I have perceived that there has been a cry for New Zealand to take her heart of stone and submit it to God to be transformed to a heart of passion; a heart that yearns and beats after Him. This is New Zealand’s time to ARISE. It is her time to stand up and be counted in the army of the Lord. “It is time for the voice of the women clergy”, as Lynne says, “to be heard.” It is time to take our place and stand with our faces set like flint, not looking to the right or looking to the left. It is time, it is time!
We were privileged to host Dr Lynne Hamilton in Wellington, our capital city, as she spoke to a conference organised by Sue Loan of Firebird Ministries, on the apostolic. By the end of the conference lives were changed and there was a spirit of joy/rejoicing and purpose. We are very honoured to welcome Sue Loan as our Wellington and surrounding districts co-ordinator.
We were blessed to have Wendy Sim from Snells Beach attend the conference as well.
Dr Lynne had a burning word for a local church and their pastor. Once again that breakthrough anointing she carries prevailed and lives will never be the same after many prophesies and words of knowledge flowed.
We are also very privileged to welcome Gay McKay, situated in Waihi Beach, to our fold as our Bay of Plenty co-ordinator. Watch this space for photos and news as these two Generals prepare to call 5 Fold women out of hiding.
Understanding New Zealand Culture has been a task that I gallantly set out to understand. New Zealand like any other country of the world has an ingrained culture which once grasped, I felt could help me understand the roots of the 5 fold women in New Zealand. The best and most concise explanation I have heard is from a respected man by the name of Peter Lineham who is an Associate-Professor Peter J. Lineham is a historian, who teaches at Massey University at Auckland, New Zealand. His major fields of research are eighteenth and nineteenth century English religious history as well as New Zealand religious history. His major books include ‘There we found Brethren’, ‘No Ordinary Union’, ‘Bible and Society’, and ‘Transplanted Christianity’. He has also written many articles and is a frequent speaker on religion, church, culture and society.
He says, and I quote,
“Gender Factors in New Zealand History:
Over the last thirty years historians have reflected extensively on the gendered nature of New Zealand history, and what was distinctive about this, compared to other societies at the same time. Most historians now see the colonial/imperial factor as a key not simply to the colonies but also to the imperial heartland. Victorian notions of gender need to be applied to New Zealand with caution because gender roles were reshaped in the colony.
The disproportion of men to women in New Zealand is usually viewed as a key factor although it can be exaggerated, as David Thomson has argued. Nevertheless, in the broader context of Australasian culture, single males – tramps and mates and soldiers – influenced the emergence of a very rugged masculinist culture. The image of New Zealand males remained in ‘cowboy’ mode. Fred Dagg and Barry Crump and mud-splattered All Blacks symbolise New Zealand masculinity and this ‘good keen man’ image was rather rough, dirty, violent and implicitly rather hostile to femininity.
Meanwhile the colonial pattern of the hardworking wife with few or no servants subtly changed the Victorian ideal of the woman in the home. Women learned to be strong and determined, and challenged the demure image of Victorian women. They gained power from their home base. Women strongly supported the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol and the enfranchisement of women.
The WCTU’s motto was ‘for God for home for humanity’. Moreover movements of ‘scientific motherhood’, eugenics and race purity, and above all the Plunket Society, portrayed the ideal woman as domestic in her outlook, giving everything to her children. Probably the early twentieth-century tone placed more restrictions on respectable women.
There were always other dimensions to the story. An influential book by Caroline Daley identifies changing notions of gender and sexuality. In the 1920s and 1930s colonials were exposed to Hollywood’s notions of femininity, and women began to conform to changing notions of the stylish body beautiful. This contradiction, women questing for the beautiful and men anxious not to be domesticated, remains a feature of our gender history.”
Watch this space as I search deeper into our culture and seek out our champions of the faith.
