General Manager Update – August 2024

We’re so thankful for your gospel partnership with Multiply. The generosity of our partners has enabled us to continue supporting local churches across denominations and throughout New Zealand in their gospel work. This support has continued to focus on raising up new gospel workers, developing church leaders, and encouraging church planting.

As this work has been going on, some exciting developments have also occurred that we believe will (God willing) propel Multiply forward in the coming years.

Additions to the Multiply Team

First, the last 12 months saw three additions to the Multiply team:

Tim Capill (Assistant Minister at Latimer Church, Christchurch) was formally appointed to the Trust Board of Multiply. Tim has brought a fresh perspective which has combined very effectively already with the existing trustee team of Nick, Rowan and Geoff.

Steve Mullins was appointed as General Manager, responsible for the day-to-day work involved in pursuing Multiply’s vision and mission. Steve has a work background in law and general management, and attends Auckland Ev Church.

Jille Lange-Smith was appointed as Administration and Events Manager, to see our operations and events continually improve. Jille has an advertising agency background, runs her own photography business, and attends Howick Baptist Church.

Governance Updates

In addition, the Trustees and General Manager have conducted a review of the governance structure of Multiply. The Trust was established in 2015 and so it was timely to assess the governance structure and check that it is best suited to see the work of Multiply flourish under God.

The key outcomes of the review were to resolve to:

• Establish an Advisory Board, the purpose of which will be to give the Trustees access to input and advice from a broader representation of like-minded church leaders from across New Zealand.  We will shortly commence seeking appointees to this new Advisory Board.
• Refresh Multiply’s vision and mission statements. These are live on this website – they will not see any significant change of direction for Multiply, but will enable local churches to more quickly and easily understand who we are, how we operate and how we might be of help in supporting their ministry.
• Refresh Multiply’s Statement of Belief (rest assured, this simply involves adopting a clearer statement of what we believe, and in no way changes our doctrinal position) and adopt a set of Convictions. The Convictions are statements that are grounded in the Statement of Belief and explain Multiply’s ministry philosophy; our approach on key matters of ministry expression. Again, this refresh is simply about providing clarity and focus, and not about making any significant course change for Multiply. 

We look forward to further partnering with you in the remainder of 2024 and in the years ahead.