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Welcome to Reflect Conference 2026



Welcome to Reflect 2026
Thank you for joining your colleagues at this year’s Christian Medical Fellowship conference. A significant change from last year is that we also welcome our dental colleagues, who are now full members of our fellowship.
This year’s theme is an important and defining characteristic of our mission:
Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.
Isaiah 1:17
Jesus himself expressed the same sentiment when he quoted Isaiah as he launched his ministry in Nazareth. He was handed the scroll and read from Isaiah 61:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favour has come.
Luke 4:18–19
In Isaiah 1, the Lord urges his people to reflect on their lives, to reach out to him, to confess the sin that separates them from him, and to receive the forgiveness he freely offers. Then we will be able to walk with the Lord each day, hear his voice, learn to trust and love him, and choose to obey him.
“Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat.”
Isaiah 1:18–19
It has never been more important for us as a fellowship to come together — to support each other in prayer, financially, and collegially. There will be many challenges ahead of us as we seek justice, help the oppressed, defend the cause of orphans and widows, work to release the captives, and set the oppressed free.
This is our work each and every day as those who need a doctor seek our care.
I pray that this conference will bless you, that you will form and renew friendships, and that in some way this time spent together will encourage you to obey our Lord’s call.
Yours in Christ,
Greville Wood
Chair, CMFnz



Welcome from NCFNZ
Tēnā koutou katoa, nau mai, haere mai!
It is my honour to welcome you once again to a Reflect conference held in partnership with our dear friends at CMFnz.
At a time when the concept of justice seems to be lacking in our world, let us do our utmost to consider the importance of fair and equitable access to a just health care and seek to defend that right here at home in Aotearoa New Zealand.
On behalf of the national committee of NCFNZ, haere mai, haere mai, haere mai!
Dr Mark Jones
President, NCFNZ
Conference Schedule
Christchurch Schedule
Reflect Conference 2026 Speakers
Lady Tureiti Moxon has a legal background and is the Chair of the National Urban Māori Authority. She is the Managing Director of Te Kōhao Health in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, providing services to the wider Waikato region.
In 2024 she was made an Honorary Doctor by the University of Waikato for her outstanding contribution to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders and her commitment to Māori self-determination. She was also recognised as a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
Lady Tureiti has extensive governance, management and business experience, and is a strong advocate for justice, equity, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, by Māori for Māori for everyone solutions, Mana Māori Motuhake and Tino Rangatiratanga.
Chris Clarke is the CEO of Wilberforce Foundation. He was previously CEO of World Vision New Zealand and CEO of Hawke’s Bay District Health Board, and has worked with the World Health Organisation, NHS Wales, and in a number of New Zealand health-sector roles.
Chris holds law and commerce degrees and has been the inaugural Praxis Visiting Scholar at Green Templeton College, Oxford University since 2009.
He chairs Arrow Leadership Global and the Emergency Alliance in New Zealand, a grouping of nine major humanitarian NGOs.
Leaupepe Rachel Karalus is a CEO, former lawyer, and seasoned governor whose career spans more than 20 years across the for-purpose and commercial worlds. She currently serves as a Hamilton City Councillor and as a Director of First Credit Union.
Proudly of Samoan and mixed-European descent, Rachel comes from a family steeped in service and health.
For eight years, Rachel led K’aute Pasifika as CEO, guiding the organisation through the creation of the K’aute Pasifika Village, known for its holistic, Pacific-centred approach to wrap-around services and care.
Tony Wai is a senior health-sector leader, Chartered Accountant, and board governor with over 20 years’ experience across public, private, and not-for-profit healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.
He is the former Chief Executive of NZX-listed Third Age Health and currently serves as Chair of the Digital Health Association of New Zealand and Chair of Kaikaranga, Auckland’s disability NASC organisation.
Tony brings a values-based perspective to the tensions and opportunities in healthcare commercialisation, shaped by his role as a church elder and his commitment to stewardship, equity, and human dignity.
