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Opening and Dedication Service – Spiritual Church of NZ, Hastings Branch

The video (28 minutes) of this service can be accessed on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/jo7-Zxfv2pY

75th Anniversary of the Passing of the Spiritualist Church of NZ Act

The video (1 hour 6 minutes) of these proceedings can be accessed on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/DisoO2mLMJs Note that some audio (songs) needed to be removed due to copyright.

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People On Episode 13 - Spiritualism, Community & Evidence, host Kerry-Marie talks to the Milford's Spiritual Centre's president Zane Smith. Zane discusses his journey that lead him to Spiritualism and the importance of the evidential aspects of mediumship. He also...

The Church of the Golden Light History

The Church of the Golden Light was founded on the 4th April 1931 by Mrs Fanny Philpott. The first service was held in a rented building in Belgium Street – now Upper Queen Street. However following much fundraising, they purchased their own property in 1935 at 100...

MacKelvie West Spiritualist Church

We are deeply indebted to the notes left by the late Harvey Fitton - he had a connection with the church for over 60 years. He served on committees, was Vice President and a Trustee for many years. As well as being a very able speaker, he did do a lot of Platform work...

The forming of Porirua Church and the Tawa Healing Group

Actually the healing group came first and they consisted of Trixie ?, Cliff Schofield, Eric D?, Jack and Muriel Clapton, all of whom were healers and members of the Petone Spiritualist Church. We had to find somewhere to hold the healing. We went to the Scout Hall in...

The Beginnings of Porirua Church

Mrs Swaby wanted a healing group in this area (Tawa) to represent Petone. Originally she hoped her son would do it but her son died and so four of us from Petone opened it out here as the Tawa Healing Group. We must have run about 18 months before but the obvious...

Nelson Spiritualist Church

I have been asked to write about our groups in Nelson so here goes. The first spiritualist group of which we have on record in Nelson started in 1975. Over the years many interested people have come and gone, but Pearl and Hugh Watson had a vision for the future....