We welcome large numbers of casual visitors who call by to visit Old St John’s and St Paul’s, pilgrimage groups from other churches and clubs and, increasingly, school groups learning about local history. These are God-given opportunities to speak of God’s love and how it was worked out in the lives of the mission couple, John and Maria Morgan, and the early Maori Christians, such as Irihapeti Te Paea Potatau.

“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both."

                                                                        Thomas Merton