Colleen Doyle, a New Zealand WAA member and the Leader of ‘GO Ministries’ is visiting with my dear friend Ruth Paddon at Forerunners International in Bath. I wish I was there but bless them with a joyful visit and sweet fellowship.
With much love from New Zealand
Dr Sharmaine Dobson
We were privileged to host Dr Lynne Hamilton in Wellington, our capital city, as she spoke to a conference organised by Sue Loan of Firebird Ministries, on the apostolic. By the end of the conference lives were changed and there was a spirit of joy/rejoicing and purpose. We are very honoured to welcome Sue Loan as our Wellington and surrounding districts co-ordinator.
We were blessed to have Wendy Sim from Snells Beach attend the conference as well.
Dr Lynne had a burning word for a local church and their pastor. Once again that breakthrough anointing she carries prevailed and lives will never be the same after many prophesies and words of knowledge flowed.
We are also very privileged to welcome Gay McKay, situated in Waihi Beach, to our fold as our Bay of Plenty co-ordinator. Watch this space for photos and news as these two Generals prepare to call 5 Fold women out of hiding.
Understanding New Zealand Culture has been a task that I gallantly set out to understand. New Zealand like any other country of the world has an ingrained culture which once grasped, I felt could help me understand the roots of the 5 fold women in New Zealand. The best and most concise explanation I have heard is from a respected man by the name of Peter Lineham who is an Associate-Professor Peter J. Lineham is a historian, who teaches at Massey University at Auckland, New Zealand. His major fields of research are eighteenth and nineteenth century English religious history as well as New Zealand religious history. His major books include ‘There we found Brethren’, ‘No Ordinary Union’, ‘Bible and Society’, and ‘Transplanted Christianity’. He has also written many articles and is a frequent speaker on religion, church, culture and society.
He says, and I quote,
“Gender Factors in New Zealand History:
Over the last thirty years historians have reflected extensively on the gendered nature of New Zealand history, and what was distinctive about this, compared to other societies at the same time. Most historians now see the colonial/imperial factor as a key not simply to the colonies but also to the imperial heartland. Victorian notions of gender need to be applied to New Zealand with caution because gender roles were reshaped in the colony.
The disproportion of men to women in New Zealand is usually viewed as a key factor although it can be exaggerated, as David Thomson has argued. Nevertheless, in the broader context of Australasian culture, single males – tramps and mates and soldiers – influenced the emergence of a very rugged masculinist culture. The image of New Zealand males remained in ‘cowboy’ mode. Fred Dagg and Barry Crump and mud-splattered All Blacks symbolise New Zealand masculinity and this ‘good keen man’ image was rather rough, dirty, violent and implicitly rather hostile to femininity.
Meanwhile the colonial pattern of the hardworking wife with few or no servants subtly changed the Victorian ideal of the woman in the home. Women learned to be strong and determined, and challenged the demure image of Victorian women. They gained power from their home base. Women strongly supported the campaign for the prohibition of alcohol and the enfranchisement of women.
The WCTU’s motto was ‘for God for home for humanity’. Moreover movements of ‘scientific motherhood’, eugenics and race purity, and above all the Plunket Society, portrayed the ideal woman as domestic in her outlook, giving everything to her children. Probably the early twentieth-century tone placed more restrictions on respectable women.
There were always other dimensions to the story. An influential book by Caroline Daley identifies changing notions of gender and sexuality. In the 1920s and 1930s colonials were exposed to Hollywood’s notions of femininity, and women began to conform to changing notions of the stylish body beautiful. This contradiction, women questing for the beautiful and men anxious not to be domesticated, remains a feature of our gender history.”
Watch this space as I search deeper into our culture and seek out our champions of the faith.
Colleen Doyle, a New Zealand WAA member and the Leader of ‘GO Ministries’ is visiting with my dear friend Ruth Paddon at Forerunners International in Bath. I wish I was there but bless them with a joyful visit and sweet fellowship.
With much love from New Zealand
Dr Sharmaine Dobson
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