 | Happy 2009
2009-01-03, Te Anau, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Happy 2009!!
Our outreach team spent our time up to the New Year in the town of Queenstown. It’s a known party town with lots of extreme sports and hiking all around. It’s a small town of only abou... |
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| Christmas is coming
2008-12-19, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Merry Christmas [yes, I know this is a little early]!!
Tomorrow morning at 10am, our New Zealand backpacking team heads out for our two month outreach. We only have two definite plans- Christmas in W... |
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 | Southbound
2008-12-10, Auckland, New Zealand. By: kjkerr | | Thats right, i am coming home.
As of this Friday i'm leaving Auckland in my dust, or exhaust fumes anyway.
That weekend will be spent in Tauranga (Hayley and Tony I'm coming to stay, hope you do... |
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| ministry news
2008-12-06, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Every Friday night our school goes into Christchurch to do ministry. Last Friday was an awesome and encouraging night. One of our students brought a large piece of paper and painted the words "let's b... |
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 | Transition to December
2008-11-27, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Here are some thoughts on the month of November as I prepare to move on to our last month here on base.
My outreach team meets every week to prepare for the two month backpacker ministry. Each stud... |
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| November Update
2008-11-04, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Oh my, is it really November? And has it really been a month since I've last written? Yep... unbelievable. Well, I will try to express everything from the past month as best I can.
The students arr... |
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 | Last Days in Oz.
2008-11-10, Auckland, New Zealand. By: tarajo | | [i]I don't even want to say, 'There will be a Sydney-shaped hole in my heart,' because saying that is too trite. Sydney is more than just a place: it is people; it is the blue lights in Burwood; it's... |
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| Just thought i'd say hi!
2008-11-12, Auckland, New Zealand. By: kjkerr | | HI!
ok i'll say a little more. Yay!! Some job adverts for landscape architecture have finally come up, or at least ones that dont require 5- 10 years experience! woopwoop. Not only that but they ap... |
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| A lady of leisure....
2008-10-31, Auckland, New Zealand. By: kjkerr | | Yes some may well describe my current life style as a life of leisure. There is a lot of reading, sleeping and visiting the library to search the internet and papers for job prospects. And yes i do co... |
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| Praying
2008-10-21, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | The Lordship of Jesus...the truth that Jesus is the lord of our lives and wants to heal, change and direct our lives. That's the topic this week and that's the intensity of the Spirit. I'm spending m... |
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| The end of an era
2008-10-21, Auckland, New Zealand. By: kjkerr | | When i began this series of updates covering my excel experience I called it 'A whole new World' because thats what it was. An unfamiliar and at times uncomfortable new life in the city called Aucklan... |
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 | New Zealand - The North Island
2008-10-15, Paihia, New Zealand. By: GBrownlie | | So we are now in the north island of New Zealand, which is very different to the south - it rains a lot more! The scenery is not as spectacular as the south but still pretty nice - very green. The f... |
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 | New Zealand - The South Island
2008-09-26, Queenstown, New Zealand. By: GBrownlie | | After our days in Franz Josef on the south Island our next destination was the beautiful little ski town of Queenstown! On the way there we stopped at Lake Matheson which was just stunning. The refl... |
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 | 2 wheel heaven !
2008-10-17, Christchurch, New Zealand. By: cbr600f | | Well, I've just spent 10 days bimbling around the South Island of New Zealand and wow .... but before that a few things that happened before I arrived here.
My last few days in Rio were great, met ... |
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| news of the week
2008-10-14, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Well, the latest news involves one of our students. It was our first weekend trip and it was a day trip to a place called Castle Hill. This is the same place as my profile picture. Well, a group of st... |
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 | Auckland
2008-10-04, Auckland, New Zealand. By: siqueira | | The largest city in NZ, has a beautiful harbour and its bridge, to get there I walked a 'bit' rsrsrs....There is a famous Sky Tower, that 328 meters, this is the tallest tower in the Southern Hemisphe... |
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 | Rotorua
2008-10-03, Rotorua, New Zealand. By: siqueira | | I found a city that smelling as Sao Paulo city and there is no Tiete river, but there is Sulphur, because of the aforementioned thermal activity. The sulphur gives off an odour unique, also there is g... |
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 | Taupo
2008-10-01, Taupo, New Zealand. By: siqueira | | It is part of Volcanos' region in NZ, it is a house of Lake Taupo, the largest lake in the country, the flooded caldera of the largest volcano in the zone, its length is 46km, width 33km and the deepe... |
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 | Nelson to Wellington
2008-09-30, Wellington, New Zealand. By: siqueira | | I left south Island and by boat, acrossing the wonderful Cook Straight, got Wellington, the Captal of NZ, is a small city plenty of buildings, a huge and amanzing Museum, that I spent around 2 hours t... |
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 | Welcome to another new continent !
2008-10-10, Te Anau, New Zealand. By: cbr600f | | Hi all - I'm here safe and sound in New Zealand !
This will just be a quick entry as I'm sitting in a laundry place that happens to have coin operated internet access and I only had one NZ 2 dollar... |
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 | Friday 19 September
2008-09-19, Auckland, New Zealand. By: kyliesmith | | All day I was a bundle of nerves, going quickly from excitement to nervousness. I didn't get much work done and was relieved to leave the office at 3pm.
Luke came around to take me to the airport,... |
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 | so much to do
2008-10-01, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | As I mentioned before, Matt gave us our outreach options a few days ago. I prayed about it and wrote out my top three choices. I'm not sure when I'll hear which team I'm leading, but I'm excited to be... |
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 | Punakaiki and Nelson
2008-09-28, Nelson, New Zealand. By: siqueira | | Hummmmm Pancakes!!!! Ohhhh, but this time only rocks!!! rsrsrsrs... After one day in Punakaiki to see The Pancakes Rocks, I went to Nelson, where I've done a amazing track (13Km) beside the ocean, the... |
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| one more day
2008-09-29, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | On sunday, our school leader Matt gave the staff the outreach options (the two month missions/evangelism to backpackers). We were given a day to pray about which team we should lead and now we are awa... |
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