Hello friends and family. We enjoyed an amazing time In Opotiki. When we arrived, there was already a band outreach from Harvest Church on the street. They were finishing as we were setting up. It was lovely to meet and fellowship with them.
We managed to get great parking for the buses, next to the barbecue, an answer to prayer. The local people including some homeless there, were very open to receiving prayer and loved the food from God our Father.
Opotiki, town.
Locals receiving a Kai and prayer. We were so blessed to meet them, and Jesus blessed them with hope, joy and love. Thank you Jesus.
Another local man that God touched mightily as we prayed for him.
Russell is being raised up by God to evangelise this whole region. We are excited to hear news of the work God is calling him into
He received an awesome prophesy and great encouragement, thank you Jesus.
Thank you Father God, for sending us to these remote places, so that your promised salvation is available to all. Thank you for your grace and mercy upon us in your beautiful son Jesus.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
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Hello friends in Christ, we arrived in Whakatane on 25th June, staying at a motorcamp on powered sites this time, as they offered a 20% off “special” rate. A lovely motorcamp next to the Whakatane river.
Brother Pio has stayed on in Murupara with brother Ian and his wife Marian, to carry out further deliverance work, there and in Ruatoria.
The Lord has put on his heart to drive out demonic strongholds, such as suicide and abortion, prevalent in these area’s, but not for long, thank you Jesus.
So brother Logan and myself have been led to continue on around the coast from Whakatane, then stop over at Hicks bay for one night. Then we wil move on to Gisbourne to catch the Saturday market there, which we are looking forward to. From there we will head back to pick up brother Pio, then travel on to Mihi, for the Taupo outreach.
Today, at Whakatane Pak ‘n Save, we were positionting our set up next to the supermarket entrance door or the public sidewalk. This turned out to be a very good location, as people could see us, as they went in and out the entrance door.
A steady stream of people came over to receive a sausage and prayer. When we were setting up, a young man insisted on buying food for the barbecue, a real blessing from God. We arrived at 12.30pm, and were busy all the way through to 4.30pm – thank you Lord.
We fellowshipped with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, who were greatly encouraged and thankful to the Lord, for what He is doing there for the community.
A few people received healing and deliverance prayer, while some received a prophetic word from Holy Spirit. Almost all people who came for prayer went through salvation prayer.
101 precious souls declaring Jesus to be their personal Lord and Saviour, glory to Jesus!
We set up next to a man selling balloons and some people who were on a mission with a petition for a new bridge replacement in town.
A man was there with his small speaker playing secular music. Eventually we persuaded him to let us put gospel music on.
This young man shared a great testimony. Not long before he came across our table, he said he was in prayer, asking Jesus for a bible. Moments later his prayer was answered, God is always faithful.
Mathew 7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.
A couple of lovely ladies, blessed forever, in Jesus our Lord and Saviour.
We enjoyed a very blessed time in Whakatane, and the locals appreciated God’s blessings and the all important salvation prayer.
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Hello beloved friends in Christ. Today we visited Kawerau, in Bay of Plenty. Ian, Marion and Tem joined us today, taking over the barbecue duties to free up Brother Logan and myself for ministering to the public, and Brother Pio to sing.
The Holy Spirit lead us to the perfect spot, next to New World. Two people received deliverance and 109 people declared Jesus their saviour. Brother Ian prayed salvation prayer with two people, witnessing a supernatural shift in both immediately. Thank you Jesus.
The people of Kawerau really appreciated the free barbecue. We also handed out quite a few bibles, thank you Lord.
The crew for the day, Ian, Marion, Logan, Pio, Tem and and a sister in Christ who sang a beautiful gospel song.
Kaingaroa Forest Village
Twenty minutes west of Murupara. We were invited to fellowship at New Beginnings Church in Murupara, with a mens breakfast at 8.00am, then service at 10.30.
