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History of the
Church in New Zealand (1957-2002) |
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Pioneer Baptising
Tours, April 1962 |
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Baptising Tour,
Church of God News, Nov-Dec 1963 |
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Ministers in New Zealand, Feast of
Tabernacles, 1969 |
Ministers in the photo:
From left: Bill &
Barbara Hutchison, Susie Zimmerman, Mrs and Mr Clint Zimmerman, Roy & Sheila
Page (back), Lynn & Graemme Marshall (front), Sandy & Bob Morton, Wynnis & Lyall
Johnston.
(Photo supplied by
Barbara Best).
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first Feast was
probably
at Wairakei in Sept 1969
(1994 may have been
25th FOT celebration at Taupo and Mr and Mrs Marshall came back to NZ
for it. There were probably
1000 in attendance) |
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Report
from Our New Zealand Office, Tomorrow's World (August 1971) |
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WCG ladies in New Zealand, c1972 |
Back
row (standing) from left: Ivy Braggins, Dorothy Lees, Anna Koks, Dawn Kennedy,
Agnes Thompson, Pat Sawyer, Peggy Seales, Lynn Wooding.
Front row (seated): Shirley Cole, Joy Hoskins, Beryl Salmond, Kay Devon, Lynn
Cottrell, Anne Plumb, Ellen Gibney |
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Churches and Bible
Studies, mid-1970s |
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Auckland
head office, Plain Truth, July 1975 |
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Mr & Mrs Peter Nathan, 1985 |
Mr
Waterhouse spoke to Auckland congregation 23 Feb that year.
Probably 1984 Auckland
had a visit from Mr Armstrong. As he was getting a bit frail by then
members
did not have a chance to go and speak with him after the service, but Mr and Mrs
Nathan accompanied him in a car and
they
all gathered to wave him goodbye |
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Owen Hooper at Hunua Falls, 2021 |
Owen
was baptised at
Hunua Falls (in the ranges east of Papakura) by Mr Marshall with Mr Lyall
Johnston in the winter of 1968. He remembers the water was very cold! |
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Peggy Miller & Eleanor Sim, 1973 |
Eleanor Hooper relates:
"This
is of Peggy Millar and me, possibly taken on Feast of Trumpets or Atonement,
as she went to Australia for the Feast that year. She later married an
Australian minister Trevor Higgins and lived on the Gold Coast until her death
many years later (I visited her there in 1975).
Peggy had quite a
trial in 1968 as she was on the Wahine ferry when it sank in Wellington harbour
during a severe storm (actually that was the same day that Owen drove up to
Auckland from the Wairarapa, and was shocked to hear after he arrived how bad
the storm had been). Peggy had been travelling up to the North Island to keep
Passover. She told me of being in the water and saw a hand reaching out to her,
which she took hold of and it helped her onto a rock. When she looked around,
she could see no one so she was sure it had been an angel helping her. Of course
she lost all her best Sabbath clothes etc but it was more important being alive,
as there were some who drowned.
The first time Peggy
and I met for lunch in Gore, I had bought my usual, a ham sandwich (not knowing
about unclean meats as yet!). I could see Peggy seemed slightly uncomfortable.
She advised me to write to the Church Office and request an article about clean
and unclean meats."
Once I received and read it,
I understood! Then I told my Mum I was no longer going to eat ham or bacon. She
replied, “I wondered when you were going to figure that out!” |
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Christchurch 20th
Anniversary Information Pamphlet (1994) |
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Miscellanous Items |
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Coworker Letter - Graemme Marshall on progress in the Work (17 July 1970) |
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Notes for
Festival of Tabernacles (1970) |
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Feast
End Report. Taupo (1972) |
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"World Tomorrow Church Today", North Shore Times Advertiser, 7 March
1978 |
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Receivership Telegram, 20 January 1979 |
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"You are Invited" card
(1975) |
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Other little-known information |
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1. Church of
God (Seventh Day) in early 1900s: |
Of great
interest to Church
of God historians is that a Church of God,
Seventh-day pastor residing in Auckland,
New Zealand in
the early twentieth century, wrote a 16 page booklet on the subject with the
title Begotten Again, or Born Again, Which? (1902). The entire booklet
powerfully proclaims that the new birth occurs at the resurrection. On the final
page he notes:
"It is
therefore untrue that the new birth takes place at conversion. If so, it is
false, and those who teach it are teaching falsehood, and that must be
displeasing to the God of truth. We cannot be born anew unless we are begotten,
and we cannot be begotten unless we receive with meekness the implanted word,
the ten words of God” (page 16).
The booklet is
available for download
here.
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2. History of
Seventh Day Baptists in New
Zealand:
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Go to these
links:
SDB churches in Christchurch and
history of SDBs.
Often SDBs
lay the seeds, followed by SDAs and then Church of God enters the scene.
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3. Remnant Church
of God in Solomon Islands: |
Letter from a man
in the Solomon Isles c.1977 or 1978:
"You asked me about
the history of the Remnant
Church here in the
Solomons. Well, it's an offshoot of an evangelical Church. This evangelical
Church (now known as the South Sea Evangelical
Church) originated in Queensland where the
sugarcane labourers – the 'kanakas' – worked. Some Solomon islanders working as
sugarcane labourers there became members of this new church.
Eventually some
ministers left Brisbane
and came over to the Solomons. This was in the late 1800s and probably early
1900s. Around the 1950s some members of this evangelical church became
discontented with some of the church's teachings after much Bible study.
They found out that
the Saturday Sabbath and other Old Testament laws and statutes were still in
force at this time. So they broke off from the South
Seas Evangelical Church and forme themselves in a new group calling
themselves the Remnant
Church. Not long after
this group became divided again on some doctrines they had – one group joined
the Seventh-day
Adventists
Church while the other group remained
as they were – the Remnant
Church. And it's this last
group that were interested in the WCG."
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4. Pitcairn Island: |
For those who have
read Beyond Pitcairn, will know that
the tiny island is predominantly Seventh-day Adventist. It is still a British Overseas
Territory.
For background
information refer to the following website:
https://adventist.news/search/pitcairn
Church
of God
members who visited the island in late 2007 drew my attention to the book
Pitcairn: Island at the Edge of Time (by S.C. Carlsson, Central
Queensland Uni. Press, 2000). The book, of course, mentions the SDA influence on
the island, but also that the leader of the islanders in the early 1800s,
John Adams, kept and taught the Feast Days
(page 34)! Apparently he was led to this belief by reading the Bible and it is
unknown if any others followed his example.
I don't know if
Sam Bacchiocchi picked up on this little known fact so I sent this information
to him.
Beyond Pitcairn
is available for free download
here.
Another, Sequel to a Mutiny-Early Adventism on Pitcairn Island, is
available
here.
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