6 - 9 November 2024

What do New Zealand Baptists want to be known for? 

We have worked so hard at tidying our foundational documents, and our policy and procedures. The necessary groundwork has been done. National Hui 2024 is the moment we start talking about how together we might live out the Gospel. What is it that God wants us to be known for? What things must shape us? What social, economic, and environmental challenges will we actively confront? And what will all this mean for our priorities and practices? 

Our God is renowned for his unwavering commitment to justice, mercy, and humility. Our Saviour fearlessly confronted injustice, standing as a beacon of truth and compassion in a world often shrouded in darkness and oppression. Our Baptist origins are marked out by radicalism, by challenging the status quo, and by advocating for those for whom life is hard.  

Come to National Hui 2024 and help us shape our future.  

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December 4, 2024 | Baptist Women NZ Channel: 2144749

A lament for women in the Baptist movement

A powerful lament given by Baptist Women New Zealand to 2024 National Hui delegates acknowledging the negative experiences of some women in our movement.

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November 22, 2024 | John Tucker Channel: 2144749

Word and World: The preaching ministry of J.J. North

J.J. North, arguably the most influential leader in the history of New Zealand’s Baptist movement, helped shape New Zealand Baptist identity and convictions in the…

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November 14, 2024 | Christine Stride Channel: 2144749

Hui 2024 roundup

A roundup of what happened at the Baptist National Hui 2024: events, decisions and outcomes.

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October 31, 2024 | Laila Mendonca Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Welcome the stranger in our midst

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to be even more welcoming to different ethnicities.

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October 31, 2024 | Bradley Nicolson Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Good stewardship

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to effectively steward their assets for gospel renewal.

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October 31, 2024 | Nathan Bird Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Empowering young people

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to equip young people to be disciples of and…

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October 25, 2024 | Adele Vannathy Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Power of prayer

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to bring the power of prayer to the heart…

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October 25, 2024 | Steve Worsley Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Church and the climate crisis – moving from talk to action

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can look for solutions together for how Baptist churches can move to action in a world affected by the…

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October 24, 2024 | Jennifer Macleod Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Sharing our faith effectively

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to become even more effective in talking to others…

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October 24, 2024 | Sam Young & Amanda Parfitt Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Community impact

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to become even more authentic and effective in engaging…

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October 24, 2024 | Ngaire Button & Luke Kaa-Morgan Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Connect with and serve marae

At our upcoming National Hui, delegates can create a tool our local Baptist churches can use to better identify, connect with and serve marae.

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October 22, 2024 | Wayne Schache & Karen Warner Channel: 2144749

An update relating to Clause 36 and Section 4.5

The final additions to the Governance and Constitution Review and Serious Misconduct Process documentation ahead of our Annual National Hui on 6-9 November.

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October 18, 2024 | Dan and Katie Cuttriss Channel: 2144749

Gospel Impact Lab: Develop leaders

At our upcoming National Hui delegates can help create a tool for local Baptist churches to identify, unleash and champion the leaders within them.

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October 15, 2024 | Alan Jamieson & Kelly Stubbs Channel: 2144749

What is the DNA of a Baptist, really?

We Kiwi Baptists love to say that “mission is in our DNA”.

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August 12, 2024 | Christine Stride Channel: 2144749

Justice mercy humility: 6–9 November

Register now for the 2024 Baptist National Hui. The theme is justice, mercy, and humility. Here’s what you can look forward to.

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Baptist National Hui is brought to you by:

Gospel Renewal Tracks (Wednesday)

Choose from four Gospel Renewal Tracks (previously pre-Hui days) running 9am – 4pm on Wednesday 6 November. A track can be chosen as part of a four-day ticket or added as a separate day ticket.

Gospel renewal to and with young people (BYM Hui)

  • Hosted by Baptist Youth Ministries
  • Venue: Christchurch Baptist Church

Gospel renewal in local communities

  • Hosted by South West Baptist Church
  • Venue: South West Baptist Church – 244 Lyttelton Street, Spreydon, Christchurch

We are really excited to host the conversation where how as church, we can engage our communities. For some time, we have been exploring what it means to be more presence based as a church. We look back to 2019 and it’s been a road filled with ups and downs including covid and leadership transitions, full of opportunities and challenges. We’d love to explore together in an honest and open way some of the highs and lows, the dreams and visions that we are seeing and chasing and also have those we have let go. We’d like to explore together the challenges and the opportunities that are presented, issues of injustice and disconnection that reside in our communities and how, as church, we can see Gospel renewal through relational discipleship and a positive leadership culture. We look forward to having times of input that comes out of our decades long story but also a chance to mutually edify and strengthen our shared journey into the spaces of transformation here and around the world.

