Ōtautahi Programme

Daily Schedule

8.30am

9:00am

11am

12pm

1pm

2:30pm

4pm

5.30pm

Arrival, coffee and tea provided.

Morning Main Gathering
Mihi Whakatau on Day One


Workshops Session 1

Workshops Session 2

Lunch

Workshops Session 3


Evening Main Gathering

End of Day

Workshops

Friday
11am-12pm

Programme
Panel: Church Leadership in Crisis

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.

Rediscovering Missional DNA
Rediscovering Missional DNA

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.

Wayfinding for Neighbourhoods
Wayfinding for Neighbourhoods

Col Salisbury

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

Friday
12pm-1pm

Programme
How Churches Change
How Churches Change

Nathan Hughes

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

Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts
Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts

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.

Rediscovering Missional DNA
Rediscovering Missional DNA

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
3pm-4pm

Programme
Case Study: Pa Whakaoranga Aranui
Case Study: Pa Whakaoranga Aranui

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.

Mapping the Church, Multiplying Movements
Mapping the Church, Multiplying Movements

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.

Panel: Church Leadership in Crisis

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.

Workshops

Saturday
11am-12pm

Programme
Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts
Church Planting, Revitalisation and Missional Alignment - Catch Cohorts

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.

Programme
Discipleship Essentials
Discipleship Essentials

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.

Blended Traditions

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
12pm-1pm

Saturday
2pm-3pm

Programme
Discipleship Essentials
Discipleship Essentials

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.

Blended Traditions

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.

Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction
Panel: Fruitful Reconstruction

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