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From Spanz Autumn 2012
The Presbyterian Church is like an extended family, says its first Pasifika Misionare, Don Ikitoelagi. “The family relationship goes hand in hand with the church family.”
Don emphasises this vision to the young Pacifi c Island migrants he sees moaway from the church and more exclusivinto …
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When Chris Garland was eight years old, she felt God calling her to fulltime Christian ministry. She had no idea what that meant and was told by her church leaders, “You’ll grow out of it.”
That never happened. At 16, Chris was directing children’s camps and now, …
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From Spanz Autumn 2012
Aaron Henderson and his wife Amy are part of a volunteer team that attracts 50 to 80 young people to its weekly youth gatherings.
The Wednesday night outreach is only part of the picture. There is also a touch rugby team, youth camps, daytime events, and other get togethers …
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From Spanz 2012
2011 was a hard year for everyone in Christchurch, and one of the inspiring things for Leilani Lemusu, a youth worker in Rolleston, was seeing young people grow amongst the challenges presented by the earthquakes.
“Something in the resiliency and positivity of young people provides stability for us adults as we …
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From Spanz Autumn 2012
Nga Larsen, 27, is employed as a youthworker for Wellington’s Boys and GirlsInstitute, and is also the Wellington regionalyouth coordinator for the Presbyterian andMethodist joint youth ministry committee.
She believes church should provide young people with somewhere they are accepted and loved for who they …
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Th e church has been part of Falen Tu’uga Stevenson’s life for as long as she can remember, and she expects it to be a big part of her future as well. Together with others in her church – St Andrew’s Presbyterian in Henderson, Auckland – Falen, 22, …
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from Spanz Autumn 2012
Rebecca Connor, 26, was pleased to learn that she wouldn’t have to give up working with young people to begin training for national ordained ministry. Rebecca is the first person to beginnational ordination training specialising in youth ministry, a specialisation available for the fi rst time this year.
It …
February 23, 2012 Category: our stories No Comments
Last night, we had a Youth Café Service in a small Café out our Community. Our Youth group invited the Youth Groups from St Johns Presbyterian Church in Mt Roskill and St Marks Presbyterian in Mangere. We had about 60+ people attend and it was a great event. The whole night was …
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At St.John’s we run a Holiday Programme that is planned and implemented by our youth from Yr 10 & up.
We have a group of four Year 10 boys who are really tight friends and are in differing stages of growth generally, particularly in faith.
During our last programme, the four boys were showing their differences, …
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