Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, Views
Mike Summerfield and Roshan Allpress talk about how the church’s past does, and how it could, shape its present. What lessons from history need to be re-learned in Kiwi churches today? We have happily received the Reformation ideal that power ought to be placed...
Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, News
The student association at the University of Auckland made headlines in August when it allowed a referendum that proposed disaffiliating ProLife Auckland and banning future affiliation by clubs with “similar ideologies.” Pro-life groups have faced opposition from AUSA...
Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, Regional report
Little did I know what putting up posters around campus would lead to. In October 2015 I started a group for Christian students and inquirers at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic in Tauranga. Since then it has been renamed Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (merging with...
Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, Stories of change
I am Kotaro Sugimoto. This is the story of how I became a Christian. My first contact with Christians was 6 years ago. I was living alone at the time. I really felt lonely because it was the first time I lived alone. One day, while I was working at a hotel in Japan,...
Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, News
Wellington staff worker Max Rideout took up the challenge to be part of the first two performances of The Mark Drama. It’s an interactive, 90-minute performance of Jesus’ life as recorded by Mark. The actors are not professionals. As invitations go out to...
Oct 30, 2017 | Articles, Canvas, World
In the summer of 2013, Zach Smith was on the verge of entering student ministry. He told his story in Canvas that year—how he’d met IFES workers at an Urbana conference, had a burden for seeing a stronger gospel witness in Europe, and was applying for a two-year stint...
