Reverend Setaita Veikune became the first Pacific minister to superintend an English-speaking multicultural synod, the Manukau Synod, of the Methodist Church of New Zealand in 2006. She instructed a review and redevelopment of the VTOA Sunday School curriculum in 2013, covering all levels in the Tongan language. She was appointed in 2015 as Director of Mission Resourcing, Pasifika Ministries of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, which encompasses oversight over the Tongan, Samoan, and Fijian Ministries. She was the first Pacific woman to be appointed President Elect of the Methodist Church of New Zealand in 2017. She has chaired the social services arm of VTOA as well as a number of VTOA steering groups and committees. Reverend Veikune has been President of the Tonga District Methodist Women’s Fellowship and the Auckland Manukau Parish Women’s Fellowship. Reverend Veikune then became the first female Parish Superintendent Minister for the Auckland Manukau Tongan Parish in 2010. From 2009 to 2014 Reverend Veikune was the first woman elected to be Synod Superintendent Minister for Vahefonua Tonga O Aotearoa (VTOA) National Synod, managing a congregation of 36 churches throughout New Zealand. During this time she forged closer working relationships with the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga in New Zealand and other Tongan churches.