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Wayne Buchanan - Eddie Yoshida - Ken Thomsen
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Wayne and Kaye have been married for 25 years. Wayne and Kaye have three teenage children. True to life experiences in family and ministry bring a wealth of common sense and down to earth wisdom to their leadership.
Wayne received a Diploma of Ministry in 1975 and Diploma of Biblical and Theological Studies in 1980. He is currently finishing off his Bachelor of Theology.
Wayne was the National Assemblies of God Evangelist for three and a half years, his crusades helped to establish five new Assemblies of God churches. In 1986 he planted the Papatoetoe Assembly of God church (now Good News Church Manukau City) of which he is still Senior Pastor.
In 1998 Wayne created Good News Ministries as an on going expression of his desire to continue to function as an Evangelist to the Body of Christ. This gives the opportunity for Wayne to continue being involved in church planting and evangelism.
Wayne has been the Auckland South Regional Overseer for the Assemblies of God since 1993 and has been the Deputy Chairperson of the Discipline Review Tribunal for the Assemblies of God since its inception. Wayne continues to serve the Assemblies of God as a faculty member of Advance Ministry Training Centre and is a member of the curriculum committee.
In recent times Wayne has been a co-host and host for the Radio Rhema program "Time To Believe" which is a nationwide time of prayer for those who phone into the station with prayer requests.
His community service has included Chairperson of Citizen Advice Bureau Papatoetoe, also Chairperson of South Auckland Seventh-Day-Adventist Primary School including PTA Committee member, and has coached/managed and refereed 9th- 10th - 11th & 12th grade soccer teams respectively for Papatoetoe United Junior Soccer Club. Wayne received manager of the year trophy for 2001 season.
Kaye holds a Certificate of Biblical and Theological Studies. Although Kaye has her own successful career as a Daycare Director she continues to raise her maturing family with wise direction and insight.
Wayne's personal e-mail address is: wayne@goodnews.org.nz
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We are pleased to
introduce Pastor Eddie and Kuini Yoshida who have joined Good News Church
Manukau City as Board Director and Associate Pastor.
Ps Eddie and Kuini are also Youth Pastors and run "The Thing"
(see on site). Eddie and Kuini bring to Good News a unique blend of cultures
and language. Eddie speaks three languages including English, Samoan and
Japanese.
Called to be an Evangelist Eddie is often away ministering to Churches.
Eddie has a clear understanding of the Gospel and preachers the Word of
God without compromise. Eddie holds a Diploma in Bible and Theological
Studies and Diploma in Pastoral Care.
Ministering to youth Eddie has proven that out of the box thinking has
drawn young people to Jesus Christ.
Eddie's personal address is: eddie@goodnews.org.nz
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This is Ken and his much much better half Serena. They have been married 14 years and now have a family of two boys and a little girl.
Serena is one of our worship leaders and singers. She is skilled in computer work and desktop publishing which we make the most of.
Ken serves Good News Manukau as an Associate Pastor and Good News Ministries as Crusade Co-Ordinator. His job description covers everything that no one else is doing, as well as, Youth Pastor, Sound Man, Singer, and Worship Leader.
Ken and Serena have been involved in youth ministry since 1989. Their first group had a massive attendance of 5 teenagers (that is if all of them turned up). After 2 years of running that group they were demoted to serving at a higher level (kingdom thinking) and Pastored their next group till it numbered in the millions (well hundreds), actually it was around 120, but their effort was outstanding.
In the late 1990's Ken was the Director of Auckland Youth Alive, the youth movement of the NZ A/G.
While successfully losing his hair doing Youth Alive he also successfully achieved a Diploma in Theological Studies at Advance Ministry Training Centre (AMTC). This rocketed Ken into Stardom, now his two sons Daniel (aged 6) and Asher (aged 4) not only think he is the toughest man in the world, they also think he is the smartest.
On completing his course at AMTC Ken planted a Church on Auckland's North Shore.
Ken and Serena are now back at Good News Manukau Pastoring the youth of the church and making themselves useful.
Ken's personal e-mail address is: ken@goodnews.org.nz