Meet our Chaplain
The Rev’d Cameron Pickering believes that people “are at the heart of God’s agenda”. He ministers from “this love with people at the heart of mine”. “ Christ’s College’s vision for each boy, encouraged and challenged to be aspirational in all they do, resonates with my own vocation as a priest and educator. I believe it is in the community of relationship – the communing; and the questioning and pondering – the reasoning, that Jesus himself draws near. As we journey together, we are formed more and more into the likeness of the One for whom College is named.” Cameron was formerly the Associate Priest at the Christchurch Transitional Cathedral. Gaining a Bachelor of Theology through the University of Otago in 2003, and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning (Secondary) at the Christchurch College of Education the following year, he continued studying at tertiary level in New Zealand and England. From 2006–2017, Cameron taught History, Geography, and Religious Education at St Andrew’s College. In that time, he was also the Assistant Housemaster, residential boys’ boarding, Years 9–11. After being called to the Anglican Seminary in Auckland at the end of 2017, he undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Chaplaincy at the University of Otago and a Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education through the New Zealand Association of Clinical Pastoral Education. In 2020, he was appointed Assistant Curate at the Parish of Merivale in St Albans, Christchurch.
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