- UCANZ Update Week Beginning 15 July 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau This weekend was with the Lower North Island Synod / Central Presbytery UPOG sponsored meeting at Rongotea, where we were royally hosted by the local people – thank you, thank you! UPOG stands for ‘Uniting Parishes Oversight Group’ – a creation of the Synod and… Read more: UCANZ Update Week Beginning 15 July 2024
- UCANZ Update week beginning 8 July 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau A week away with siblings and partners, and we’re still friends! Northland turned on it’s best for us, and we’re grateful. Grateful to have been able to visit and enjoy the hospitality of this beautiful part of our country. Because of road works we were… Read more: UCANZ Update week beginning 8 July 2024
- UCANZ update week beginning 24 June 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Lynne and I are about to head out for a week away touring Northland. None of my siblings have been there, so four of us (including my youngest brother – out from the UK), with spouses – seven all up, are hitting the road together.… Read more: UCANZ update week beginning 24 June 2024
- UCANZ Update Week Beginning 17 June 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau I’m sitting at a dining table deep in the King Country. After a rich Friday with the Waikato-Waiariki Methodist Synod at Camp Epworth, I’ve been privileged catching up with groups and individuals from a Parish that is charting new ways forward. Having come from a… Read more: UCANZ Update Week Beginning 17 June 2024
- UCANZ Update Week Beginning 10 June 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau I’m about to hit the road – the end of this week will find me passing through Auckland, into the Waikato, and down into the King Country. Then returning home to Lincoln late next Tuesday. I hope to have another Newsletter ready for you –… Read more: UCANZ Update Week Beginning 10 June 2024
- UCANZ Update week beginning 3 June 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Again because it has a limited distribution, what follows is my latest offering to the Methodist Monthly publication ‘Touchstone’. In Christ Born in 1884. E.Stanley Jones was an American Methodist Missionary to India where he served 50+ years. Jones abhorred racism and worked tirelessly in… Read more: UCANZ Update week beginning 3 June 2024
- UCANZ Update – Week Beginning 28 May 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Personal and Leadership Resources This week, a few articles I’ve found useful Starting with the occasional article where one feels like one is looking in a mirror. Is Your Leadership Style Unintentionally Aggressive? I was in a couple of meetings last week and came away… Read more: UCANZ Update – Week Beginning 28 May 2024
- UCANZ Update week beginning 20 May 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Personal and Leadership Resources 50+ years ago I started my working life in the Quantity Surveying office of the Ministry of Works in Dunedin. Eventually, I was given my first ‘Adjustment’ job – managing variations to a contract from the QS perspective. It was, naturally,… Read more: UCANZ Update week beginning 20 May 2024
- UCANZ Update Week Beginning 13 May 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau The question I’m most often asked is “What do we get for all the money we pay to UCANZ?” There is a basic misunderstanding here. The money is NOT being paid to UCANZ. Please bear with me. It’s important to understand this. UCANZ is an instrument set up by… Read more: UCANZ Update Week Beginning 13 May 2024
- UCANZ Update week beginning 6 May 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau This last week has been full – Friday saw the joy of being part of the now ‘Rev’ Lyn Heine’s ordination in Greymouth. Lyn’s infectious ‘joie de vivre’, along with her insight and long experience with people, will continue to be a blessing to the… Read more: UCANZ Update week beginning 6 May 2024
- Update Week Beginning 18 March 2024by Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Home again, jiggety jig. I enjoyed my time with the Waikato Taranaki Anglican Diocese on Saturday – 180 of us gathered in Te Kuiti, many having travelled up to three hours from either side of the North Island. After the Whakatau, we moved into worship.… Read more: Update Week Beginning 18 March 2024
- Weekly Updateby Andrew DoubledayKia ora e te whanau Home again, jiggety jig. I enjoyed my time with the Waikato Taranaki Anglican Diocese on Saturday – 180 of us gathered in Te Kuiti, many having travelled up to three hours from either side of the North Island. After the Whakatau, we moved into worship.… Read more: Weekly Update
- Forum 2025 – Our Future Togetherby Andrew DoubledayThe dates have been set! Forum 2025 will be at the Onehunga Co-operating Parish during Kings Birthday Weekend, 2025. It starts in the evening of Friday the 30th of June, and will conclude on the afternoon of Monday the 2nd of June. For ‘early birds’ we have secured limited B… Read more: Forum 2025 – Our Future Together
- Weekly Video Homilyby Andrew HowleyOur ministry facilitator Rev Andrew Doubleday has for some time produced a near weekly video sermon. A number of parishes use this to support their Sunday worship, for instance when a minister is on leave, or while in vacancy. I encourage you to make use of this resource as you… Read more: Weekly Video Homily
- New Ministry Facilitatorby Adrian SkeltonThe Reverend Andrew Doubleday, immediate past President of the Methodist Church, Te Hāhi Weteriana, is now the Ministry Facilitator for UCANZ. He will be posting here shortly.