The Kids Friendly website shares Holy Week (13 -20 April) ideas for children. “We do our young people a disservice when we deny them the whole Christian story…”

Read the latest post by Kids Friendly national coach Jill Kayser who shares why she wants her children, and all children, to have faith. “I hope that I've shown them what living a life of faith can look like, and mostly that I've reflected God's love and grace to them while they have been young and vulnerable.”

The National Church Leaders group, of which our Moderator is part, has organised a discussion paper on our bicultural journey as a Church. Parishes are invited to submit comments before 31 July 2014.

Neighbours Day is this weekend 29 and 30 March. Parishes are working with Presbyterian Support to get involved in Neighbours Day and support those in need in their neighbourhoods.

PressGo is inviting applications from those interested in applying for the newly-created Catalyst role, which will be responsible for providing capacity building resources to presbyteries and congregations throughout the Church. The role is full-time for a fixed term of three years.

News from the Council of Assembly meeting held in Wellington from 7 to 8 March 2014 was emailed out to subscribers today and is now available online.

The Rev Wayne Te Kaawa, Moderator of Te Aka Puaho, has recently been in the news commenting on how the Presbyterian Church influenced Maori in Aotearoa and vice versa: interviews include Shine TV and Radio Rhema, Waitangi, 6 Feb; and Radio Waatea, 3 March - you can listen to the podcast here. Wayne was the main speaker at a powhiri at Auckland University last week for new students; this was covered by Maori Television.

“Inspiring Mission” is the GA Assembly Week 2014 logo. It is available as a (1MB hi-res) download from the General Assembly section of the Church website.

Our autumn edition of Spanz explores how Press Go has changed focus from providing grants to resourcing and equipping mission. We introduce the Assembly Week 2014 keynote speaker and unveil the Assembly Week logo.

This Children's Day (Sun, 2 March), the Church is celebrating a decade of inspirational leadership by Kids Friendly's Jill Kayser.