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The Government’s Green Paper for Vulnerable Children sets out ideas on how to improve the lives of vulnerable children. Your feedback and submissions are requested. You and your parish can get involved, and tell your community about this opportunity through your outreach programmes. Every idea counts, no matter how big or small. Submissions close 28 February 2012. More here.

These Singapore based opportunities come as a result of the new management structure agreed by CWM trustees in Durban, June 2012. Applications close 31 December 2011.

News from the Council of Assembly meeting held from 10-12 November was emailed out to subscribers today and is now available online.

White Ribbon Day, 25 November, is the international day when people wear a white ribbon to show that they do not condone violence towards women. In this country an average of 14 women a year are killed by their partners or ex-partners. Each year there are over 3,500 convictions against men for assaults on women.

Church leaders, including Moderator the Right Rev Peter Cheyne, are calling on all political parties to acknowledge their shared responsibility to provide a just share of society’s wealth and resources for all its citizens, especially the most vulnerable.

Global Mission has launched the Tuvalu Water Crisis Appeal in response to information received from our partner church, the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu (Tuvalu Christian Church). Donate and read more here.

The latest issue of Spanz magazine is now online.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, is to be commended for the prompt action taken in coming to the aid of the tiny island nation Tuvalu, says the Right Rev Peter Cheyne, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.

On Monday, the New Zealand Government sent two desalination plants, emergency water containers and officials to Tuvalu, after a state of emergency was declared last week due to an extreme shortage of drinking water.

The first Sunday in October is World Communion Sunday. This year you can celebrate it as Global Mission Sunday with the theme, “A Place at the Table”. Congregations can become global mission-minded, as part of the global village.

The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand has issued a media release expressing strong concern over the recent ban on Methodist gatherings in Fiji. The Fiji military imposed the ban this week, which includes a prohibition on all gatherings outside normal Sunday services.