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Te Hāhi Tairāwhiti Gisborne
Te Hāhi is a partnership between the Police and a group of local Churches in Gisborne city. This partnership came about when it was realised by the Church that Gisborne has the highest rate of family violence in New Zealand and that New Zealand has the highest rate of Family violence on a per capita basis for any OECD nation.
Dunedin
Since 2006, Pastors from across Dunedin have been meeting together to pray and seek the peace and prosperity of the city.
What model do you drive?
Regardless of who you lead, how big your congregation is, or how you got to be where you are as a leader, your intrinsic model will influence your practice and therefore your decisions and people outcomes.
5 ideas that shape church and society engagement
This post runs through 5 ideas that help us situate the place of the church in society – which Mike Crudge thinks will help us to critique and potentially adjust our engagement with society.
100 years?
Imagining the church in 100 years is a way to introduce ideas that help us consider what to do now as we plan for the future. Mike Crudge looks at census data and considers the possibilities of what the church might look like in 100 years.
Proposed change to Parliamentary Prayer
The new Speaker of the House Rt. Hon Trevor Mallard has asked Members of Parliament for their Feedback on the new version of the Prayer that is prayed by the Speaker at the opening of Proceedings each Sitting Day… But he has started using a revised one.