Matthew & Rachel McNulty

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It has a land area of 195,364 sq km.

The capital city is Wellington

English and Māori are the official languages.

Religion:
Christian (55.6 %).

Time difference is
GMT + 12.

Matthew and Rachel McNulty: Eastwest College of Intercultural Studies, New Zealand

Matthew was born into Rayners Lane Baptist Church and passed through all the stages of Sunday School and Youth work. Serious ill-health interrupted his university studies and his future plans. Once recovered, he dropped his CAD studies in favour of studying for youth work and ministry at Oasis & Spurgeon’s College. Matthew & Rachel met at Union Baptist Church when Matthew was leading the youth work and Rachel was ‘passing through’ doing volunteer work. Together, they responded to the call of their hearts - and got married; and then the call of God to prepare for their part in fulfilling His Great Commission – by going to Eastwest College of Intercultural Studies in New Zealand to prepare for what God has in store for their future. This is where we find them now. They are in their final term of the first year of a two year course and have written....

“......WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO NEXT.....

In our last letter we mentioned that we have been thinking and considering where God may be leading us and what might be our next step. We are now pretty sure that God is leading us to South East Asia, and we have started to approach different organisations to discover what they are doing in the area and the kind of workers that they want to join them in their projects.

We know that God’s timing is right, we don’t always need to know everything now nor would it necessarily be good for us to know everything now. Please do be praying for us as we have many questions and ideas about what we might do, and the order that we might do them in and each of these will have consequences on things we will have to start doing next year, i.e. applications to organisations and for visas etc.”

Please pray for:

Endurance and patience in this last term of the year.
To get the rest that we need with college and work.
New staff members that are arriving this term, a Kiwi lady and a Korean family.
For wisdom about our flat and mortgage, and a final decision.
That we will continue to learn to communicate well and understand each other

Contact details:

                   Eastwest College, 21 College Drive,
                   Gordonton, RD1, Taupiri 3791
                   New Zealand
                   Email: matt.p.mcnulty@googlemail.com

New Zealand has a population of over 4.3 million. (June 2010)

The flag of New Zealand is a defaced Blue Ensign with the Union Flag in the canton, and four red stars with white borders to the right. The stars represent the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross.

Past History

New Zealand is one of the most recently settled major landmasses. The first known settlers were Eastern Polynesians who, according to most researchers, arrived by canoe in about AD 1250–1300. Over the following centuries these settlers developed into a distinct culture now known as Māori. The population was divided into iwi (tribes) and hapū (subtribes) which would cooperate, compete and sometimes fight with each other.