This panel brings together four experienced church planters from diverse traditions, each carrying hard-won wisdom from the front lines of mission. Together, they’ll reflect honestly on the tensions, failures, and breakthroughs that come with forming new gospel communities—and offer grounded insight for those discerning a call to plant, pioneer, or multiply.

Wellington - Pīwakawaka

Mark Barnard and Irene Farnham

How might our ministry be shaped if we attended deeply to ‘place’? Rev. Mark Barnard will consider how the story of St James Māngere Bridge has been formed by the whenua.

Wellington - Ngāke