The Multicultural Face of Mission
7pm – 9pm | Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Wellington
How do we reach an increasingly multicultural society with the gospel?
More than 25% of New Zealander’s were born overseas. Last year 60,000 permanent and long term migrants made NZ their home and this is projected to increase. In God’s great kindness the nations are coming to us – how can we hold out the gospel of life to our increasingly multicultural society?
Join us in to draw from the experience of Steve Maina, National Director of New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) and his experience of seeing the Gospel proclaimed in different cultural contexts all around the world. Steve will be joined by a panel of local church leaders to dig into how their churches are working to engage the nations that have come to our doorstep with the Gospel.
- What are the opportunities we have for reaching the nations that have come to NZ?
- Where are our cultural blind spots that inhibit gospel growth?
- How can we change anything apart from the gospel to remove and stumbling blocks for people from other cultures?
The bar is open for you to grab a drink, and we will kick off with some nibbles. See you there!
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Speakers
Steve Maina
Steve describes himself as a Kenyan Missionary to Aoteaora, New Zealand. Since 2009 Steve serves as the National Director of the New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS). NZCMS is an evangelical mission community seeking to mobilise the Church of New Zealand for God’s mission. Steve spends time encouraging mission partnerships in New Zealand and globally. You’ll often find Steve in pulpits around the country passionately advocating God’s mission.
His passions include family, discipleship and mentoring, engaging with church planting movements and mission mobilization.
Steve is married to Mary, a Counseling psychologist, they have two daughters (Rinna-15 and Tanielle -13) and live in Christchurch. He enjoys spicy tea, reading, hunting, playing squash and traveling.
David Newton
David is Vicar of St. Michael’s Kelburn. Formerly he worked as a sound engineer in the New Zealand film industry, then as a CMS mission partner before spending 14 years as chaplain at Victoria university. For the last 10 years he has been replanting a church in the heart of Wellington’s studentville. David is passionate about the Gospel, global mission and seeing people transformed through and encounter with the risen Jesus. David is married to Kirsty, has three adult sons and an extended adopted family of sons and daughters, sisters and brothers in Christ.
Rowan Hilsden
Rowan is the senior pastor of Auckland Ev Church and a Director of Multiply who describes himself as an ugly sinner, with an awesome saviour. His particular passion is to see people totally captivated by Jesus, deeply grounded in the gospel, and growing in their love and knowledge of the true and living God. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree (Graphic Design), and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Moore Theological College in Sydney. Before moving to Auckland to start Auckland Ev Church, Rowan has worked as a photographer, graphic designer and network administrator; run his own business in software development, and he was a university chaplain and an ordained Anglican minister in a large multicultural church in Sydney. He enjoys photography, motorcycle riding, long walks on the beach, a good movie and the look on someone’s face when they truly get what Jesus has done for them!
Nick Duke
Nick leads the staff team at Cornerstone, and is a director of Multiply. Nick is the husband of Kristie and the dad to five exceptionally cute kids: Annika, Sarah, Ryan, and ‘the twins’—Thomas and Lottie. Nick and Kristie have a great love of work with university students and moved to work at the University of Canterbury (UC) in 2006. Nick has studied Psychology and Theology. He has a background in IT, but please don’t hold that against him. For a number of years he ran a software development business and through that has an interest in the Christian understanding of work and business.