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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.

Mo works for A Rocha as the Eco Church Regional Coordinator for the lower North Island. Mo is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives in Whanganui with her husband Kirk and their three teenage children. Prior to working for A Rocha she has been a parish minister, National Youth Coordinator, piano teacher, and local church youth worker. Mo has a lot of experience speaking and facilitating groups. She is passionate about encouraging churches and groups to engage with Creation Care as an intrinsic part of what it means to follow Jesus and be the church. She is a strong advocate for youth and children’s ministry and is particularly passionate about encouraging all-age Creation Care initiatives.

Ripeka Templeton Bijl, Ngāti Mutunga, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Kahungunu, is of Māori, English and Scottish descent, grew up in Stuttgart and London, and trained at The Oxford School of Drama, before returning to Aotearoa to act in Shakespeare at Pop-Up Globe. She is a Tikanga Māori Anglican deacon at St James Māngere Bridge – Te Tai Tokerau. She and her husband have one darling daughter and a mischievous dog. Ripeka dreams of a liberal and creative church where all are truly supported and welcomed.

Amber, a qualified early childhood educator, effortlessly blends education, conservation and fun. With her warm smile, she makes tamariki feel valued and included. She oversees the Karioi Project’s education programme, but her off-the-clock fun includes being a massage therapist, lover of live music, and pursuing adventures.

Gray Baldwin is a Waikato based farmer growing maize, breeding Wagyu calves and milking 850 Jersey cows. In 2009 he and his wife Marilyn were supreme winners in the Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They have since developed a constructed wetland on their farm and joined the Pokaiwhenua StreamCare group. Gray is a director of Trinity Lands Ltd, Farmlands Co-Operative and is Parish Council Chair at St Pauls Anglican-Methodist Church in Putaruru. He holds an M.Agr.Sc (Massey) and an M.Theol (Otago).

A trained terrestrial ecologist, Georgia specialises in monitoring and managing our native pekapeka. She is equally passionate about working with native flora and fauna of all shapes and sizes across the motu. When Georgia moved to Whāingaroa, she volunteered as a ‘burrow buddy’ and she is now stoked to be applying her ecology expertise to protecting the ōi as the Karioi Project’s seabird ranger. When not clambering around the cliffs checking burrows, you’ll find her in the surf or exploring te taiao with her son.