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PARISH OF NORTHERN WAIROA
Anglican Diocese of Auckland
PARISH PROFILE 2018
www.dargavilleanglican.church.co.nz
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Welcome to the Anglican Parish of Northern Wairoa!
We are seeking a priest to become our next full-time Vicar.
We hope that this profile gives you some insight into the life of our community,
our vision for the future, and the gifts we are looking for in our next Vicar.
INTRODUCTION
Our Mission
Our parish is a caring, tolerant and friendly community of faith. We offer a variety of services throughout the year
and we maximise the varied physical spaces within our church to create different experiences to appeal to a wide
range of parishioners.
Our Vicar will share leadership with small teams of lay people and non-stipendiary clergy, who represent a
cross section of our community. Variety in worship and music is enjoyed within an Anglican context and, while we
value tradition, we seek to provide relevant worship for the society of today.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
To awaken and nurture Spiritual growth, so that, empowered by Christ within us
we actively respond to the needs of the Community
“God cares, we care”
Our Core Values
We are proud that our parish offers:
Continuity as an Anglican faith community
Openness, inclusiveness and celebration of a variety of people ideas
An environment for all ages including children and youth
A range of worship services
A balance of worship times for our rural and urban parishioners
Support and friendship to our parish family
A versatile and peaceful worship space for religious and use
Loving pastoral care
Ecumenical relationships and Inter-Church involvement
A committed core group, willing to share their diverse talents
A church which is open every day as a place of prayer and rest
Caring and loving people (inspired by John 13: 35)
An outward look towards and involvement with the community
A heritage building, much admired by tourists, visitors and our parish family
A safe and welcoming environment for seniors in our community
Participation in Foodbank—Feeding the poor
A welcome and embrace of all ethnicities
Small group study and prayer
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Our History
Before Holy Trinity was built, services were held in the
Old Foresters’ Hall alongside the old Northern Wairoa
Hotel in Hokianga Rd. It was a two storey building with
a billiard room and rooms upstairs for accommodation.
Joseph McMullen Dargaville, the son of Anderson
Dargaville, a physician, and his wife, Eliza donated land
for the Anglican church.
In October 1877, the building of Holy Trinity was
started. It was designed by Mr Mahoney, a well-known
Auckland architect and built by Mr Colebrook also of
Auckland. The Church is a cruciform consisting of nave
and chancel and verger’s room on the south. The main
entrance is under the tower at the west end, which
supports a graceful spire surmounted by a neat
wrought iron vane, the appearance from which is strictly ecclesiastical. Holy Trinity has the only memorial in
Dargaville to the town’s founder, in the form of a magnificent stained glass window, erected by his widow after he
passed away and was buried at sea in 1896.
The hill on which the church stands makes it appear to great advantage. The interior was neatly done in all the best
Kauri timber and varnished.
Our People
There are 180 parishioners on the parish roll,
with about 60 being regular worshippers or
involved with parish life.
We are fortunate to have:
A non-stipendiary Priest Assistant
4 Organists
(Holy Trinity 2, All Saints 1, St Peters 1)
12 on the Welcome team
3 Hospital Chaplains
Lay ministry team
Parish Educator
Rest Home ministry team
12 readers
8 on the intercession team
6 morning tea hosts
8 servers
8 liturgists
In addition, there are those who conduct
housebound communions, plus the Vestry,
Church Committees (3), Link ladies, aftercare
program and Town and Around (transport
assistance).
