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Applications for the 2016 round of Presbyterian Foundation grants are now invited, and application forms can be downloaded from the Church website. The Presbyterian Foundation is a trust fund, the interest of which is distributed to support the mission of the Church, particularly innovative mission at the local...
Dear Friends
I am writing to you as your Moderator-Designate to encourage you to come to Dunedin on 15-19 November for our General Assembly, which is being held at Otago University.
I warmly invite you to register now on the Assembly Week 2016 website for either the business of Assembly (as a Commissioner), or for the Hope Conference streams and workshops (as...
In May we conducted a survey to help us find out what each of our churches thinks about Presbyterian Church communications. Thank you to the 304 people from our 400 Presbyterian and Uniting parishes who filled in the survey – it was very pleasing to get such a big response. You can read a summary of the survey results.
Love Reaches Out art and writing competition is an initiative of Kids Friendly and Family Works. Children are invited to creatively explore this year’s theme of "LOVE IN ACTION".
Open to children & young people with the Presbyterian Church, Family Works or Presbyterian Schools.
Submit painting, drawing, sculpture, poem or story. There are prizes to be won! Entries close 26 August 2016.
See Kids Friendly for more information and entry form
This year we’ve also created five...
Presbyterian Support New Zealand is inviting applications from parishes for grants from the Tindall Foundation.
Application material may be viewed or downloaded from the Presbyterian Support website, and applications close on Friday, 26 June 2016.
Presbyterian Support New Zealand (PSNZ) is a Faith Funding Manager and provides funding to community and social service organisations throughout New Zealand in the area of Supporting Families and Social Services. The Tindall Foundation allocates money to Presbyterian Support to distribute to qualifying initiatives...
The Presbyterian Church’s Global Mission has contributed financially to a visit to Aotearoa New Zealand by the Rev Socratez Yoman, West Papuan human rights defender.
From 8 and 20 May the Rev Socratez Yoman will meet with politicians, students, human rights groups, Church leaders, iwi representatives and officials and also address public meetings in nine centres: Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Tauranga and New Plymouth. See more, including dates and times of public meetings, at:...
Read below or download a pdf of the Anzac Day (25 April 2016) message, “Dead Poets Speak“ from the Rt Rev Andrew Norton, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Please share this message through your networks.
Dead Poets Speak...
Happy Easter everyone. Assembly Office will be closed from 5pm Thursday 24 March reopening 8am Wednesday 30 March. See staff contacts for anything urgent during this time http://www.presbyterian.org.nz/…/cont…/assembly-service-team ...
We are interested in feedback from all groups within Presbyterian and Uniting parishes - ministers, elders, members, youth pastors, family workers, members and others - about the usefulness of Church communications like our website, Bush Telegraph and Spanz.
Your feedback will help us understand what is working well with our communications, and what areas we need to work on to ensure that our efforts better meet the needs of church leaders and members.
We invite you to take this online survey, which will take about 5 minutes to complete.
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