A number of congregations have advised that they are holding their AGMs at this time. This is a good time to provide us with the details of your leadership.

The Gateway Gift Trust Board has a program for grant applications open to all LCNZ member congregations and parishes.

Draft Annual Financial Statements have been seen and approved for audit processing (reporting due in April). The initial results show a deficit of $17,234.

In life, we often experience consequences when we break the rules. I loathed being sent to the headmaster’s office or being put in detention at high school for some ‘wrong’ that I had done during the day. How often do we come to the Ten Commandments in the same way!

LCNZ Levy approved to remain the same at $150 per communing member over 18 – this has been communicated to the congregations. The new figure will be applied to the latest statistics results in March 2024.

New Zealand Lutheran Dr Johanna Wood has been awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ‘for services to football governance’.

We warmly invite you to join us as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Redeemer Lutheran Church of Hawke’s Bay and St Francis Co-operating Parish Clive – Haumoana with a worship service, praise, fellowship and a cuppa.

Goals in life are very important. Goals give you direction. Goals help you identify what’s important to you. Goals help you to define what you truly think life is about. Goals also help you to prioritise things.

The LCNZ, at its last synod, was unable to elect a bishop. The LCA College of Bishops asked that the NSW and ACT District provide oversight for the LCNZ until the next synod in two years.

Selfies characterise our age. These photos we take of ourselves with our mobile phone cameras. It is estimated that there are 93 million selfies posted online every day.