Gather is our Mission Pathway. It’s about teaching, training and equipping everyday disciples and pioneer leaders to gather the ungathered in practical ways - across all spheres and stages of life.
Grow is our Discipleship Pathway. It’s about empowering everyday disciples to grow deeper in their faith and in their unique callings. We want disciple-making to be central to everything we do.
Go is our Leadership Pathway. It’s about identifying and investing in people with the character, competence, capacity and call of leadership on their lives – whether ordained or not.
We are proudly Anglican with an evangelical flavour. We cover the top of the South Island, so you could basically draw a line from Greymouth to Kaikōura and shade in everything to the north. That means we’re spread widely, and include a wide range of provincial and rural locations. Generally speaking, our churches are a mix of contemporary and traditional expressions, though we’re perhaps more ‘low church’ and charismatic overall than other Anglican dioceses.
Parishes
In our diocese, you should expect all activities and ministries to be physically, emotionally and spiritually safe. You should be treated fairly, be respected, and be treated with love and compassion. To support this, all staff and volunteers engaged in ministry undertake safe ministry training and are regularly police vetted.
Any concerns about physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual or other safety should be raised with your leader, vicar and/or Health & Safety Advocate, or should be raised as a formal complaint using our complaints process.
