We're excited to announce three staff vacancies at The Street Church:

Youth Associate Pastor

Work alongside our Youth Pastor, Matt Swank, to provide leadership and administrative support to our Youth Ministry. This role offers an incredible opportunity to be coached in Youth Ministry and play a key part in helping our young people become total followers of Jesus Christ.

Night Location Pastor

We're seeking a leader for the Night Location Pastor role. This position provides leadership for our Night community and offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your leadership and pastoral skills under the guidance of Senior Pastors, Simon and Jenny Gill.

Mt Vic Location Pastor

We're seeking expressions of interest for the Mt Vic Location Pastor role. If you're sensing a call from God to be involved in the leadership of the Mt Vic location, we'd love to hear from you! Please get in touch, and we'll connect you with Simon and Jenny Gill to explore this calling further.

To find out more, contact office@thestreet.org.nz to request a job description or to request a meeting to discuss these roles further.

Applications Close on the 20th of May.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Are you passionate about church ministry and eager to progress in your discipleship journey? If so, our 2024 Internship Program may be the perfect opportunity for you! We are excited to invite applications, offering you the chance to work closely with one of our dedicated ministry pastors. An internship is a transformative adventure, nurturing your growth in leadership, discipleship, and providing invaluable insights into ministry.

Click on the link below to apply.
Internship Application
Please note that applications close on the 27th of October.

Or if you would like more information or to talk to someone further about internships please email internships@thestreet.org.nz

We are delighted to inform you of some pastoral roles that we have available. Please find more details below on these roles and get in touch with the office if you would like more information or if you would like to have a conversation with someone about these roles.

Children's Pastor Role:

We are actively searching for a passionate and caring individual to join Emma Roche in supporting our Children's Ministry. This part-time position will play a significant role in shaping the spiritual growth of our children across all of our Locations. If you have a heart for children and a calling to guide them in their faith journey, we encourage you to prayerfully consider applying for this position. Applications for the Children's Pastor role will be open until the 14th of August.

Part-Time Location Pastors:

In line with our multi-location direction, we are appointing part-time Location Pastors for our East, Hutt, Porirua, and Mt Vic locations. If you sense that God is leading you to serve and lead the people of your Location, we would love to hear from you. The role involves being the primary leader of your Location and leading the location leadership team. This role will be under the guidance and support of our Senior Pastor, Simon Gill. These roles can be fulfilled on either a voluntary or paid basis. Applications for the part-time Location Pastors will remain open until the positions are filled.

We believe that each of these roles is an opportunity to serve and grow within our church family, and we are excited to see how God will work through these new additions to our team.

If you feel called to apply for any of these positions or desire more information about the roles, please contact the church office. We will be more than happy to provide you with the necessary details and, if needed, connect you with someone for a conversation about any of these opportunities.

The Street Church has a Board of Elders that provide spiritual oversight and direction for the overall church. In May 2023, we welcomed Matt Bate onto the Elder Board. Matt, his wife Jo, and their two sons live in Lower Hutt and are key leaders at the Hutt location. Here’s the video if you missed it!

We are delighted to offer a pastoral role to support our Night location team while our current pastor, Anna, is on maternity leave. This temporary position presents an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to make a meaningful contribution to our church community.

As a member of our Night location team, you will play a key role in ensuring that our Night location runs smoothly. Working closely with our Lead Pastor, Tom Field, you will receive guidance and support as you take on this temporary pastoral role, where you will have the chance to learn and develop new skills while providing valuable support to our staff team and congregation.

If you are interested in this pastoral role, we encourage you to review the cover letter and job description for more information. If you believe this would be a good fit for you, we invite you to apply by filling out the provided application form. We look forward to hearing from you and potentially welcoming you to our Night location team.

Dear church whānau,

As we journey together as one church, it’s important to keep you up to date with some of the significant steps we’re taking. For the latest update on City’s local services, watch Simon and Jenny’s update. We’re also planning a follow-up before Christmas.

Much love

Simon and Jenny

Dear church family,

Firstly, we would like to thank you so much for the time, prayer, and consideration that you have provided to the Elders and leadership through this consultation process. It has shown that you care deeply about this church and are passionate about seeing our facilities used for God's purposes.

This week, our Elders and leaders came to the united decision that we will not pursue this proposal with the Wellington Christian Education Project any further. We realise that this will come as a relief to some and be a disappointment to others.

There are a number of factors that played into this decision but one stands out above them all. 2022 has been a year of significant change for our church and we are conscious that we have not yet concluded some of these changes. As Elders and leaders, we have a growing clarity and excitement over where the Lord is leading us, particularly in the areas of making disciples and gathering in local communities. These are the things that require our focus and it has become clear that to pursue the school proposal would detract from our ability to pursue them.

