Far North, Here Comes Waymaker

August - November 2024
  • D'man
  • Christine Hinton
We are blessed to be a blessing. We leave tomorrow to be a blessing to those we meet/help/pray for in the far north over the coming months. 💥🙏 Read more
  • D'man
  • Christine Hinton

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  • On our way!

    August 27, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    We have left our winter-over parkup spot at the wonderful Keswick Christian Camp at Hannahs Bay, Rotorua. A huge thank you Terry and Raewyn for all your generosity, love, care, and much rugby watching while with you!! .... totally awesome!! It was also wonderful being back home with our church family and their wonderful Pastor's JP and Karen Medcalfe. We have bèen so blessed while resting under the beautiful presence of Holy Spirit. 💕

    We left in pouring rain at 9am to head to Te Puke for Waymaker to undergo her 6monthly Certificate of Fitness testing... and she passed with glowing colours... awesome.

    We are now parked up at the Welcome Bay Association Camp for a couple days prior to our heading north.
    We are back onto the ministry highway; back on with our pilgrimage... one this trip we have bought a video projector and a couple of screens one of which is 3mtrs and for outside use.... thus will be a new means of summer night outreach by showing "The Chosen" and other Christian videos at the various places where we park up!!
    Bring it on Lord!!
    (Photos are our parkup at Welcome Bay Motor Home Association Camp at Welcome Bay.. Tauranga)
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  • Moving on to Te Aroha

    Aug 28–Sep 5, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    We celebrated our 53rd wedding anniversary in Tauranga after Christine MRI scan. Twice God answered our prayers... once during pouring rain as we headed to our camp we prayed for someone to be there at the gate to open and close it after us, and there was a person there, to open and close the gate for us... and secondly at Grace Hospital, we prayed for a large park to be available to park up Waymaker, over 9and a half mtrs long. The car park was totally packed except for a 11mtr parking space right outside the main entrance... awesome!!
    Today we are in Te Aroha getting ready to soak in the hot pools... "bring it on!"
    (Photo's.. Thai lunch with our daughter, Rachelle)
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  • Giving Help

    September 1, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌙 12 °C

    Just pulled into our new camping site and a couple next to us in their motorhome called in to say hi. WOW!! Does the wife need help! (and she knows she does)
    We spent an hour with her then, and another just now helping her sort through her major issues. This has been a very special evening. Praise God we will see them again tomorrow as they too are staying an extra night here.. we pray for a glorious breakthrough. PTLRead more

  • Ministering on!

    September 4, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Here we are parked up at the Sandspit in Waiuku for lunch. A truly beautiful site when the tide is in...( it goes a long way out here.) Who should come by but Jim to clean the rubbish bin next to us. He turns out to be a very lonely Christian brother, whom, because of his job is unable to attend church.
    This was a kairos moment... a wonderful time of encouragement, fellowship, and prayer. Dear Jim was so very touched that God allowed us to come into his life at this time. Thank you Lord.
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  • Awhitu Breakout

    September 5, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    We decided to spend a few days exploring the Awhitu although sadly we couldn't make it to the Manukau Heads lighthouse due to a massive road slip. We spent 3nights at Grahams Beach at a POP ( park over property) right on the beach. Two other motorhomes came in and joined us, which was really good.
    Today we moved onto Clarks Beach which is one of my old stamping grounds. Sadly the two camp sites available to us were not suitable therefore we came back into Pukekohe.. where I was born, some years ago, and we leave for the far north on Tuesday.
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  • More Lord!

    September 10, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    A lot has happened since I last checked in. We are now parked up on a reserve at the waters edge at Snells Beach. It has just gone 7am and I have just come in from praying for a local lady who was sitting in a car having a cigarette. She had her left foot reconstructed 3months ago therefore couldn't walk on it. Was still sore and painful. After prayer, all pain had gone and she was able to put her weight on it without restriction.... my instruction to her was to thank the healer Jesus Christ... thank the one who gives us life.
    Yesterday, on our way here from Gulf Harbour I felt to pull into the beach carpark at Orewa. What was going to be a brief stop for a cupper ended up over 2hours as people came up to talk to us.... one couple were from Moscow!! .. awesome.
    (The photos are of our camp site in Gulf Harbour... totally beautiful and peaceful, historical Puhoi where we stopped for lunch, and our site in Snells Beach.)
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  • Slight Detour

    September 15, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    After leaving Snells Beach we took a tour of the Matakana region, looking around Omana, and out to Leigh... made a really bad decision to take Waymaker down to the wharf... a really bad decision. We are not sure how Waymaker made it back to the top of the very narrow, very steep, very winding, and very overhung road... maybe angels were sent to push us! Due to a storm coming we high tailed it through to Wellsford and hung out in a sheltered parkup for 4days while the storm passed. We then left for Port Albert for a nite and onto Kaukapakapa to spend time with an old friend who isn't well.
    We are needing to return to Rotorua for a couple of days for Chrissy to attend an appointment at Waikato Hospital.
    The past week has been one not of preaching His Word but on showing His love and light.
    Tonight we meet up with a dear couple for dinner, tomorrow having a reunion time with a bundle of cousins, then onto to spend the night with a dear elderly couple in Devonport we have known for years and years... more of His light to be shone.. praise God!!
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  • First Puncture on Waymaker

    September 21, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    I was having my early morning prayer walk this morning when in the way back to Waymaker I noticed a nail/screw/something in the front left tyre of Waymaker. We had parked up in the drive of our dear friends Laurie and Jocelyn Spinley in Devonport. Their beautiful 4story home looks out over the Auckland Harbour... magnificent views.
    I contacted AA Services and they arrived shortly after and swapped the tyre over for one from the rear dual axle. Unfortunately, due to all tyre centres being closed we could get it fixed therefore we limped slowly and without further incident to Pukekohe waiting to have it repaired tomorrow.
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  • Odds and Ends

    October 2, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    We are finally back on the road after a quick trip to Waikato Hospital for Christine to be updated on what they are doing about her back.
    We were also able to catch up with all the flash stuff at the NZ Motorhome Show.. awesome but spent far too much.
    We are now parked up in Pukekohe while waiting for our dear friends to join us on our Far North pilgrimage .. they should be with us tonight.
    Meanwhiie here are a few pix.. our new motorhome we ordered... relaxing in Waymaker..., and hot pool swim in Parikai.
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  • You Cant Save the Saved!

    October 6, 2024 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Started evangelising a dear man with 10 kids at Gulf Harbour... he remembered seeing Waymaker somewhere before!! It turned out his wife was a christian and he was a partial catholic😇 And then later that day, while waiting for Chrissy to do some shopping while we were parked up in Waymaker in the Orewa Woolworths carpark, I started chatting to an English couple who admired our motorhome.... they also turned out to be Christian 😍 ... I wont stop trying.
    We had lunch in Waipu Cove and then sat and watching the waves rolling in... beautiful. We are now parked up along side an estuary while overlooking the beach.. WOW!
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