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  Robyn Couper, a member of Oamaru Baptist, worked for 33 years in Haiti with the Evangelical church, returning to New Zealand in August 2009. This past May to August she has been back with a team of medical specialists. Dear Baptist family, Thank you so much for the prayers and support that have come from the wider church family of Baptists in New Zealand. This has been very much appreciated

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The January 12th earthquake in Haiti affected thousands and shocked the world. Serving in Haiti since 1986 and with a base and aircraft hanger already established, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) was swift to respond.MAF assumed a central role in receiving disaster supplies at the overwhelmed airport, and the MAF hangar became crucially important to the work of major international relief

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Sent from Opawa Baptist Church, in partnership with Pioneers, Judy More is a qualified teacher of the deaf, with many years’ teaching experience at the vanAsch deaf education centre in Christchurch. The Evangelical School for the Deaf (ESD) in Puerto Rico started serving deaf students as early as 1959 and remains the only English language school for the deaf in Puerto Rico. A friend gave Judy

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 Carol Payne, from Taupo Baptist, has visited East Timor regularly since 2000. Last year she returned to live near Dili, to work with Kids’ Ark, a community development mission organisation. Let me take you half an hour out of Dili to the village of Hera. Traditional thatched huts are slowly giving way to concrete block walls and iron roofs. Most families possess a mobile phone, many have TV

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In 1957, two Mt Albert Baptist teenagers were given a dream while at Easter camp. Garth and Ruth Morgan prepared and trained, and facilitated the development of the income earning and community service departments of Christian Leaders’ Training College of Papua New Guinea (CLTC). They lived in PNG for 18 years and, since 1989, Garth has been the Council Treasurer, returning to PNG 2-3 times a

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By Val McNatty Just over 2 years ago Pirimai Baptist released two of its leaders to serve with Mission Aviation in Papua New Guinea. David and Jenny Wilkinson worked with South Seas Evangelical Mission during 1977-79 in the Solomon Islands, where David was a Physics and Maths teacher and Jenny was the school nurse.Later, David was principal of a small secondary school at Brugam, PNG, for three

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Ina and Tanielu Atio’o, from Hosanna Hutt City Church, moved to Samoa in 2009 to work at the Ierusalema Fou Bible College on the island of Savai’i. This college trains students from Samoa and surrounding Pacific islands to plant churches in their home villages. In 2005 Tanielu received a dream from God with a call to return to Samoa. Not long after he and Ina arrived in Samoa in August 2009 the

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We invite you to send stories from South America - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela - for the July Baptist. Copy due 16h June. Contact bev@tranzsend.org.nz.

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Dr Sharon Brandon ministers at a rural hospital in Rumginae, Papua New Guinea. Sent from Dunedin City Baptist Church, Sharon has been in PNG with Pioneers since September 2008. A mother in the pushing stage of labour for 16 hours finally came in from the bush. The baby died and the mother was damaged internally. It looked as if she would be permanently incontinent without complex surgery -

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This year tranzsend is celebrating 125 years of New Zealand Baptist involvement in global mission through the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society. During this year we are telling the stories of our messengers - God’s messengers, making the good news known. There are currently, and have been in the past, many other New Zealand Baptists working in overseas mission outside of tranzsend.

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Andrew and Roanna are members of Feilding Baptist church and went to Chiang Mai as an Interserve OnTrack placement. The problem – how to combine an interest in cross-cultural mission with pastoral leadership training at Carey Baptist College? The perfect answer – a three month internship at an international church in Thailand! Over the summer months, Andrew and Roanna Baldwin and their two

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By Mark Holt A few weeks ago we attended the funeral of my friend’s father (who was only 47). Before the body was cremated a monk stood over the coffin waving a ceremonial fan with a phrase on it which means go and don’t come back. This phrase represents both folk Buddhism and philosophic Buddhism. Folk Buddhism relates to the people’s fear of the spirit causing trouble in the village. Most

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By Derek Christensen I was surprised but also delighted when I discovered part of my ancestry traced back to Czechoslovakia, the portion that is now the Czech Republic. I knew about the English bit and the Norwegian connection but this was new. Immediately I wondered which of the two main regions my ancestors came from, Moravia or Bohemia? The Bohemians have become a by-word for a hippy like

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By Mark Holt Buddhism directly attacks the materialism and selfishness of human nature by emphasising the importance of extinguishing desire. In doing so Buddhism attacked the class system of Indian religion because a holy person was somebody who renounced material pleasures rather than somebody born into a Brahmin caste. Similarly, the over-consumption of goods and services is also condemned.

