Ngā Ara Akoranga
Study Pathways
AMORANGI
KI MUA
WHAKATIPU
MINITA
KAWEA TE
RONGOPAI
TUIA TE HERE
RANGATAHI
Kia tino rite ai te hunga tapu mō te mahi minita, mō te hanga i te whare, nei rā i te tinana o te Karaiti – Epeha 4:12
A NEW GENERATION OF KAIKARAKIA
Amorangi ki Mua
“Ka mea anō a Ihu ki a rātau…i tonoa mai ahau e te Matua, ka pērā anō tāku tono i a koutou” / “Jesus said to them…As the Father has sent me, so I send you”
– Hoani 20:21
The season has arrived for our Hāhi in Te Tairāwhiti to renew itself and to renew our impact on our whānau, communities and society.
Amorangi ki Mua follows Te Karaiti’s own model for mission given to the disciples and will seek to discern, form, and commission 60 new Kaikarakia in Te Tairāwhiti in the next three years: Advent 2021 – Advent 2024.
Engari matua rapangia tōna rangatiratanga, me āna mea tika;
ā ka tapiritia ēnei mea katoa mā koutou
But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well
Matiu 6.33
DISCERNMENT & FORMATION
Whakatipu Minita
“Kia tae katoa rā anō tātau ki te kotahitanga o te whakapono, o te mātauranga hoki ki te Tama ā te Atua, kia tino tangata, kia eke ki te mehua o te tino kaumātuatanga e tutuki ai ki tō te Karaiti“
– Epeha 4.13
Our Hāhi needs many different kinds of minita to serve our people. God calls everyone: rangatahi and kaumatua, tāne and wāhine, whairawa and rawakore. Ministers come from all walks of life, backgrounds and educational abilities.
A number of people are also called to serve in more formally recognized capacities, that is through the Church’s authorized lay and ordained ministries.
For these particular callings, the Hāhi must test your sense of vocation through its discernment process and form you for ministry.
TRC training offers flexibility to study for ministry alongside other commitments of mahi or whānau as well as enabling you to continue living, working and worshiping in your own local context.
WĀNANGA & TRAINING
Residential wānanga and workshops cover a range of topics in mission, theology, biblical studies and pastoral theology, and the emphasis is always on making connections between what is being learned in the classroom and ministry practice, and seeking to integrate existing skills and experience.
This means that significant threads running through all of our academic programmes are spiritual formation and practical skills. In addition, students undertake independent learning, reflection and practice in home parishes.
Training includes teaching sessions, time for reading, and completing assignments. Training in this way is both stimulating and stretching. We provide personal support and guidance to each student through kaiwhakaako, and local priests.
CULTURAL PILGRIMAGE
Kawea Te Rongopai
For over 20 years, Te Rau College has provided innumerable students with immersive pilgrimage experiences – bringing vivid engagement with the land, peoples, and ancient stories of Te Tairāwhiti and Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa. Tracing the pathways of our ancestors, we don’t only visit our most significant and sacred sites, we live them and invite you to live them with us.
A five to fourteen day immersion experience, Kawea Te Rongopai journeys across our tribal landscape and through our communities as we recall how the Gospel seed was first planted in our whenua, how it has been nurtured over time, and how Māori have renegotiated their mātauranga (knowledge and ways of knowing) embracing “both continuity and change.”1
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS
Tuia Te Here Rangatahi
NGĀ KURA MĀORI
Te Rau College works with our Māori boarding schools, Te Aute Kāreti and Hukarere Māori Girls College, to implement our Ka Tipu Ka Hua programme in hostels. This programme offers pastoral support, discipleship and mentoring for the young men and women attending our last two Māori Anglican Boarding Schools.
With such a rich Mihinare history indelibly intertwined with the development of the the Hāhi and Māoridom in Aotearoa and boasting such luminaries among its alumni as Te Moananui a Kiwa Ngarimu VC, Sir Apiranga Ngata, Mereana Tangata, Sir Maui Pomare, Te Rangi Hiroa, Paraire Tomoana, Meremere Petricevich, Ngoi Pewhairangi, Archbishop William Brown Turei, Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, Pakariki Harrison, Sir Peter Sharples, and Dr Linda Smith, Te Rau College and Te Tairāwhiti are committed to supporting the significant contribution and impact these kura make to Aotearoa and beyond.
TE PĀREKEREKE
The Te Pārekereke Social Enterprise Project prepares rangatahi to contribute to the social and economic aspirations of their community through project-based learning aligned to skills that include project management, budgeting, relationship development and networking, team-work, solutions-thinking and problem solving, innovation and entrepreneurship, and fundraising–all while being discipled in growing in and living out their whakapono in all they do.
Through this project rangatahi are motivated to achieve their God-given purpose in life in a safe and collaborative space where creative and innovative ideas, can be incubated and brought to fruition by rangatahi for the iwi.
RED SHIRT PROJECT
TThe Red Shirt Project is an annual pilgrimage for rangatahi to Red Shirt, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, USA. Te Tairāwhiti has facilitated involvement and teaching through its companion relationship with the Diocese of LA since 2015 and the project itself has been running for over 20 years. Through the Red Shirt Project, rangatahi are able to experience and learn about the lives, culture, and faith of our indigenous whanaunga in the U.S., all while sharing our experience as Mihinare and indigenous Christians.
Red Shirt is the flagship pilgrimage for rangatahi under the Te Kawea Te Rongopai programme which includes facilitating rangatahi involvement in additional pilgrimages in Tairāwhiti and internationally.
Hui Tōpū
Music, Arts & Faith Festival
I hakiri te reo / ka whakaeke te Tairāwhiti / ki te whakanui i te Hui Tōpū
The roots of Hui Tōpū extend back over 100 years. Originally gathering minita and whānau in the early years to discuss the mission and ministry of the Hāhi, it grew through the 20th century to include a youth conference, a debutantes’ ball, a pāriha choir competition, games and sports competitions, and a cultural festival. Many of the waiata composed especially for each Hui Tōpū continue to be sung as pāriha and iwi standards to this day. By the 1950s, the hui attracted 1000s of attendees from across the motu and its competitions served as the precursor to the major Kapa Haka festivals of today.
Hui Tōpū was relaunched in Easter, 2019, with a focus on rangatahi; with games, sports, obstacle challenges, & Easter egg hunts for kohungahunga & rangatahi during the day and waiata, himene, haka, & whakangahau in the evening.
With pāriha, rohe, kura, and whānau from across Te Tairāwhiti taking the stage, performances showed the amazing depth, beauty, & breadth of our collective songbook & gave a glimpse of the skill of the masterful composers in our whakapapa, in Te Tairawhiti & in the Hahi. Between performances, several kaumatua shared their experiences of Hui Topu held in decades past.
Hearkening to the choir contests of old, choral items were judged with Hikurangi Pāriha taking top honours in the first Hui Tōpū of the new century.
The focus of Hui Tōpū into the future is to run a regular festival over Easter – creating a space for rangatahi, whānau, and iwi to express and celebrate our whakapono, our whakapapa, our waiata and haka, and being together as whānau.
CONTACT US
Whakapā Mai
Tūranganui ā Kiwa / Gisborne, NZ
+64 (9) 867 8856
enquiries@teraucollege.ac.nz