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WHAT WE DO NOW
Worship
Schedule of Regular Services:
Holy Trinity, Dargaville Sunday 8.00am (1st and 3rd Sundays)
9.30am (every Sunday)
Wednesday 10.00am
St Peter’s, Te Kopuru Sunday 11.00am (2nd and 4th Sundays)
All Saints’, Mititai (as scheduled - around 4 times per year)
Other occasional, special services
Sunday School at Holy Trinity during Eucharist
Fellowship and Small Groups
Prayer Bible Study (weekly)
Ministry Team training
Social Functions
Mid-Winter Christmas Dinner
Parish Dinner
Link Ladies—Women’s Fellowship
Garden Group
Fundraising
Spring Fair
High Tea
Fairs/Galas
Quiz Nights
Street Stalls
Annual calendar
Children’s Ministry
Children’s Sunday School at Holy Trinity
Ministry to the Elderly
Rest Homes (2) and Hospital Communions
Ecumenical Relationships
Involvement with Dargaville Ministers’ Association
Food Bank
Ecumenical Services
Hall Hire to Community
Parish Bowls
‘Kumarani’ After School Care
Children’s Holiday Programme
Mental Health Counselling
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Relating to, and serving, our Community
Holy Trinity in Dargaville is open daily, presenting a beautiful place for prayer and reflection
Anglican Care Counselling service available to the wider community
Value our Church being open and our wish for this to continue
A team of parishioners dedicated to home visiting and prayer ministry.
Follow up with those who drop away
Wide involvement in the 101 community clubs and organisations where we can represent “Anglican”
Availability and aspiration to connect with schools
Housebound and hospital visiting
Christmas in the Gardens
“Town and Around” transport for the elderly or infirm
PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES
Goals for the Future
1. Maintain an Anglican faith community in the Northern Wairoa
2. To grow that community in numbers and diversity
3. Maintain vibrant, open and inclusive worshipping congregations attending a variety of services which utilise the
versatile worship space of our church.
4. Keep our church buildings open and well maintained and available to the community for worship.
5. Re-establish Young Wives/Women’s group
Priorities for Mission and Ministry (next five years)
Priority—Outreach and Evangelism
To grow the size and diversity of the congregation by equipping the people of God to share their faith and invite
people into a relationship with God. Establish a “drop in” outreach
Priority—Focused Attention on Worship
Contemporary Anglican Worship—variety, including guitar, acappella
Sunday Evensong or Sunday Evening Praise once a month
More diversity and flexibility in worship—use of the data projector to reduce the need for 2,3 or 4 books
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Challenges and Opportunities - Other areas we would like to explore
Grow the number of worshippers
Be a place where young people wish to worship
Continue engagement with the wider community
Lay training from the Diocese
More Episcopal/Archdeaconry visits
Increase Parish income
Maintain Parish plant and assets
Establish a music group
Facilitate learning new music—Taize, contemporary, new hymns
Name tags for everyone—and visitors
Focus on hospitality
Men’s group—social
Make the Parish Hall available for hire daily 9 am till 2 pm
Raise awareness of all we offer—improve communications
Run fish & chip evenings targeting families
Expand current activities by involving more people—a version of sending out the 72 in Luke’s Gospel—learning
the art of continuous conversation—becoming a “contagious church”
Our New Leader
We would welcome a new Vicar who possesses key qualities, skills and attributes:
A strong sense of personal faith and theological background
A creative and forward thinking focus with an energy and heart for outreach
Energy and enthusiasm, along with the ability to enthuse and encourage others
A team player attitude, able to delegate and harness the abilities of parishioners
An approachable manner, with the desire to treat people of all ages with dignity and respect
A willingness to engage in the wider life and ministry of Northern Wairoa
Good listening and communication skills, offering empathy and sincerity and an effective pastoral presence
Skills and passion to lead worship and preach in a way that draws in our diverse community
The ability to combine the rural and urban lives of the Parish and understand their differences
The ability to liaise with and encourage younger members of the community to take an active part in the life of
the Church
Skills in (and the ability to teach) IT
Empathy and inclusiveness for other ethnicities, cultural sensitivity
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OUR BUILDINGS
Holy Trinity Church (54 Hokianga Rd, Dargaville)
Holy Trinity is situated in the centre of Dargaville and recently celebrated 139 years. It can seat 130 people with a
Parish hall which also includes the Parish office and counselling rooms. The Parish hall allows an overflow with a
large screen and sound system. Counsellors operate 5 days per week as well as an afterschool children’s program.
The Church has a large screen and projector with a new sound system and Wi-Fi throughout. Holy Trinity boasts an
impressive historic pipe organ.
