The vision of studentsoul has always included the development of ministry to students through churches on campus across the nation. Now, the Dunedin/Otago University model of studentsoul is being taken to a different part of the country. This next studentsoul plant is to take place in Auckland in partnership with The Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow Foundation Trust. Much research and time has gone into enabling this dynamic church plant.
The Richard Maclaurin Chapel Trust has appointed the Rev Howard Carter to the position of chaplain at Auckland University, to begin Feb 16. Howard is charged with the task of taking the successful studentsoul model from Dunedin, and adapting it to the Auckland context.
Rev Mary Jane Konings
seeu@paradise.net.nz
027 655-9219
We encourage people to pray for this new church plant and for the ongoing development and discussion of studentsoul on other campuses around the country.
The Goodfellow Trust has generously underwritten the resourcing of studentsoul on Auckland University Campus for the next few years. Studentsoul is also partnered by St Andrew’s Church and Auckland Presbytery.
Maclaurin Chapel was built as the result of a gift from Sir William Goodfellow in 1947. He gave a sum of £50,000 for the construction of a chapel in memory of his son, Lt Richard Maclaurin Goodfellow, who was killed in 1944 while serving with the Fleet Air Arm. The building also recognises Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, who was a distinguished graduate of the then University College (now The University of Auckland). He was President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1909 until 1920.