People

Pete Armstrong is an electrical engineer working as the General Manager Network for EA Networks Limited, who operates the electricity distribution network for the Ashburton District. He has an engineering degree from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Waikato. He is interested in the de-carbonisation of electricity, transport and process heat technologies to assist in reducing the impact of those sectors on climate change. Previously Pete was based in Hamilton and joined the Karioi Project as a trapline volunteer and enjoyed getting out and making a difference for the birds on the maunga. Married to Carolyn and with three teenage children, Pete now lives in Ashburton.

Mary Hutchinson is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington based, retired GP who has had a lifelong interest in environmental issues. This was originally inspired by childhood family holidays near a North Canterbury river. Her involvement with freshwater conservation continues with being a member of the Papawai Reserve Group in her local suburb of Pukeahu-Mt Cook. The neighbourhood group is part of the Mt Cook Mobilised Resident’s Association and has been working to restore the small un-piped ‘Papawai Stream’, with riparian planting, water quality monitoring and advocacy. She has also volunteered with weed control at Zealandia Eco-Sanctuary.

Mary’s medical career included working in mental health; with newly arrived refugees in Wellington, and more latterly, student health. Currently she is a volunteer lay ecumenical Chaplain two days a week at Massey University, Wellington.

Since retirement from medicine, Mary has further developed her interest in street and social documentary photography; she has held several exhibitions and self published photo-books focusing on distinctive parts of local urban areas.

Mary is married to Jonathan and they have two adult daughters.

Nō ngā hau e whā ōku tūpuna, engari I tūpu ake au i raro o te korowai o Kā Kōhatu Whakarekareka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua kei Waitaha. My ancestors arrived in Aotearoa from the four winds, but I was raised under the protection of the Port Hills in Canterbury. I deeply love the land and the people of Aotearoa, and I am passionate about the good news of Jesus changing people’s hearts and restoring their relationship with God, themselves, others and the whenua. When I am not pursuing God’s dream for the restoration of all things, I love running in the hills, reading books, making music and hanging out with my little whānau.

Emeritus Professor Carolyn M. King FRSNZ completed a D. Phil at Oxford University, UK, on the ecology of British weasels in 1971, then moved to New Zealand to join DSIR Ecology Division as a scientist specialising on introduced predators, particularly stoats. She has written or edited many books about New Zealand animals, edited academic journals for the Royal Society of New Zealand (1983 to 2009), and took a second PhD in religious studies from the University of Waikato in 1999. From 1995 to 2018, she taught zoology and conservation biology at Waikato University, where she now continues writing part time. Her work has been recognised by prestigious awards from the Ecological Society of New Zealand (1999), the Mammal Society of UK (2005) and the Australasian Wildlife Management Society (2021).

Dr Jamie Mātenga is a Māori contextual theologian with over 30 years of experience serving cross-cultural missions. As Executive Director of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and Opinions Editor at Christian Daily International, Jamie’s passion is to strengthen participation in God’s purposes in the world in light of a maturing world Christianity. Jamie keeps an archive of presentation material and a monthly blog on his website: https://jaymatenga.com.

Sir David John Moxon KNZM, KStJ, MMCM,  (born 6 September 1951) is a New Zealand Anglican bishop. He went to school in Papaioea, Palmerston North, served as a VSA school leaver youth worker in Fiji  in 1970, and gained degrees in Education and Theology from Massey, Canterbury and Oxford universities respectively. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Waikato and Massey universities, and is an honorary fellow of St Peter’s College Oxford and St Margaret’s College Otago. Prior to being a bishop in 1993, he was a priest in Havelock North and Tauranga, and served as the director of Theological education by Extension for Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.

David serves on various secondary and tertiary Anglican educational boards and a Māori work skills riparian planting trust in Piako as well as a national  anti-slavery ecumenical network. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome from 2013-2017. He was previously the Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, from 1993-2013, the Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses 2016 -2013, and one of the three primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia 2008-2013. In the 2014 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican Church. He is a Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable order of St John of Jerusalem ( Hato Hone St John Ambulance) in Aotearoa New Zealand. David is married to Tureiti a Māori health provider and advocate, and they have four grown children and four mokopuna.