In August, Laidlaw College hosted a Leaders Day in Christchurch with guest speakers Dr Darrell Bock and Dr Sarah Harris.

Welcome to the July edition of Laidlaw’s Encounter newsletter.

It wasn’t the usual term break for a Laidlaw lecturer! Putting the research books aside, Tim Meadowcroft spent nine days in April in the role of Chaplain on board P&O’s Pacific Pearl round trip cruise from Auckland to Vanuatu.

Meet Roxette Falesima, a second year Bachelor of Ministries student at Laidlaw's Henderson campus.

I was working through John’s account of the Feeding of the 5000 in John 6:1–15 yesterday and realised something I hadn’t noticed. The miracle is the only one found in all four Gospels (Mark 6; Matt 14; Luke 9).

What is a Kiwi? Well, according to the freedictionary.com it is “Any of several flightless birds of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand, having vestigial wings and a long slender bill. Also called apteryx.” This led me to look up vestigial wings, which are apparently things on the body that have lost most or all of their ancestral function; in the case of the Kiwi, the ability to fly.