Latimer Talks

Copies of talks are available on request from the Latimer Office.

The 2011 National Conference - CANCELLED

'The Cross and Ministry'
This conference with Rev Kanishka Raffel, scheduled for April 2011, was cancelled due to the devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in February 2011.

William Orange Memorial Lecture 2011

World Mission and the Legacy of John Stott
Delivered in christchurch by Chris Wright, International Director of Langham Partnership, Chair of the Lausanne Committee’s Theological Education Commission and honorary president of Tearfund (UK).

The 2010 William Orange Memorial Lecture

Church Growth in the Book of Acts and Today
Delivered in Auckland, Christchuch and Nelson by the Rev Dr David Peterson, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in New Testament at Moore College.

2010 AGM

Rev Dr Gerald Bray spoke on "The importance of the 39 Articles for today’s Church".

Gerald is the Director of Research for the Latimer Trust in the UK, Research Professor at Beeston Divinity School in the USA, and editor of the Churchman.

Women’s Conference 2010 - The Beatitudes: God’s Peculiar People

Speaker was Rev Kay Clark

National Conference 2010

Rev Dr Peter Adam –Hearing God’s Word (Christchurch, Hamilton, Auckland)

William Orange Lecture 2008

Rev Dr Mark Thompson –The Clarity of Scripture

National Conference 2008

Rev Vaughan Roberts – A Heart for the Gospel
Vaughan is Rector of St Ebbe's Church, Oxford, United Kingdom

Women’s Conference 2008 - Meeting the Real Jesus

Speaker was Miss Jenny Salt
She spoke on the topic "Meeting the Real Jesus"

Jenny is Dean of Women at Sydney Missionary & Bible College (SMBC) and responsible for the welfare of single women at College. Before completing studies at SMBC, Jenny worked as a flight attendant and registered nurse.

Jenny has recently pursued further study at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago and is a regular speaker at women’s events and conferences. Jenny currently attends St Thomas’ Anglican Church, North Sydney.

National Conference 2007

Rev David Short – The Bible, The Church & Ministry

2007 Latimer Clergy and Lay retreat - How we use the Bible in our Ministries

7.00pm Monday 17 September - 2.00pm Wednesday 19 September, 2007

Retreat Leader: Rev Dr Gerald Bray.
Gerald is the Director of Research for the Latimer Trust in the UK, Research Professor at Beeston Divinity School in the USA, and editor of the Churchman.
Price: $100 (This covers full board. Please contact the office for visitor and day rates.)

Location:
Living Springs conference center, Lyttleton

Registration: Register and get further information at the Latimer Office.

National Latimer Conference 2007

Was held 2 & 3 July 2007 at St Christopher's Anglican Church, Avonhead, Christchurch

THE BIBLE, THE CHURCH, AND MINISTRY
Speakers: The Rev David Short and Rev Terry Wong
This Conference is a continuation from the National Latimer Conference 2006 with Archbishop Peter Jensen and Bishop Derek Eaton.

David Short is rector of St John’s Anglican Church, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, the largest parish in the Diocese of New Westminster. In 2002, St John’s, along with several other parishes, opposed the development within their Diocese of same-sex blessings authorised by their Bishop and Synod. This has led to a conflict with their Bishop which has reverberated right around the Anglican Communion.

In February of this year, David was part of a delegation from the Anglican Network in Canada that went to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, to meet with a number of the Anglican Primates from the “Global South” before the Primates meeting itself took place. Unity is a high priority for David however, the unity that Jesus prayed for is unity in the truth and the doctrine of the gospel. "The kind of unity that God desires is based on faith, and is guided and surrendered to the will and word of God.”

As Executive Director of the Artizo Apprenticeship Program, David is also involved in training young men and women for ministry. Artizo’s purpose is “to help young men and women become leaders of the highest quality, in competence, conviction, and character.” Artizo looks to seek out and develop young leaders, and prepare them for full-time ordained ministry by allowing them to serve the body of Christ in their local church.

Given the ministry that David exercises in Canada, we believe that he will be of great encouragement to us in our New Zealand context as we wrestle with very similar issues of training young leaders and contending for the truth of the Gospel.

Rev Terry Wong, chaplain to Archbishop John Chew, is based in Singapore and will present a paper on the Monday afternoon giving a Global South perspective on our Communion troubles as well as delivering the Tuesday morning Bible exposition. Terry will also be accompanied by another clergyperson from the province.

Our intention is that we build and develop links with our brothers and sisters in the Global South churches as well as with those in the West.

We hope that you will come away inspired and challenged for ministry at the local level whether it be lay or ordained.

Three visitors in 2006

Between August and October we were visitied by Rev Dr Gerald Bray, from the UK, Bishop Paul Barnett, from Australia, and Rev Dr Chris Wright from the UK.

The towns visited were: Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Palmerston North, Wellington, Greymouth, Dunedin, Balclutha and Auckland.

(1) Professor Gerald Bray

Professor Gerald Bray, came to NZ fresh from having delivered the Moore College Lectures.

He was ordained in 1979 was formerly a lecturer at Oak Hill College in London and then Professor of Anglican Theology at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Alabama. He is editor of the Church Society's journal, Churchman and recently been appointed as Director of Research for the Latimer Trust, UK (although he will retain a post as Research Professor at Beeson Divinity School). Gerald will be responsible for "mentoring theologians, writing, and taking on speaking engagements, to encourage Christians to stand up for Biblical truth in church, work and theology".

