Tēnā koutou e ngā rangatira mā! Greetings to you all in the powerful name of Ihu Karaiti Jesus Christ.

We trust all is well with you. Following on from ideas, thoughts, and a more recent discussion in Chiang Mai at the International Leaders Gathering last year, we have landed on the idea that it's time to get together aye….at our whare.

So this is a call from the land of Aotearoa NZ to our YWAM family in Australia and the Pacific to gather together here in Aotearoa. Kia hiwa rā kia hiwa rā kia tū kia oho kia mataara!

Our mind goes back to Melbourne in 1993 where we gathered during the winter months as YWAM Australia & NZ, then again in NSW at the Proclaim gathering in 2007, not to mention our hui in Turkey in 2015.

It’s my honour to release a call from the Land of the Long White Cloud to the Land of the Red Dust to gather together in Tauranga, November 17-22nd 2024. All staff and students are welcome. The gathering will be followed by The Send on Saturday the 23rd. More details to follow.

We also see the land in between our two nations and the many villages that are scattered across her. A land from where we also come from, that being the great ocean of the Pacific. This call ripples across to the islands to our tuakana, our elder brothers and sisters to come also.

YWAM whānau in Australia, YWAM whānau in the Pacific,

nau piki mai, nau kake mai, nau haere mai ki Aotearoa NZ

- Ray Totorewa, On behalf of the YWAM Aotearoa whānau