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INSPIRING STORY

From teen street evangelist to a man on a mission

MATTHEW NEEDHAM ~ BY JANET BALCOMBE ~

he enemy knew who Matthew was well before he did, and tried hard to shut him down before he found out. I mean, who becomes a street and nightclub evangelist at sixteen years old? Matthew Needham, that’s who. Suicide stalked Matthew in his teenage years, but the Lord kept him safe for an encounter with Him by the power of the Holy Spirit, which irrevocably changed his life. When I bumped into Matthew at Bill Subritzky’s 90th birthday celebration, I saw a rare purity shining out of him and understood where his power comes from. The pure in heart see God. Matthew grew up in the small farming community of Ararua in Northland, New Zealand. At school he was picked-on by several boys who were twice his age and, it seemed, twice his size. From about age eleven he began to be seriously harassed for believ-

ing in God, and that evolved into severe, systematic bullying. There were two sides to Matthew’s life; the happy home life – doing things on the farm that he enjoyed with a faith in God that couldn’t be shaken, and a life at school where he was being crushed by bullying and just didn’t know how to overcome the darkness of this world. Held in bondage by fear, Matthew had no idea how to get out of it. The weaknesses in his life had opened the door for the devil to attack. Sometimes he felt like he was trapped by life’s circumstances and began to think, “What is the point of living like this?” A stronghold built up in Matthew’s mind and whenever something went wrong, he would think about taking his life. The devil used this to make him think that his life was worthless. Eventually a spirit of Death that had been given a legal right to be there was always calling him to die. At the end of a particularly hard week, someone verbally abused him and

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“I loaded the gun, put the barrel in the middle of my forehead and put my finger on the trigger. I closed my eyes and quickly pulled the trigger to blow my brains out.”

it was the last straw. He decided he had to get out of this world and made up his mind that when he got home from school he would end it all. Grabbing the rifle from the back of his parent’s wardrobe, Matthew climbed out the window where he fell on his knees, looked up to Heaven and said a last prayer, “O God, please forgive me for what I am about to do. Don’t hold this sin against me, but Lord God, I can’t live on this earth.” “I loaded the gun, put the barrel in the middle of my forehead and put my finger on the trigger. I closed my eyes and quickly pulled the trigger to blow my brains out.” Nothing happened. The gun didn’t fire. Unbeknown to Matthew, the safety lock was on or he would have died right there. He burst into tears because he wasn’t dead. Too afraid to try a second time, he climbed back through the window, and put the gun back in the wardrobe. Maybe the crying had helped relieve his distressed state, and Matthew didn’t really want to die now after all. What he really wanted was a greater purpose to live. In due course Matthew’s parents moved to the outskirts of Whangarei and he went to a camp with their new church’s youth group. The guest speaker shared his testimony about how God had saved his life. Although this guy had been a bit of a gangster, God had saved him in a dramatic way. He had a powerful testimony and Matthew was getting desperate for his message to finish so he could go forward. He needed prayer urgently! “As soon as the call for prayer was given I rushed to the front. I didn’t know anything about the anointing or the presence of the Holy Spirit at that time, but I was immediately in the presence of God. I started to cry, and it was the deepest I had ever cried in my whole life.” Something amazing was happening. His eyelashes were blinking incredibly fast and when he closed his eyes Matthew saw a bright light. When the preacher prayed for him, an electric shock of power and warmth went

From top: Matthew and Natasha Needham; Missionary work in India, age 31; Mum, Dad and the kids (Matthew left); Matthew’s memoir, To Live or To Die, available on Amazon.com

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through his body like a wave. It was a powerful but gentle lightning bolt from Heaven. He didn’t know what had happened, but couldn’t stop crying. That was the first time Matthew had experienced God’s power and his life was forever changed. In 1991 at just sixteen, Matthew stepped out in faith to lead the life of a street evangelist, travelling throughout New Zealand witnessing in the streets, outside nightclubs and in any church that opened the door to him. Matthew wasn’t water baptised during the time he was street evangelising. For a couple of years he had been convicted to do this, but hadn’t been brave enough to take that step. All his excuses fell away after being baptised with the Holy Spirit, but it still took nearly five months before he was finally baptised in water in December, 1990. After six years of street evangelism he left for his first overseas missions trip to Fiji. At the end of 1996, a second call to the mission field came. In 1999 Matthew began evangelism among Muslims in Africa. In 2003 the Lord called him a third time to leave everything and preach the Gospel. This time it was to the Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists of India and Nepal, and then to the East African countries of Kenya and Uganda. In November 2015 Matthew returned to Fiji to set up a new healing evangelism ministry and married his stunning Fiji Indian bride, Natasha (a nurse), in January 2016. Matthew ministers in Fijian churches with Bible college type teaching and is focussed on preparing teaching material. His prayer is that the events surrounding Cyclone Winston will cause many to seek the Lord and to build their lives upon the rock of Christ. Matthew has written his memoir, To Live or To Die, and is a great read. His second book is a comprehensive study of the end times, The End of The World. Both books are available on Amazon. Matthew is currently finishing his third book, a book of his unique missionary stories. You are invited to support God’s ministry through Matthew to reveal the glory of the Lord Jesus to those living in spiritual darkness by visiting evangelistmatthew.com I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18 (NKJV) CL

