Christian Savings is excited to be hosting our annual Church and Charities Conference!

Christchurch on Wed, 30 Aug (at Oxford Terrace Baptist Church)
Auckland on Wed, 6 Sept (at Valley Road Church)
Wellington on Wed, 13 Sept (at The Street Church)

We are passionate about equipping churches and charities to have robust and effective governance. This year our governance theme is 'Fruitful Stewardship'. We will be taking a closer look at some of the key stewardship issues our churches and charities are facing in this climate. Our conference is designed to help trustees, elders and officers understand their governance duties better. We have an amazing lineup of speakers, including Reverend Frank Ritchie, Ven Dr Lyndon Drake, Kirsten Patterson, Jenny Collings, Steven Moe and others. Come along and learn more about stewardship of finances, property and people.

As well as the opportunity to learn from leaders in this field, you will also be able to meet a diverse range of other people involved in Christian governance.

We encourage you to get a group together and make the most of our discounts. Purchase 4 tickets and you get 1 free!

Ticket Info:

Day Session Only (9am-5pm) $75

Ticket includes sessions from our speakers, panel discussion morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, and tea and coffee.

Evening Session Only (6-9pm) $25

Ticket includes pizza for dinner and Evening Masterclass attendance.

Day & Evening (9am-9pm) $80
Ticket includes sessions from our speakers, panel discussion morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, and tea and coffee, dinner and Evening Masterclass.

Evening Masterclass on Governance

We’re also excited to be hosting a separate evening masterclass on the “Basics of Governance”. This masterclass will be led by Kirsten Patterson who is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, and Steven Moe who is a leading legal expert on governance. It has been designed just for this conference and is for both experienced and new Church leaders, elders and trustees to consider governance with practical tips and ideas of how we can improve this for our organisations. In addition, resources will be shared for you to take back to your groups.

Tickets for the evening masterclass are only $25 per person and include dinner.

Get in quick as we have limited spaces available!

Our Guest Speakers

REV FRANK RITCHIE

Frank is the lead chaplain for Media Chaplaincy New Zealand. He is an ordained Wesleyan Methodist minister and leads a small church in Hamilton. Frank has a history in radio broadcasting and can be heard every Sunday night on Newstalk ZB and Rhema Media’s stations from time to time. He highly values the place of the media in society, and many in the industy have trusted him enough to sit down and have confidential conversations about life and work.

KIRSTEN PATTERSON

Kirsten Patterson (known as KP) is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors and is a Chartered Member of the IoD. She is a qualified lawyer and a Distinguished Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand, Chair of the Global Network of Directors Institutes (GNDI), and a member of the New Zealand External Reporting Advisory Panel (XRAP). She serves on the boards of the mental health charity Voices of Hope and the Brian Picot Ethical Leadership Advisory Board (Chair) at Victoria University in Wellington. She is a past Chair, and now Ambassador, for Wellington Women’s Homeless Trust. A strong advocate of diversity, KP is a member of Global Women New Zealand and was one of the founding members of Global Women’s ‘Champions for Change’, a group of senior executives and directors who commit to diversity in the workplace. KP was the founder and is Executive Sponsor for Chapter Zero New Zealand – the New Zealand Chapter of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative - hosted by the IoD NZ to mobilise, connect, educate and equip directors and boards to make climate-smart governance decisions.

LYNDON DRAKE

The Ven Dr Lyndon Drake (Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Tahu) serves as Archdeacon of Tāmaki Makaurau in the Māori Anglican bishopric of Te Tai Tokerau. Lyndon has recently completed a DPhil in Theology at Oxford on economic capital in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and has degrees in science and commerce (Auckland), a PhD in computer science (York), two other degrees in theology (Oxford), and a number of peer-reviewed academic publications in science and theology. Lyndon has written *Capital Markets for the Common Good: A Christian Perspective* (Oxford: 2017, Oxford Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics). Until 2010, Lyndon was a Vice President at Barclays Capital, trading government bonds and interest-rate derivatives. Since then, he has served in church ministry, as well as teaching theology and serving in a range of Christian leadership roles. He sits on a number of boards, including as chair of Te Whare Ruruhau o Meri Trust Board, and is married to Miriam with three children.

JENNY COLLINGS

Jen is the National Director of The Christian Medical Fellowship of New Zealand and works to encourage doctors and medical students in living wholeheartedly for Christ through medicine. Before undertaking this role, she served for 15 years as a Salvation Army Corps Officer (ordained Minister) and local Director of social services. As a law graduate and final year Executive MBA student, she is passionate about good governance and Christ-centred strategic decision-making to lift the impact of Christian organisations.

STEVEN MOE

Steven Moe is a partner at Parry Field Lawyers with a focus on governance and legal structures for impact, providing advice to charities, companies and social enterprises. He has 22 years of experience as a lawyer and is on eight boards including Christian Savings. He is also the Chair of Community Finance, which has raised more than $120 million for social housing. He is a member of the Charities Services sector group, the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, the XRB Advisory Panel and is a facilitator on governance for the Institute of Directors and hosts their podcast ‘Board Matters’ on governance. He also is the host of Seeds - a podcast with 340+ long-form conversations on governance, leadership and entrepreneurship. He is also organising the online ‘Seeds Impact Conference’ in early October.

Our MCs

CHRIS CLARKE - WILBERFORCE

Chris Clarke has over 25 years of leadership experience (14 years as CEO) locally and globally in public policy, health care, humanitarian development and the philanthropic sectors. Currently, he is the CEO of Wilberforce Foundation and Executive Chair of the Arrow Leadership programme. Previously he was CEO of World Vision New Zealand and CEO of Hawke’s Bay District Health Board. He has also worked for the World Health Organisation (Europe), NHS (Wales) and in a number of health sector roles in New Zealand.

Chris holds law and commerce degrees from Canterbury University and, since 2009, has been the inaugural Praxis Visiting Scholar at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He a recognised public speaker, has highly developed communication and influencing skills and regularly appears in the media, and he is Chairperson of two NZ-based not-for-profits.

DAN MAZENGARB - CHRISTIAN SAVINGS

Dan started at Christian Savings in March 2017 as our in-house lawyer before taking over as Lending Manager in 2018. After working across a wide range of projects and building a new lending team, Dan transitioned into the Chief Executive role in August 2021. Before joining the Christian Savings’ team, Dan worked as a commercial lawyer in Tauranga and at Z Energy head office in Wellington. He is passionate about our vision and partnering with churches and charities doing good in Aotearoa. Dan attends Bethlehem Baptist Church with his wife and two children.

How to get to Valley Road Church
There is parking onsite; however, due to the limited amount of space, we encourage people to carpool or take public transport if possible.

There is a bus stop right in front of the church - Stop 1302: Valley Road International Church

You can use AT buses 27W, 27H and 64 to get to this stop

Please check the timetable through the attached link below:

Bus Time Table in Mt. Eden area