A hand—carved placement.

A hand—carved placement.

Want to be part of hand-carved, global com­mu­nity trans­for­ma­tion using your God-given skills? The things you love — your pas­sions, gifts and skills — God is invit­ing you to use them in the redemp­tion of all cre­ation! What an invitation. Don’t wonder how...
We have overseas donor status!

We have overseas donor status!

We have super excit­ing news that has been a few years in the making — we have been granted over­seas donor status!  This means that we can now give you, our won­der­ful donors, a char­i­ta­ble tax receipt on many of your dona­tions to our Arotahi work,...
Mission Day 2022

Mission Day 2022

It’s been a week since we got back from National Hui at Beth­le­hem Baptist! And we miss you all already. There’s so many things we could say about our time together, but we’ll let some of our photos do the speaking. Mission Day was of course a high­light, with...
Rosalie’s story

Rosalie’s story

NZBMS was new on the scene, founded in 1885, and nobody had yet been sent over­seas. Its focus was a special need of B—al which they had heard about from both British and Aus­tralian Bap­tists. NZBMS took this so seri­ously that they were seeking only...
Easter Sunday in the megachurch

Easter Sunday in the megachurch

Before I started to pray, I made a silly mistake: I looked at the Stuff news­feed. The fourth head­line down depicted the demise of another megachurch, specif­i­cally the res­ig­na­tion of New Zealand’s Arise church found­ing pastor.  The accom­pa­ny­ing photo...
I think I would’ve liked Uncle Eric

I think I would’ve liked Uncle Eric

Last week, my Dad handed me two letters that had been written by Eric Enright; my great-uncle who was once the pastor of Royal Oak Baptist. Dad received these from a member of his faith com­mu­nity who had ties to people at Royal Oak in the mid-1950’s. I never got to...