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From Darkness to Light A dramatic conversion turned TONY PLEWS’ life around and gave him a passion for the Gospel and missions. Now CEO of mission agency LeaDev-Langham, Tony shares his testimony with MARIE ANTICICH.

ne night Tony Plews’ life changed from darkness to light. It was 1970 and the young Kiwi was living the high life in southern California. “I opened the door of my apartment. It was pitch black in the room but I felt a divine presence. I asked ‘Who’s there?’ but I knew Jesus.” A friend had recently told Tony about Jesus and given him a Living New Testament. “Reading it I found myself saying, ‘The disciples were eyewitnesses’ and ‘Gosh, I didn’t know Jesus said those things.’ I’d been partying and trying to get rich and be a big wheel. “In presence of someone so pure and perfect and full of grace I felt small and stupid, but completely accepted. “So I surrendered my life to Jesus saying, ‘I’ve failed and been directionless. If you can do something with my life, it’s yours.’ Immediately I knew I was changed from the inside.” His conversion and calling came together: “Suddenly knew what I wanted to do with my life – I wanted to help other people find Jesus.” Since then he has gained an MA in theology, been a lecturer at Bible College of New Zealand (now Laidlaw College) for 12 years, and has headed up LeaDev-Langham for the past 21 years. Tony grew up in a secular family on a small farm which his Yorkshire grandfather had purchased near Longburn in 1922. “My dad lived on that patch of dirt his whole life,” says Tony whose mother was an English evacuee who came New Zealand with her young daughter in 1940, when the German Luftwaffe began bombing Midlands cities. “I believed the lie that my mother’s first husband

had died in the war, until I found the divorce papers in a drawer when I was ten. Mum was the 20th of 20 children, born to her Victorian father’s second marriage. He was 58 at her birth and died when she was five. “My father was a very moral and upright person but he was an atheist who believed religion to be a cloak of respectability worn by hypocrites.” At Palmerston North Boys’ High, Tony gained a reputation for drinking and partying “I was the last person my school-mates would have expected to become ‘religious,’” he reflects. Although I was dux at primary school and pretty bright in some respects, I lacked motivation and never learned how to study. My class-mates wanted to be doctors, lawyers, accountants or engineers, but I was basically a write-off. “However I was and remain passionately committed to sport, even though I suck at it – I didn’t even make the second fifteen rugby team. Like my mother, I excelled at partying. For her, ethics were an inconvenience.” As a Boy Scout, Tony began attending an Anglican church to get his ‘Duty to God’ badge. “When my mate and I discovered they served real wine at communion, we got to the altar rail first and drained the chalice. The vicar was liberal and avant-garde and so I was introduced to externals of the liturgy without ever hearing the core gospel message. “I was an unhappy and empty young person and drank a staggering amount of alcohol to dull the pain. Sunday nights were the worst – I’d lie in the bath dreading another meaningless week of

school.” His final school assembly was a riot. “The headmaster ‘Bull’ Muirhead stepped up to the lectern to speak and disappeared in a cloud of smoke in a cascade of explosions. Everyone was in an uproar. It turns out the school dux had connected a packet of fireworks to chemical compounds which exploded when ‘Bull’ inadvertently tripped the fuse!” Walking out the school gates, Tony wondered “What am I going to do?” A Lands and Survey cadetship was followed and three unsuccessful years at Victoria University. “Something significant happened to me in Palmerston North in 1969 when I was selling capping magazines. I walked into this old-fashioned stationery shop in Rangitikei Street. An old man shuffled out and I offered him a magazine. He said, ‘Young man, I can tell you need Jesus Christ’ and, without taking his eyes off me, reached under the counter and pulled out Robert Laidlaw’s ‘The Reason Why’ tract. Reading that booklet I learned about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the first time. It stopped me in my tracks.” Many years later Tony was to play the part of Robert Laidlaw in a musical production ‘The Reason Why’ in Auckland. But back to1969. Tony and four mates flew to southern California during the summer break. “It was pure escapism and I knew I’d get a chance to try drugs. All five of us lived in a twobedroom apartment in Santa Monica, partying and smoking marijuana. But psychedelic drugs scared the hell out of me – they’re a roller coaster ride of euphoria and paranoia – and thankfully I never tried

AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP During April and May, Dr Aung Mang, an evangelical church leader from Myanmar is speaking at churches throughout New Zealand to inspire Kiwis to missions. “I first met Dr Aung Mang on June 17, 1996 when I went to Myanmar to represent the Overseas Council network at a new Bible college being opened in Yangon,” says Tony Plews, the Auckland-based director of LeaDev-Langham. “I was going into an unknown situation in a military regime, and was simply told I’d be met at the airport by people carrying a sign with my name on it. “At that time Myanmar was the poorest country in Asia, lacking in expertise, resources and communication with the outside world. They couldn’t even use the postal service and had little knowledge of what a partnership with a support organisation would look like.” He was met at the airport by Aung Mang, a small man in his thirties,

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and it was the start of a lifelong friendship. “Coincidentally, I arrived the day the Myanmar Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (MEGST) opened,” Tony recalls. “The principal had just died of a heart attack, they had no full-time staff, and Aung who had gained theological degrees in the Philippines was part-time principal.” The school constituted 14 students in one rented room with 14 small desks, a teacher’s table, an ancient blackboard and a teak cabinet containing English textbooks books lent by a Korean missionary. “We could see the school was up against opposition, including social oppression by the nominally Buddhist military which operated on a control basis, and the school had virtually no financial support. “But when I returned in 1998 they had over 40 students, and I realized MEGST was going to succeed because of the resolve of the group, especially Dr Ral Buai, the founding chairman. “Aung became full-time principal and the

school is succeeding because of his character – I sometimes introduce him as Saint Aung of Yangon. He’s the man I most admire in the whole world. He is the humblest, most sacrificial committed, transparent Christian leader I’ve ever met. He is unimpeachable and his honesty and integrity is crystal clear. “He has a wife and four children and they live in voluntary poverty, sharing their meager income, house and worldly goods. They used to have a two-bedroom apartment with up to 15 guests and students sleeping on mats rolled out on the wooden floor.” The church in Myanmar has come in the midst of Buddhism and Animism and leaders are expected to have control, power and material goods. As a result Christian ministries became opportunities for income and family promotion. By contrast, Aung still doesn’t own a bicycle.”

MINISTRY

heroin or cocaine.” After celebrating his 21st birthday in a Los Angeles pub, Tony slept it off in the stairwell of his apartment building: “That worried even me. I wondered if I was becoming a degenerate.” When his mates returned to New Zealand, Tony decided to stay on, get his real estate licence and get rich. His first sale was an apartment building worth $1.5 million. “I was 21, owned a fancy 1965 Dodge Monaco two-door coupe, and thought, ‘This is the go.’ I bought my girlfriend an expensive dress and took her to dinner at a roof-top restaurant, but I felt like a little boy and an imposter.” His friend Brandt became a Christian, after encountering the Devil during a bad trip on drugs. Tony listened politely to Brandt’s spiel and said, ‘Here’s the problem – I’ve got a scientific background and I only believe stuff that’s real and true.’” But after reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Tony was reluctantly convinced Jesus had been bodily raised from the dead. On December 12, 1970 he had that divine encounter in his apartment. Divine Encounter “I have no idea how long I was with Jesus, but afterwards I wanted to tell someone, so I went to see my landlady and her daughter. They argued with me for an hour thinking I was on an acid trip. Theological lesson number one: people are blind until their eyes are opened.” For Tony, becoming a Christian was both intellectual and experiential: “I lost interest in selling real estate and was baptised in the Pacific Ocean by a pastor friend. “I rang home and told my parents but Dad was embarrassed and angry and Mum thought I’d been brainwashed by a cult.” Going to Hollywood Presbyterian Church and then Calvary Chapel, Tony began to realise he was part of the ‘Jesus Movement’ which began spontaneously in California in the late 60s and

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swept around the world. Coming home at Christmas 1971, he didn’t know a single Christian in New Zealand. He went to Palmerston North Central Baptist, started an inter-denominational Maranatha youth group, and remembers giving his testimony in the Town Square during a nationwide Jesus March instigated by Maori evangelist Muri Thompson, in 1972. In 1975 he enrolled at Bible College of New Zealand in Auckland: “This was a great period in my life because I learned how to study, and that set my course.” Several years later he returned to America to gain his master’s degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, and also gained an American wife. “A friend set me up to meet Judy,” he recounts. “She lived a few hour’s drive away, and so after our first meeting I wrote to her saying, ‘I don’t have the energy or time for a long-distance holiday romance and so, unless you can face the prospect of living in New Zealand, I don’t think we should meet again. Judy drove to the seminary for our first date, and we went to an Italian restaurant and discussed how an inter-continental marriage would work.” They were married in 1979 and Judy supported Tony until he completed his studies. Her mother died of a medical misadventure in 1982. They were expecting their first child, and David Stewart, then BCNZ principal rang out of the blue and asked, ‘Would you like to start a Nelson branch of the college?’ “I prayed and said ‘Yes’ and our children, Adam and Alana were both born in Nelson where my ancestors had first settled in 1852.” Three years later Tony joined the BCNZ Auckland faculty where he remained until 2003, working variously as a lecturer, marketing manager and editor of ‘Reality’ magazine. In 1995 a businessman invited Tony out for coffee. “He and his associate were on the board of a mission I’d never heard of called Overseas Council NZ and asked me to head it up.

