Programme

Daily Schedule

9am

9:30am

11am

12pm

1pm

3pm

4.10pm

5.40pm

Arrival, coffee and tea provided

Morning Main Gathering

Workshops Session 1

Workshops Session 2

Lunch

Workshops Session 3


Evening Main Gathering

End of Day

Main Gathering Keynotes

Monday Morning Gathering
9.30-10.50am

The Centre & The Edge
Bishop Justin Duckworth 

The history of the Church has always unfolded in the tension between large worshipping institutions and small groups of pioneers. Justin explores how this looks in post-Christendom and how we might respond.

Monday Evening Gathering
4.10-5.40pm

Persevering the Pain of Renewal
Jeremy Stephens, Underground Network 

We do not serve institutions, brands, or movements, we serve Jesus. How do we keep Jesus at the centre of Church Renewal even when we want to quit?

Tuesday Morning Gathering
9.30-10.50am

What We’ve Always Known
Hana Seddon, Salvation Army 

While Pākeha Church leaders will talk often about the growing challenges of this cultural moment, these things are not new to Māori. What wisdom does the Church need to hear from Tangata Whenua as we pursue renewal?

Tuesday Evening Gathering
4.10-5.40pm

Developing Missional Leaders
Bree Mills, MicroMovements Australia

The Church urgently needs to develop disciples who aren’t just leaders on a Sunday, but community leaders who transform neighbourhoods. How do we develop this kind of character in our communities?

Workshops

  • Prefab Hall

    Australia and New Zealand are moving from a post-Christian cultural context, rapidly accelerating to what is being termed a pre-Christian cultural context. It's hard soil, yet there are incredible opportunities for gospel witness, disciple-making, and micro church planting. This workshop will share some key postures, tactics, and tools we have learned to engage effectively in an increasingly post-Christian context.

  • Whataitai Room

    This session will explore specific challenges which make collaborative unity so often fleeting and frustrating, and then offer practical possibilities for unparalleled partnership between different kinds of churches.

  • Pīwakawaka

    What do people in Aotearoa today say about faith & spirituality, religion and Christianity, Jesus and church? And what does this mean for my context?

    This session will explore insights from the Faith and Belief Study and what it means for how we do church and mission today.

  • Ngake

    Most church-planters can recount stories of spiritual oppression, sickness, and relational breakdown that sideswiped their early ministry. In this workshop, Bishop Ana and her husband Paul will share stories from their church renewal journey in Whanganui and their growing awareness of spiritual warfare as a key skill for church planters.

Monday
11am-12pm

Monday
12pm-1pm

  • Prefab Hall

    Australia and New Zealand are moving from a post-Christian cultural context, rapidly accelerating to what is being termed a pre-Christian cultural context. It's hard soil, yet there are incredible opportunities for gospel witness, disciple-making, and micro church planting. This workshop will share some key postures, tactics, and tools we have learned to engage effectively in an increasingly post-Christian context.

  • Whataitai Room

    This session will explore specific challenges which make collaborative unity so often fleeting and frustrating, and then offer practical possibilities for unparalleled partnership between different kinds of churches.

  • Pīwakawaka

    While Pākeha Church leaders will talk often about the growing challenges of this cultural moment, these things are not new to Māori. What wisdom does the Church need to hear from Tangata Whenua as we pursue renewal?

  • Ngake 

    ‘Te Ope Whakaora’ is the Salvation Army’s name in Te Reo Māori - ‘the army that brings life’. It’s from this place that Hana’s ministry in Rotorua flows. She is passionate about subverting the violence of colonisation into future hope for those who are struggling. In this session, she will talk about how her whānau are doing this in Rotorua.

Monday
3pm-4pm

  • Prefab Hall
    We don't need another trend to love others, instead, we need new paradigms that allow for missional imagination to run wild. Come explore permission-giving ecosystems that empower everyday believers to join Jesus on mission as his church. Together we will unpack what a microchurch is, and how they form and participate in God's mission. 

