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Christina Tyson

Press Service International

Christina Tyson has been a Salvation Army officer (minister) for almost 30 years. For 16 years she was involved in Salvation Army communications, but now works to support local churches and recruit future leaders. Recently she also took on an additional role as The Salvation Army’s Response Officer for the New Zealand Royal Commission into Abuse in Care. Christina and her husband Keith live in Wellington, New Zealand, and have three adult children.

  • Tap into God’s Autocorrect for Life

    Predictive and autocorrect on smartphones are supposed to help us out. But they’re not always right—and sometimes they’re laughably wrong. Like when you say you’re ‘auditioning your kids’, only to have autocorrect change that to ‘auctioning your kids’. Or when you text your sister that ‘Grandma is in the grave’, when you thought you were typing ‘Grandma is in the garage’!

  • Work together for NZ’s mental health

    Last week, 10 October was World Mental Health Day, but just how mentally well are we?

  • Timely Lessons from Tough Times

    How do you answer a 15-year-old who wants to know why God doesn’t help people in a pandemic?

  • Let it Go

    ‘Let it go!’ – of course, it’s the Frozen movie anthem, but it’s also a great line from the iconic the Vogel’s bread advert ‘New Zealanders overseas’: ‘It was a year ago, okay Michael? Let it go!’

  • The Calm Before the Storm

    It started with toilet paper hoarding, and perhaps we laughed a little. But it was a nervous laugh. Because quickly things became far more serious as people all over the world were called home and required to self-isolate

  • No parent is perfect

    When I was around 10 years old, I decided to write down all the things my parents did that annoyed me. My intention was that I would refer to this when I had children so I wouldn’t make the same mistakes.

  • To Weed or Not to Weed?

    A month-and-a-half before Christmas we moved into a new house. Those living here before us kindly tidied the garden before they moved on, planting strawberries, rhubarb, tomatoes and lettuces.

  • Trusting in times of transition

    ‘Turn and face the strange,’ is David Bowie’s challenge in his 1971 song ‘Changes’.

  • Royal Commission Learnings

    At the time of writing, I am in the humbling position of being one of two Salvation Army representatives at the first public hearing of New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

  • Let Youth Take the Lead

    I’m embarrassed and ashamed at the failure of leadership and vision coming from some of the world’s ‘adults’ when measured against that of those many years younger.