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Whakamaru celebrates first year

Wellington City Mission is celebrating the first anniversary of Whakamaru, the Mission's purpose-built community services and social housing hub which opened its doors on 30 October 2024 after a six-year development project.

More power to the people

Common Grace Aotearoa is calling for Christians to support families suffering from power poverty by backing changes to electricity billing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Share your views with the Electricity Authority 

Sam Wells shares 'Being With'

Hundreds of Anglicans turned out across Aotearoa this August as Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, took to the road to share his vision of "Being With" and the theological thinking that sits behind it. Taonga Editor Julanne Clarke-Morris caught up with his tour in Ōtepoti-Dunedin.

Churches back Māori wards

Common Grace Aotearoa is celebrating the work of churches around the motu that held table conversations on backing Māori wards in local Government for a fairer, better Aotearoa New Zealand.

NZers join liturgists in Paris

Aotearoa New Zealand Anglicans Rev Bosco Peters, Helen Peters and Ven Dr Michael Wallace joined more than 300 liturgists from churches around the world to dig deep into the value and best use of worship space at the Societas Liturgica(SL) Congress in Paris this July.

Christchurch Cathedral plans reopen

The Diocese of Christchurch synod has welcomed a new plan from Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Ltd (CCRL) that could see Christ Church Cathedral's shortfall halved and the nave reopened in five years' time.
• Watch the 'Re:Opening' video

The Abbey centres mental health

The Abbey 2025 Tikanga Pākehā youth ministry training event has gathered experts in mental health to support youth leaders with practical skills at four well-attended workshops in Waikanae this August.

Abbey '25 trains 300 youth leaders

The Abbey has wrapped up for 2025 after three days of intensive youth ministry training for 300+ youth leaders, young people and youth ministry supporters, resourced through this year's theme of "God restoring a broken world." 


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