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Kia Ora Whanau Welcome to the King's Kids NZ website! It's a privilege for you to come and visit us online, if you are interested in Accommodation for camps of any kind, please click on the "Accommodation" link to the left to check us out. Email us and we will get back to you with a booking sheet and any other info that is required. My name is Ben and I am the Ministry Leader for King's Kids Auckland. We have 2 other King's Kids sites in NZ, King's Kids Wellington, based in NZ's capital city, and King's Kids South Island, based in Oxford just outside of Christchurch. So if you're interested in doing a camp, or you're a parent and are wanting to sign your kids up for a King's Kids camp, let us know and we will send out the necessary information regarding upcoming camps.
King's Kids Auckland is at the moment focusing more on the community, doing after school programs for the kids and getting to know families in the area. I would like to see at least 1 camp be done this year, but we shall see. If you would like to drop us a line, a word of encouragement or just to make some sort of connection, please don't hesitate to contact us here at King's Kids. Ka ki te
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A new addition to the King's Kids New Zealand family! King's Kids Wellington Not only does he love to give a good massage, Robert Becada has a heart for dance and missions. Back in 2004 he lead a team of young adults around the nation, while the Impact World Tour was touring the nation also, telling the young and the old about the love of Christ. He was also a youth pastor of a local church in Tawa, Wellington for a couple of years. Robert is married to Heather and they have 2 beautiful children, they both have a heart for this generation, and to see your kids grow in their love and life with God!
So if you are in the Wellington region and are wanting to let your son/daughter experience Christ by developing a relationship with the King of kings, keep your eye on this space!!! A page on this site will be devoted to King's Kids Wellington and will be up and available to view in the next coming weeks.
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A radically different kind of leadership
Luke 22:25-27
Leadership
From its central plaza the Romanian capital of Bucharest appears to be one of the richest and most magnificent cities in the world. Everything is built on a grand scale, calculated to impress even the most widely traveled visitor. But a closer look reveals a tragically different reality. Behind the facade of its grandiose public buildings are crumbling slums and crushing poverty.
Nicolae Ceausescu paid for this “movie-set” city by enslaving his own people and robbing them of their dignity. As Romania’s communist dictator, he ruled for decades, becoming progressively more obsessed with his own power and reputation. Eventually, his people overthrew his government and executed him. Ceausescu’s leadership style represents an extreme example of “the kings of the Gentiles” whom Jesus refers to in Luke 22:25.
Thankfully, most of the excesses of leadership that we see today aren’t so harsh. But all leaders are susceptible to the same human tendency to put pride, position and power before the good of the people they lead. Jesus observed this disposition in his disciples and countered it with strong correction. He taught them a radically different style of leadership, and, more important, he modeled it for them.
Although Jesus possessed awesome power, he didn’t use it to impress or lord it over anyone. He lived in quite the opposite spirit. Day after day, Jesus sacrificed his own comfort and desires to serve the people to whom he was sent. He wanted to show his disciples that leadership in God’s kingdom was all about servanthood, and not about power.
Yet after nearly three years of living with Jesus, the disciples still hadn’t fully absorbed this important principle. As they were eating their last meal together (John 13:1-17), Jesus humbled himself to stoop down and wash their feet. This act was dramatically inappropriate for the culture of the day. It embarrassed the disciplesčbut it helped Jesus finally get his message of servant leadership across to them. He concluded by saying, “Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.”
We also will be blessed if we do these things. Those of us who have leadership responsibilities now should be continually modeling our leadership after that of Jesus and other godly Biblical leaders. For those who are not leaders yet, the study of the principles of servant leadership could be part of God’s preparation in their lives.
When God does move us into places of leadership, we need to be constantly on guard against the sin of pride. There is something of the dictator in all of us, and it surfaces when we begin thinking of leadership in terms of position, power and recognition. Those who lead with this kind of spirit will soon stir up jealousy, division and all kinds of abuses.
By contrast, “Jesus-style” leadership is humble, loving and focused on the needs of others. When we follow God’s model, he makes us channels of his blessing to our families, friends and neighbors.
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King's Kids South Island Live in the Mainland and find it difficult to make it to King's Kids outreachs/events up north?
KK South Island has resurrected!!! It's a miracle! >>CHECK OUT THE PROMO VID HERE<< If you have been involved in King's Kids in the past and would like your kids or yourself to be a part of KK South Island, bookmark their website for more details. www.kingskidssouthisland.co.nz
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Leadership Shift Pt. 1
by Loren Cunningham
One of the biggest changes in history is taking place right now and many have hardly noticed. When a major shift of thinking happens it's called a paradigm shift. Such a shift occurred when Columbus discovered the earth was round, not flat. Another paradigm shift was when Peter received a vision of unclean things which he was commanded to eat. God was changing the way things had always been done. Gentiles were to be a part of the Church! It was a radical, unnerving idea. It took the early church awhile to adjust their thinking. The leadership shifted forever from Jerusalem. Never again would it be an all-Jewish club.
Now God is again making radical changes. The leadership of the Church, particularly world missions, is shifting. Christianity is exploding all over Latin America, Africa, and in parts of Asia. We need to see what God is doing and adjust our thinking and the way we do things.
Did you know...
*that just 90 years ago the majority of born again Christians were in North America and Europe--yet today two-thirds of all believers are in Asia, Africa and Latin America?
*that 90 years ago there were only 50,000 evangelicals in all Latin America, from Mexico to the southern tip of Chile--yet today there are 40 million believers in Latin America?
*Seven hundred are being saved every hour in Latin America?
*The second largest church in the world, with 160,000 members, is in Santiago, Chile?
I went to Chile recently for a five-week, 20-city tour. We covered 2,000 miles of that long finger of land, from Arica in the deserts of the north to Punta Arenas, the world's southernmost city (about 600 miles from Antarctica). It is a stunning country, with mountains like the Swiss Alps, fjords like Norway, and glacial beauty like Greenland. It is a land rich with minerals and farmlands.
(to be continued)
[Reprinted with permission from Ministries Today July/August 1993. Copyright Strang Communications Co., USA. All rights reserved. www.ministriestoday.com]
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