I thought they were nuts, but agreed to read their global strategic plan, and then God spoke to me, calling me to do this work.” For the next eight years he split his time between BCNZ and the mission agency, before going fulltime with Overseas Council, since renamed LeaDevLangham, in 2006. “It’s ironic that I’ve ended up directing a mission agency because I distinctly heard God say, ‘Thanks,

TRAINING INDIGENOUS LEADERS Founded by the late John Stott, the Langham Partnership is a network of members in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA, the UK and Ireland. “Our goal is to help indigenous churches train their own leaders in their own country or region – it’s cost -effective and culturally relevant,” says Auckland-based LeaDev-Langham director, Tony Plews. “The Asian church is exploding and growing beyond its own capacity to train humble servant leaders who can teach the Bible to new converts with faithfulness, clarity and relevance. LeaDev-Langham supports leadership training agencies, churches and ministry organisations in 13 countries Asia-Pacific regions, including Bethlehem Bible College in Israel’s West Bank, India, Pakistan, China, Mongolia, Myanmar and Indonesia. Support is provided through student sponsorships, faculty training, campus development, information technology, literature and educational resources, and facilitating shortterm voluntary advisors, teachers and trainers “My role involves relational fundraising and vision casting,” says Mr Plews. “I see I’m doing people a favour and leading them into a place of blessing and joy, by helping them to support indigenous people training in their own countries LeaDev-Langham also resources partners who provide humanitarian relief after natural disasters, wars and civic emergencies such as Cyclone Nagis, the Haiti earthquake and helping Syrian Muslim refugees in Lebanon.

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but no thanks’ when I put up my hand to be a missionary at Bible college. I dropped the whole idea, but the Lord spent the next 20 years preparing me to relate to Asia.” LeaDev-Langham is an indigenous training support agency, not a mission-sending organisation. “We restrict our focus to Asia-Pacific because we’re a small organisation which would rather make a real difference to a few than a little difference to many,” he explains. Describing himself as ‘a rational and critical thinker,’ Tony is a salesperson by nature and an evangelist by calling: “In this fluffy emotionally subjective age I think it’s important that we talk about Jesus Christ who is the object of our faith. “Paul told Timothy to preach the word in an out of season with relevance and compassion, whether people think it’s appropriate or not. Peter said: ‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone for the hope that is within you.’ “I became convinced of the reality of Jesus Christ because of the transforming experience I had as a young man in my apartment in California,” says Tony Plews. “I remain a Christian because I’m completely intellectually convinced that Jesus was raised from the dead, that he is who he claims to be, and that his death really was the sacrifice for sin. Today I’m still experiencing the transforming power of the gospel in my life.” CL

AUNG’S STORY Dr Aung Mang grew up in a bamboo hut in the jungle in the mountains in NW Burma, and often calls himself ‘jungle boy.’ His Chin tribal parents were subsistence farmers who burned forests, planted crops and raised a few animals and moved on when the soil became depleted. Many Chin still do this today. Aung’s parents were converted from animism (a belief in good and bad spirits) through American missionary activity after WWII. They were the first converts in his area and were physically attacked by other tribal members who burned their little church down. The third of four children, Aung attended Sunday school and worship services. “I heard about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and was considered a good boy. However I fully gave my life to Jesus Christ when I was 15 during a youth conference. I’ve been actively involved in ministry ever since,” he says. Today Dr Mang is chairman of MEGST and an evangelist and church planter, working in religious and political contexts and cultures which are strongly opposed to the Gospel, including Bama Buddhists. “The church in Myanmar is growing, despite hardships” he says. “Young Christians are active in personal evangelism and there is unity among the denominations.” The gospel has transformed his Chin tribal culture and 95 percent are Christian, and about 40 percent of Karen and Kachin tribal groups are also Christian. Dr Mang is currently visiting partner churches and friends in New Zealand who support the development of the Myanmar Evangelical Graduate

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School of Theology. “We have had a strong connection with New Zealand through Tony Plews who has been firmly standing with me from the beginning of the graduate school. He has a full heart for leadership development in the Myanmar church.” What is your main message? “I am emphasising the Great Commission and sharing about partnering with leadership development in Myanmar. We need godly leaders with a servant heart. The New Zealand church can help support us financially and send Bible teachers to lead seminars and conferences,” says Dr Mang. From 1998 to 2010, Myanmar was controlled by a socialist nominally Buddhist military junta. The 2010 elections were widely perceived as a sham, but last year saw a landslide victory for revered democratic hero, Aung San Suu Ky and her NLD political party. One of the world’s least developed but resource-rich countries, Myanmar is currently experiencing a ‘gold rush’ of foreign investments and businesses. This is causing super-sized challenges and opportunities as jobs, money and westernisation compete for people’s attention. However many local people will be hard hit financially before positive change comes.

