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8 Tuesday May 10 2016 our PEOPLE > Do you know someone who should be our next Our People? Nominate them now by emailing fraser.walker@starmedia.kiwi PEGASUS POST Colin Wood Pastor with a sense of adventure Newly-appointed Parklands Baptist Community Church pastor Colin Wood talks to Fraser Walker- Pearce about how he proposed long distance to his wife of 25 years, why his body doesn’t bounce like it used to, and why he chose to work in Parklands. Hi Colin, when did you come to Parklands, and why? I started at Parklands Baptist Community Church the week before Easter, and what brought me out here was, after pastoring in other places, I found they had a really strong community connection. Part of me wanted to become a pastor in a really interesting community. So it was the community connection that drew you in? It has a really strong community connection. We had friends who went through the earthquake and we really wanted to be here, but obviously at the same time I didn’t want to be here. The church is very involved in community. I can’t give you exact numbers but it’s an astonishing number of people coming through every week. There is a craft group, a move and groove group for toddlers, babies groups, and they show movies. They’re really very involved. It was very attractive for me. Where were you in 2011? I was in Invercargill, working with the Invercargill Central Baptist Church in 2011. When the earthquake rolled around, the Parklands church really did very well. They opened up their building, became an earthquake support area for the community and ran meals for everyone for about six weeks. I wasn’t here for it but I have heard from people around the area who say: ‘Oh Previously United Travel COMMUNITY LEADER: Colin and Linda Wood have recently moved to the eastern suburbs from Invercargill, and Colin is the new pastor of the Parklands Baptist Community Church. yes, I’ve had a meal there’ or something like that, about their experiences with the church. Wow, sounds like you’ve picked the right one. Where did you train to become a pastor? I trained at Carey College and also the University of Auckland. So I have a bachelor in theology, and have pastored in Ilam for eight years and another eight in Invercargill before that. And what did you do before that? Well this is where it gets interesting. I actually spent four years in Hong Kong and helped drug addicts for some of that. Well I wasn’t expecting that answer. How did you help them? It was astonishing, and probably one of the reasons I’ve ended up working as a pastor, is seeing a number of people change their lives. My background is with computers, and although computers are great, it’s even better seeing people change their lives for good, it’s just magnificent. So did you go over there specifically to work with drug addicts? I went over to work with computers, and wanted to see if I could live in another culture. I got involved with a church that was working specifically with heroin addicts. After we’d been involved with the church for a few years, full-time, we began running houses that housed recovering addicts. And that would probably have been for 24 hours a day, six days a week. So it was a successful exercise? A lot of those guys have overcome that now and they have lives now, it’s just fantastic. We do keep in touch with a few and they’re doing well, from what looked like dead-end stories, have now got lives and they’re out making a difference. That was for two years full-time, and a year and a half were volunteering. So if you were volunteering did you have to have a job there too? When we first got there I worked with computers, and my wife worked as a nurse, and is now a district nurse here in Christchurch. But we actually lived off our savings back then. I think it was in the mid-90s. So how old does that make you now? Hmm . . . let’s just say I’m in my 50s. Okay fair enough. Where did you meet your wife? I met my wife in Wellington. Fly Direct to Fiji Children Fly, Stay & Eat From $199. * Limited to the first 70 children. No, it wasn’t love at first sight (laughs) – love is a process. When I left to go to Hong Kong I actually called her from my hotel in Boston (during a stopover) and I proposed to her over the phone, while she was back in Wellington. What – really? I missed the engagement party and everything – don’t do it the way I did. I guess you could say I came to my senses right then and there, and have not regretted it ever since. We’ve now been married 25 years. Do you have any children? Yes, I have two daughters. They’re both university age. One is at Canterbury and one is in Dunedin, they’re both studying. And what do you do in your spare time? Well I surf . . . badly. I’m a bit of an old fogey, so I have a longboard, but my friend has leant me a shortboard so I will be trying out the shortboard soon. I’m really enjoying riding the mountain bike around Bottle Lake Forest as well. And I’m also an old school whitewater kayaker, which I don’t do as much anymore unfortunately, and I also play guitar. Would you say you like extreme sports? I actually skateboard to church sometimes. It’s just such a fun thing to do. It’s just really good getting some exercise. But I’m too old to get into the really extreme sports, I don’t take it down hills, you become aware that once you’re past 50 your body doesn’t bounce like it used to. Where were you born? I grew up in Christchurch on the Port Hills, from about age seven upwards. I wasn’t born here, I was born in Australia. Oh no, not an Aussie-born Kiwi? 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