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"...we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, His power and the wonders He has done. . . so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget His deeds but would keep His commands." Psalm 78

The above image is taken at Te Waka Karaitiana, the Maori Synod Press, at Whakatane in July 1963, with the Printery Manager, Mr L McKeown.

The following published historical articles have been written by the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand Archives Research Centre. Please click on the article you wish to read which will open in a new window.

Methodist "Touchstone" Magazine :

August 2005 : Statistics Couldn't Retrieve 'Lost' Presbyterians

July 2005 : Bundles of History in Your Own Drawers

June 2005 : Budget 'Crisis' Not the First

May 2005 : Central Administration Rose Amidst Strains of Controversy

April 2005 : History of Church Office Waits to be Written

March 2005 : Church's Long Tussle over Acceptable Marriage

February 2005 : Junk Mail Challenges Church Archivists

December 2004 : Flukes of History Preserve Archives

November 2004 : History Repeats in Sorry Tales of Lost Archives

October 2004 : Letters Evoke Spirit of War and the Holy Land

September 2004 : When the "Fire of God" Glowed in Dunedin 

August 2004 : Long Winding Road to NZ Book of Order

July 2004 : Tales of the Manse Shed Light in Dark Corners

April 2004 : Southern Revivals Sought Local Elijahs

February 2004 : "Perils of Preservation"

December 2003 : "The Absent History of the Young Men's Bible Class Union"

September 2003 : "Unity from Necessity in the Goldfields of Otago"

June 2002 : "A Bloated Abomination"

November 2001 : Whose Conscience ?

Various Publications :

Sept 2004 : Celebrating 50 Years of Te Aka Puaho

Apr 2001 "To Be or Not to Be....? Presbyterian Journalism from 1862 to 2001"

Sept 2000 : The Cinematograph and Mission Propaganda"

Mar 2000 : "Finding the Symbol of Church"

Nov 1999 : "Recalling the Birth of "The Harvest Field"

May 1999 : Learning Storage Lessons the Hard Way

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