Saint Peter’s Church (45 Norton Street, Te Kopuru)
Saint Peters Te Kopuru is the last remaining Church in the area of Te
Kopuru. The Church is 12 km from Dargaville and is an important part
of the community. It can seat around 70 people and has a Church hall
with a kitchen and toilet block.
All Saints’ Church (3358 Mititai Rd, Mititai)
All Saints is situated 12km from Dargaville off S/H 12
overlooking the beautiful Northern Wairoa River and
across to Tokatoka. The Church can seat around 100
people and has a Hall with kitchen and toilet facilities.
Mititai is a rural area of dairy and kumara-growing flats
with a local primary school, hall, Tennis and Bowling
Clubs. The church, barged across the river to its present
site in 1922, is HPT Cat.2.
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The Vicarage
The Vicarage is located at 58 Hokianga Rd behind Holy Trinity Church. Dargaville. It has recently been refurbished and
includes 5 bedrooms, two toilets, full bathroom, fireplace, heat pump, HRV ventilation system and is fully fenced.
Situated high above the road, it offers a quiet space to enjoy family life with large surrounding grounds.
The Pastorate “Peg Harding” House
“Peg Harding” House, adjacent to the Vicarage,
was initially built for the Maori Pastorate Priest-in-
Charge. This position, appointed from Tikanga
Maori, is currently vacant so the house is rented
out.
The house has its own access via Tunatahi St. It
has 3 bedrooms, a heat pump is installed, and a
good-sized basement is available for storage or
workshop. Good views over the rural landscape
can be enjoyed from this property.
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL INFORMATION
Location and Amenities
Dargaville is built along the edge of the wide Northern Wairoa River, two and a half hours’ drive north-west of
Auckland. Maori settlements and marae (meeting places) have been scattered around the area for hundreds of years.
The township of Dargaville was established by Irish businessman Joseph McMullen Dargaville in the 1870s, during the
heyday of kauri felling and gum digging. It was largely settled by Dalmatian immigrants, whose descendants still live
here today. Dairy farming is the main local industry; the district also produces around two thirds of New Zealand’s
kumara (sweet potato) crop and is known as the Kumara Capital of the World. A meat processing plant operates just
outside the township, and forestry is again playing an important role in the local economy, providing much
employment and utilising marginal land.
The town is proud of its heritage, having re-employed many of its 19th century buildings – you’ll find cafes, art shops
and other interesting retail opportunities. Dargaville's hotels and motels, backpackers and motor camps stand
alongside tributes to the past like the Gumdigger Statue.
The Dargaville Museum has an interesting collection of Maori artefacts, shipwreck treasures, gum digging exhibits and
the Rainbow Warrior masts.
The town is serviced by a very good hospital of 20 beds, offering general and maternity care.
Dargaville has grown as a tourist destination in the past two decades, particularly as a base from which to visit the
unspoiled recreational paradise of the Kauri Coast. Nearby also lie the Kai Iwi Lakes - great for a freshwater dip - and
the ruggedly beautiful Baylys Beach. As a fitting tribute to the former great forests of Northland, the Waipoua Forest,
home of the mighty Tane Mahuta, and Trounson Kauri Park are in easy driving distance from town.
Dargaville has a small airport and is within easy reach of Whangarei's larger air terminal. The town is also serviced by
buses providing weekly travel to and from Auckland and a daily workers’ bus to Whangarei.
Two rest homes operate in the town, and there is currently an active committee progressing its aim to establish
“Sportsville” to combine many of the town’s sporting codes on one site. Much of the funding has been achieved.
Each year the Northland Field Days attract over 20,000 people to Dargaville over 3 days.
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Population
Dargaville had a population of 4,450 people as at the 2016 Census, an increase of 4.6% since 2006 (an average of 0.7%
per annum). Projections for the District indicate growth and our demographics are changing as people are moving
out of Auckland and choosing a less congested life-style in Dargaville.
There are many clubs, societies and support groups in operation in Dargaville, catering for most of the community’s
sporting, cultural and youth needs. Youth organisations include Scouts, St Johns, Girls Brigade and Air Training Corp.
