Structured for Mission

By Alan Roxburgh, this book usefully encourages leaders to look beneath the surface to the core narratives shaping our institutions, and from there into the theological and biblical foundations they rest on in order to facilitate a thorough-going review that can power a new imagination for church going forward.

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Wayfinding Leadership

This excellent book explores the wisdom of Polynesian worldview and navigating for guiding organisations through the complex environments we now find ourselves in. Written by Maori scholar Chellie Spiller, advised by kaumatua, leaders are presented with the notion of sphere intelligence, a wholistic, indigenous perspective that takes many ingredients into account to chart the path…

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The Resilience Check-In

The Resilience Check-In is a website of videos and other resources, and coaching, offered by John Fawcett, a NZ forensic social worker experienced in humanitarian work locally and overseas, with especial interest in helping leaders process through trauma. John is a warm Christian leader with perceptive wisdom to offer.

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Mahi tahi : Book 5

This is a scan of book five of Mahi Tahi published by PCANZ in 1992, which illustrates the Presbyterian Church’s efforts to move towards bi-culturalism. The full document can be found here. Contact the Presbyterian Research Centre Archives (pcanzarchives@prcknox.org.nz) for more information or borrow the print version from the Library.

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Around the World in 80 Faiths

This is a fascinating multiple part BBC series in which an Anglican priest travels across continents to experience the understanding and practices of practitioners of 80 different religious traditions – major and not so major. For the first episode in the series go to https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3b17zi and follow your nose from there.

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When Women Speak

This excellent website is a meeting point for Christian women, missiology and Muslim women. It contains resources for respectful engagement with Islam, and faith witness.

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Te Rongopai

This five-part series on DVD was created and recorded by Stuart Lange for the bicentenary of the gospel. It tells the story of Christianity in New Zealand from Samuel Marsden’s sermon in 1814 forward and is designed for churches, schools, home and youth groups.

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Listening and Spiritual Conversation

Sue Pickering, a NZ Anglican priest and spiritual director, wrote this book inspired by watching attempts in a bird sanctuary to teach an orphaned kokako how to sing, thinking of Christian witness as a singing of our God-song, but of the importance of helping others to find theirs rather than imposing ours. She asks provocative,…

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The Global Church Project

This website library of videos and other resources brings wisdom from a huge range of church leaders across the Global Church on a huge range of topics – particularly connecting you into leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – for the purposes of renewed mission and revitalised churches.

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