A couple of people we met at the market outreach attended, which was great to see. A young man invited off the street to the men’s breakfast, and sat down next to me. So I was able to minister with him for a while, then he allowed me to pray for him for new opportunities and educational courses in Rotarua, and made the decision to receive Jesus into his heart. What a divine appointment, thank you Jesus.
We were asked to share what God is doing through the outreach and encourage the church to share the good news. Brother Pio prayed a powerful deliverance prayer with the congregation, addressing the spirit of death, suicide and abortion.
After service we enjoyed lunch and fellowship, then headed of to Kiangaroa village for Barbaque outreach. When we arrived the shop was closed, so not many people around. Brother Tem and Logan went walking the streets to invite people to the barbecue. A few people turned up, with seven souls repeating the salvation prayer.
Kaingaroa is a small village of about 200 residents.
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Kia ora, friends in Christ. We arrived in Murupara on 16th of June. Beloved brother and sister in Christ, Ian and Marion Frazer, invited us to stay with them at their property in Murupara. Ian and Marion greeted us with such love and zeal for the Lord.
They are involved in outreach barbecues, ministry and sharing the good news here and in neighbouring towns. I even met the fruit of this work at Church Without Walls in Rotorua. One meeting, I was fellowshipping with a young man I met, he shared how God’s love and compassion poured out through Ian, as he discipled and prayed with him in Murupara.
He is filled with joy and zeal for the Lord, Glory to Jesus. Ian and Marion are two of the most humble, beautiful, kind and giving people I have met, fruits of the Spirit of God on full display.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, long-suffering,kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Marion is cooking for us everyday, they join us in outreach and continually bless us every day, in so many ways. They have a great compassion for the lost souls, drawing in new local salvations into church, for discipling, with men’s breakfasts, and prayer meetings.
We look forward to attending their local church, New Beginnings, on Sunday, and are referring new believers in Christ there.
We clearly see, this town is in great need for God’s intervention and the power in gospel of Jesus Christ. The region is still reeling from a youth suicide just two weeks ago.
Psalm 72:12-14. For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no helper. He will spare the poor and needy. He will redeem their life from oppression and violence; And precious shall be their blood in His sight.
We did notice the temperature is cooler here than Rotorua. Ian and Miriam offered lodging in their cosy fire heated home.
Both brothers Pio and Logan jumped at the offer, while for me, I am well warm enough under my multiple winter duvets.
Our first outreach here in Murupara was a barbecue at the local shops. We found a community of beautiful, friendly people, as 76 precious souls received the light of Jesus into their hearts.
Holy Spirit positioned us perfectly next to an ATM machine frequently used and the only 4 Square shop in town.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Ruatahuna is located central Te Urewera, 1 hour from Murupara.
We travelled on mostly windy gravel roads, when brother Logan suffering a touch of motion sickness. So we elected him to drive and focus on the road.
We travelled through some of the most beautiful mature native forest I have seen. When we arrived, there were wild horses, grazing just behind where we are standing here, next to the shop.
The town was very quiet. We learned that most of the local people were away at Kapa Haka. We persevered anyway, and we were well rewarded, meeting once again, really friendly, lovely people. Ten of which surrendered their lives to Jesus.
Psalm 19:1. The Heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Psalm 149:4 For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.
Riria blessed brother Logan with a special flax art work.
Riria, received Jesus and a bible, and was touched by God, and truely appreciated the bible.
Proverbs 11:25. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered.
We enjoyed our time at the market. A lovely atmosphere, God’s presence, obviously, with music from brother Pio, singing gospel songs, and this time using our gazebo.
54 blessed souls, declared Jesus as their saviour, hallelujah! We later enjoyed fellowship back home with brother Tom and sister Karon, whom we meet at the market, joining us.
I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son Cleanses us from all sin.
Thank you for joining us on this update, I will now try to post daily updates on our journey with the Lord.
Also just let you know, there are more pages, still in development, coming soon to this website. These will include a monthly news letter and a testimony page, where we will post testimony’s from believers in Christ, of what He has done for them.
