I’m Terry Alve
This site is associated with my autobiographical book which is being written currently. As the writing progresses I will provide updates and, in due course, information about how to acccesss this writing.

About Me
Eldest child, sibling, shy, rugby and tennis player, husband, engineer, parish priest and website designer, father and dodo.
Caring Perfectionist
At a very early age I learned to care. I was an eldest child in a family of four and inherited a deep sense of responsibility. My parents were dairy farmers and there was always more than enough to do including milking 80 cows morning and night. From about age 7-8 I relieved mum of this task, working alongside dad in the cowshed. I learned early to be quite responsible and care not only for family ut for the animals too.
Dad set very high standards, especially of cleanliness in the milking shed. Not cleaning the milking equipment properly meant the possibility of a ‘grade’ i.e. being paid less by the dairy company for the milk because it had been down-‘graded’. I was often chastised for not being clean enough, or careful or timely, or…?
Regular floods over the property complicated farm life. These required significantly clearing and cleaning to ensure that the cowshed was fit for purpose and the property reaadied to continue sustaining the dairy herd.


Westfalia
Pictured c.1967 soon after the new house was built (centre).
Rangitane Boyhood Farm 1952-1970 after the river control stop banks were built.
The old homestead (dating from 1900) was demolished to make way for the stop banks.
Previous Publications
Three books over thirty years.

Alve Road
How do you spell that?
The geanealogical, biographical and brief historical outline of the descendants of Carl and Maria Theresia Alve and their ancestors publishe din 1994.

Don Milne
a most extraordinary man
A biography of Don Milne my second father-in-law who was also my father in faith after he, with his wife Helen, walked into my life later 1974 when my first wife Maureen was dying of cancer.

Valentine’s Day 1874
A Ruhr Valley Romance
Written in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of Carl and Theresia Alve, my great grand parents, who with married in St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Gelsenkirchen, Germany on 14th February 1874.

Terry Alve
1989
Ministry Experience
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1980-1982
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1982-1989
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1989-1994
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1994-2003
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2004-2009
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2009-2017
All Saints, Haitaitai
Anglican Chinese Mission
St Anne’s, Northland
Onslow Anglicans
2017-2018
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2018-2025
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Three Incidents
The kind of things I will write about whicch all speak of adversity leading to times of blessing.

As a teenager I had a debilitating form of adolescent depression for nearly three years which disappeared as quickly as it came!
John Doe

My first wife Maureen was diagnosed with melanoma while we engaged. She died following complications of this condition in November 1974.
Jenna Smith

My wife Margaret spent nearly a month in hospital at the end of 2008 after being run over by a car in the main street of Tawa, near our home.
Samuel Stevens
Stay In Touch
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