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Chernobyl 30 years on – Families still Suffering Mission Without Borders, an international charity, is calling on the public to take action to support families still being affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident.

n 26 April 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, blew itself apart, releasing a drifting cloud 400 times more radioactive than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The 45,000 inhabitants of Pripyat, beside the Power Plant, were evacuated 2 days afterwards, and the city now lies derelict, a monument to human failings. Another 300,000 were re-located later from surrounding regions. Today over 5 million people live in contaminated areas, but the worst affected land will never again be safely habitable for human beings. Mission Without Borders, which works to support vulnerable families in Eastern Europe, has expressed concern about the number of people who are continuing to feel the impact of the Chernobyl disaster 30 years after it happened. The charity is working with around 300 families living in contaminated areas, with many more in need of support. Halyna lives in a small village in the contaminated land zone located 300 kilometres downwind of Chernobyl. She has undergone six rounds of cancer treatment and two of her children have chronic medical conditions. She says, “So many people have cancer in this area. It is unnatural and all points to that disaster. At the time, people were not we found ITD the 180x251mm final.pdf 1 told; 8/03/16 8:23 AM out

about it from other countries. The authorities here said nothing until for many, it was too late.” Halyna continues, “I don’t want to leave my children. I want to be here to help them grow, but if it is my time to die and to meet my maker, I accept it and am prepared through my faith in Jesus Christ.” Halyna and husband Igor, a welder by trade, have nine children. Igor finds himself doing housework to help Halyna now. Mission Without Borders works with families like Igor and Halyna’s, who struggle to pay for their medical treatment and meet their needs. The charity offers emergency assistance, emotional guidance and long term involvement to help them become self-sufficient. Andrew Wilks, Director of Mission Without Borders New Zealand, says, “Halyna was a child when Chernobyl happened and now she is facing the prospect of her own children growing up without their mother. It is truly heart-breaking to see the impact Chernobyl is having on several generations of one family. We must not forget families who continue to be affected by this catastrophic legacy.” The charity is asking New Zealanders to pledge their support for people in Ukraine by getting involved with its family sponsorship scheme. CL To find out more, visit mwb.org.nz.

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ABORTION OR ADOPTION – THERE IS HOPE

t is too late for the 500,000 pre-born babies aborted since 1974, but there is a way that NZ churches can save future little lives. This is a true story from 2004. My wife Annetta and I were speaking in a church in Auckland. An assistant pastor approached us afterwards and said that a pregnant 16year old girl was in the congregation with her mother, who was adamant that she should have an abortion. Also present was a young couple who had discovered that they couldn’t have children. The assistant pastor discreetly ar-

ranged a meeting and the pregnant girl over her mother’s strong objections, agreed to continue the pregnancy. Three years later we were at an outdoor wedding when the young couple saw us and came over with their adopted toddler daughter. They beamed with pride, love and gratitude to the birth mother (who they keep in contact with) and the assistant pastor. The girl’s mother who wanted her to have an abortion is now a doting and proud grandmother.

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BENEATH THE SURFACE

t is well known that the tip of the iceberg is only about a tenth of the whole. The towering white ice above the water is dwarfed by the structure below. What we see above the surface is not all there is. As churches it can be easy to focus on what is above the surface in our children’s ministry: the tip of the iceberg. This might include providing an entertaining programme on a Sunday morning, or trying to stop children fidgeting in their seats during church. It might include measuring success by the number of children who attend each Sunday or how many of them bring their Bibles along. While these things may be important, they are not the things of deep faith. When we talk about deep faith, we talk of what is going on beneath the surface. How does this child connect with their creator? What conversations is this child having with God? What are their doubts and questions? What are their passions, giftings and dreams for the future? The question for us is how do we develop deep faith in our children? How do we equip and nurture our children so they become passionate, grounded and spirit-filled followers of Jesus? That’s what we want for children; those who belong in our church family, and those who live in our surrounding community. The question of how to develop a deep faith is a complex and multifaceted one. To grow faith we first must understand what faith development looks like for our children. To do this we must listen to our children. We need to let them tell us about their experiences of God and what they find helpful to growing their faith. This provides our starting point for how best to nurture and support them. David Csinos is a Canadian theologian and children’s worker. His research into children’s faith de-

velopment involved just this kind of listening. He interviewed children about how they connected with God and noticed that their responses fell into four broad categories. These he has called the four spiritual styles. You can find out more about these styles in his book entitled, ‘Children’s Ministry that Fits’. In brief, the four spiritual styles Csinos identified are: word, emotion, symbol and action. Word is the

style that celebrates connecting with God through the words we write, read, think and say. Emotion is about connecting with God through the way we express our feelings. This may be through singing, music, drama or art. Worship is especially important for these children. Symbol is the style that recognises that some children connect with God through the world around them. This might be through nature, art or spending time alone in prayer. It is the style that recognises the importance of mystery. The fourth style is action. This style celebrates connecting with God though acts of compassion or justice. Faith in God is expressed and deepened by participating in service. We can all identify with one or more of these

