I was a teenager when my parents first arrived with the family in New Zealand. Initially we lived in Orewa just north of Auckland. Two days after our arrival my mother marched us to the shoe shop to buy gumboots. In our first month in New Zealand there were only two days without rain. But…

Last year the tennis court and vicarage land was offered for sale through a real estate agent. After reviewing the offers, we decided with CPT (Church Property Trustees) to work with a shortlist of two potential buyers. One final offer was too low and had some other issues. The other offer was for just the…

The first verse of Michael Card’s beautiful song “The Final Word” is:‘You and me, we use so very many clumsy words The noise of what we often say is not worth being heard When the Father’s wisdom wanted to communicate His love He spoke it in one final perfect word’ That puts it well, but…Michael…