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From the Moderator
Tena koutou katoa
The role of Moderator certainly contains a lot of variety and one of the things I have enjoyed is visiting the Presbyterian churches around the country. Last Thursday, the Rev Stephanie Wells, Presbyterian Church Schools Resource Office Director, and I made visits to two schools in Wellington. Firstly, we visited St Oran’s in the Hutt.
We were given a tour of the school by two of the students and the Amanda Gibbs St Oran’s Principal. We also visited a couple of ‘Exploring Faith’ classes and spoke with the chaplain, Megan Ward. There was morning tea with support staff and teachers, and the Chair of the Board, and the Chair of Special Character, were also there to talk with us. Lastly, we sat in on their senior leadership team meeting where one of the teachers, Caro Willis, shared her experience of visiting Ōhope and her learnings from taking the Otago University paper, “Māori Theology and Religion”. It was a very interesting and informative morning.
We then travelled over to Scots College where we took part in a special service to honour the Rev Hēmi Pōtatau. Hēmi was the first Māori boy student at Scots, and he went on to train as a Presbyterian minister. He was the first Māori Moderator of Te Hīnota Māori and was committed to the use and advancement of te reo.