We believe when a person shares their personal testimony, ii is very powerful, not only for the hearers, but for themselves, confirming God’s grace and mercy upon them, in what the blood of Jesus has done for them, in healing and deliverance and overcoming sin.
Revelation 12:11. ” And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to death.
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Hi, my name is Paul and this is my blog where I want to share with you, our story as we travel around New Zealand from the North Island to the South Island, preaching the Good News of Jesus Christ wherever we go.
We are a mobile outreach team of volunteers working full-time for The Lord, travelling in two buses, a van and trailer from town to town across New Zealand, evangelising and leading precious souls to our Lord Jesus Christ.
We would like to thank the Lord for brother Gavin and his daughter Jess for the wonderful work in developing this website and outreach graphics design. Amazing talents from God.
Brother Gav is diligently overseeing the outreach’s administration tasks and one-on-one phone call discipleship of new believers in Christ, glory to Jesus.
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brothers born for adversity.
I met fellow evangelists, brothers Logan and Pio on Queen street , Auckland in 2024, mid year whilst evangelizing. Since then, the Lord has placed us together to share the good news of Jesus Christ, all around Auckland.
Then Lord then gave us all the same vision to extend this mission all around New Zealand, providing two buses and a van for us for the outreach. Much of the preparation work took place in February and March of this year.
My dear brother and sister in Christ: Deon and Roleen Claassons.
Deon helped me so much with the work, painting the bus roofs, taking buses in for self-containment inspections and van upgrades.
Deon and his wife Roleen, took me into their home when I lost my job and home rental in October 2024. Of course, the Lord was leading me into a new season, transitioning from the worldly system, into the Kingdom calling and vision He had given me.
It has been a great blessing from God, to have spent this time with my beloved friends in Christ. In this time they moved to Waiwera, where God has a mighty calling for them. Amen.
Mark 9: 41 “for whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward”
Then we set off from Auckland, end of March 2025. Our first destination was Hamilton, Pirongia being our first camp, 25 minutes from Hamilton. We would commute from there to Hamilton daily. We also stayed at Karakariki Christian camp for one week, after the second week at Pirongia.
Then we (myself, brothers Logan and Pio) met Steve Senn and Jennette from MMM ( Mobil Mission Maintenance ) based in Pirongia. They blessed us with great fellowship and hospitality. We also met Ps Dave Firth from Kaipaki Bible Church.
We attended service there and Dave kindly blessed Souls for Christ with over 100 bibles to hand out on the street. We also fellowshipped at Manifest Love Church, this was the Holy Spirit’s choice of referral for new believers on the streets of Hamilton.
Our campsite was at Mountain Folk cafe in Pirongia. The camp manager, Alan was very helpful and kind to us.
MMM Headquarters, with Steve and Jennette, our dear brother and sister in Christ.
Ps Dave dropped off bibles with us at Hamilton Lake outreach.
We did some outreach in Hamilton for six weeks. In that time Holy Spirit, frequently led us to Frankton Market, Center Place mall and bus station, The Base mall, Garden Place and Hamilton Lake. We offered free barbecues in Frankton and Lake Hamilton and saw many salvations.
Our beloved sister in Christ and fellow evangelist Sue. Sue had heard about Souls for Christ barbecue at Hamilton lake and, then decided to join us on two seperate occasions.
She ministered and encouraged us and the public the whole time she was with us. It really seemed that God had sent an angel to us.
Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing, some have unwittingly entertained Angels.
Brother Pio passionately preaching in Frankton.
Brother Pio is an ordained pastor and deliverance minister, with many miraculous testimonies.
Luke 10:19 ” Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Brother Logan, preaching across the road at Centre Place mall.
This location produced a great harvest for the Kingdom of Heaven.Many souls surrendered their lives to Jesus and on one day, 190 souls surrendered their lives to Him, glory to Jesus.
We saw God’s mercy and Spirit pouring out upon the people, with many healings and deliverances.
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God
Brother Logan with some new brothers and sisters in Christ.
