Our People
Aaron Hodgson - Youth Pastor
Aaron hails from the small town of Te Puke. He is married to Jess, they have two girls, Atea and Jayme, and they love living in Cambridge. Aaron completed his BMin in Adelaide. Before heading overseas to study, Aaron worked in Kiwifruit and Dairy farming.
His passion is to help make the complicated things of the Bible simple for young people to make them wise. Aaron loves speaking to large groups or just one-on-one. He loves to challenge young people to take their faith seriously to prepare them for life better.
His responsibility is to support parents in helping disciple their teens and help spread the gospel in our community.
Aaron loves hanging out with people and playing sports, anything from table tennis to snowboarding.
Nick Goodwin - Associate Pastor
Nick’s time is predominantly spent in outward-focused roles. He is the Christian Community Churches New Zealand (CCCNZ) Regional Enabler for the Waikato region, meaning that he is involved in facilitating relationships and partnerships between Waikato churches connected to the CCCNZ network. In addition, he works with students and staff at Waikato University, mostly in partnership with Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship, a national Christian student movement. A scientist by training, until 2017 Nick worked at the Ministry of Health in Wellington, and before that in the English health system.
He is married to Jo and they have two children, Hannah and Theodore. If he had spare time he would probably spend it planting bromeliads, playing jazz guitar badly, watching old Youtube videos of Brazil winning world cups (he is Brazilian by birth), and soundly defeating his children in Boggle.
