Meet the team

Centred on Jesus’s prayer ‘may they be one that the world will know’ (Jn 17)

Our vision is to see unity in the Church and God’s kingdom come in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Key Staff

National Director & Board Member

Rev Dr Stuart Lange

1 day per week

Rev Dr Stuart Lange – church historian, Presbyterian minister, and member of the NZCN Board. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Laidlaw College, where he was formerly Vice Principal, and where he has lectured in the history of Christianity for many years.

His major book is A Rising Tide: Evangelical Christianity in New Zealand, 1930-65 (Otago University Press, 2013). He is also the writer and presenter of the historical DVD documentary Te Rongopai: 200 years of the Gospel in New Zealand, 1814-2014, which is distributed by NZCN.

Stuart is the Senior Minister of a lively multi-cultural church in West Auckland, Massey Presbyterian, where he heads the staff team and does much of the preaching. Over the years Stuart has been known for his evangelical leadership, both within and beyond his own denomination.

Stuart has four sons, and six grandsons aged two and under. His wife Christine died in 2014, after a long illness. In June 2017, Stuart married Rose Fauchelle. Among his other enthusiasms, Stuart enjoys walking and running in the great outdoors.

General Manager & Board Member

Gayann Phillips

4 days per week

Gayann became our Content Strategist mid-2013, after considerable history doing volunteer work for the network alongside her husband, Stephen.

Fostering unity in the body is a high priority in her life and she is working towards that by developing our website to help Christians connect though our online community.

Her primary ministry focus is prayer and she heads up the team at Pray As One NZ as well as is the event administrator for the regional Prayer Breakfasts that NZCN is establishing throughout the nation.

Born and raised in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada, Gayann followed God’s call and moved to New Zealand in 1987. She worked in the architectural industry as a computer draughtsperson and engaged in all things musical within the church. She continues to study new technology in an effort to improve communication as well as facilitate the variety of opportunities she comes across.