Pastor Teremoana Tauira was awarded the New Zealand Queens Service Medal (QSM) in 2020.  He founded the Victory Church in Porirua in 1992, where he remains as Minister, and has been Moderator for Victory Church throughout the Pacific region and Australia since 2011. 

Pastor Tauira has represented the perspectives and needs of Cook Islands and other Pacific communities in a range of national advisory groups, such as the Ministry of Education's Central Talanoa Advisory Group and the ACC National Pacific Advisory Group. He is a board member of Pacific Health Plus and a member of the Strong Pacific Families Porirua Group.

He is a passionate leader of the Porirua community and with his beautiful wife Kitiona continue to do god’s work by bringing joy and blessings to those in need.undertook a personal trainer course to become qualified and has run fitness classes for the past seven years for those in his church wanting to lose weight and learn about better nutrition. Pastor Tauira was a founding member of the Porirua Church Ministers Forum and has been Vice Chairperson and Treasurer.