The Dargaville Little Theatre, various art and craft groups plus a good range of sports facilities are based here.
Dargaville boasts an impressive 50 metre swimming pool (the only one in Northland). The Rotary Club and two Lions’
Clubs all have high profiles in the town.
Educational Opportunities
There are a number of early childhood centers offering a variety of options for pre-school education and Dargaville has
three Primary schools and an Intermediate school (covering years 1-8) with a number of country schools in the
surrounding district. These offer good quality education as can be seen from their ERO reports, and provide
opportunities to participate in a wide range of sporting and cultural activities. The district’s schools perform with
distinction in Northland competitions.
Dargaville High School is a well-established, co-educational school. The well equipped gymnasium, large playing
fields, floodlit Astroturf surface suitable for netball, tennis and hockey, weight training room and heated indoor
swimming pool form the nucleus of the sports centre at the school. Dargaville High is currently running two
academies—building and hospitality— which have gained the school an enviable reputation.
The 22 metre swimming pool is fully utilised by the school and the local swimming club. The gymnasium incorporates
a climbing wall for budding rock climbers. These facilities are also used by various community organisations.
School Websites: www.selwynpark.school.nz
www.dargavilleprimary.school.nz
www.saintjosephs.school.nz
www.dargavillehighschool.co.nz
The Kaipara
Kaipara District is located in the rolling hills around the
northern shores of the Kaipara Harbour, a large natural
harbour open to the Tasman Sea. Kaipara District
Council shares management of the harbour with
various other organisations, most notably Northland
Regional Council (in the north) and Auckland Council to
the south
The roughly triangular district stretches from a thinning
of the Northland Peninsula south of Kaiwaka and
Mangawhai in the southeast to the Waipoua Forest in
the northwest. The District's western boundary is
defined by Ripiro Beach which stretches down
Northland’s west coast from Maunganui Bluff and the
Waipoua Forest in the North, to Pouto at the entrance
to the Kaipara Harbour.
The region is bisected by the Northern Wairoa River
and its tributaries, which flow into the northern end of
the Kaipara Harbour.
10Demographic Information
The population of the parish is predominantly ‘European’ (74% in Dargaville, 84% in Kaipara District) with a significant
Maori population (32% in Dargaville).
In terms of age range, 24.9% of the Dargaville population is 65 years and over (for the national population it is 14.3%).
20.6% of the Dargaville population is under the age of 15 years (which is comparable to the national population).
The graph, below right, gives an indication of the spread of occupations in Dargaville and in the wider region.
Statistics from Stats New Zealand (www.stats.govt.nz)
11OUR FINANCES
We have an operating budget of approximately $114,000.
Financial statements are available on request.
STATISTICS (2016)
No. of persons on roll
No. of baptisms 5
No. of confirmations
No. of marriages
No. of funerals
Total Attendances
Acts of communion
Sunday School Roll
Study Group Participants
Secular Groups Using buildings
No. of clergy
No. of licensed lay ministers
12PARISH BOUNDARY
The Anglican Parish of Northern Wairoa extends from Ruawai to Pouto and up to Kaihu. Dargaville is located approx.
55km east of Whangarei and only minutes from the West Coast Ripiro Beach.
An approximation of the boundary is:
Holy Trinity
Dargaville All Saints’
Mititai
St Peter’s
Te Kopuru
13APPLICATION DETAILS
We invite you to discern your call to this ministry, and give thanks for your willingness to engage with this process.
Applications are to be emailed to the Linkperson by MONDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2018:
Mr Jonathan McCall
jpn.mccall@gmail.com
021 144 7386
Applications should include:
1) Cover Letter, including a description of the gifts and skills you will bring to enable the Parish to fulfil its
hopes and aspirations.
2) Curriculum Vitae (CV).
3) List of Referees. It would be valuable to the committee if your referees could include:
a) a lay person from your current appointment
b) a clergy colleague
c) a person from the wider community.
INTERVIEW DETAILS
The Nomination Committee will meet soon after the closing date to shortlist applicants.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an interview, at the Diocesan Office (Neligan House in Parnell), at a date
to be confirmed.
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