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Alan and Averil Bennett have spent the last 40 years in Thailand as OMF Missionaries. They are members of Tawa Baptist Church. Recently, the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle held a service to celebrate their ministry. Those first twenty years in Thailand…what one or two words sum them up? Alan: Word one: adventure. Word two: pioneer. We lived in Central Thailand between Bangkok and Chiengmai. The

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One of the most significant missiological thinkers of the twentieth century, Dr. Ralph Winter, passed away 20 May 2009 at his home in Pasadena, California, USA, from complications of cancer. He was 84. Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission in 1976 and the William Carey International University a year later. His 1974 address to the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization created a

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By Derek Christensen Last time I wrote, it was about the famous book by Vincent Donovan, “Christianity rediscovered.” In it he wrote of his radical change of approach to mission amongst Masai people in what is now Tanzania. The book was refreshing, challenging and sometimes disturbing. The best thing about it was the sense of going back to the basics of Christian witness, an air of the New

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By Mark Holt, Chiang Mai, Thailand Part 1: No Self. The first lesson from the Buddha explored the concept of self and how in our Western worldview our self is confused with our identity. Three layers of identity were discussed; ethnic, national and individual. The diagram printed previously contained as error and should have looked like this.If our ego is mainly on the outer 'individual'

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Last month tranzsend published an open letter in the Baptist outlining its financial position heading into the final quarter of the 2008-2009 financial year. It said that Council had requested tranzsend personnel in New Zealand and overseas to re-examine their budgets and that tranzsend management was reviewing Team Support levels, New Zealand staffing requirements and any activities which incur

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Roydon is a NZ Baptist, who has been working as a food technologist in Nepal since 1985 with Interserve. Originally published in Interserve NZ’s GO magazine, Issue 1, 2009. I like to think that my job description comes from the Lord’s prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread… and may I have a wee bit of jam, please?” As a food technologist, one of my contributions to food development in

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By Claire Doorey The 'returning missionary' is an easy breed to spot. We are the ones with our trousers 3 seasons too short, immobilised by choice in the supermarket aisles. We are further frustrating the check-out queue as we frantically fumble with our EFTPOS card valiantly trying to recall which way round your card goes in to those little machines. We are wanting to blend in, so we hastily

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By Derek Christensen I remember Bob Thompson, former Principal of Baptist College, saying once that the most original of books contained 95% of what had already been written. Its originality lay in just the fresh 5%. So it is always good to come across one of those five per cent books, especially in mission which is full of books which are full of the same ideas very often as others. Roland

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Age:  60 Hometown:  Christchurch Home church: Opawa Baptist Hobbies:   Reading Previous work history: teacher of the Deaf at van Asch Deaf Education Centre for 21 years.  Present assignment:   Evangelical School for the Deaf Luquillo, Puerto Rico. I teach students, aged 5-16, (individually or in pairs) to read and write and develop their language. Call to the task of mission:  I was

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By Mark Holt, Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Buddha teaches that self is an illusion. The last line of an otherwise great chorus states that the maker of the universe became a man and when he died on the cross he thought of me above all. Although I recognise partial truth in these extremes I disagree strongly with both proposals. The concept of our own identity is critical for spiritual and

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By Paul Thompson On a recent Sunday the preacher was talking about the Good Samaritan parable. He encouraged us to 'choose the neighbours that we will help this year'. Left me thinking 'that's what the priest and Levite did - they chose their neighbours. They just didn't choose to help the man who had been beaten and robbed!' Surely choosing our neighbour is not what the parable is about. The

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Jocelyn Campbell is currently a member of Kamo Baptist Church (Whangarei) but now lives in the Far North. She has spent the past 4 years serving with SIM in Ecuador. Her key focus has been working with a group of Ecuadorians in the city of Guayaquil, in a ministry that brings help and hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers.+ Life-changing would probably best describe my experience working with HIV

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Doug Plummer came to New Zealand as a teenager from the UK and after training in the WEC College in Tasmania served in Taiwan for several years. He married Ruth, a medical doctor from Auckland, and their three children were all born during their years of service with WEC. The Plummers are members of the Baptist Tabernacle in Queen Street and have been supported by the Tab in their overseas work

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“Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.” Gen 12:1 (NIV) Let the whole world sing for joy, because you govern the nations with justice and guide the people. Psalm 67:4 (NLT) Then I heard the voice of the Master: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” I spoke up, “I’ll go. Send me!” Isaiah 6: 8 (The Message) How

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You can use your fingers as memory aids when you pray for missions. Here's how those fingers become prayer points: Thumb Since your thumb is nearest to you, begin by praying for those missionaries closest to you. They are the easiest ones to remember. Index or pointing finder Let your "pointing finger" remind you to pray for missionaries who teach, instruct, and heal. This includes