Every new believer in Christ receives a discipleship manual and church referral flyer to the local church.
Brother Logan preaching at Lake Hamilton.
We were later told that his (brother Logan) booming voice carried all the way across the other side of the domain into a random man’s living room, apparently.
He came over from his home and told us, that even his children were all talking about Jesus as they could hear him across the way. I said, “Praise the Lord”. He wasn’t filled with the same joy as me, but I hope someday he will be.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edge sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joint and marrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents the heart.
Group of youth on fire for Jesus outside Centre Place mall. Many souls after repeating salvation prayer, light up instantly, as God touches them in a mighty way, in that time.
Thank you Jesus!
Ephesians 5: 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
Ps Geoff Winter, at Manifest Love Church.
Geoff, a beautiful Spirit filled man leading a Spirit filled Church. We enjoyed sharing testimony and the outreach there.
Romans 8:14 For as many are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Huntly barbecue outreach, with 84 salvations that day.
We had a wonderful time there ministering and fellowshipping with the locals. We also enjoyed our time in Ngaruawahia, witnessing that 103 souls received Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.
After six weeks in Waikato, 2464 precious souls in total, declared Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
We record each name in our note books, if they are comfortable for us to do so, so that we can pray and intercede for them every day. At times we will, take selfies of them and if they share their contact details with us, Gav does a follow up call a week later to check in and pray with them or couselling as needed, as mentioned before.
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
After six weeks it was time to move to Putaruru, a sister in Christ, Natasha, offered us to park the buses on her land just out of town.
Natasha has a great gift of hospitality. We enjoyed our stay there, as we visited neighbouring towns, Tokoroa, Matamata, Mangakino and Cambridge.
I will note that we did enjoy a soak in the natural hot pools along the way. Thank you Lord for highlighting them instantly where ever we go.
Matamata Barbecue outreach, next to New World.
75 souls received life giving prayer of salvation that day.
Private camp at Natasha’s home in Putaruru.
Natasha opened up her home to us, and has been blessed with a loving gift of hospitality. We are so thankful to our Father in Heaven for His everlasting faithfulness in providing all our needs every step of the way.
Tokoroa barbecue outreach in Brother Pio’s home town.
Brother Pio is truely an anointed singer, as these young ladies dance with joy in The Lord, hallelujah!
The people there really received God’s love with two free barbecues, bottled water and free bibles. 229 souls all up, received Jesus as their personal saviour.
Also everyone received a discipleship handbook. All glory to Jesus! and all the work of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Psalm 33:3 Sing to Him a new song; Play skilfully with a shout of joy.
Mangakino, was a real surprise, when we arrived at the only block of shops in town, it was very quiet.
But sure enough Holy Spirit was not wrong in leading us there, as a flow of locals came in to get supplies. They also received the love of Jesus in a mighty way as 74 precious souls turned from darkness to light.
Our next destination was Tauranga, brother Steve from Pirongia, made some inquiries for us and secured a beautiful location on a small horse farm in Te Puna.
Brother in Christ, Murray invited us to stay there in a paddock for two weeks. We enjoyed our time there as Murray and his wife were lovely hosts. They loaded us up with fresh advocardo’s from their tree.
While there we witnessed the gosple of Jesus in Tauranga city, outside Waikato university, Mount Maunginui, Papamoa plaza, Mayfair mall, The Crossing mall and Te Puke.
We also stayed at another location in Welcome bay, at the NZMCA camp. Upon arrival we realised there was no shower or toilet there., but a fellow camper recommended us another camp close by called Ngapeke Permaculture.
So we relocated there after one night at NZMCA camp. I will note that the outreach buses are fully self-contained but the lads (Pio and Logan) are not small men to fit into the neat little cubicles – sorry lads!!
Another bonus was the hot pools 3 minutes down the road, thank You Lord.
Camp at Brother Murray and families farm.
A beautiful farm, well maintained and such a joy to stay there. Close to Tauranga and neighbouring towns.
