Dave Mullan: 11 books

For about twenty-five years Val Mullan in Queensland and Dave Mullan in New Zealand have corresponded about the possibility of putting together some kind of record of the four Mullan siblings who emigrated from Blossom Hill in Co. Tyrone to the other end of the world. This collaboration initially...

This story of the HBAC has been put together by Dave Mullan who became involved in family budgeting in the 1970s. With Allan Mayall of Christchurch, he co-convened the first national meeting to consider forming a federation of budgeting services. But it had no funds, no resources and the only organisation...

Following The Dream tells the story of a small group of faithful and dedicated people whose huge vision built the Russell Methodist Church and maintained a living congregation for just a few months short of one hundred years. The book was initially inspired by many touching and memorable reminiscences...

For anyone in ministry in New Zealand in the decades from 1960 it was never going to be an easy ride. Loren Mead of the Alban Institute once described this country as the most secularised he had ever encountered. So it was easy for many clergy to find relevant service in other fields than the institutional...

Dave says, When we used to go to the movies in our childhood we loved to immerse ourselves in the stories of the pioneers of the Wild West. We gasped at their struggles and we wept over their tragedies. We booed the men in black hats for we knew they were the baddies and we cheered on everyone in...

These stories were first inspired by the author’s father’s own remarkable effort in putting together his life story. Bill taught himself to type at 80 and No Standing Stone was published soon after and revised and enlarged a decade or two later. Dave was fascinated with what they turned up as...

In New Zealand there has been considerable interest in the large family of Moses and Catherine Stewart who lived on the Landahussy side of the Glenelly Valley in Northern Ireland in the late 19th century. The large family aroused memorable local interest as they ventured on the “footstick” over...

In 2015 the New Zealand Federation of Family Budgeting Services is a massive organisation that assists families with their household budgeting. The national Government provides substantial financial assistance to enable competent people to handle initial interviews and manage the hundreds of volunteers...

For decades, most of the descendants of James Attwood and Emma Ward thought they were part of that prestigious du Bois (“at wood”) family who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.Alas, James may have gained the Attwood name when he was three years told and his unmarried mother married...

In 1966 the congregation of Dunedin’s Trinity Methodist Church completed major renovations of the church. Its structure was strengthened and waterproofed, the organ was enlarged and overhauled and neatly installed, and the whole of the interior was renewed from the stonework out. Completely new...

In an age in which Christians have to choose between blossoming audiences of largely conservative theology and dwindling numbers in the corner church, Ecclesion has offered a strategy for a completely new approach to small congregations. Developed twenty-five years ago, this strategy has even more...