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Dr. Todd Johnson is director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Trends Inside Global Christianity 1. Christianity has shifted dramatically to the South. At the time of the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, over eighty percent of all Christians were European. By the time we meet for the 2010 Lausanne Congress in

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Late in September the World Bank approved an IDA credit of US$75 million to assist the Government of Bangladesh to bridge the resource gap incurred as a result of the 2007 floods. "The magnitude and devastation of the flood and the required response from the government are creating pressure on the budget," said Xian Zhu, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh. "This will assist the

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Destination World is on its way to Parachute 2008. Destination World is a combined mission initiative designed to move people closer to Jesus Christ both locally and globally. Project Manager, Darren Birch, says “It is exciting to see discussions seeded at Parachute 2007 take form and now grow into a full-fledged project that will see around 20 organisations, both denominational mission and

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“During the 2Oth century the population grew from 1.4 to 6.2 billion of which 4.6 billion live in economically less developed regions.” Douglas McConnell “The most striking feature of Christianity at the beginning of the third millennium is that it is predominantly a non-Western religion.” Andrew Walls (from Pocok) “Contrary to myth, the typical Christian is not a white fat cat in the United

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and their family were sent out from Hamilton Central and Franklin Baptist churches to work with Jian Hua Foundation in China in February 1996. After 11 years service they have returned to NZ. Sometimes it seems like we have a foot in two worlds - one in the Tibetan-speaking highlands of China and one back here in New Zealand. As we settle into NZ life and look back over our years in China, our

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Child sponsorship provides an education for a family member where there is real poverty. How does educating someone make a difference to a family, let alone a community? Let me tell you about one example. When I was a child growing up in Tripura, India, we lived next door to the Boiragi family. We spent every available moment at their place, playing with their children, Swapan, Shephali and

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World Congress on Tentmaking in Malaysia. Tentmaking is a growing part of world missions. In terms of numbers we are probably looking at something over 200,000 people engaged worldwide. 250 of these people met in July in Port Dickson, Malaysia for the 5th Congress of Tentmakers International, the global coordinating network. Chair of the Congress was Derek Christensen, who also chaired the board

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Tranzsend Do Teams, the short term arm of the Baptist Churches of New Zealand, has embarked on a project partnering with HCJB Global New Zealand to distribute unique solar powered radios to people in the slums and remote villages of Fiji. “Every year we send 130 young (and not so young) people to Fiji to serve God by ministering to the needy,” says Steve Pound, the Do Team co-ordinator. “These

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For personal prayer Read the overseas page of your local newspaper and pray for the countries mentioned. Transfer the prayer requests on a mission worker’s letter to a post-it note and place it on your fridge. Pray while eating breakfast or preparing tea. Use agency prayer updates and ‘Google’ the country or region to find out more about it. Spend a day of prayer in an airport

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Pigs can change the future of an entire community. That's why Far East Broadcasting Company is showing God's love by lending pigs to villages.  By loaning them a male and female pig, the village can have a litter of piglets. FEBC just asks that the residents give them back a male and female piglet to give to another needy village. One pastor who listens to the YASKI broadcast wrote to

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Trevor and Judy Clarke, members of Orewa Baptist church, have been working in the Philippines with New Tribes Mission for the past seven years,.    New Tribes Mission works among tribal people all around the world, predominantly unreached people groups with no written language or Bible in their own language. These groups are mostly animistic which means that they worship the spirits of the

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“You can’t commend what you don’t cherish” Missionaries will never call out “Let the nations  be glad!” who cannot say from the heart “I rejoice in the Lord… I will be glad and exult in you. I will sing praise to your name, O most high!” John Piper “We don’t need to create the waves of mission; we only need to ride them”. Omar Djoeandy “I may wonder what kind of mission God wants for me,

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Where to from here? Participants divided into smaller groups to think and pray through what God might be saying to the conference through the speakers, workshop sessions and each other. These groups gathered together people with similar roles in agencies and churches. Church delegates believe God is calling them to give their highest priority to prayer, to seek the Holy Spirit for power to

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WHO ARE WE? Missions Interlink (NZ) connects people with a heart for mission :- agencies churches church mission committees mobilizers training organisations individuals and couples enabling them to gain mutual benefit and cooperate in joint initiatives. We have been around for a while (we began life as the NZ Evangelical

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“God is remodelling missions in the 21st Century by sending His whole church to do his holistic mission in His world for his glory “ Omar Djoeandy Omar has been the director of SIM  Australia since 2004. He studied medicine at UNSW Sydney and theology at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School. It was there he met his American wife, Kay, and where also he served on staff of Nairobi Chapel from

