Meet the Team

Rev. Lance Lukin

Regional Director of Oceania, Mission to Seafarers
Port Chaplain

Originally trained as a teacher, Lance was ordained in 1993 and served in a variety of settings before being appointed as a Chaplain to the New Zealand Army in 1997. During his time as a military chaplain Lance was deployed to East Timor and Afghanistan. In 2016 Lance retired from the New Zealand Army and joined the Mission to Seafarers as Port Chaplain for Wellington and Regional Director for Oceania. Lance is currently completing a Master of Chaplaincy degree through the University of Otago, a programme that he helped to develop.