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Minutes of the General Assembly 2012 Second, his acceptance of a call to a Baptist Church in Palmerston North as an assistant minister led to his theological study at the Baptist Theological College. He graduated as an accredited minister of the Baptist Union of New Zealand and served in churches in Manawatu, Epsom, Glen Eden, and Pakuranga in Auckland. It was when Frank was in the Glen Eden Baptist Church that he was approached by Right Rev Paddy Jansen to turn some of the jungle trees on the mission property in the New Hebrides into sawn timber to erect campus buildings, battens and gate timber. Frank took this request to the deacons court who, in 45 minutes, unanimously agreed to release their minister for three months for this project. It was a unique cooperation between the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches. Frank wrote years later in his book, To Number Our Days, “’When I was forty years old the bush burned for me a second time’” (Exodus, chapter 3). He went to Carter Consolidated to request every item for a saw mill. Every item was supplied. Keith Hay, mayor of Mount Roskill, offered to meet all the costs of assembling the equipment and crating it for shipment. Stan Murray in his book, One Small Finger, wrote, “Only when the materials were assembled on the site at Navota farm did Frank McKean go out and undertake the task of putting them together in the shape of a sawmill. It was a tremendous job requiring great skill and ingenuity as well as outstanding physical strength. Mr McKean possessed all of them and worked with such concentration and devotion, that, with the aid of some local folk, he had the saw mill in operation in two and a half months.” Little did Frank know that his pilgrimage would eventually lead him to ministry in the Presbyterian Church when he made some adjustments to his theology of baptism. Third, when he was appointed South Pacific Field Coordinator for World Vision, which involved organising the 40 Hour Famine, securing funds for children’s books in the Pacific via telethon funding. He travelled throughout the Pacific—the islands, Thailand, Singapore, Japan. He visited the site of the saw mill. In 1981, at the age of 50, Frank received a Member of the British Empire (MBE) Award for his services to the people of the Pacific. Fourth was when he was called to the Pokeno Presbyterian Church which led to 10 years in parish ministry, including Clevedon Parish at Maraetai. He negotiated a 75 per cent duties agreement with the intention to retire a little ahead of his 60th birthday. Health intervened. After suffering a cardiac arrest that resulted in a quadruple bypass, he took early retirement and settled in his home in Tauranga. For 20 years, he and Juliet had the pleasures and joys of family life while members of the St Enoch’s Church. In July 2003, Frank preached what was to be his last sermon at St Enoch’s. He worked his way through the letter R, mentioning the names of his children, Rosemary, Ross and Ruth— who had been dubbed by the Bible class members as the three Rs, reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. When a fourth baby was added to the family, Rae, she was listed as religion. Frank worked out his theme on reason, respect and responsibility. He ended, “The seventh R is not to be called religion but righteousness (or right-mindedness) wedded to human kindness in that caring spirit we know as love, or even more simply, following the way Jesus walked: nothing more is needed and nothing less will suffice.” 36 Session 2
Minutes of the General Assembly 2012 McKenzie, Reverend Peter Rutherford March 1924 – September 2011 Peter Rutherford McKenzie was born in Christchurch on 20 March 1924. He was the son of the Rev. W. H. P. McKenzie best known for his ministry in Wadestown from 1936-1947. Peter was educated at Wellington College and then at Victoria University, graduating with an MA in History in 1945. He studied for the ministry and for his Bachelor of Divinity (1950) at Princeton Seminary. He continued church history studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1950-1952 and received his PhD. Peter married Renate Bender on 30 September 1952, and they had three children, Ann Barbara, Immanuel, and Eva. Peter was ordained as assistant minister at St Andrew’s on the Terrace on 26 March 1953 and until 1956 was also General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement during this period. From 1956-1961, he was first assistant minister and then minister of the parish of Port Chalmers. During the first year or two of this time, Peter greatly enjoyed and benefited from working with the Rev George Jeffreys with the latter’s intensive approach to the whole community. Peter continued ministry with this emphasis; he was also an active member of the Labour Party. From 1961-1965, Peter was chaplain to foreign students at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in Germany. The family went to Germany to be closer to Renate’s family; her father was bishop of the Protestant Church in the state of Baden. Peter impressed with his intense pastoral care of foreign students, “knowing not the day nor the hour”. In 1965, Peter followed a vocation to teach theology in Africa and became lecturer/ senior lecturer in religious studies at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Besides lecturing in a number of areas, he was the founding editor of the department’s journal Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, which seeks to pursue the three ways (Orita) of Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion. Peter and Renate were both able to identify to an admiral degree with various peoples of Nigeria during the military coups and civil war. Peter then became successor to the Rev Dr Harold Turner as head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Leicester, England. He remained in this position until his retirement, which was in itself an achievement during a time of many cuts. Other members of the Faculty of Arts admired him for his tenacity in demonstrating the essential nature of religious studies in a university and keeping the teaching going. His main publications were The Christians: their Practices and Beliefs (SPCK, 1988), and Hail Orisha! A Phenomenology of West African Religion in the Mid- Nineteenth Century (Brill, 1997). Peter died on 28 September 2011 and is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren. McLeay, Reverend William Maurice 2 June 1920 – 14 October 2011 “White Rose” Bill as he was known to parishioners—and Maurice as he was known to his family— passed from the arms of his family into the arms of his Lord on the morning of 14 October 2011. Maurice was born at the family farm in the Turakina Valley on a cold night in June 1920. He was the youngest child in the family of nine brought up within the Session 2 37
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