Read a Council of World Mission (CWM) feature on the work of Global Mission coordinator, and Presbyterian Women New Zealand (APW) United Nations Convenor, the Very Rev Pamela Tankersley.

Coverage in the Christchurch Weekend Press of the recent very successful, sold-out Connect PYM Youth Conference. Read more. See photos from the Connect event on the PYM website

Do you know of anyone who would like to help a Christchurch quake-affected family by contributing to a grocery voucher? Money donations to the Rev Martin Stewart, St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, PO Box 29-346, Fendalton, Christchurch. Include your details if you would like a receipt. Read more on Martin’s blog.

Global Mission has negotiated an exciting extension to a long-standing partnership with the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA). It will partner with Uniting World, the international mission department of the UCA, to offer more mission opportunities.

The Rev Dr Stuart Vogel, Secretary of the Church’s Asian Advisory, has released a media statement on behalf the Church about the food shortage in North Korea.

Realising a peaceful reunification of Korea would not only be a gift for the Korean people but also for the people of Asia and the world as a whole. For the church, both in and outside Korea, realising a unified Korea will also mean the church being unified in their efforts. Read the full World Council of Churches statement.

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) has written to all member churches urging that we all do an audit of how our actions, practices, choices of movement, and how our buildings are constructed, should show our deep concern for ecological responsibility and climate justice.

Read Te Waka Karaitiana the new Te Aka Puaho newsletter. Te Waka Karaitiana translates as the ‘the Christian waka’.

Read the listing for the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand in Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, prepared by Ben Schrader.

Unlike the Anglican, Methodist and Catholic churches, the Presbyterian Church did not send missionaries to New Zealand. It arrived only after colonisation had begun, as a church for settlers...

The Rev Fakaofo Kaio, moderator of the Northern Presbytery, joins with other church ministers in encouraging us all to spend time acknowledging the meaning of Easter. Imagine there is a God who is loving, just and good. Suppose this God formed the world, full of beauty and with people like us in it. Imagine God's plan is for a world full of goodness, beauty, and love, free of horror, suffering and death. Read more in the NZ Herald