Te Whanganui-a-Tara Programme

Daily Schedule

The Te Whanganui-a-Tara leg of Little Revolutions is held at Meow nui on Vivian St., with breakout sessions at Salmond House just across the road. Morning tea and lunch are provided each day.

9 am - Mihi whakatau

9:30 am - Whakanoa and kai

9:45 am - Session One

11 am - Workshops One

12noon - Workshops Two

1 pm - Lunch

2 pm - Break

3 pm - Workshops Three

4 pm - Session Two

Main Gathering Keynotes

Monday Morning Gathering
9.45 am

Dave Mann
Looking for Lydia and the Bonny Downs Story

Monday 4 pm Gathering

Alan Hirsch
Metanoia and Shifting Our Paradigms for Mission

Tuesday Morning Gathering
9:45 am

Faye Molen
The Reluctant Pioneer and the Prophet

Tuesday 3 pm Gathering

Dave Mann
Staying Faithful to the Call and Persevering

Main Gathering Keynotes

Session One
- Monday 9:45 am

Session Two
- Monday 3 pm

Session Three
- Tuesday 9 am

Session Four
- Tuesday 3 pm

Dave Mann
Looking for Lydia and the Bonny Downs Story

Alan Hirsch
Metanoia and Shifting Our Paradigms for Mission


Faye Molen
The Reluctant Pioneer and the Prophet

Dave Mann
Staying Faithful to the Call and Persevering

Workshops

Monday
11am-12pm

Programme
Rediscovering Missional DNA
Friday 11am, Main Hall, Monday 11am, Meow Nui
Rediscovering Missional DNA
Friday 11am, Main Hall, Monday 11am, Meow Nui

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.

Friday 11am, Main Hall, Monday 11am, Meow Nui
Case Study: MBC & UNOH in Manurewa
Monday 11am, Room 1
Case Study: MBC & UNOH in Manurewa
Monday 11am, Room 1

Monique Lee and Dave Tims

This case study follows an unlikely friendship between a passionate community organiser (Dave) and a devoted church leader (Monique).

Monday 11am, Room 1
Prayer on Mission
Room 2, Monday 11am, Friday 11am
Prayer on Mission
Room 2, Monday 11am, Friday 11am

Sam Harvey

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

Room 2, Monday 11am, Friday 11am

Monday
12pm-1pm

Programme
Monday 12nn, Room 1
Panel: Christian Community Development
Monday 12nn, Room 1

Across the world, many Christian leaders are turning their attention beyond the walls of the church and into the life of their neighbourhoods—through community organising, social enterprise, and long-term presence among their neighbours. This panel explores what it looks like to seek the flourishing of our neighbourhoods and the coming of God's Kingdom.

Monday 12nn, Room 1
Revisiting the Quiet Revival
Monday 12nn, Room 3, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 2
Revisiting the Quiet Revival
Monday 12nn, Room 3, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 2

Chris Clarke

One year ago, CMS UK's Quiet Revival Report suggested a significant shift in spiritual hunger across the Western world.

Monday 12nn, Room 3, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 2
Case Study: The House Church Network
Monday 12nn, Room 2, Whātaitai
Case Study: The House Church Network
Monday 12nn, Room 2, Whātaitai

James and Viv Anson

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

Monday 12nn, Room 2, Whātaitai
Wayfinding for Neighbourhoods
Friday 11am, OTB Room 1, Monday 12nn, Meow Nui
Wayfinding for Neighbourhoods
Friday 11am, OTB Room 1, Monday 12nn, Meow Nui

Col Salisbury

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

Friday 11am, OTB Room 1, Monday 12nn, Meow Nui

Monday
3pm-4pm

Programme
Meow Nui, Monday 3pm, Friday 2:30pm, Main Hall
Panel: Church Leadership in Crisis
Meow Nui, Monday 3pm, Friday 2:30pm, Main Hall

The Western church is approaching a leadership cliff. Burnout and retirement are outpacing the development of new leaders, and many churches are struggling to raise the next generation.

Meow Nui, Monday 3pm, Friday 2:30pm, Main Hall
Monday 3pm, Room 3
Prayer Ministry
Monday 3pm, Room 3

Whether you're tired, wired, or inspired, this is a space to bring the subtle invitations of the Holy Spirit into prayer with others. A team will be available to listen with you, pray with you, and help discern what God might be saying—and what your next steps could be.

Monday 3pm, Room 3
Case Study: The Street City Church
Room 2, Monday 3pm
Case Study: The Street City Church
Room 2, Monday 3pm

Jenny and Simon Gill

Change and disruption can create an opportunity to rethink everything — and for The Street, a large Wellington church gathering in Mt Victoria and the Eastern suburbs, COVID-19 in 2020 did exactly that.

Room 2, Monday 3pm

Workshops

Tuesday
11am-12pm

Programme
Case Study: Clendon Salvation Army
Tuesday 11am, Room 3
Case Study: Clendon Salvation Army
Tuesday 11am, Room 3

Workshop details TBC (watch this space)

Tuesday 11am, Room 3
Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts
Tuesday 11am, Room 2, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 3
Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts
Tuesday 11am, Room 2, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 3

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.

Tuesday 11am, Room 2, Saturday 11am, OTB Room 3
Remaking Movements for Fruitfulness
Tuesday 11am, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, Main Hall
Remaking Movements for Fruitfulness
Tuesday 11am, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, Main Hall

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?.

Tuesday 11am, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, Main Hall
5Q and APEST
Meow Nui, Tuesday 11am, Saturday 11am, Main Hall
5Q and APEST
Meow Nui, Tuesday 11am, Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Alan Hirsch

This workshop introduces 5Q (APEST)—a framework drawn from Ephesians 4 that helps the church rediscover the full spectrum of Christ's leadership through apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers.

Meow Nui, Tuesday 11am, Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Tuesday
12pm-1pm

Programme
Meow Nui, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, Main Hall
Dave Mann workshop
Meow Nui, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, Main Hall

Dave Mann workshop - TBA

Meow Nui, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, Main Hall
Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction
Tuesday 12nn, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, OTB Room 2
Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction
Tuesday 12nn, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, OTB Room 2

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

Tuesday 12nn, Room 1, Saturday 2pm, OTB Room 2
The Leadership behind Church Transformation: Lessons from Kiwi Pastors 
Room 2, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 3
The Leadership behind Church Transformation: Lessons from Kiwi Pastors 
Room 2, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 3

Nathan Hughes

Many have tried to realign existing churches away from comfort and toward mission, but too often the change doesn’t last.

Room 2, Tuesday 12nn, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 3

Tuesday
3pm-4pm

Programme
Discipleship Essentials
Room 1, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 1
Discipleship Essentials
Room 1, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 1

Amy Page-Whiting

New faith communities don’t emerge from programmes, but from disciples who make disciples. Drawing on decades of practice, Amy explores key frameworks, models, and approaches that cultivate discipling cultures—communities where multiplication becomes natural and new churches begin to emerge.

Room 1, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 1
Panel: The Planters
Tuesday 3pm, Room 3
Panel: The Planters
Tuesday 3pm, Room 3

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.

Tuesday 3pm, Room 3
Case study: St James, Mangere
Tuesday 3pm, Room 2
Case study: St James, Mangere
Tuesday 3pm, Room 2

Mark Barnard

Case study: Parish revitalisation in Tikanga Māori through the story of St James.

Tuesday 3pm, Room 2
Meow Nui, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 2
Blended Traditions
Meow Nui, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 2

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.

Meow Nui, Tuesday 3pm, Saturday 12nn, OTB Room 2