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styles. We see them reflected in different church traditions as well. Some churches emphasise liturgy, others symbolic action through the lighting of candles and the practicing of communion. Others emphasise the role of the sermon whilst others incorporate times of silence into their gathered worship times. You might identify that you connect with God deepest while watching a sunset or walking along the sea shore. You might experience God’s love through serving others, or through the reading of Scripture. I love this description by the French Benedictine monk, Dom Marmion. He writes: “We read under the eye of God until the heart is touched and leaps to flame.” This is a deep connection that is found through the words of Scripture. Our children and young people are struggling. Research indicates at least half our young people will walk away from the church and many of these will walk away from their faith too.1 We have not grounded them deeply into God. Our intentions have been good but we have focused on what is above the surface. Understanding how our children and young people connect with God is vitally important for us as we seek to help support them. We must help them to grow in faith in ways that are meaningful to them. We want people of all ages to flourish, not to struggle feeling like they should fit into a box they don’t fit into. Csinos writes, “Children know God. They encounter God in diverse ways as they walk along the spiritual journey.” I’d like to encourage you to think about the children you walk alongside; be it your own children, grandchildren or the children in your church. Ask them what helps them to feel close to God. Listen carefully to their responses and start from there. CL Annette Osborne is a Children and Families worker for Scripture Union New Zealand (SUNZ). She is really excited about equipping churches to explore these four spiritual styles. She is leading a workshop on this topic at SUNZ’s upcoming WAY2GO Children’s Ministry Conference. 1 David Kinnamen, Davide Goodwin

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here have been increasing calls to decriminalise both recreational marijuana but also medicinal marijuana. Some of these calls around the medicinal aspect of marijuana are well-intentioned and raise valid issues. It is ironic that at the same time as we ban synthetic cannabis, and tear the labelling off cigarette packets, price them out of existence, and ban them from being smoked within breathing space of any living creature, supporters of marijuana are peddling the same myths that we believed for far too long about tobacco – that marijuana is harmless. Decriminalising marijuana is the wrong path if we care about public health, public safety, and about our young people. Supporters of decriminalisation would have us believe that cannabis is a gentle, harmless substance that gives users little more than a sense of mellow euphoria and hurts no one else. But the cannabis now in circulation is many times more powerful than that typically found in the early 1990s, with up to a 25-fold increase in the amount of the main psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabidinol (THC). Naturally, growers want to sell marijuana with increased potency because it’s more addictive. With increased potency comes increased health risks, greater likelihood of addiction, and the potential gateway in to other and often more harmful drugs. Drug use is both a criminal and a health issue. There is a false dichotomy that criminal sanctions haven’t worked so we should ditch them all together and we should focus only on education and health initiatives. We should maintain both. Policing burglary and theft also costs money – should we decriminalise that also because the ‘war on burglary’ is failing?” Colorado is offering a disturbing preview of what may happen if we decriminalise marijuana. A 2014 government report has revealed a sharp increase in pot-related calls to poison control; seizures have quadrupled; deaths have been attributed to marijuana overdoses; neighbouring states are experiencing a surge in pot use; and advertising through every available medium blankets the State,

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desensitising people to the risks. Perhaps most troubling, the drug is infiltrating Colorado schools, which now have lists of young people waiting to get help. Teens who use pot face nearly twice the risk of addiction as adult users, and juvenile usage increases the brain damage associated with the drug. Erroneous claims that drug use is a health issue and we are wasting time and resources focusing on the criminal aspect fail to understand that there has been a substantial decline in arrests for cannabis use in New Zealand over the past decade, and that police diversion and Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment (AODT) Courts have been increasingly used. But it is the application of the law which enables these orders to be made and enforced in the first place. One must also be sympathetic to the health concerns that terminal patients such as union leader Helen Kelly are facing. For that reason, we should support further quality research into the components of the marijuana plant for delivery via non-smoked forms and responding to individuals with serious medical conditions where traditional methods have failed. However, contrary to the marketing of dope by drug advocates, the grass is not always greener. New Zealanders need to be aware of the smoke-screen of ‘medicinal marijuana’. The strategy of groups who want dope legalised is to promote medicinal marijuana which simply manipulates society’s compassion for people with serious pain and health concerns. But marijuana will then be diverted from medical programs to ‘recreational’ purposes. Scientists have used the marijuana plant’s primary active ingredient – THC – as a pill form for nausea and appetite stimulation. It may be that there can be the development of non-smoked rapidonset cannabinoid delivery systems. But this should be decided on the basis of thorough clinical trials, as recommended by the US Institute of Medicine. It is appropriate that the NZ government is cautious around this issue, but we should also support a compassionate response to those in real need. We certainly don’t want to go down the Green Party’s road though. Their medicinal cannabis bill

