The Christian World Service is the development, justice and aid agency of the New Zealand churches. Until its closure in 2005 it came under the oversight of the Conference of Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand (CCANZ). From 1945-1967 the Christian World Service was known as the Inter-Church Aid Department of the National Council of Churches. Types of activities the Christian World Service has been involved in is the organisation of foreign relief and aid to underdeveloped and/or countries involved in political conflict; the formation of justice programmes to empower the disenfranchised; fundraising through Christmas appeals and the fostering of closer relationships with other religious organisations in the larger ecumenical family
Christian World Service
There are 13 related items to this topic
Image
New Zealand Catholic Commission for Evangelization Justice and Development :Guatemala, ...
Date: 1983
From: "Unity for strength, the trade union movement in New Zealand". Waikato Museum of Art & History, May 1 - June 23, 1990. [Posters and printed material for an exhibition]
Reference: Eph-C-LABOUR-UFS-1983-01
Description: Shows a small plant sprouting from stony ground. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 420 x 297 mm.
Manuscript
Miscellaneous files
Date: [1980-1983]
From: Urban Training Centre for Christian Ministry : Records
Reference: 97-081-06/3
Description: Comprises files of correspondence re Fiji (NCW, PTC, Columban Justice and Peace Office and Pacific Conference of Churches); Hawaii, Vanuatu and New Caledonia; Australia; Philippe Fanchette, INDOEP and ISRD; CWS, CCJD and ESOD; on women re social analysis courses; re itineraries and budgets (funding doucments); on seminars Quantity: 1 box(es) (file box).
Image
Christian World Service: [Ephemera. 2000-2009]
Date: 2000 - 2009
Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-CWS-2000/2009
Description: Pamphlets and fliers issued by the Christian World Service with its byline "Action Against Poverty". Many of the pamphlets show photographs of people in the countries to which aid is sent: Philippines, East Timor, Uganda, India, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Sudan, Brazil. Some pamphlets relate to Fair Trade coffee. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying Provenance: Donated from various sources.
Image
Christian World Service: [Ephemera. 1970-1999]
Date: 1970 - 1999
Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-CWS-1970/1999
Description: Pamphlets and fliers issued by the Christian World Service of the National Council of Churches and the National Commission for Evangelization, Justice and Development of the Catholic Bishops' Conference New Zealand. Includes material relating to Christmas appeals. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying Provenance: Donated from various sources.
Image
Christian World Service :Give child labour the red card! Wipe out poverty. Christian Wo...
Date: 2007
By: Christian World Service
Reference: Eph-D-RELIGION-CWS-2007-01
Description: Poster shows a photograph of a soccer player kicking a soccer ball high towards the foreground. One of the hexagonal panels of the ball shows a small girl (Geeta) stitching pieces to make a soccer ball. Text notes that this work makes skin peel of her hands. The poster urges readers become part of the solution to eradicate child labour. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 2007.
Manuscript
Sundry papers from Margaret Nolan's era
Date: [1975-1978]
From: Urban Training Centre for Christian Ministry : Records
Reference: 97-081-03/14
Description: Described as sundry papers from Margaret Nolan's era, this folder includes correspondence, reports, memos and printed matter relating to a variety of issues Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Files relating to missions
Date: 1987-1994
From: St Hilda's Church (Island Bay, Wellington) : Records
Reference: 2002-055-18
Description: Three files relating to missions and missionary activities (1) Anglican Board of Missions; (2) other missions; and (3) the Wellington Diocesan Missionary Committee Other Titles - Focus `94; supporting parish mission and ministry towards the 21st century Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Social analysis seminars
Date: [1980-1990]
From: Urban Training Centre for Christian Ministry : Records
Reference: 97-081-08/3
Description: Comprises files on NCW Fiji and affiliates; Pacific itineraries; church leaders; itineraries and correspondence for P Fanchette and Sr Mary John Mananzan; and St John's College Social Analysis seminar Quantity: 1 box(es) (file box).
Manuscript
Courses and conferences (a)
Date: [1989-1992]
From: Women's Desk : Records
Reference: 2003-264-04
Description: Conference invitations and papers, speech notes, programmes, correspondence, circulars etc; workshops and conferences include mothering/smothering, `Every Woman's Show', a service reflecting on violence to women, Christian World Service Auckland Catholic Diocese Commission for Justice, Peace and Development, NZ Aids Foundation, TEEM, ITIM, programme on racism, women and the economy, inclusive liturgies, association in Christian ministry certificate, Community of Women & Men in Church & Society, Beyond Patriarchy, Mt Victoria Presbyterian Church, observer's report of the Associated Churches of Christ Conference and the 1989 Methodist Church of New Zealand Conference Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Seminar and correspondence records
Date: [1978-1986]
From: Urban Training Centre for Christian Ministry : Records
Reference: 97-081-08/2
Description: Comprises files on social analysis participants; analysis consultation (1984); spirituality consultation (1983); social analysis Aotearoa; and printed matter (photocopies) of papers used in seminars Quantity: 1 box(es) (file box).
Image
Get third world countries out of the red. To the World Bank - The people of Aotearoa-Ne...
Date: 1999 - 2000
By: Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand; Donald, Rodney David, 1957-2005
Reference: Eph-H-INTERNATIONAL-2000-01
Description: Fabric printed in red and black on cream cotton banner, with the names of participating group down the left side: Trade Aid, Caritas, Christian World Service, Africa Centre, Corso, Latin American Solidarity Committee, OxfamNZ. Text along the bottom reads: "We said no the apartheid, we said no to nuclear armaments, now say no to Third World debt". Date estimated at 1999-2000, when news media article relate to the topic of third world debt. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on linen fabric, 800 x 1980 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1458 - Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1458.
Manuscript
Christian World Service
Date: 1968-1979
From: National Council of Churches in New Zealand : Records
Reference: 87-204-109/2
Description: Includes Para-Church material, 1979; General, 1968-1976; Miscellaneous, 1977-1978; General, 1979 Quantity: 1 box(es) (file).
Manuscript
Christian World Service: Records
Date: 1945-1998
By: Christian World Service
Reference: ATL-Group-00609
Description: Records include papers relating to the Christian Worlds Service's relationship with the New Zealand Government, Catholic agencies, World Council of Churches, national and regional councils of churches, world aid organisations and foreign governments. Aid, development and justice agency of the Conference of Churches in Aotearoa-New Zealand (CCANZ). After the demise of CCANZ it continued as a stand alone body. Christian World Service began in December 1945 when the National Council of Churches made its first Christmas Appeal for overseas relief for post-war Europe. Known as Inter-Church Aid (ICA) it evolved to become Christian World Service (CWS), New Zealand’s longest serving home-grown development and aid agency. Quantity: 250 box(es) file boxes. 10 audiocassette(s). Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here. - To Photographic Archive - 1 box of slides `Christmas is'.. Processing information: Updated to a multi-format collection in November 2021 when 1 file box of cassettes, previously separated to Oral History, was reunited with the collection and described as part of the Utaina audiovisual digitisation project.