Leadership Team
TŪĀKAU & DISTRICTS LOCAL SHARED MINISTRY UNIT
We are a local ministering team of lay and ordained members that offer ministry within the parish community. We have a vestry and a ministry team who together oversee the leadership in the parish. We are part of the Diocese of Auckland and have a Diocesan Enabler alongside us.
LOCAL SHARED MINISTRY
In February 1997 we were the first to be inaugurated as a Local Shared Ministry Unit. The Local Shared Ministry model (LSM) in our diocese supported and resourced the local church member volunteers to be able to continue the local mission and ministry themselves. The underlying philosophy is that ministry belongs to all the baptised. We have an enabler who is our diocesan link alongside us who offers all ongoing training and resourcing for equipping our local leadership.
PARISH OF TŪĀKAU & DISTRICTS
In January 2025 a diocesan synod parish restructure moved us from being called a Local Shared Ministry Unit to be a Parish again with a Covenant of Ministry and Governance Ministry model (ie local team ministry).
Our ministry team is:
Rev Alan Rowe - Priest
Rev. Amanda Caldwell - Priest
Lynne Graham - Pastoral Care Tūākau & Churchwarden
Gay Rowe - Pastoral Care Onewhero
Madeline Dodds - Education co-ordinator
Ministry Boundary
WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND BAPTISMS
Our church is available for:
Weddings:
St John's Church and St Stephens Church are available for weddings. All wedding ceremonies will be conducted by an Anglican priest with the order of service being a choice from three forms of Marriage liturgy from A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.
St John's Church seats 200 people.
St Stephen's Church seats 60 people
We also have the small St Stephen's Hall available for use in Onewhero.
Funerals:
Our ministry team is very experienced in offering the care and support that is needed in leading a funeral service.
Baptisms:
Our ministry team is always very delighted to offer baptism into the family of God with the baptism liturgy from the A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.
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