. The next day they met Gilbert Gibson, who is the expert on all things “bees” in Vanuatu.

Their flight to Santo was delayed as Kaye suffered...

Christchurch Killings: The dreadful massacre of innocent people at worship in Christchurch last Friday has shocked our nation and rightly dominated the news this week.

Dennis sent a message Sunday on behalf of the Church to the Muslim Association as a mark of our shock...

Greetings once again from Auckland!

Literature:  A new issue of "Inside Life", our 30th, has just been printed, and has been added to the website at www.insidelife.org.nz. It will be distributed this weekend in about 15,000 letterboxes in selected areas nationwide. Than...

Greetings from Auckland!  The Women’s Retreat held the weekend of February 15-17 was very successful indeed.  Please click here to read a report from Marilyn Wong, who coordinated the Retreat.

The Church Board met on the Friday prior to the beginning of the Retreat...

Greetings once again from Auckland!  Dennis and Sue Richards and I attended the first Australasian Pastors’ Conference under our new structure at Tweed Heads, on the Qld/NSW border, last Tuesday and Wednesday.

Around 30 pastors and wives were present for the conference,...