in 2009 - which was soundly defeated – allowed for teenagers to cultivate and smoke cannabis with parental permission, created dope ‘pimps’, and appointed police to be the ‘dealers’. It also deemed medicinal purposes to include depression and mental illness, eating disorders, and schizophrenia, despite research suggesting that marijuana actually exacerbates these conditions. Family First is calling for the following: • the expansion of research into the components of the marijuana plant for delivery via nonsmoked forms (Supported by NZMA) • the establishment of an emergency or research program that allows seriously ill patients to obtain non-smoked components of marijuana before final Ministry of Health approval • the Government instruct the Ministry of Health to update the prescribing guidelines for pharmaceutically based THC derivative medicines to include Sativex as a medicine under the Medicines Act 1981 and to continue to make pharmaceutically based THC derivative medicines available to treat serious medical conditions when traditional methods have failed. Decriminalising marijuana is the wrong path if we care about public health and public safety, and about our young people. We will then start sending the message that marijuana isn’t that big a deal and that adults got the ‘say no to drugs’ message wrong. Don’t let NZ go to pot. CL

Bob McCoskrie is the National Director of Family First NZ. Visit www.familyfirst.org.nz for more information on how you can become involved.

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his can’t be right. We did everything we were supposed to do! We prayed! We heard from God! Well, we thought we did! We obeyed what the Lord told us to do. So why am I standing on the bridge of this ship crying out to God in panicked desperation! We were given this little ship. That had to be God! We raised the money to repair it. That had to be God! We found a crew of brave volunteers to man the vessel. That had to be God and we had a rapturous send off from friends and supporters as we left Tauranga harbour. Now we sat at Marsden Point wharf with the engineers telling me it was over! The electrical problems were so great that the ship would have to be totally rewired. That would take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars. We were facing total defeat and embarrassment. The words of our critics seemed to ring in my ears. Those prophets of doom were ready to devour us. I am not sure whether it was the total humiliation of being towed back to Tauranga or a deep conviction that God had other plans but in any event we gathered on the bridge to pray desperate prayers. Those are the prayers you actually shout out to God but secretly hope nobody hears lest they think your barking mad and call the cops! I cannot remember how long we prayed but it seemed like an eternity. Over the years I have seen marine engineers move quickly but not as quickly as I saw our Chief Engineer fly up the stairs onto the bridge that day. He literally danced a jig at the same time attempting to tell us something. He held a small electrical component in his hand which we finally deduced was the cause of the problem. Located deep in the electrical system, it was faulty and kept closing down the whole electrical system on the ship. A new component was found and wisely several spares were also secured and we sailed for the South Pacific. That was 1990 and now twenty-five years later our fourth ship, the M/V Pacific Hope will sail for the South Pacific this month. We learnt something important in those early years. A dependency on God and a determined resolve not to let the “enemy” steal from us God’s plan, was crucial to our success. Reaching out to the poorest and most isolated and forgotten men and women across the Pacific was God’s plan for us. Young men and women serving with Marine Reach – YWAM have seen God do miracles as they have stepped out in obedience. Thousands have come into faith while tens of thousands more have seen the hand of God’s healing through our medical teams. There has also been the supernatural! Dr Femi examined Wirlinda’s eyes. There was nothing he could do. She had stood in line for hours alone with dozens of other Muslim and Christian women desperately hoping that these people from the mission ship could help. She was totally blind. The nerves were completely detached from the back of both her eyes and she muttered something about being hit in the head when she was fourteen. Dr Femi and the team laid hands on her and prayed. It was around five o’clock the following morning when Wirlinda slowly opened her eyes. To her amazement the rising sun filled her vision. She was the first in line several hours later excitedly explaining that she could see shapes and colours and it was getting clearer. Dr Femi examined her again and pulled back in shock calling for her records and confirming her identity. The nerve endings were growing back into the back of her eyes! By the time she left the clinic her eye sight was almost completely restored. We are growing as teams from our ships have now touched the lives of over one million men, women and children in eighteen nations. Our training centre is now training around one hundred and fifty young people for missions every year and our Family Care Centre in Vanuatu is reaching out to women and children who are victims of domestic violence. We made mistakes of course. Yet, the greatest lessons of life and understanding of God’s character were learnt in our mistakes, not our successes! And here’s the strangest thing of all. It was accomplished by God’s extraordinary sovereignty and very ordinary young men and women who hung on to a vision with simple faith. CL

