About Us:

  • Maori Postal Aotearoa is a society incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act, 1957, and functions as a Gospel literature outreach to people throughout Aotearoa. The society produces material that is available to all groups who desire to use it.

    • We distribute Bible lessons to approximately 4000 people each month. Lessons and magazines are sent in bulk to our leaders in the field who contact the families by post or personal visitation.

    • We publish a full-colour magazine, “Tupu Whakarangi” (“Growing Heavenward”) approximately every three months, with a circulation of 6,000.

    • We publish a bi-monthly free children’s magazine “Tamariki A Ihowa” (God’s Children).

    • We print and publish Bible Text Posters and other Gospel literature suitable for distribution.

    • We dispatch 30,000 Gospel calendars each year.

    • We are currently reaching at least 8000 homes with the Gospel on a regular basis and many others on a less frequent basis.

    • We regularly send Gospel literature to homes, schools, prisons and other organisations.

    • A Full Colour Catalogue displaying material is available from HQ.

    • Financial support comes from donations/koha by individuals, trusts and Christian Brethren Assemblies. While branch leaders are responsible for certain costs incurred in the running of their branches, most literature is supplied free of charge.

    • All gifts sent to MPA are paid into the general fund and are used for printing, maintenance, wages, postage and day to day running costs unless otherwise stated. Gifts intended for the personal support of workers should be clearly marked accordingly.

    • Every koha (unconditional gift) helps. We thank you kindly for your gift, and pray that the Lord uses it mightily for His purposes.

  • There are two full-time workers and two part time workers at HQ, including the National Directors.

    There are a number of faithful voluntary workers who enjoy coming to HQ to assist with many of the repetitive jobs that need to be done such as collating, stapling, enveloping, assembling orders and preparing parcels for post.

  • An Governance Board which meets bimonthly is responsible for all policy decisions and forward planning. It is made up of members representing different regions of the country.

 

Statement of Faith:

 

  • We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

  • We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavour should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

  • We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed

  • We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners and in Him they are baptised into union with Christ and adopted as heirs into the family of God. He also permanently indwells believers from the time of their conversion and illuminates, guides, equips and empowers them for Christlike living and service.

  • We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by

    God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership is composed of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances honour God.

  • We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

  • We believe in the personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

  • We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.