This Sunday we are celebrating Sir Lloyd Geering’s 100th birthday on the same day as Children’s Day in the midst of Wellington Rainbow Pride Festival – what a feast of inclusion!
In our Sunday Gathering we will be celebrating Sir Lloyd Geering, living treasure of our community and our nation. As one of our country’s leading thinkers, his restless and inquiring mind has questioned and interrogated the received dogmas of our faith and built a spirituality and theology steeped in the insight and learnings of our modern age. He will be sharing more of his thinking with us in the reflection as part of our Sunday Gathering.
It is a gift to our St Andrews on The Terrace faith community that we can count him as one of our members and we wish Lloyd and Shirley and family every blessing for the future as they mark this milestone of Lloyd’s 100th birthday. We will join with them in a festive morning tea in the church hall following the Sunday Gathering.
Sunday 4th March is also Children’s Day http://www.childrensday.org.nz/, so as we celebrate our distinguished elders, let’s all join together and celebrate our tamariki. Each week children light the rainbow candle as part of our gathering to symbolise the inclusiveness of all ages, creeds, race and sexual orientation. We seek to foster a faith journey in children and young people built on the foundations of love that affirms and includes all.
In the middle of Wellington Pride Festival https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz/ we celebrate our commitment to be a welcoming place for people of the LGBTTIQ+ community. Our shared spirituality recognises that sexual and gender identity are integral to our spiritual experience and the faith journey we all share. We are delighted that our Sunday gatherings are included as part of the Festival fortnight’s programme and offer a special welcome to any Festival visitors joining us this week.
On a sadder note, we are thinking of Susan and Roger as they spend time with family gathered to farewell Susan’s father who passed away last week. Our thoughts and prayers surround Susan and all her family with the knowledge of love that overcomes all barriers. Thank you to Rev. Jim Cunningham who has stepped to lead our Sunday Gathering in Susan’s place.
Susan asked me to do the e-news in her place this week, which I am happy to. To finish with some words of wisdom, what better place to look than Lloyd Geering:
“Today, many adults are finding it necessary to move to the margins of traditional Christian orthodoxy in order to rediscover a genuine faith—one that is much more than words and beliefs, one that can never be adequately expressed in words, one that is the positive response of the whole person to life, that involves the emotions and the will just as much as the mind.”
Peace be with you,
Paul Barber
To view the full e-news please click on this link: http://This Sunday we are celebrating Sir Lloyd Geering’s 100th birthday on the same day as Children’s Day in the midst of Wellington Rainbow Pride Festival – what a feast of inclusion! In our Sunday Gathering we will be celebrating Sir Lloyd Geering, living treasure of our community and our nation. As one of our country’s leading thinkers, his restless and inquiring mind has questioned and interrogated the received dogmas of our faith and built a spirituality and theology steeped in the insight and learnings of our modern age. He will be sharing more of his thinking with us in the reflection as part of our Sunday Gathering. It is a gift to our St Andrews on The Terrace faith community that we can count him as one of our members and we wish Lloyd and Shirley and family every blessing for the future as they mark this milestone of Lloyd’s 100th birthday. We will join with them in a festive morning tea in the church hall following the Sunday Gathering. Sunday 4th March is also Children’s Day http://www.childrensday.org.nz/, so as we celebrate our distinguished elders, let’s all join together and celebrate our tamariki. Each week children light the rainbow candle as part of our gathering to symbolise the inclusiveness of all ages, creeds, race and sexual orientation. We seek to foster a faith journey in children and young people built on the foundations of love that affirms and includes all. In the middle of Wellington Pride Festival https://www.wellingtonpridefestival.org.nz/ we celebrate our commitment to be a welcoming place for people of the LGBTTIQ+ community. Our shared spirituality recognises that sexual and gender identity are integral to our spiritual experience and the faith journey we all share. We are delighted that our Sunday gatherings are included as part of the Festival fortnight’s programme and offer a special welcome to any Festival visitors joining us this week. On a sadder note, we are thinking of Susan and Roger as they spend time with family gathered to farewell Susan’s father who passed away last week. Our thoughts and prayers surround Susan and all her family with the knowledge of love that overcomes all barriers. Thank you to Rev. Jim Cunningham who has stepped to lead our Sunday Gathering in Susan’s place. Susan asked me to do the e-news in her place this week, which I am happy to. To finish with some words of wisdom, what better place to look than Lloyd Geering: “Today, many adults are finding it necessary to move to the margins of traditional Christian orthodoxy in order to rediscover a genuine faith—one that is much more than words and beliefs, one that can never be adequately expressed in words, one that is the positive response of the whole person to life, that involves the emotions and the will just as much as the mind.” Peace be with you, Paul Barber
