Wilberforce Community News
Kia ora and welcome to the August edition of Wilberforce Community News!
We have a busy few months ahead filled with opportunities to connect, equip your leadership, and gather in prayer across the motu. Below, you'll find key upcoming events, workshops, and important dates on the Māori calendar to keep on your radar.
Here is what’s coming up:
🔹Impact Lunch with Steven Moe and the Parry Field Auckland Team
An Opportunity to connect with others operating in the Impact space
🔹Join this in-person seminar: How to Review your Charity’s Governance Procedures
Register for this
🔹Pray As One
Join this new initiative to provide regular prayer meetings and gather God's people.
🔹NZ Christian Leaders' Congress
A Pivotal Gathering for Aotearoa’s Leaders
🔹Advanced Governance: Governing for Greater Impact
A focused one-day workshop on the 9th of September.
🔹Gather to pray for the Greater Kirikiriroa Hamilton area.
A Call to Prayer Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
🔹Good News Aotearoa 2026 is coming!
Friday 16th & Saturday 17th October 2026, get tickets!
🔹Join the Auckland Prayer Breakfast at Eden Park
Gathering to pray for our city!
🔹Register for the September Lunch and Learn:
Faithful Courage: What Henry (Karuwhā) & Marianne Williams teach us today
🔹 Do you know what's coming up in the Māori calendar?
We have you covered with what is happening next
Find out more about each of these below.
If you have content you'd like us to include in a future edition of the Wilberforce Community News, you can email news@wilberforce.org.nz. Please note that requests must be submitted by the first Friday of the month to be included in that month's newsletter.
Ngā mihi,
The Wilberforce Foundation Team
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Join the 'Impact Lunch' with Steven Moe and the Parry Field Auckland team
IN-PERSON
Impact Lunch - Auckland
Thursday 20 August - 12:00 pm
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Sustainable Business Network offices for the opportunity to connect with others operating in the Impact space to share recent updates and initiatives.
Join us for another networking and great food at our Auckland Impact Lunch!
When: Thursday, 20 Aug, 12pm - 1pm
Where: Sustainable Business Network
48 Emily Place, Auckland
How to Review your Charity’s Governance Procedures – In-person Seminar
Are you part of a charitable trust, incorporated society, or company that has charitable status? All registered charities need to review their governance procedures by October 2026. In this seminar we will discuss what is required and what steps charities can take to meet this new obligation.
Join Steven Moe and Anna Rosevear in Auckland on Thursday 20 August for this in-person seminar on How to Review your Charity’s Governance Procedures.
When: Thursday 20th 2pm-3pm
Where: Sustainable Business Network
48 Emily Place, Auckland
Pray As One
Meets weekly, via Zoom, from 8 - 9 pm on a Monday.
PAONZ is a simple initiative with an intentionally simple purpose: we exist to gather God’s people of Aotearoa, New Zealand to pray. For this reason, our format is also simple – weekly, 1-hour prayer meetings, facilitated using the Zoom conference platform to enable the broadest possible engagement and participation.
When: 8-9 pm every Monday via Zoom
NZ Christian Leader's Congress
17 - 18 November 2026
The Street Church, Wellington
This unique and pivotal event, hosted and led by the New Zealand Christian Network, only happens every three years — and 2026 is such a year!
It’s a key gathering, where leaders from many different New Zealand churches, movements, organisations, cultures, and places will all come together for two action-packed days. What makes this congress unique is that it is a New Zealand Congress, with a New Zealand focus, and with New Zealand topics and speakers.
Advanced Governance – Governing for Greater Impact
A focused one-day workshop on the 9th of September.
Designed for experienced faith-based board leaders, this workshop deepens governance practice beyond the fundamentals. Led by Dr Peter Crow, Advanced Governance tackles strategic oversight, board effectiveness, and complex governance challenges through real-world case studies, peer discussion, and shared learning.
$195 is the subsidised cost to attend the masterclass
Please contact: melanie@wilberforce.org.nz if cost is a barrier to you.
Kirikiriroa Hamilton Prayer Breakfast
Gathering to pray for our city
Join us as we gather to pray for the Greater Kirikiriroa Hamilton area.
The Kirikiriroa Hamilton Prayer Breakfast is organised in partnership with NZ Christian Network and Hamilton Christian Pastors & Leaders.
DATE: 16 September 2026
TIME: 6:30am- 9:00am (Doors open at 6:15am)
VENUE: Claudelands Events Centre
Good News Aotearoa 2026
Join us at The Journey Church for a two-day forum to motivate, encourage, and equip everyone who feels called to spread the good news of Jesus Christ across the nation.
We’re gathering evangelists, gospel workers, and ministry leaders from across Aotearoa for two catalytic days — come join us!
This is a unique chance to be encouraged and inspired in your work for the Lord, and to connect with others from across the motu who also feel called to share God’s heart with those around them.
Event Date: Friday, October 16, 2026 from 9am through to Saturday, October 17, at 4pm.
Auckland Prayer Breakfast
Gathering to pray for our city
Join us as we gather to pray for the greater Auckland area.
The Auckland Prayer Breakfast is organised in partnership with NZ Christian Network and Auckland Church Network.
DATE: Thursday, 29 October 2026
TIME: 6:30am - 9:00am
VENUE: Eden Park
Join our next Lunch and Learn: Faithful Courage:
What Henry (Karuwhā) & Marianne Williams teach us today
Come along as we discover what it means to live and lead with courage through complexity! In this session, Dr Samuel Carpenter will draw on the lives of Henry (Karuwhā) Williams and Marianne Williams, a couple who were early missionaries in Aotearoa New Zealand, to draw out three powerful lessons in courage, faith, and conviction.
We will explore what it looked like to stand firm. In challenging circumstances, they faithfully navigated cultural change and tension. Their legacy continues to have impact today, demonstrating depth of courage and humility in leadership.
Join us to learn about good leadership with an example drawn from our own history.
When: Friday the 25th of September
12-1pm
Do you know what some of the most significant dates are on the Māori calendar?
Check out these dates and add them to your diary and or save the date:
Early September:
Koroneihana – Anniversary of Māori Queens Coronation
14-20th September 2026:
Māori Language week
14th Sepember 2026:
Māori Language Day
5th November 2026:
Parihaka Day
22-27 Feb 2027:
2027 Te Matatini
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