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Gordon Stanley - Director of Missions Interlink (NZ) 1. Let the local Church be the Church with agencies being the servants who partner with her to enable her to fulfil its divine mandate. Let agencies “nurture the roots and not just pick the fruit”. 2. Let it be understood the mandate is not to ‘go into all the world and clone yourself,’ but rather to allow the dynamic of the gospel to

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Bev Edmiston This issue of Commission Matters reflects on the Missions Interlink consultation in Rotorua from June 5-8th. .It’s difficult to discern clear pattern and shape in the kaleidoscope of images that tumble together in my head. There were so many different facets in the experience: visual images, word pictures, symbols, walking advertisements of God’s grace and passion, and the presence

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Dr. Patrick Fung, the first Asian to lead OMF International, will be visiting Auckland early in May. Dr. James Hudson Taylor III, the seventh General Director of OMF, and great-grandson of its founder, said “In the providence of sovereign God, it is marvellous to see His hand raising up within OMF a Godly leader from the Chinese Church. One hundred and forty years ago God brought the China

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Paul Holmes leads the youth ministry at Avonhead Baptist. This past summer Paul, and his wife Alison, freedom travelled through China, visiting nine cities in nine weeks. Wow, China! You just don’t get it until you have been there. By our standards it is dirty, noisy and chaotic, and it is huge. We had a great trip, but only scratched the surface of the country. It is so big, with so many

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Lek comes from Buriram in Northeastern Thailand where her family are rice growers. She went to work in the bars of Bangkok because she needed the money to send a child to school. My husband died and I was left to bring up two children on my own. I decided to leave my children with an older sister and go and look for work in Bangkok. My relatives were helpful and gave encouragement, but

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By Delsie Guy One of the aims of my recent visit to Tripura was to find out what had happened to 15 year old Paul Munda. Paul comes from Lakshilunga and began as a student at St. Paul’s School, Argartala, in 1998, sponsored by some of the Agartala Young People. Their leader, Mr. Abraham, took a personal, fatherly interest in Paul, caring for his needs until early last year when he retired

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Are you sitting around watching the grass grow and then having to go out and cut it? Let me tell you there is a better way to fill your days. You can go somewhere and make a difference for the Kingdom of God. Six of us from a one horse town called Te Puke have relocated to Bangkok in Thailand and here we are involved with a ministry called Rahab helping women and girls leave the sex trade and

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When I married my husband I was only 16 years old. I stayed with my husband until I had 2 children. Our family was quite poor. Then my husband went overseas to find work and money because our thinking was that he would get much more money there than in Thailand. But I and the children, sadly, did not get any money from him and he didn’t want to return to us, as he had taken another wife. I had

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Steve Chalke is the Chair of the Stop the Traffik Coalition and the founder of Oasis Global It was midday on Wednesday 25 March, 1807. After 18 years of hard campaigning, William Wilberforce, the Member of Parliament for Hull, who had first introduced his anti-slave bill to the House of Commons in 1788, saw it receive royal assent and pass into law. But, as we celebrate the bicentenary of

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“Wilberforce and his friends were so successful that today we take the idea of a social conscience for granted. Wilberforce was so successful that today doing good and helping the poor has become secularized. We've forgotten its roots that it's a fundamentally Christian idea, brought to us by a Christian man and his friends two centuries ago.” Eric Metaxas

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Olwyn Dickson, a past President of the Baptist Women of the South West Pacific, was invited to return to speak at the Triennial Conference of the BWAPNG in July 2006. This was the first time the conference had been held in Port Moresby. It was a logistical nightmare getting 1500 people from a camp site on the outskirts of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to the Parliament buildings in the centre

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John & Kristina Tipper have been working in Juba, South Sudan, with Mission Aviation Fellowship over the past 12 months. They are supported by Balmoral Baptist. What have you been doing? Our work has involved establishing an MAF base from scratch, with the plan to operate planes and an office from within South Sudan. This meant arranging for the import of basically everything, including a

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Greg and Rosie Blok are from Franklin Baptist in Pukekohe and will be heading to Thailand in June with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their journey started 30 years ago when Rosie made a deal with God. She felt God was asking her to be a missionary with Wycliffe Bible translators. She had grown up in a Christian family in Leigh and was involved in a Bible class that prayed for a Wycliffe

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SIM New Zealand has a new Director. Nigel Webb is a gifted leader and his passion is to see the work of SIM continue to grow. “I believe that New Zealanders still have a key role to play in God’s mission to the world,” Nigel says. “God has made us with Kiwi ingenuity, our No.8 wire mentality. Whether it’s in the hard places of the world or in multi-cultural teams this ingenuity is a strength

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