Ōtautahi Christchurch — Little Revolutions

Ōtautahi Programme

Daily Schedule

The `Ōtautahi leg of Little Revolutions is held at Oxford Tce Baptist Church with breakout sessions on site. Morning tea and lunch are provided each day.

Friday
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
3 pm - Workshops Three
4 pm - Session Two
5.30pm Day Concludes

Saturday
9 am - Session Three
10.30am - Morning Tea
11 am - Workshops One
12noon - Workshops Two
1 pm - Lunch
2 pm - Workshops Three
3 pm - Session Four
4.30pm Day Concludes

Main Gathering Keynotes

Friday Morning Gathering
9am

Dave Mann
Looking for Lydia and the Bonny Downs Story

Friday 4 pm Gathering

Alan Hirsch
Metanoia and Shifting Our Paradigms for Mission

Saturday Morning Gathering
9am

Faye Molen
The Reluctant Pioneer and the Prophet

Saturday 3 pm Gathering

Dave Mann
Staying Faithful to the Call and Persevering

Workshops

Friday
11am-12pm

Programme

Friday 11am, Auditorium

Rediscovering Missional DNA

Friday 11am, 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

Friday 11am, Auditorium

Friday 11am, Main Hall

Wayfinding for Neighbourhoods

Friday 11am, Main Hall

Col Salisbury

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

Christchurch - Main Hall

Friday 11am, Main Hall

Friday 11am, Lounge

Prayer on Mission

Friday 11am, Lounge

Sam Harvey and Hannah Frauenstein

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

Christchurch - Lounge

Friday 11am, Lounge

Friday
12pm-1pm

Programme

Friday 12nn, Main Hall

Contemplative Prayer for Everyone

Friday 12nn, Main Hall

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.

Friday 12nn, Main Hall

Friday 12nn, Lounge

Re-Imagining Success

Friday 12nn, Lounge

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.

Friday 12nn, Lounge

Friday 12nn, Auditorium

Panel: Christian Community Development

Friday 12nn, Auditorium

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.

Christchurch - Auditorium

Friday 12nn, Auditorium

Friday
3pm

Programme

Main Hall, Friday 2:30

Case Study: Pa Whakaoranga Aranui

Main Hall, Friday 2:30

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.

Main Hall, Friday 2:30

Lounge, Friday 2:30

Mapping the Church, Multiplying Movements

Lounge, Friday 2:30

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.

Lounge, Friday 2:30

Auditorium, Friday 2:30

Panel: Church Leadership in Crisis

Auditorium, Friday 2:30

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.

Christchurch - Auditorium

Auditorium, Friday 2:30

Friday 2:30, Outdoor Room

Prayer Ministry

Friday 2:30, Outdoor Room

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.

Christchurch - Outdoor Room

Friday 2:30, Outdoor Room

Workshops

Saturday
11am-12pm

Programme

Saturday 12nn, Main Hall

Discipleship Essentials

Saturday 12nn, Main Hall

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

Saturday 12nn, Main Hall

Saturday 12nn, Auditorium

Looking for Lydia

Saturday 12nn, Auditorium

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

Saturday 12nn, Auditorium

Saturday 12nn, Lounge

Blended Traditions

Saturday 12nn, Lounge

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.

Saturday 12nn, Lounge

Saturday 12nn, Foyer

The Leadership behind Church Transformation: Lessons from Kiwi Pastors

Saturday 12nn, Foyer

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

Saturday 12nn, Foyer

Programme

Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Case Study: Re-Imagining Oxford Terrace Baptist

Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Andrew and Alicia Meek

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a heartbreaking and unsettling moment in the life of Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. And yet, in its wake, it opened a space to reimagine not just buildings, but purpose.

Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Saturday 11am, Foyer

Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts

Saturday 11am, 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

Saturday 11am, Foyer

Saturday 11am, Main Hall

5Q and APEST

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.

Christchurch - Auditorium

Saturday 11am, Main Hall

Saturday 11am, Lounge

Revisiting the Quiet Revival

Saturday 11am, Lounge

Chris Clarke

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

Christchurch - Lounge

Saturday 11am, Lounge

Saturday
12pm-1pm

Saturday
2pm-3pm

Programme

Saturday 2pm, Foyer

Case Study: The House Church Network

Saturday 2pm, Foyer

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.

Saturday 2pm, Foyer

Saturday 2pm, Main Hall

Communities Born of the Beatitudes

Saturday 2pm, Main Hall

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?

Saturday 2pm, Main Hall

Saturday 2pm, Lounge

Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction

Saturday 2pm, Lounge

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

Saturday 2pm, Lounge