We want to take this opportunity to thank Mark Larson from WECP. He is a great ambassador for Christian schooling and the Lord, and we pray that God will clearly show them the next steps in their journey. We would also encourage those of you who are passionate about a Christian school being established in Wellington to continue praying about this. We know that God can make a way even when it seems impossible.

Much love

The Street Church Elders and Leadership

Anna Field talks to Nick and Sarah about how things are going with The Way.

The Street Church has been approached by the Wellington Christian Education Project regarding using the Life Centre for a Christian School in the CBD.

We have come to a place as Elders and leaders where we believe this could be something the Lord is calling us into. The next step for us is to invite feedback from the wider church on this question. Please be assured that our desire to enter consultation is genuine, and any commitment is contingent on this process. To support this process, we have put together a document outlining the nature of the commitment and providing answers to questions we expect you to have. You can read it here.

If you are part of our church community, then please take some time to prayerfully consider this proposal and then send comments and questions to questions@thestreet.org.nz. The deadline for this is 25 September.

Our Senior Pastors Simon & Jenny, and Jerram (Lead Pastor of our City location) provide an update to the whole church around our local services.

In the video, we promised you an FAQs document, which hopefully answers some of the questions you may have. Click here to view that. If there are other questions that come to mind unanswered in the document, please send them through to city@thestreet.org.nz or get in touch with your Lead Pastor.

Matt Conway, chair of the elders, gives an update on the appointment of new Senior Pastors for The Street Church: Simon and Jenny Gill.

2020 has been a year with plenty of surprises.

From the perspective of the church, we’ve had to grapple with different ways of being the church. To ask what it means to be the church, how we engage with our society, and how we can share the gospel in our time.

Through this time Nick and Sarah have felt a strong and growing sense of call to a new season of mission. Today we are sharing that Nick and Sarah are stepping down as Senior Pastors to pursue this call.

The Street has always been a sending church. A hundred years ago we started as a mission, not a church. That heartbeat remains and we remain on mission as The Church.

In April 2021, Nick and Sarah will be starting a missional, disciple-making movement based in people’s homes, which they have called The Way. Take a look at the video below to find out more.

We are deeply grateful for Nick and Sarah’s leading, service, and care for us over the last 24 years. And there will be many opportunities in coming months to honour them for everything they’ve given to The Street. In the meantime, we invite you to join with us in praying for The Way, and this new era for our church.

We will be commissioning Nick and Sarah for this new season of ministry in the New Year. If you have any questions in the meantime, in the first instance get in touch with your Lead Pastor.

Our latest Missions Newsletter is out! If you would like to be emailed the newsletter you can sign up by emailing merrie.reddington@thestreet.org.nz, if you would like a paper copy ask one of the Connections team at the service on Sunday

Our latest Missions Newsletter is out! If you would like to be emailed the newsletter you can sign up by emailing merrie.reddington@thestreet.org.nz, if you would like a paper copy you can find them at the Connections desk at City.

Praying for our Missionaries: Rachel Duff

We love hearing from our missionaries and supporting them in prayer - check out what’s happening for Rachel.

Hi everyone,

For those who don’t know me: I’m Rachel and I grew up in the lovely Palmy North, studied in Dunners and then making The Street my home, I worked in Wellington for 5 years as a Physiotherapist. Last May I quit my job and travelled up through South America finishing in Mexico where I completed a Discipleship school at a YWAM base in Mazatlan. Making my way home in Feb 2020 I planned to work for 6 months in the mighty Naki (where my folks live) then make my way back to Mexico to volunteer on their medical ship and brigades.

Needless to say Covid has delayed the plan a wee bit but I feel at peace staying in NZ and continuing to prepare myself for Mexico as much as possible.

I've been very blessed to have such amazing parents to 'shelter' me over this time and a great job. I know this is where i am supposed to be for a time but am just waiting for things to open back up. Mexico is not in great shape currently but the Mazatlan base is up and running and trying to function as best they can.

Hasta luego amigos

Married couples have had very different lockdown experiences. Some marriages are thriving, others are struggling, and others could just do with a tune-up. We've put together some thoughts and reflections to build into your marriage: 

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Parenting is a word bursting with meaning and pregnant with possibilities! Every journey of parenting is breaking new ground. Prepare to Parent is a course designed to inspire and equip you as you navigate this new path and to give you time and space to discover some of what lies ahead.

We are about to run The Street's very own Prepare to Parent course for the very first time at East.  Due to the lock down, it's going to look a little different to how we expected it to, but we are so excited for parents to be equipped and inspired by this course. Starting very soon!

In our Sunday services, we're looking at the book of Genesis. We know this book raises lots of questions.

To help you explore, we're creating a set of short companion videos for this series. You'll find them on the Resources page of The Street website, under the Media menu.

We'll be releasing the videos as we go along. The first one is live right now! It looks at how science supports the big idea behind Genesis chapter one.

https://www.thestreet.org.nz/our-resources/genesis