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PROFILE: Norm and Liz Silcock

For the past seven years, Norm and Liz have been in itinerant ministry, supporting and encouraging smaller Assemblies in Samoa and Tonga, and around the North Island. In recent years, Norm and Liz have taken up the role of ambassadors for the Maori Postal Aotearoa. For over fifty years, MPA has been spreading the Word of God among Maori and other people through the supply of bilingual Bible-based materials. As MPA ambassadors, Norm and Liz are often on the road, building connections. Norm exp...

1600+ students hear the story of Easter

Many members of New Plymouth Bible Chapel have again assisted in putting on an Easter play that first showed in 1991! Chapel members, with believers from 20 other churches, acted, narrated, prayed and served in food preparation and hospitality. This is the story, as reported by STUFF: More than 1600 year five and six students have been told the Easter Story thanks to a walk-through play, with some youngsters hearing it for the first time. The performance took the students from the gates of J...

Bunnythorpe Family Church – The Journey

In 2012, with four young kids, it was time for a bigger house. Despite hunting in what seemed like all the right locations (kids schooling, our workplaces and our church), the Lord directed us elsewhere – to Bunnythorpe, a small village 10 minutes outside of Palmerston North. After a few years, we felt strongly that there needed to be an evangelical presence in the community. Was that of God or merely our own idea? To test it out, we continued to settle in Bunnythorpe, building friendships ...

When Gravity Shifts:

How does God help Whanganui believers share the truth of Jesus Christ, when they've been culturally conditioned to keep quiet? He gives them leaders from another culture. The church is Ingestre Street Bible Chapel, the pastors are Alice and Kinyua from Kenya, and this is how God brought them together....

Sharing the stage, the speaker, and the pool

In the week-to-week business of a local church, it's easy to become insular. You know other Christians are out there, but since you rarely engage with them, it feels like it's just your small band of believers at work in the world. Not so in Dunedin. Down there, the CCCNZ churches are doing good things together. ...

"What concerns me about the church is the lack of confidence in the Bible."

Nigel Pollock, the keynote speaker for next year's Regional Conference, made this observation when discussing the conference topic: How do we increase our engagement with Scripture? Behind the comment are Nigel's personal convictions about Scripture: "I strongly believe that the Bible is relevant to the whole of life. In fact, I think Scripture is foundational to who we are and what we're called to be in the world. Should we increase our engagement with Scripture? Actually, I think that unders...