Hand-Carved Mission with Arotahi (Mission Day)

  • Hosted by Arotahi
  • Venue: Rangiora Baptist Church – 111 East Belt, Rangiora

Nau mai, Haere mai. Arotahi welcomes you to a day of focus, story, prayer, inspiration, and intention.We will hear stories of God’s heartbeat for the world, we’ll seek His intervention as we pray for peace, and guidance as we listen together to His voice.

We are planning for a time of honouring of Ross & Cindy Meyer as they are released from their call to Bangladesh with Arotahi/NZBMS.

Come and join us in prayer, conversation and good food!

May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace.  Psalm 29:11 

Gospel renewal through unconditional acceptance (Chaplain’s Day)

  • Hosted by Baptist chaplains from Canterbury
  • Venue: Rangiora Baptist Church – 111 East Belt, Rangiora

Big Bite Consultation Updates

Over the past 12 months we have been working together on significant areas of change. We had some discussions and made some decisions at last year’s National Hui. Following that, working groups worked on two areas, which were brought for consultation and discussion at the Regional Hui.

Now it’s time to continue the conversation, as well as vote on some changes.

Read the Green Papers on proposed changes

Join us on Thursday afternoon at National Hui to join the conversation.

Gospel Impact Labs

At these 10 labs we want to create tools for our Baptist local churches to use achieve gospel renewal. The framework for this exercise is the themes of justice, mercy and humility. Join the one to which you think you could contribute most. 

The Gospel Impact Labs will run during the Saturday afternoon.

Select from one of these options:

1. Faith sharing 

Imagine a movement that is genuinely effective in talking to others about Jesus.
Come and create a tool that helps Baptist people share their faith honestly and confidently in their everyday lives. Read more here. 

2. Community engagement 

Imagine a movement that authentically engages with the needs of its community.
Come and create a tool that helps our local churches match their skills with the needs of their community. Read more here.

3. Connect with and serve marae 

Imagine a movement whose relationship with local marae is thriving.
Come and develop a tool that helps our local churches identify, connect with and serve local tangata whenua. Read more here.

4. Empowering young people  

Imagine a lively movement that is ‘growing young’, where children, youth and family are flourishing.
Come and develop a tool that helps our local churches develop a culture of discipling and empowering young people. Read more here.

5. Welcoming immigrants 

Imagine a movement that welcomes the stranger in our midst.
Come and develop a tool that helps our local churches understand trends around immigration and displacement, so we can show hospitality and generosity to those who are new to Aotearoa.  Read more here.

6. Power of prayer 

Imagine the power of bold, faith-filled prayers, prayed regularly by an entire movement.
Come and develop a tool to help our local churches bring the power of prayer to the heart of their ministry and mission. Read more here.

7. Develop leaders 

Imagine a movement with a culture of identifying and unleashing gospel-focused leaders.
Come and develop a tool to help our local churches know what to look for in those with potential, and how to champion them.  Read more here.

8. Church and the climate crisis: Moving from talk to action

How will we lead our churches into a future affected by a global climate crisis?
What if New Zealand Baptist churches could lead the way toward sustainable change in our local communities? What resourcing, support or inspiration from our National Support Centre might help? Read more here.

9. Political engagement 

Imagine a politically engaged movement that influences the laws of the land.
Come and develop a tool to help our local churches make regular submissions to Parliament. 

10. Good stewardship 

Imagine a movement that effectively uses its assets for gospel renewal.
Come and develop a tool that helps our local churches begin to think creatively – even radically – about how they could activate their assets for the Kingdom of God.  Read more here.

Baptist Celebration Stories

National Hui 2024 is full of spaces to share stories of gospel renewal.

Join us for the Baptist Celebration Evening, as we come together as the Baptist whānau to celebrate. From our recent graduates and newly registered leaders through to our long service recognitions.

 

 

 

Hear the stories, music, and testimony of some of the migrant and multicultural congregations of the Upper South Island. Come prepared to worship, cry, laugh and journey together.

 

 

 

Free time – for your stories

3:30 – 5:30 PM Friday 8 November

We’ve put aside time in the busyness of Hui to create space for your stories. Catch up with your mates, go out to a cafe, meet someone new in the foyer, spend time with your team, or stroll around Rangiora. This is your time.

Read about what happened at National Hui 2023

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December 21, 2023 | Christine Stride Channel: 2144749

A mechanism to ensure our people and places are safe: Post-Hui update on ‘Big Bite 3’

Of the four ‘Big Bites’ offered at this year’s National Hui, Bite #3 gave us a whole lot to chew on. Here is a summary…

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November 24, 2023 | Baptist NZ Channel: 2144749

Hui 2023: Election results

The 2023 election results for President roles, Assembly Council, Mission Council, Carey Baptist College Board, and the Baptist Women’s Board.

