Ambrose and Jo Blowfield

This case study will explore how these communities prioritise discipleship, shared leadership, and mission in everyday life, while remaining intentionally small and reproducible.

Dale Campbell

Jesus' sermon on the mountain overlooking the Sea of Galilee remains as resonant, provocative, and challenging as ever. In a cultural moment—both in the world and the church—drawn toward power, spectacle, endless pleasure, and status, what might it look like to form communities shaped instead by meekness, peacemaking, and lament?

Kevin Hapi and Zenn Rarere

Pa Whakaoranga Aranui is a reimagined Presbyterian community in one of Christchurch’s most challenged neighbourhoods, shaped by a kaupapa of healing, restoration, and deep local presence.

Jonathan Dove

Over the past year, ACN (Auckland Church Network) has mapped nearly 3,000 churches across 861 regions in Aotearoa, exploring where the Church is flourishing and where it’s struggling.

Maja Whittaker

Moments like the Asbury revival suggest a different kind of renewal—less marked by spectacle, and more by a quiet, contemplative return to the presence of God.

Richard Black

The Western Church is beginning to embrace a mixed ecology of church planting—an open space where legacy models make room for hyper-local expressions, house churches, missional communities, monastic orders, and forms shaped deeply by local context.

Mark & Kirsty Johnson

Tākaka is known for its strong counter-cultural and alternative spiritual community. Mark and Kirsty and their team have embraced this context, seeing it as a mission field rather than a barrier. After years building relationships, they have seen many people come to faith from new-age communities. They have shaped the parish into a missionary base—welcoming spiritual seekers, discipling new believers, and continuing to meet people where they are.

Christchurch - Main Hall

Dave Mann

Mission often begins not with a programme, but with people. Drawing on the story of Lydia in Acts 16, this workshop explores how to identify and invest in the people God is already at work among through intentional one-to-one conversations.

Christchurch - Auditorium

Joseph Macauley

In this workshop, Joseph explores a generous orthodoxy that draws on the riches of the wider church—Catholic, Pentecostal, charismatic, and contemplative—and shares how these threads have been woven together in the life of St Luke's.

This panel brings together leaders who have wrestled with disappointment and emerged into constructive, hopeful, Spirit-led ways of planting new gospel communities.

Christchurch - Lounge

Nathan Hughes

Many have tried to realign existing churches away from comfort and toward mission, but too often the change doesn’t last. Nathan draws on research with Aotearoa pastors who have led healthy, lasting transformation to uncover the leadership patterns that make the difference.

Christchurch - Foyer

Alongside hosting Little Revolutions, CATCH is continually training church planters and renewal leaders. Over the past three years, more than 60 Christian leaders have been equipped through CATCH cohorts in church planting, revitalisation, and missional realignment.

Christchurch - Foyer

Justin Duckworth

What if our systems are working against us—built more for stability than mission, and unintentionally stifling the life we long to see?

Christchurch - Auditorium

Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch explores mDNA—the core elements that have consistently fueled Jesus movements across history. This session invites leaders to recover the church's "native genius": a simple but powerful pattern embedded within the gospel itself.

Christchurch - Auditorium

Col Salisbury

Navigators cross vast oceans by reading the stars, currents, and winds—attentive to context and environment.

Christchurch - Main Hall

Sam Harvey and Hannah Frauenstein

Father George Elsbett wrote: “First and foremost, being a missionary Church means being a praying Church.”

Christchurch - Lounge