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In August of each year, we celebrate being in the Baptist whānau of Aotearoa New Zealand by running CareySunday.

This year, CareySunday will be held on Sunday 11 August. The message is being delivered by Michael Rhodes and is entitled “The Household of God”. We are still preparing the video of this message, but as it was one of our Carey Chapel messages this year, you can listen to it on our CareyOpen podcast.

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Carey exists to serve churches by training leaders for ministry and mission. It is a privilege partnering with churches across Aotearoa in this way. If you have any questions, or any suggestions as to how we can better serve you, please let us know.

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Michael Rhodes: 1 Timothy 3:1-16

Lecturer – Old Testament

1 Timothy 3 ends with some of the most beautiful, exhilarating God-talk in all of Paul’s letters. However, the passage begins with a teaching about leadership that we will almost certainly find off-putting. What might Paul’s words tell us about God’s invitation to have our lives shattered and re-made by an encounter with Jesus? And what might he teach us about the “beautiful work” that leaders in God’s church can do to help us along the way?

Please note that Closed Captions have been enabled for this message, or you can download the transcript below.

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Supporting Resources

We hope that these resources alongside the Carey Sunday message can be used by your leaders and small groups.

We have prepared some discussion questions for you to use alongide the message.

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Charles Hewlett, the National Leader of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, has written a short prayer for use on Carey Sunday. Would you, or one of your team, be willing to include this in your worship that day?

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Promotional Resources

We have created some digital elements for you to use in your church communications.

INtroducing our brand new video about Carey! We’d love for you to launch it in your church! Could you please show this video during your gathered worship on CareySunday? Alternatively, or additionally, you might like to interview someone in your church who has studied, or is studying, at Carey.

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A banner that can be used for church newsletters.

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An image that can be used in powerpoint as a notice slide during your service.

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A tile that can be used for Facebook/Instagram pages and/or groups.

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Previous Carey Sunday Messages

Carey Sunday 2023: Hope for the Weary Emma Stokes Lecturer in Bible and Mission

Where do we find strength when we are weary? Isaiah 40:25-31 lifts our eyes to the breath-taking grandeur, the holiness and incomparability, of our wise and mighty God. It calls us to put our trust in God’s plans and purposes rather than our own. When we look to God in trusting expectation, we find both that God does new and unexpected things, and that we are energised and summoned forward by radical hope.

Discussion Questions

Prayer

Carey Sunday 2023: What does it meant to be prophetic?
Michael Rhodes
Lecturer in Old Testament

What does it mean for God’s people to be prophetic? Jeremiah 4:11-28 invites us to pursue prophetic ministry by hearing, speaking, seeing, and feeling out of hearts closely attuned to God’s own heart. Doing so will invite God’s people to turn towards the Living Lord, both for our own good and for the good of our neighbours.

Discussion Questions

Prayer

Carey Sunday 2023: Word and Spirit
John Tucker
Principal

The Swiss theologian, Emil Brunner, once compared hope to oxygen. Take it away, he said, and we suffocate. Hope is the air we breathe. Ezekiel 37:1-14 is a message of hope for people who have lost hope. In this extraordinary prophetic vision, we see that God can breathe new life in us and through us as we acknowledge our dependence on both the word of God and the Spirit of God.

Discussion Questions

Prayer

Carey Sunday 2022 John Tucker Principal

In this message John Tucker, Carey’s principal, shares from Isaiah 43 on the promises of God to people in need of hope. What God said to the Israelite exiles, he says to us: “I am passionately committed to you, my people. And I am present with all my power to bring new life, both to you, and to the neighbourhoods in which I have you placed you as my witnesses. See, I am doing a new thing!”

Discussion Questions

Prayer

Carey Sunday 2021 Michael Rhodes Lecturer in Old Testament

Have you ever found yourself wondering, “What’s the point of the people of God?” Dr Michael Rhodes invites you to join him in listening to how Scripture, from Abraham to Matthew, Isaiah to Acts, calls the church to embrace God’s purposes for his people.

Discussion Questions

Prayer

At Carey we believe that the God of mission is at work in the world by the Spirit to renew people and places in Christ. Our calling is to equip Christian leaders with the convictions, competencies, and capacity to participate in that mission, bringing gospel renewal in churches and communities across Aotearoa and around the world.