ICPE NEW ZEALAND
Directors: Wimpie & Chairny Santoso
Address: Institute for World Evangelisation – ICPE Mission,
St Gerard's Monastery, 75 Hawker Street,
Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 801 7797
E-mail: new-zealand@icpe.org
 

See events, reports, testimonies below, or photos

The ICPE New Zealand Mission Centre is located at St Gerard's Monastery on Mt Victoria, Wellington, boasting a spectacular view of Wellington harbour and the capital city itself. The Monastery and Church, built by the Redemptorists in 1932 and 1908 respectively, are considered a historic landmark. The ICPE mission purchased these buildings, and an ICPE community was started in 1995.

The aim of this Mission Centre is to be a lighthouse to the city of Wellington as well as reach out to New Zealand and the South Pacific. Among the local ongoing ministries are: Prison Ministries and weekly Sunday Eucharist with Children’s Ministry. ICPE community members are also involved in serving at the local soup kitchen and a hospice, running and supporting prayer meetings and retreats, working with the Korean community, and providing music ministry. A Worship Night is held every last Friday of the month which is open to the public.

Regularly teams travel to various parts of New Zealand to conduct parish missions, school retreats in Catholic Colleges and outreaches to youth, and mission teams have been involved in outreaches in the South Pacific as well as in various Asian countries.

One of the main ministries of ICPE New Zealand consists in running annual Schools of Missions which attract participants from New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America.

Check the panels below for any upcoming events or reports and testimonies for this mission centre...

Events Dates
School of Missions 2010-02-14 2010-07-04

Reports
NZ School of Mission Blog
Description: Find out what’s happening at the 2009 School of Mission on our blog...
Fantastic mission at Rangiora parish
Description: Rangiora Catholic Parish has just had a fantastic mission, led by the ICPE TEAM from Wellington. From the time they walked in the door it was all action for 8 days...
On the streets of Wellington
Description: The month of June is outreach month for the School of Missions in New Zealand. Our students and staff have been proclaiming the Good News on the streets of Wellington, in prisons, schools and colleges around the city...
News from ICPE New Zealand
Description: Greetings from Down Under... and welcome to our part of the world!
Parish Missions in New Zealand
Description: Down in New Zealand, the last few months have been a time of high activity, with parish missions around the country - from inner city settings to quiet cattle country sides.
10 years of Missionary service in NZ
Description: The missionaries at St Gerard's Monastery have many reasons to celebrate God's faithfulness. This past year marked 10 years since the Mission Centre was officially opened by Cardinal Thomas Williams at the end of 1995. To commemorate this special occa
News from New Zealand
Description: There have been a lot of new ventures in St. Gerard's Monastery during the last few months ranging from home improvement to building up the monastery as a house of prayer and parish and school missions.
GROW ASIA - Give the Redeemer Our Worship Asia
Description: On the 18th of September, 2005, we, brought to a close six weeks of mission in South East Asia, namely South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia.
School of Mission 2005 Testimonies
Description: The ICPE School of Mission 2005 has just been completed at our base in New Zealand and here's what the participants had to say...
WOMAN TO WOMAN NEWS ITEM
Description: One of the Woman to Woman ministries in New Zealand is that of weekend retreats - an opportunity for women to get away from the busyness of family, children and work and be refreshed both physically and spiritually. In September and October two retreats
"Go Asia" Outreach
Description: ...This was the verse I saw when I opened my journal to record my thoughts of the Go! Asia mission and I felt so much joy and amazement reading it because it spoke to me of what we have just done – obeying the Lord’s command and proclaiming th
Staff Formation kicks off in New Zealand
Description: ICPE New Zealand began a two-year Staff Formation programme, at St. Gerard’s Monastery, Wellington. The seven participants are all members who have been in previous ICPE schools of missions...
Look for Your Own Calcutta
Description: As a missionary in New Zealand, one often is asked, "Do we really need missionaries here?" The reaction is even stronger if one speaks about doing mercy work or humanitarian work - "But there are not so many poor people here!" If anyone would speak of ...
UNITY IN DIVERSITY: ICPE NZ involved in a Celebration of Lay & Ecclesial ..
Description: 27th July saw 300 people gather at St Patrick's College, Kilbirnie for a Day of Lay and Ecclesial Movements, representing twenty groups such as Engaged Encounter, Life Teen and others. This was the third such event in three years, organised as a direct re
Most of all they touched my life
Description: It may not be true that I am a born again teen-age priest, but it is certain that our nine young missionaries touched my life, touched me to the point of changing me. I'm sure that all who experienced them during the week can say the same...
COMING BACK HOME!
Description: Participants and Staff members of the recently held School of Evangelisation were on outreach in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand... In Wellington, the ICPE team shared the Gospel message with people on the streets but also visited priso
New Zealand School of Missions ends with a bang!
Description: It ended on 27th July but the memories will linger for a long time... This was a School to remember. Even before its official opening on 23rd March this year, there was such a buzz in the place. Nine participants - from Indonesia, Tonga, USA, Wales...
Women's Ministry in New Zealand
Description: In October 2002 a group of about six faithfully committed persons, wanted to take Christ's call to spread the Gospel seriously. Born out of a desire to see other women know God's Love for them, the St. Gerard's Women's Ministry decided to reach out...
We are blessed because we answered God's call!
Description: March 23rd, 2003 proved to be an exciting day - the beginning of new discoveries, new realisations and new life as people from...
ICPE New Zealand's Open Day at St Gerard's Monastery
Description: 1600 people are estimated to have walked through St Gerard's Monastery on its annual OPEN DAY on 22nd February this year. After a week of rain and strong winds, the ICPE community breathed a sigh of relief when Saturday dawned...
The Bishop of Tonga Visits ICPE New Zealand
Description: On February 15 the ICPE community at St Gerard's had a surprise visit from Bishop Soane Foliaki, Bishop of Tonga. An ICPE team visited the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific on a one-month mission in November 2001...
ICPE New Zealand celebrates Chinese New Year...
Description: One of the beauties of the ICPE communities is the variety of cultures. At St Gerard's we have missionaries from Germany, Malta, Malaysia, India, Singapore, Lithuania, New Zealand and South Korea. On February 1st the Malaysians in our community invited...
ICPE New Zealand celebrates Pontifical Recognition
Description: There was a festive atmosphere at St Gerard's Monastery on Mt Victoria, Wellington as the ICPE mission community celebrated Pontifical Recognition as an International Association of Christ's Faithful. The celebrations started with a Thanksgiving Mass...
Mini-School at St Gerard's 5-19 May 2002
Description: Earlier this year the team at St Gerard's hosted a 2-week ICPE School. This was geared particularly for New Zealanders who want to give some time to come closer to God and hear His call, but cannot take 4 months away from jobs and families...
Destination: Tonga
Description: Following the 2001 ICPE School of Missions at St Gerard's, a team of 14 staff and participants flew our of New Zealand for the first ever ICPE mission in the South Pacific - to the island nation of Tonga!...

Testimonies Person
As I receive God's hope in my life, I can give hope to others... Lucienne Hensel
Look for Your Own Calcutta Esther Saldanha