The theme for the conference was centered around the training of leaders titled, “Bigger, Better, Stronger”, and also included: a joint Church service with Raglan community members invited, an auction to raise funds supported by Backdoor Surf Shop, a very entertaining and humorous 45 minute clip called “the way we used to be”, reports, shots, DVDs and talks on looking outside of N.Z, as well as solid feedback from our N.Z group leaders. The training was part of CS International’s mandate for all national Christian Surfers Missions to deliver and in hope of growth. The conference was well supported by many different age groups, overseas visitors and the weather and waves were pretty good too – solid wack-able waves with the line up packed with CSNZ crew brought the CS family together.

Matt Foster, Alan Vink, and Deane Hishon ran teaching sessions on Servant Leadership, CS Core Values/Fundamentals and Partnering with Local Churches. Brian Krum (guest speaker), spoke a timely message at the Sunday Night church service asking the question, “are you effective?” – delivering a very powerful, well constructed and relevant message.

CSNZ is very active, and having a solid conference, run by a dedicated local team, and seeing a great crew coming together for an awesome Labour Weekend event - “Bigger, Better, Stronger in God”, sets pace for exciting times ahead.

“A Christian Presence and Witness – Surfers Reaching Surfers and their Communities”