Tere Tawhara new Synod appointment
A man with wide experience of community affairs in Southland, the Rev Tete Tawhara has been appointed secretary of the Maori Synod of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr Tawhara has been a minister of the Maori Synod in Southland since 1971, and his activities have included membership of the Social Welfare Children’s Board, industrial chaplaincy, a deep involvement as project organiser for the Murihiku Marae and Community Centre and broadcasting.
In recent years the Maori congregation in Invercargill has moved into the Te Taha Wairua centre. Damaged in the January floods, the centre has been renovated and rededicated.
Mr Tawhara will be moving to Whakatane early this year to take up his new post. He will be involved with all Maori Synod pastorates, which range from Auckland to Invercargill.
He had his education mainly in the Bay of Plenty, at Te Teko, at the Te Whaiti-Nui-A-Toi Agricultural College, Te Whaiti, at the Te Wananga-A-Rangi Theological College in Whakatane, in Auckland and for one year at the Theological Hall, Dunedin.
In 1967 he moved to his first parish of Heretaunga (Hawkes Bay).
His wife Mary is a Southlander and they have two sons and three daughters.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 22, 1 February 1985, Page 19
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202Tere Tawhara new Synod appointment Tu Tangata, Issue 22, 1 February 1985, Page 19
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