General Assembly 2025

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Moderator designate, theme and GA25 logo

General Assembly: Mon 20 October - Thurs 23 October 2025 at St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Church, Christchurch

Our General Assembly venue for 2025 will be St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Church, Christchurch, 45 Fitzgerald Ave, Christchurch central (cnr of Fitzgerald Ave & Alfred St). Assembly will begin with a powhiri and Opening Service from 1pm on Monday 20 October and conclude following the closing service on Thursday 23 October around 1pm.  

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GA25 Website

General Assembly 2025 Local Arrangements Committee launched their dedicated General Assembly website  to the Church on 2 July in the Church's subscriber newsletter, Bush Telegraph.

For information on the GA25 programme, registration, venue, transport, accommodation, meals etc see the GA25 website https://ga2025.nz/  For any queries about registering, or other questions regarding the GA, contact Assembly Coordinator Hayley Payne, email ga25@presbyterian.org.nz 

The GA25 website shares information on the Moderator Designate's theme for the GA and his moderatorship: We Believe. Peter has shared how he chose the design for his logo, you can read more on the GA25 website under 'Vision' or see also this information below.
 

Moderator designate & GA25 theme

  The Rev Peter Dunn of Invercargill will be the next leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Peter was elected Moderator designate by the Church at GA23 and he will take up the role of Moderator at the 2025 General Assembly. See more on Rev Peter Dunn here.

Peter has chosen for his Moderator term the theme, We Believe. 

I have in my mind a picture of a braided river, well known to South Islanders. Mighty rivers that carry significant volumes of water in many channels, where a single channel can be a river in itself until it meets another channel, and the scene changes. The connection with the theme is that, as a Church, we can be described metaphorically as a braided river. Alive, directional, flexible, life-giving, unstoppable in our expressions of the Christian faith, unless it becomes disconnected from its source.

‘We believe’ is about the source, our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘We believe’ is about the flow of the river through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. ‘We believe’ is about the banks that hold the braided river, where the Father is hands-on, as it were, moulding and maintaining the river within the boundaries of what we believe.

The moderatorial logo features the Cross from which the braided river flows, with the context prominently displayed, ‘We Believe’. It is my prayer that as people engage with the theme at GA25 and during my term as moderator, our unity in Christ will be affirmed.