SURFFEST 2009 - vids due 14th September go to http://www.surffest.co.nz/

MISSION FIJI 2009 Christian Surfers New Zealand (CSNZ) headed back to Fiji for a second time to serve the surfing community of Fiji. This was the second international missions team that CSNZ has sent out; last year responding to a request from the Fijian Surfing Association (FSA), and now taking up the invitation from the FSA and the newly formed Christian Surfers Fiji to return in 2009. It was an international team that set off on May 1st 2009 with 20 Christian Surfers from around New Zealand, Brazil and the USA. The mission started off on time, on schedule, and as planned – something that was never going to continue in Fiji once island time was encountered. For some team members this was their first experience of island time – along with lots of the other peculiarities of life in a developing country - coconuts, geckos, cooking over fire, overloading a bus with surfboards through the side windows, travelling in the back of trucks, feeding 50 people in one sitting out of one pot. It was a big adventure for the whole team........ [read the full write up here] A big thank you also goes out to all of our sponsors who provided equipment, funds, competition prizes, surfboard repair supplies, and first aid supplies for the team and CS Fiji! Backdoor Surf http://www.backdoor.co.nz St Pauls Church Auckland RPM http://www.rpm.co.nz/ Black Sand Taranaki RealSurf Lyall Bay http://www.realsurf.co.nz Rebel port New Plymouth Leamington Pharmacy Cambridge Munro Pharmacy Cambridge E.J & B Webb Ripwave Surfboards! [download full write up CSNZwriteup.pdf here]

Newsletter No.2 - Jan 2009

2009 National Events Schedule

January 09 (Late)	CS Locally starts up	N.Z Wide
January 09 - 23rd-26th	CSNZ's Parachute Music Festival Stand	Hamilton - Mystery Creek
February 09 - 7th/8th	Local Camps	Local groups
March 09 - 7th/8th	South Island Gathering	Dunedin
March 09 - 13th/15nd	Girl's Camp	Raglan
April 09 - 10th-13th	Easter Camp	Taranaki
May 09 -1st-14th	Mission Fiji	Fiji
June 09 12th-14th	North Island Gathering	Raglan
June 09 - 20th/21st	Wairarapa Surf Comp (TBC)	Wairarapa
July 09	Surffest - Film Festival (TBC)	N.Z Wide
August 09	Group Visits (TBC)	N.Z Wide
September 09	Group Visits	N.Z Wide
October 09 - 23rd-26th	National Conference	Raglan
November 09 - 28th/29th	Camp Mount	Mount Maunganui
December 09 - 31st	New Years Gathering	(To be confirmed)

General Leap In Christian Surfers New Zealand fully support the guys and girls working on the Indonesian Island of Nias with http://www.leapin.org/ and through http://www.holidayswithpurpose.com/..... [more].

Recent Events National Conference [November 2008] Wairarapa 08 [September 2008] Surfest [August 2008] Walking on Water [2008] [all past events]

Checkout the international network of Christian Surfers here