Robin Whyman is a dental specialist in public health dentistry and a general dentist. He has held a range of clinical leadership, executive management, and governance positions.
His work includes oral health advocacy, equity of access, improving oral health outcomes, community water fluoridation, clinical leadership, and quality improvement for dental services.
Robin’s clinical practice includes hospital-based paediatric dentistry, special needs dentistry, minor oral surgery, and general dentistry for high-need patients at Hawke’s Bay Hospital. He is also employed part-time as Director of Dental Policy with the NZDA.
Ben Carswell is a Yorkshire Kiwi who has lived in Wellington for the last 18 years. He serves as National Director of Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship, helping students reach students for Christ and changing students for life.
Ben is committed to sharing Te Rongopai, the good news of Jesus, growing lifelong disciples, and developing servant leaders.
He loves sport and is involved in playing, coaching, and refereeing community and schools sport. He is married to Jen and they have three children.
Faumuina Professor Fa’afetai (Tai) Sopoaga is the Director, Va’a o Tautai (VOT) – Centre for Pacific Health at the University of Otago. Tai is from Samoa and moved to New Zealand to pursue tertiary studies.
She is a public health physician, trained as a GP, and was awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education and the Pacific community. She received the Prime Minister’s Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, and endorsement for excellence in supporting Pacific learners.
Faumuina's work involves strengthening engagements with local, national, and regional Pacific communities, seeking opportunities for mutual benefit when engaging them in the work of the university in teaching, services, and research.
Averil has recently completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) research project examining social service responses to family violence in rural Aotearoa New Zealand.
She also works for Te Whatu Ora as a Healthcare Assistant at her local rural hospital, bringing together academic insight and frontline rural health experience to inform cross-sector engagement supporting family violence victim/survivors in rural communities.
Phil White has worked as a GP for over 40 years both in the United Kingdom and in Dunedin. Since 2017 he has worked part-time as a GP at Servants’ Health Centre.
Servants’ Health Centre is a Christian service, born out of a church home-group in 2010, offering healthcare and more to those in the Dunedin area who cannot afford, or who find it difficult to engage with mainstream general practice.
For his patients, justice often means helping them to navigate systems such as MSD, housing agencies, ACC and the local hospital, and facilitating access to appointments. The Servants team provide hope and love through Jesus Christ in their relationships with and actions for their patients.
Miranda works for Hikitia! as a Community Mobiliser in the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, as well as being the Business Lead for Restorative Justice Nelson.
She has previously worked as a clinician in the family violence sector with people of all ages using and impacted by family violence. Miranda also has a Masters Degree in Theology and worked in children’s and youth work for All Saints Anglican Church Nelson for seven years, a church to which she continues to belong.
Miranda grew up in the UK and has spent most of her adult life in Aotearoa as a proud tangata tiriti. When not at work she is often acting, singing, tramping or playwriting. She is currently writing a podcast musical about a justice-driven 15th century nun!
Gabrielle is passionate about infusing her Christian faith and her clinical nursing practice. She is comfortable working in highly technical areas such as ICU, CCU and ED while also confident serving those in overseas rural tribal areas where there is no currency, electricity or basic health care resources.
Gabi enjoys stretching her capacity wherever God has called her to care for those she serves. She teaches and mentors younger health care workers in a variety of cultures and environments and deeply values that Christians can learn how to flourish well under often difficult circumstances.
She intertwines theology and practice to help others develop their own healthy lived experience with refreshing ideas.
While in Otago medical school, Nick had a strong sense that God could use him better in a low-income setting than New Zealand. He moved to Uganda with his wife under the Church Missionary Society and worked as a doctor and then health centre manager for the Anglican church.
After seeing the large numbers of people still underserved by Uganda’s health system, Nick co-founded OneDay Health with Emma and Pranav to provide high quality, accessible primary healthcare to people living in healthcare “black holes”.
OneDay Health places one nurse in one rented room in remote places to provide quality primary care for the first time. It has partnered with 12 dioceses across Uganda to launch 85 OneDay Health centres, which have treated over 400,000 patients.