The Blessed Journey

How quickly time flies: just when I was getting comfortable at the helm as President for the New Zealand Methodist Women’s Fellowship (NZMWF), my term ends.

This is the case for my team and me at this year’s convention to be held 12 to 15 October 2023 at The Sudima Hotel, Mangere, Auckland. Our attendance would not have been possible without the support of the PAC committee who accepted our application for a grant to subsidise the registration for our members to attend this year’s convention. We are grateful for that generosity and we pray that they continue the great work in assisting groups like us, supporting our mission and vision to help those that need help.

The journey has been incredible and it has been great for my team to see the depth of this great organisation. We pray it will continue to grow as we accept change and take our members towards a new world involving technology, accepting the risk and change of worshipping in a more charismatic way that involves all members of our Connexion. We have many young vibrant women hungry to outreach into the community and abroad. If we give them the chance, they will move us to a new level of learnings and ensure we continue to serve the mission and vision NZMWF set out to do when they were formed.

My team and I wish the incoming President Lesieli Tiulipe Pope and her incoming National Executive all the best in their up incoming two-year term as they continue to lift the profile of the NZMWF within our Connexion and through the South Pacific and the World Federation forum.

Sharing our stories over the last two years through Touchstone has been so much fun. We hope this forum continues to serve our people so that we continue to enjoy reading about what is happening throughout our Connexion.

Signing out for a final time as your National President for NZMWF,

Your humble servant on behalf of my team,

Tuituivao (Tui) Salevao