Forge Aotearoa

21/03/2026

Early bird registrations are now open for our next Forge Aotearoa Hui, taking place May 15–17, 2026, at Ōhope Marae!

Join us for a weekend of prayer, listening, worship, neighbourhood story, and shared table. We will gather in tikanga and worship, explore Wayfinding and the practice of Anamchara (soul friendship), and spend time in Whakatāne with Te Aka Puahou and in Ōpōtiki with Jared and Jess for neighbourhood listening, prayer walking, and a shared evening feast.

Whether you’re already connected with Forge or sensing a deeper step into the Community of Wayfinders, you are warmly invited to come.

Early Bird Registration:
$150 until April 3
After April 3: $170

Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to register early.
The link to register is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZOMWsuh3XnJjy_ZTdUGoVIZlmpHvpnf7v8FK_lrw0tJ02oQ/viewform

Come breathe.
Come listen.
Come return.

Ps: We have a limited amount of travel subsidies available.
The link to apply is here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj3Xn9sIT3GhKRdLgu66poJqcIsVqST6kAOVnAy3eE6VG9-Q/viewform

19/03/2026

For our next Practice of Wayfinding online gathering 7.30pm Wednesday 1st April, we are combining with a Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership workshop on Faith and Sport.

Watch this short promo here,
https://youtu.be/M_HOwQcvT18

More info and registration here: https://knoxcentre.ac.nz/module/sport-and-faith/

Sport and faith can have an uncomfortable relationship.  This workshop will explore these questions and others and help provide a framework to reflect on scripture and faith to help us make sense of our love of sport.   Maybe you don’t like sport – but you love art, dance, music, movies...

11/03/2026

We hope you enjoy this reflection from Col Salisbury on Lent. Take a moment, perhaps with a cup of tea or coffee in hand and let God speak....

Some say the Hebrew word for “wilderness” can also be heard as
the organ which speaks.

Not because the desert has lips,
but because its name — midbar —
echoes dabar: Word.

The midbar is the place of dabar.

And Lent is a journey into the midbar.

Forty days of stepping away from applause.
Forty days of loosening our grip on certainty.
Forty days of fasting from the voices
that usually narrate our lives.

Lent is not spiritual performance.
It is intentional wilderness.

In the midbar, Israel learned dependence.
In the midbar, manna fell like quiet mercy.
In the midbar, Elijah heard the thin whisper of God.
In the midbar, Jesus faced hunger, temptation, and the naming of His belovedness.

The wilderness does not shout.

It strips.

It thins the ego.
It exposes our cravings.
It reveals what we reach for when comfort disappears.

And then —

there is Word.

Not loud.
Not dramatic.
Not forced.

But steady as manna.
Clear as breath in cold air.
Gentle as the voice that names us beloved.

Lent leads us into the midbar
not to punish us,
not to deprive us,
but to quiet us.

Because when the noise falls away,
the Voice remains.

The wilderness becomes the organ which speaks
because it becomes the place
where God’s Word is finally heard.

This Lent, we do not go into the desert alone.

We follow the One who has already walked there.

And in the stillness of the midbar,
we discover again:

God is not absent in the wilderness.

God speaks there.

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