Jun 26, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whanau This coming Sunday is my last with St Andrews on The Terrace as a stated supply minister. I will see you occasionally in future. Thank you for the opportunity to spend time with you. I have re-met old friends and made new friends which is important...
Jun 19, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whanau There has been a lot of talk about story and history in the past fortnight. In an article about the contentious issue of statues of colonisers, Shane Te Pou wrote in Stuff: It is not enough simply to say they “tell our story” when in fact, they...
Jun 12, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Resistance is a normal human response to change – when we feel the tides of change often our first reaction is to hold more tightly to what we know. Sometimes that’s a good thing – people who have been forced to emigrate from their homelands to settle in another...
Jun 5, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whānau In past months, we have heard a lot about breath and breathlessness as symptoms of Covid-19. And in the past week, the words “I can’t breathe” have been on our minds and in our hearts with news of the murder of African American George Floyd by a...
May 29, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whānau Thanks to the hard work of the Parish Council and the Health and Safety Committee, not to mention our government’s management of the pandemic here in New Zealand, we can meet in the church again this Sunday! Please remember to bring a pen to sign...