The Hogans are on a Mission

Hi all! If you are here on our blog for the first time, make sure to subscribe above to keep up with the latest. We have had a busy few weeks, but we are starting to slow down and get our heads around what our future is looking like and what we need to get done to make it all happen. This week the kids started school and kindy for what will probably be the last time in a while. We are so grateful to have perfectly allocated teachers that both Josh and Gabby love. Caleb also has such an amazing kindy with awesome teachers, so I have my last chance of some alone time to prepare for our next step. Over Wellington Anniversary weekend we were able to go to the ‘New Wine’ festival, fortunately for us only 20 minutes from home. This festival was attended by 1600 people from 170 different churches around New Zealand, but for our church (St Lukes, Waikanae) it's like our annual family camp. It was a great to live in community and have real conversations with so many that we don...

It is not every day you get a phone call from someone to say they entered your family in a competition without letting you know and that you have won it. But that is what happened to us last week!   A lady from our church nominated us for a competition with ‘The AM Show’ and ‘Air NZ’ to win flights for 4 to Fiji… and we were one of the winners! After emailing the lady at Air NZ, she said since we have 5 in our family, we could have the 5th ticket too! This is pretty amazing as we had been really keen to do a trip to Fiji next year, to check out where we will be living and think through what we need to take when we go there for a longer stint. Although as we are preparing to leave Waikanae and go into full time ministry it is hard to justify spending the extra money on flights to Fiji.   But it is exciting to see God prepare the way for us yet again, he knows our needs and we are reminded that he is paving the way forward. This week we have also had our offic...

The next chapter in our journey is about to begin... We have recently been accepted to serve with MMM, an international mission organisation established to help Christian ministries with their building and maintenance needs. Their NZ base is in Pirongia (which is in the Waikato), where we will relocate in 2020 after 4.5 years in Waikanae. There we will serve with MMM in New Zealand for 9 months or so, before taking up the role of Project Coordinators for MMM Fiji in 2021. The MMM Fiji base is at Sabeto Christian Camp, 20 mins from Nadi airport. So as we journey towards Fiji there are many things on our to-do list, and sharing our story seemed like an important step. We first became involved with MMM in 2006 while working at Totara Springs Christian Centre in Matamata. Roy was doing his building apprenticeship while Rachael was working in the ministry team as the Kids Camp and Discipleship Coordinator. We joined a short term team to Savusavu, Fiji where we stayed with a local fam...