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Events
November 22, 2023 | Greg Knowles Channel: 2144749

Hui 2023: Community Impact Day

Takeaways from a pre-Hui day helping Baptist charitable trusts navigate the next growth phase as they seek to utilise their trust to touch lives and…

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November 5, 2023 | Baptist NZ Channel: 2144749

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Here's a snapshot of what went down at the Baptist National Hui 2023 on Friday night and Saturday!

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November 3, 2023 | Baptist NZ Channel: 2144749

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Here's a snapshot of what went down at the Baptist National Hui 2023 on Thursday night and Friday!

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November 2, 2023 | Baptist NZ Channel: 2144749

Hui 2023 in photos | 1

Here's a snapshot of what went down at the Baptist National Hui 2023 on Thursday!

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October 19, 2023 | Geraldine Crudge Channel: 2144749

A mechanism to ensure our people and places are safe (pre-Hui read: Big Bite 3)

When it comes to ensuring our people and places are safe: “is our ecclesiology [how we do church] fit for purpose in 2023?”

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October 19, 2023 | Kelly Enright Channel: 2144749

The morning after (pre-Hui read: Arotahi)

“…it’s time to check in on the steps we have made together.” One year on from the launch of Arotahi!

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October 19, 2023 | Peter Crow and Wayne Schache Channel: 2144749

A new way of making decisions together (pre-Hui read: Big Bite 2)

Take a look at why we’re reconsidering the structural foundations for the way we as Baptists interact and make decisions together.

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October 19, 2023 | Ethan Miller Channel: 2144749

He Rito: The future of the church (pre-Hui read: Our young people)

“One of the greatest roles of God’s people is passing the torch of faith from one generation to the next.”

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October 19, 2023 | Luke Kaa-Morgan Channel: 2144749

He Koronga Maatou – We have a dream (pre-Hui read: Baptist Māori)

"...to see all Māori become lifelong followers of Jesus, flourishing and positively transforming their whānau, community and the world in which we live".

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October 18, 2023 | John Tucker Channel: 2144749

A Baptist way to make decisions (pre-Hui read: Big Bites 1-4)

“As Baptist churches, how do we make decisions? Or, more importantly, how should we make decisions? What does the Bible say?”

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October 17, 2023 | Charles Hewlett & Wayne Schache Channel: 2144749

An alignment of our assets for gospel renewal (pre-Hui read: Big Bite 4)

"For us to bring renewal to people and places we must wisely steward the many wonderful gifts God has entrusted to us."

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October 12, 2023 | Christa McKirland Channel: 2144749

A posture of humility for difficult conversations (pre-Hui read: Big Bite 1)

“The Triune God of grace has brought us into the divine family and, in humility, has invited us to collaborate in the ministry of reconciliation…

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September 12, 2023 | Catharina Siraa Channel: 2144749

Help determine the mind of Christ for our collective of churches

Every local church votes for our governing representatives at the Annual National Hui in November. Prepare for your church’s vote by reading the profiles of…

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August 30, 2023 | Catharina Siraa Channel: 2144749

BYM Hui, Chaplains Day, Missions Day, Community Ministries Day

Our Baptist National Hui is the anchor point of the annual rhythm for Baptists. Each year there are events that occur before the Hui –…

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News
July 17, 2023 | Catharina Siraa Channel: 2144749

“Excuse me, are you the President?”

Nominations are currently open for the role of President of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. What is this role, and who could be nominated?

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Education
July 6, 2023 | Catharina Siraa Channel: 2144749

Why do people want to be on our Assembly Council?

With nominations now open for our governing group (Assembly Council), we find out what is involved, and why some current members want to be part…

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November 5, 2022 | Charis Fotheringham Channel: 2144749

Hui 2022 Day 3: The future is now

It may have been the last day of Hui, but the conversations it ignited are far from over. Here's an overview of the goings on…

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November 4, 2022 | Charis Fotheringham Channel: 2144749

Hui 2022 Day 2: God invites us to join his spectacular works

So much to take in, learn and action! Here's an overview of the goings on at Hui 2022: Day 2, Friday 4 November 2022.

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November 3, 2022 | Charis Fotheringham Channel: 2144749

Hui 2022 Day 1: Talking about our spectacular Jesus!

What a day! In a remarkable way! Here’s an overview of the goings on at Hui 2022: Day 1, Thursday 3 November 2022

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