Mana Atua - The Power of God
Inspired by his own transformed life, Lucky ventures back into the gang world to help bring the healing and restoration that he himself discovered. Promo https://youtu.be/qi135w6JvkE
Venue Registration
Organisations are invited to register and secure their spots for a special premier screening of 'Mana Atua - The Power of God' available from the 24th of August to the 15th of September.
God's intention was for Maori and Pakeha to live in this land together, to prosper.
Bridging the Gap is a seminar on learning how to bring us together to fulfil God's Will.
It's not about the Treaty, and it's not about Colonialism;
- it's about God's Will.
It is to Overcome Fear Through Love
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment,
and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Bridging the Gap
BETWEEN MAORI & PAKEHA
1-3 September 2023 - Christchurch
Schedule:
Friday 1 Sept - 4:30pm-9pm pōwhiri and opening speakers
Saturday 2 Sept - 9am-9pm (with breaks)
Sunday 3 Sept - 9am-12pm
Guest Speakers:
Jay Ruka - Author, Reverend, and Dean of Taranaki Cathedral
Merekaraka Tawa - International Speaker and advisor in tikanga Maori to mainstream churches
Te Hurihanga Rihari - Theologist, Pastor, and direct descendant of Maori that invited Rev Marsden to Aotearoa
Russell Burnett - Farmer, Educational impactor, 5th generation from the first 4 ships
Lucky Te Koha - Pastor and Apostolic Kingdom Builder
Kim Boyce - Filmmaker and passionate about reconciliation of Māori and Pakeha with God as our thread
Tickets and Registration:
For registration please hit the button, or you can email kingdomLTK@gmail.com with the number of tickets required for your church/group.
$300pp for the full event:
Each ticket purchase covers kai and optional extra of accommodation marae-style at the venue* (Wai-Ora, 48 Watsons Road, Chch). Staying at the venue is on a first-in first-served basis, limited to the first 45 requests. *Note there is no reduction in the registration price for people who are not staying at the venue, as this is an optional extra covered by our venue hire fee, which we have decided to pass on to those that may wish to stay.
For Pastors, Church Leaders, Youth Pastors, Christians
Get to Know the Speakers
Lucky Te Koha
An Apostolic Kingdom Builder, Lucky Te Koha brings the fire and passion for God in all areas of his walk.
Carrying many facets of Ministry, Pastor Lucky Te Koha has founded Kingdom Brotherhood Trust and Kingdom Ministries. The majority of Kingdom Ministries work is helping to re-ignite churches to raise Leaders and send out the Disciples. Lucky has facilitated many programmes for Church Leaders, in order to build up the foundations of the Church and empower and encourage everyone to do their part in the Body of Christ.
Ps Lucky’s obedience to God lead him to bring together Bridging the Gap Between Maori & Pakeha:
“God told me that this country will not grow, and there will not be a revival if we cannot sit together and respect each other, love each other and get rid of fear. The scripture 1John4:18 says ‘There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love’. It’s education and truth. It’s intentional. It’s equipping. It’s overdue.
“My job is to teach people how to love. To set people free, to bring peace into their lives. To teach people how to love the marginalised and the rejected”. – Lucky Te Koha
Jay Ruka
A big chicken, three stories high, dominated the landscape. But the huia couldn’t be seen. Or heard. The dream changed Jay Ruka’s life. Reverend Ruka, is the co-Dean at Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary in New Plymouth. Of Te Ātiawa and Ngāti Mutunga descent Ruka grew up immersed in Christian culture, but not in Māori culture. It was awkward, he says. He didn’t really connect with it. He remembers thinking surfers were more his people than Māori. But in 2006 that all began to change. https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/124616719/taranaki-cathedrals-jay-ruka-is-bringing-the-huia-home
Jay and Erin Ruka are the faces behind the book Huia Come Home and work together to inspire cultural identity and encourage the Church’s role in reconciliation. Both have many years of experience as public communicators and Church leadership and do life as a team.
Jay wrote Huia Come Home as a response to a dream Erin had back in 2008. In the dream she saw an enormous chicken overshadowing a Pōhutukawa tree and heard the word “huia”. The oversized chicken made her laugh and being American she had no idea what “huia” meant. But that imagery sparked something and began a journey to discover what it means to belong to Aotearoa; and why indigeneity is so important. https://huiacomehome.co.nz/
Te Hurihanga Rihari
Many know the story of Christmas Day, 1814, when Rev Samuel Marsden stepped ashore at Oihi and shared the Gospel message with an estimated 300 Māori. But, in this powerful video, Te Hurihanga Rihari, a direct descendant of Māori that invited Marsden to Aotearoa, shares the little-known story that this wasn’t the first time Ngāti Torehina had encountered God. Some 500 years prior to the arrival of the Bible, his people lived at Rangihioua under the blessing of God.
God doesn't just talk to people who are already Christians. He talks to anyone who has the heart to hear Him. Way before missionaries came to New Zealand God was at work already, speaking to Maori prophets and preparing the Maori people to receive the good news the missionaries would bring. It was Maori who invited the first missionaries to come because of the preparatory work the Holy Spirit had already been doing in the hearts and minds of Maori who had an ear to hear and a responsive heart. The video below is one of the many stories of the preparatory work God did even before missionaries came. – Lyn Packer
https://www.nzpropheticnetwork.com/ngati-torehinas-encounter-with-god-by-te-hurihanga-rihari
Te Hurihanga is the founder of Te Kupu Ministries NZ, a Christian Theologist, Apostolic Council, Kaumatua, Pastor (to name a few).
Merekaraka Tawa
Faithful in both Te Ao Karaitiana (Christian) and Te Ao Māori, Merekaraka speaks nationally and internationally. An advisor in tikanga Māori to mainstream churches and a cultural advisor to faith based organisations.
A descendent of Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngai Tahu and Ngāti Mutunga - Merekaraka is prophetic and operates amazingly out of this gift!
Russell Burnett
“My name is Russell Burnett. I am not famous nor great at anything in particular. At the age of 65 years all I have ever done is farm. I have no university or tertiary education. I am also white, Pakeha 5th generation from England. I have not had much to do with Māori. Living in the South Island they Māori are thin on the ground.
“You would wonder what I am doing at this Bridging the Gap... The fact is Land is at the heart of the divide between Māori and Pakeha. Pakeha like me own most of it. Most farms are held by white Pakeha farming families with roots that in my case go back to the first 4 ships in Canterbury.
“I believe that God wants to do something special in New Zealand at this time. This special thing must include people like me. In fact, I have a vision that if we let God do something new and genuinely Kiwi in New Zealand then other nations that have endured colonization and marginalising of their indigenous peoples will benefit.
“Since I was 10 years old my prayer has been to understand the world I live in. God has answered my prayers through dreams and visions and much reading. I have bought and sold six farms including one in central Queensland, Australia. At the age of 65 I have experienced much. Experience trumps theory, so in my old age I think I know something”.
Kim Boyce-Campbell
“Storytelling is my game. I have been a professional filmmaker since graduating from Broadcasting School in 1997, cutting my teeth in Children’s television and then a long wilderness in television advertising before following my heart into freelance documentary making. This work of helping people tell their stories has taken me around the country and around the world.
“It has brought insight into the rich and precarious journey of indigenous people with the gospel, and into my own journey. The reconciliation of Māori and Pakeha to each other and to our God is the thread that runs through my life and work. For the last few years I have worked for local iwi setting up various social enterprises to elevate the whānau of Ngāti Kurī.
“Kaikōura New Life Church is our faith family and a group of people I am stoked to be on a grand adventure with”.
Contact
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kingdomLTK@gmail.com or use the Registration button