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Leading without a title

Leading without a title

As a stay at home mum, I'm certainly not a leader in the work force, and up until recently, I didn't hold an official position of leadership in my church. Technically, I don't really hold any titles of “leader”. .

  • Half an egg

    Half a rasher of bacon and half an egg were the breakfast rations at a Westport boarding house where my father lived in the early 1950s. 

  • Bringing truth to all

    Who can blame Australian headlines for a negative image of God in recent weeks? With Cardinal George Pell convicted for child sexual abuse and public schools in the Australian Capital Territory outlawing chaplains, it is no wonder that one could think interest in God is on the decline.

  • Intimidated

    Signing up for the Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Primary) was such an exciting decision for me as I took the first step towards becoming a teacher here in New Zealand. Then I found out that there were four people from my suburb doing the same course online and another dozen or so in the same city.

  • Don’t stop dreaming

    There are points in life where anything feels possible and the dreams on our heart seem tangible and alive with hope. Then there are seasons where talking about dreams feels like one big cliché and our heart is weighed down with discouragement.

  • Where we’re going

    Think about the last time you went to the cinema. You went about the business of getting a ticket, maybe got some food, then found your seat. Now, from the time of watching the movie, what do you actually remember?

  • Pakistan ministry

    Pastor Nelson Pervaz is not your run-about Christian Pakistani evangelist, rather he and his brother Tariq Pervaz have developed an astonishingly far reaching SKYPE ministry.

  • Do I want to be a strong Christian woman?

    What does it mean to be a strong Christian woman? Sometimes I have mixed feelings and mixed responses and understandings about this.

  • By The Rivers of Babylon

    I don’t really remember much about 1978. I was eight years old and I’m sure life was a lot simpler back then. We didn’t have a colour TV and mobile phones were what happened when you accidently pulled a cable out of the wall and you had to get a technician in to fix it.

  • More than quirky heritage

    Late last year I heard Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill interview Jeremy Salmond, recipient of the 2018 NZ Institute of Architects Gold Medal in recognition of an outstanding career in heritage architecture.

  • A walk in the park (the mountains)

    It took me a little while to get a handle on the New Zealand term 'trekking' as many of our New Zealand young writers spoke of trekking and it seemed something of a national pastime.

  • IT adjunct

    Like most people who work in IT (in fact, probably most people today) I spend a lot of time on the Internet. Aside from the work applications, it's my first stop for information and the latest in current affairs.