Friday 13 - Sunday 15 February, 2026

Convergence Camp is the gathering of the top of the south Anglicans at Bethany Park in Kaiteriteri. It’s a chance to start the year with celebration and unity. There’s something really special about gathering as the wider Nelson Anglican whānau. Coming out of your own place and being part of something bigger to be uplifted, encouraged and equipped as God’s people.

It’s a great way to kick the year off with people from our own faith community and it’s great fun. It’s also a really good time of refreshment, spending time in such a beautiful place.

All ages are welcome at Convergence Camp – we have families, the more ‘mature’ among us, and lots of young people. It’s just one big whānau.

Simon and Jenny Gill, senior pastors at The Street Church in Wellington, are leading the talks at Convergence 2026 with the theme: “building capacity for more”.

Simon and Jenny, along with their three daughters, have been part of The Street Church since their relocation from the UK to New Zealand in 2012 when Simon accepted the role of teaching pastor. In 2017 when The Street began to pursue a multi-location model, he and Jenny took on the role of lead pastors of their first new location in the eastern suburbs of Wellington. They stepped into the role of senior pastors in 2021.

Simon and Jenny are passionate about the Church being present locally – in a way that makes a difference in communities.

“Imagine if our church being present in an area actually made a difference to the way the people speak in that area, the way the people treat each other, the way it feels to be in those suburbs. That’s what we dream of – that our church wouldn’t be locked inside walls, but would go beyond to actually make a difference in the lives of people, and would change society.”