(2) Bishop Paul Barnett

Bishop Paul Barnett was the Bishop of North Sydney, is presently part time lecturer at Moore College, Sydney, visiting lecturer at Regent College and writer.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Moore College and his twin interests are Christian ministry (clergy and lay) and the 'world' of the era of the New Testament. His passion is to connect the NT as it appeared in that 'world' with the ministry in and to the 'now world'. He has a lifelong interest in Christian origins, the NT in its times and careful exegesis of NT texts, based on the Greek text and has written a number of commentaries.

Bishop Paul Barnett dates and venues

SOUTH ISLAND

• Wednesday, 6 September
  • Christchurch, 7.30 pm, St John’s, Latimer Square
  • ‘Sexuality & Idolatry in the era of St Paul’
• Friday, 8 September
  • Christchurch, 7.30 pm, St John’s, Latimer Square
  • 'Are the New Testament Documents Reliable?'
• Monday, 18 September
  • Dunedin, 7.30 pm, St Matthew’s,
  • ‘Divisions, discipline & authority in the church: What can we learn from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians?’
• Tuesday, 19 September
  • Balclutha, 7.30 pm, St Mark’s
  • ‘Divisions, discipline & authority in the church: What can we learn from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians?’
• Wednesday, 20 September
  • Christchurch, Latimer Annual General Meeting, 7.30 pm, St Aidan’s, Bryndwr
• Friday, 22 Monday - 25 September
  • Christchurch, NZCMS National Conference - Go For Mission!
  • Contact NZCMS for details: 03 377 2222 / office@nzcms.org.nz

NORTH ISLAND

• Sunday, 10 September
  • Auckland, All am services, St George’s, Epsom
• Sunday, 10 September
  • Hamilton, 7.00 pm, St David’s, West Hamilton
  • ‘Are the New Testament documents reliable?
• Wednesday, 13 September
  • Tauranga, 7.30 pm, Holy Trinity
  • ‘Sexuality & Idolatry in the era of St Paul’
• Friday, 15 September
  • Palmerston North, 7.30 pm, All Saints
  • ‘Divisions, discipline & authority in the church: What can we learn from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians?’
• Sunday, 17 September
  • Wellington, 9.30 am, St Christopher’s, Tawa
  • Wellington, 6.00 pm, All Saints, Hataitai
  • ‘The Bible & DaVinci: Are the New Testament documents reliable?’

(3) Rev Dr Chris Wright

Rev Dr Chris Wright is the International Director of the Langham Partnership International, a group of ministries founded by John Stott providing literature scholarships and preaching training for pastors.

He has a doctorate from Cambridge in Old Testament ethics and taught Old Testament in India at the Union Biblical Seminary before returning to All Nations Christian College, a missionary training school in the UK where he was Principal from 1992-2001. Chris has written several books including commentaries. He is ordained Anglican and on the staff of All Souls Church, Langham Place, London.

National Conference 2006
Archbishop Peter Jensen – Anglican Communion in Crisis – The Way Forward for Evangelicals

National Conference 2006

Speaker is Archbishop Peter Jensen

"Anglican Communion in Crisis – The Way Forward for Evangelicals"
Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Syndey, was in New Zealand in May for the National Latimer Conference.

He has spoken of a "... crisis in the communion ... (that) goes back to the authority of scripture and our willingness to be subservient to its teaching despite the unpopularity which this may bring in the world and in the church. In order to be obedient under pressure we are going to have to attend more that we have done up until now to the issue of depth in theological education in parishes and in the denomination. Especially we are going to have to care for each other, to encourage and strengthen each other and to support each other in unpopular stands, if these need to be taken."

His public address in the cathedral in Christchurch one Sunday evening, and messages to the Latimer conference in the follwing days, were helpful and well received.

Derek Eaton speaks at the National Conference

Like to hear messages by Derek Eaton, former Bishop of Nelson and now the assistant bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Egypt, North Africa, Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, based in Cairo, Egypt? We have copies of Bible Expositions given by Bishop Derek at the National Latimer Conference in May 2006 available from the Latimer Office. Simply contact the Latimer office and we will send you the details.

Derek believes Egypt “has a crucial role to play” if there is to be hope for peace in the Middle East. He says the Anglican Church has a significant role to play within Egypt because it is, he says, a trusted broker between the much larger Coptic Church, and the various protestant denominations, and between Christians and Muslims.

“There is a lot of good Christian-Muslim dialogue," he said recently. "And whereas in New Zealand there tends to be a lot of hedging in those discussions, over there it’s much more direct. Good, direct dialogue doesn’t have to be confrontational.”

He obviously has a lot of interest to discuss. Contact the Latimer office and we will send you details of his messages.

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2005 William Orange Memorial Lecture

This year's thought-provoking, informed lecture by Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, was entitled ' Islam and Christianity'

He asked if a clash of religions must occur, or if true dialogue is possible. And answered optimistically, saying we should look forward to the day when we would not talk about faiths colliding, but about Islam and Christianity converging in a common desire to create a world of tolerance and peace and building communities on those shared values that make us human and capable of giving and receiving God's gift of love.

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Harry Goodhew speaks

Harry Goodhew, former Archbishop of Syndey, gave the William Orange Memorial Lecture in New Zealand late last year.

In his outstanding, "A consideration of Christianity’s global future and of evangelical witness within it" he said:

"The world in which we live is a complex place. Its peoples are multitudinous: 6 billion and more and counting. The dynamics of its international relations are volatile, and the needs and aspirations of its individual inhabitants are many and enormously varied. Awful cruelty and grinding poverty can stand cheek by jowl with both heart-warming displays of compassion, and with opulence and plenty that by comparison invites the use of the word obscene. Yet we know that this is the world God loves. He created it and its people ... "

The two-part lecture was delievered in a number of centers on a tour of the country, and was well received. Excellent content.

Both lectures were recorded on video and are available on DVD, or as a PDF document you can print and read.