Moderator - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 27 Sep 2018 01:00:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Moderator - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Presbyterians elect Tokelauan-Samoan as new Moderator https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/09/27/presbyterian-moderator-elected/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:50:17 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=112245 The Right Rev Taimoanaifakaofo (Fakaofo) Kaio of Auckland is the new Moderator or elected leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. He begins his two-year term from the evening of Wednesday 3 October 2018. Continue reading

Presbyterians elect Tokelauan-Samoan as new Moderator... Read more]]> The Right Rev Taimoanaifakaofo (Fakaofo) Kaio of Auckland is the new Moderator or elected leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. He begins his two-year term from the evening of Wednesday 3 October 2018. Continue reading

Presbyterians elect Tokelauan-Samoan as new Moderator]]> 112245 Dunedin minister named a Presbyterian Moderator from 2016 https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/10/24/dunedin-minister-named-presbyterian-moderator-2016/ Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:50:59 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=64801 A Dunedin minister is "quite humbled" to be named as the next leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. On Tuesday the Rev Richard Dawson was announced as moderator-designate, and will become moderator in late 2016. Mr Dawson (56), who is minister at St Stephens Leith Valley Presbyterian Church, said he was surprised Read more

Dunedin minister named a Presbyterian Moderator from 2016... Read more]]> A Dunedin minister is "quite humbled" to be named as the next leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.

On Tuesday the Rev Richard Dawson was announced as moderator-designate, and will become moderator in late 2016.

Mr Dawson (56), who is minister at St Stephens Leith Valley Presbyterian Church, said he was surprised and "quite humbled". Continue reading

Dunedin minister named a Presbyterian Moderator from 2016]]> 64801 Baby boomers not lacking in spirituality https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/03/08/baby-boomers-not-lacking-in-spirituality/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:30:35 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=40912

Baby boomers do not lack in spirituality, according to Right Reverend Ray Coster, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand. He says they just expressed it in different ways. He said while baby boomers and their children were the ones most likely not to belong to a church because they struggled with the Read more

Baby boomers not lacking in spirituality... Read more]]> Baby boomers do not lack in spirituality, according to Right Reverend Ray Coster, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand.

He says they just expressed it in different ways.

He said while baby boomers and their children were the ones most likely not to belong to a church because they struggled with the institution of church and its formality, "They still have a sense of the unknown, the mystery, the wonder of life. They may still have a sense there may well be a God, or not know what it is but a power greater than us."

He says he understands the public's scepticism of religion and its leaders because of inappropriate conduct and behaviour across denominations.

"There is no excuse, every leader who preaches the Bible needs to adhere to the Bible."

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Baby boomers not lacking in spirituality]]> 40912 Presbyterian Church elects Moderator Designate https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/10/09/presbyterian-church-elects-moderator-designate/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:30:35 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=34803 The Rev Andrew Norton of Auckland will be the next leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Andrew has been elected Moderator Designate and will take up the role of Moderator in late 2014. The result of the election was announced at General Assembly 2012 in Rotorua on Sunday 7 October. Andrew is Read more

Presbyterian Church elects Moderator Designate... Read more]]> The Rev Andrew Norton of Auckland will be the next leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Andrew has been elected Moderator Designate and will take up the role of Moderator in late 2014. The result of the election was announced at General Assembly 2012 in Rotorua on Sunday 7 October.

Andrew is the mission leader of St Columba Presbyterian Church in Botany Downs.

Born in Fairlie, he studied at the University of Otago and the Presbyterian Theological Hall. After completing his training in 1984, he ministered at St Andrews in Invercargill until 1990, when he shifted to Glenfield-Albany, and Glenfield Presbyterian Church in 1993. From 1999 he has ministered at St Columba Presbyterian Church, Pakuranga, which in 2002 was renamed St Columba Presbyterian Church at Botany after its relocation to Botany Downs.

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