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n one hand it’s admirable to see people emerging from adversity as winners, on the other hand it’s very painful when we’re the one going through the spin cycle, but in those times let’s keep in mind that there is a purpose in the pain, there’s something in the struggle. When I track Jesus’ life through the gospels I see that He faced many hardships throughout His 33 years on this earth. Isaiah describes Him as, “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief ”. Sometimes I wonder why God’s plan of salvation had to be such a difficult road for Him why it culminated in such an agonising and shameful death on a Roman cross? What a cost! But what a pay off! Just before Jesus died He shouted, “It is finished”. Not, “I am finished”, but, “It is finished”. Not the whimper of a loser but the shout of a victor announcing that the costly ransom for the souls of men had been fully paid. I don’t know why it was so hard, but Isaiah tells us after the suffering of His soul He was satisfied. (Isaiah 53:11) There’s something in the struggle. I’ve been in ministry for over 30 years and it seems to me that struggle is part of the deal. No one ever says, I’ve been serving God for many years and it’s been easy, so sweet and straight forward, there’s barely been a bump in the road. No, it’s not like that, there are seasons of struggle, but the end result is all good. When I started out no one told me about the journey ahead, just as well! I might have settled for being a lawyer or accountant. But I didn’t know so I signed the blank piece of paper if you like, and said, God I’m in. I’m not saying those in full time ministry struggle and those who are in other forms of work don’t. All who live in this fallen and sin-sick world are subject to suffering, it’s just that when you enter Christian ministry you stick your head up and get particularly targeted by the enemy. Wrong expectations I think one of the major reasons we get thrown by adversity is wrong expectations. Perhaps we get drawn into an image of success, large churches, being in the 500 club, nice hotels, business class, and superstars on TV. We get set up with an unrealistic view and we don’t understand what goes on behind the scenes to achieve that so-called success. If someone told Paul that’s how ministry looks he would have thought they were crazy. After Paul’s dramatic conversion he received this prophecy,

BY TAK BHANA which bluntly outlined what he was signing up for. Acts 9:15-16. But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” Jesus didn’t hand Paul an attractive package, on the contrary, He told him the road ahead was rough. He told His disciples, “deny yourself and take up your cross daily”. Jesus said there would be struggles ahead but they would be opportunities to develop essential character traits like longsuffering, perseverance, endurance and diligence. If someone said, “join the military if you like to take it easy”, or, “try for the Olympic swimming team if you want a cushy lifestyle”, we’d think they were joking! In 2 Timothy 2:3-6, Paul tells Timothy his commitment to Christ will demand that he endure hardship like a soldier, discipline himself like an elite athlete, and be diligent like a hardworking farmer. Let’s also be careful not to present a “sugar coated” gospel to unbelievers. We must give a balanced view of truth otherwise we will be contributing to the problem of false expectations. Sources of our struggles Living in the world can be hard for Christians, more so now than when I first got saved. But it was hard then, let me just say, who needs enemies when you have brothers! We can also be hurt by our fellow Christians. In Luke 17:1 Jesus said, “Things that cause people to sin, offences, or more literally, occasions to stumble, are bound to come.” In this sinful world we can’t avoid offences, but let’s not lose our way in God over them. A third reason we struggle as Christians is that Jesus has called us to a battle not a picnic. We’re on the winning side but right now the fighting is fierce and it’s real. Struggles can shape our destiny Studies of people who have been outstanding achievers in life reveal that most have experienced immense struggles. Back in Old Testament times Goliath presented a seemingly insurmountable challenge to David, but confronting him opened the door to his future as the

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King of Israel. When Joseph’s brothers first threw him into a pit to die, then sold him to slave traders, it must have seemed like the end of the world, and worse was to follow. But those dreadful circumstances pressed him into his destiny. Struggles can change our direction My dream was to serve God on the mission field, which I did for three years but it was a very difficult experience. When we came back on furlough I was asked to be an associate pastor of what was then the largest church in New Zealand. After much soul-searching we were convinced this was God’s will. Four years later we started at Church Unlimited. The struggle in the Philippines led to a critical change of direction, from being one couple on a foreign field to having a church which we believe will have a far greater global impact for God’s kingdom. When Jesus shouted, “It is finished”, His struggle was over, He’d completed the great and eternal work of salvation that was entrusted to Him. Likewise if we look to God for grace, wisdom, and endurance in our struggle we will come through having grown, gained treasures of darkness, and eternal rewards. There’s something in the struggle. CL Tak Bhana is the Senior Pastor of Church Unlimited. He has a radio and television program called Running with Fire, which broadcasts in New Zealand and other nations. His church also produces a magazine with the same name which is distributed in 70 countries, and he has written a book titled “Wired for the Supernatural”.

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