  • Whataitai Room

    In a time of decline in the Western Church, the demands on leaders are multitude. Church planters and renewal leaders need courage, adaptability, and resilience to follow God’s leading into an unpredictable future. But how do we find and identify these leaders? Is it in their nature, or can we nurture this? This workshop will look at how we find and develop renewal leaders.

  • Pīwakawaka

    The Catch Network are the proud hosts of Little Revolutions. In the coming year, we will be providing a one-year journey for leaders of small groups who want to plant or revive local churches. This journey begins in August, so in this session, we’ll take you through it.

  • Ngake

    Nick & Sarah believe that Jesus meant what he said at the Great Commission in Matthew 28; we are called to “go and make disciples”. In this workshop, they will share lessons and learnings collected over the past 3 years as they have spearheaded the beginnings of a movement of missionaries in Aotearoa, New Zealand and beyond.

Tuesday
11am-12pm

  • Prefab Hall

    We don't need another trend to love others, instead, we need new paradigms that allow for missional imagination to run wild. Come and explore permission-giving ecosystems that empower everyday believers to join Jesus on mission as his church. Together we will unpack what a microchurch is, and how they form and participate in God's mission.

  • Whataitai Room

    Mark Sayers defines revival as when "personal renewal starts going viral." How can we develop rhythms in our lives and a culture in our communities that reflect a radical pursuit of God's presence? What does it look like to "find life" and flourish amid the very real pressures of leadership?

  • Pīwakawaka

    Before becoming the Mission Enabler for the Diocese of Nelson, Spanky Moore was Chaplain and the University of Canterbury. From things learned in conversations with immigrants and international students, Spanky will share unique insights into what many of us don’t know about ourselves, and how this might affect the way we share the Gospel in Aotearoa.

  • Ngake

    So often the stories swirling around church and church leadership in Aotearoa can be rather negative and discouraging. Fortunately, that’s not the only narrative. This session will explore some of the positive and encouraging trends emerging among church leaders in Aotearoa.

Tuesday
12pm-1pm

  • Prefab Hall

    Some of us itch to see new expressions of church. But how do we reach those who might never come to us? How do we innovate to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel in creative ways? Come explore how to develop anti-fragile environments and incubate new ministry teams to start something new.

  • Whataitai Room

    Mark Sayers defines revival as when "personal renewal starts going viral." How can we develop rhythms in our lives and a culture in our communities that reflect a radical pursuit of God's presence? What does it look like to "find life" and flourish amid the very real pressures of leadership?

  • Pīwakawaka

    Microchurches can work in and alongside other forms of church. This workshop will explore how smaller forms of church can exist in bigger systems so that both systems flourish! Come and learn from an Australian experience of running a dual systems model for 10+years

  • Ngake

    So often the stories swirling around church and church leadership in Aotearoa can be rather negative and discouraging. Fortunately, that’s not the only narrative. This session will explore some of the positive and encouraging trends emerging among church leaders in Aotearoa.

Tuesday
3pm-4pm

  • Prefab Hall

    Microchurches have developmental phases.  In this interactive lab, we’ll unpack the phases of microchurch development and workshop some basic practices to start a microchurch.  We hope to increase your imagination and grow your tool belt as a practitioner.

  • Whataitai Room

    In the aftermath of many recent church scandals, some of us are left wondering what healthy engagement with the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions of our faith could look like. Drawing on his doctoral thesis, ‘Pentecostalism Re-Imagined: Reconfiguring Pentecostalism In Twenty-First Century New Zealand’, Joseph will explore the place of Pentecostalism in church renewal.

  • Pīwakawaka

    Microchurches can work in and alongside other forms of church. This workshop will explore how smaller forms of church can exist in bigger systems so that both systems flourish! Come and learn from an Australian experience of running a dual systems model for 10+years

  • Ngake

    The Catch Network are the proud hosts of Little Revolutions. In the coming year, we will be providing a one-year journey for leaders of small groups who want to start or revive local churches. This journey begins in August, so in this session, we’ll take you through it.