New Zealand Church Missionary Society
| Abbreviation | NZCMS |
|---|---|
| Formation | 12 April 1799 (UK parent organisation); 1892 (NZ branch) |
| Founder | Clapham Sect |
| Type |
Evangelical Anglicanism Ecumenism Protestant missionary |
| Headquarters | 78 Peterborough Street Christchurch 8144 New Zealand |
| Website | www |
The New Zealand Church Missionary Society is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. The Revd Samuel Marsden a member of the CMS and the senior Anglican minister in New South Wales), officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
In 1892 the New Zealand Church Missionary Association was formed in a Nelson church hall and the first New Zealand missionaries were sent to Japan soon after. Funding from the UK stopped completely in 1903. The association subsequent changed its name to the New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) in 1916.
In 2000 the NZCMS amalgamated with the South American Missionary Society of New Zealand. The NZCMS works closely with the Anglican Missions Board, concentrating on mission work outside New Zealand and has been involved in Pakistan, East Africa, the Middle East, Cambodia, South Asia, South America and East Asia. It is part of the CMS Mission Network and the global network of mission agencies Faith2Share.
The CMS founded its first mission at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands in 1814 and over the next decade established farms and schools in the area. Thomas Kendall and William Hall were directed, in 1814, to proceed to the Bay of Islands in the Active, a vessel purchased by Samuel Marsden for the service of the mission, there to reopen communication with Ruatara, a local chief; an earlier attempt to establish a mission in the Bay of Islands had been delayed as a consequence of the Boyd Massacre in Whangaroa harbour in 1809. Kendall and Hall left New South Wales on 14 March 1814 on the Active for an exploratory journey to the Bay of Islands. They met rangatira (chiefs) of the Ngāpuhi including Ruatara and his uncle Hongi Hika; Hongi Hika and Ruatara travelled with Kendall when he returned to Australia on 22 August 1814. Kendall, Hall and John King, returned to the Bay of Islands on the Active on 22 December 1814 to establish the mission.
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