The Rev. Claude Fong Toy has been appoin­ted to the NZCMS Board. Claude is cur­rently the Vicar of St Eliza­beth Parish of Clendon, Auck­land, having com­pleted his B. Theo­logy through Otago while at St John’s College in Auck­land in 2021. Claude and his wife Mila have been in full-time church ministry…

By Jairus Robb, NZCMS Com­mu­nic­a­tions Officer When I was sev­en­teen, my twin brother and I were helping Dad move our house. After getting a ques­tion from Dad I said, “Muskie that”. He glanced at me in amuse­ment. “It’s so funny you guys still say that.” “Say what?” I asked. “Muskie that,” he said.…

By Alice Kinyua NZCMS Inter­cul­tural Min­istry Enabler There is an image that I find mind-bog­gling, described in Rev­el­a­tion 7:9–10 “After this, I looked, and there before me was a great mul­ti­tude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and lan­guage, stand­ing before the throne and…

By Nick Laing Mission Partner in Uganda   Just two days ago my won­der­ful Uncle Andrew died. Although I was not close with him myself, my parents and also my sister were very close, and he con­trib­uted much to their lives, espe­cially in recent years. Our prayers, sorrow and grat­it­ude are with…

By Nikki Wheeler Mission Partner in Papua New Guinea Hello to our won­der­ful NZ Whanau! This is an update to let you know how things have been pro­gress­ing in Kapuna, Papua New Guinea in the last few months. Scott’s project work has changed a lot since fin­ish­ing the hos­pital upgrade and he is now…

By Luke Sin­clair, Mission Partner serving in Japan A turning point on my journey to mission lies some­where between Aaron Burr and Alex­an­der Hamilton, the two rival char­ac­ters as por­trayed in the 2015 musical, “Hamilton”. Set in the early years of Amer­ican inde­pend­ence, Hamilton is a driven man who…

Q and A with Mike Jessop Who do you call your family and where do you come from? I hail from down south in Bal­clutha. I grew up in a loving Chris­tian home with two great parents and four awesome sib­lings. I also have a sup­port­ive wider church family who encour­aged me to step into leadership…

By Rosie Fyfe, NZCMS National Dir­ector Each of us at NZCMS shares a deep passion: to see the church enga­ging in mission. We exist to enable this – as a sending organ­isa­tion, we provide resources, prayer support, and logist­ics to send people into mission. Who, then, is a mis­sion­ary? To unpack this,…