Ngapeke Permaculture campsite in Welcome Bay.
A lovely location, the host Reener was lovely and is involved with community outreach supporting local struggling families with produce from the farm.
Mount Maunganui beach.
We had a couple of outreaches here, with one a barbecue. The Lord received 88 salvations here. Sometimes we sow more than reap in certain places.
We have found in our experience , in more affluent areas, people are less responsive to the gospel. They may think they are comfortable and don’t need God. What they don’t understand, is they came from Him and He loves them and He died for them, so they could live. However we trust in Him to water the seeds we have sown by the Holy Spirit.
The Lord did lead us to a very Spirit filled church in Tauranga called Freedom Church, which we attended services and referred all the new salvations to.
Thank you Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
Tauranga City Centre was a bit quiet, but the lord drew a few more into the Kingdom of Heaven from Cameron road, 70 souls all up.
We had so much fun here at a big skate park in Mount Maunganui.
We put on a free barbecue for the youth, and prayer for all who wanted one, including a few of the parents there. Jesus received 87 blessed souls that day and 567 overall for Tauranga.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Mathew 18:10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you in Heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Next stop was Rotorua.
Brother in Christ, Ross Massam, a friend of brother Logan’s, invited us to stay at Lakes Ranch Christian camp.
A very large and beautiful camping ground, 20 minutes from Rotorua. God just keeps blessing us with better and better campsites.
They even have a hot pool, we could use. Amy in charge of admin there, was very accommodating and Caleb invited us for fellowship.
We very much enjoyed our stay there. We also connected with sister Kariana Black whom I had met previously through the One Party, now the New Zeal party.
We joined her and Ps Marty for service at Church Without Walls near the lake water front. We shared about the outreach at the meeting, then they invited us for fellowship after at the local cafe.
We enjoyed our time with them, thank you Lord, and we were all greatly encouraged. We referred new salvations in Rotorua, to this loving Spirit filled church.
Two new brothers in Christ actually turned up for service on our last fellowship there, which was very encouraging. Ps Marty came out to meet us at the town centre mall. The emphasis on the great commission of sharing the Good News of Jesus, was at the forefront of fellowship at Church Without Walls.
Church Without Walls started in the pandemic, when the restrictions came into action in New Zealand. Praise the Lord, a church that would not bow down to persecution, but were led by God to the park, to continue worshiping Him, standing steadfastly on our Rock and salvation, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Colossians 3:2 set your mind on things above, not on things on earth.
Lakes Ranch Campsite.
20 minutes from Rotorua, our favourite campsite so far, in a lovely location. The camp is big, which could be separated into five different blocks. We were blessed with one of them, all powered sites, with shower, toilet, laundry and hot pool facilities.
Lovely staff, whom we fellowshipped with. Amy and Caleb were very helpful.
Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus
Rotorua town, barbecue outreach.
The Holy Spirit led us to a street where homeless people were sleeping next to the Salvation Army. The staff from the Salvation Army came out to meet us and we heard about how they feed the homeless.
I have seen these beautiful people come out with a tea trolley filled with cups of tea or coffee for them. The Lord blessed them with the sausage sizzle, which of course comes with that vital salvation prayer.
Nearly all of them surrendering their hearts to Jesus. They were hungry and needed love. God met their needs, praise to Him. A few days later, we heard the police went there and had forceably removed them from the site.
Thankfully we found out a local church had taken them in. Hallelujah, answer to prayer.
Proverbs 19:17 He Who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay back what he has given.
Rotorua central town, witnessing and preaching.
A great day with many people open to hearing the Good News and 72 souls repeating the salvation prayer and a total of 593 souls for our time in Rotorua.
We also attended the Saturday market twice, which produced the greatest harvest of souls, to be restored, healed and redeemed by Jesus.
Church Without Walls
We enjoyed fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ here. We were blessed by their love and hospitality, as we worshiped our precious Lord and Saviour.
Psalm 100: Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands! Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
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