Focus webinar series
Carey Baptist College has high quality, research-active lecturers, many of whom have significant practical ministry experience. However, the Baptis…
Memoir encourages forgiveness
Publishing her memoir Two Slices of Bread is the climax of an 18-year writing and research journey for Village Baptist Church attendee Ingrid (Addy) Co…
Luisa leaves kindy after 23 years’ service
Luisa Mackenzie has often thought how amazing it is that God chose an unschooled nine-year-old girl from an isolated island in Papua New Guinea to even…
An unmissable light
In November 2018 Whangarei Central Baptist Church’s street-facing exterior wall had a make-over. The new paintwork is eye-catching and colourful, whic…
Transformation through unity
President Harry S Truman is often attributed as saying, “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” In the church w…
‘A Night in Bethlehem’
On Sunday 23rd December, Oxford Baptist Church transformed their auditorium and hall into a Nativity-themed bustling ‘night market’ that drew around 50…
Gathering brings together cultures
Upsurge Aotearoa couldn’t have been planned. What began as a call from a pastor in Argentina, turned into a three-day hui that saw a mix of cultures un…
Making poverty personal
Dave Tims explains why he believes New Zealanders need to wake up to an economic system ingrained in our society, and why Jesus followers should be tak…
Building for the future
Frank and Zoe Grant led Ōpōtiki Baptist Church, a once dwindling congregation in small-town Eastern Bay of Plenty, on a journey to become a church brim…
Faith over feelings
We’ve probably all heard the advice to “follow your heart”. Whilst this advice is well‑intentioned, Matthew Thornton explains why he doesn’t think it i…
A fervour for justice
During World War II, the New Zealand Government appropriated land in Te Kōpua, Raglan, to build an aerodrome. When no longer required for military purp…
Re-envisioning discipleship
Many of our Baptist churches are experiencing a declining number of attendees at Sunday services, and a significant reduction in the number of people b…
Fear: a deviation from trust in God
Long before there were cell phones I rarely knew where my wonderful, carefree, free-spirited husband was. Time did not matter to him, people did. He al…
Baptisms
The first thing I look at when our statistics come out each year is our baptism figures. I don’t look at much else. I do this for two main reasons. …
Being a missionary kid
Pat Booth grew up in the 1950s in North-East India, the daughter of NZBMS missionaries Malcolm and Cath Eade. Even though she is now in her 70s, she th…
Whatever happened to the team?
Western Christianity, including in New Zealand, is facing a crisis in the face of ever-growing secularism. Trevor Geddes believes that, as for any team…
The multitude from every nation
Steve Davis looks at the advantages and disadvantages of a migrant church constituting as a stand-alone church community, especially in our New Zealand…
Faith formation in the home
How can we raise children and teens to become lifelong followers of Jesus? Family Pastor Jan Ozanne and Senior Pastor Andrew Brown say the process is e…
Leading with justice
Throughout Scripture we see God’s call to those who follow him to care for ‘the least of these’, to overthrow oppression, to beat swords into ploughsha…
The strength of relationships
At the 2018 Hui, in his last official address as National Leader, Craig Vernall reflected on the importance of relational intelligence in our movement …