Feb 21, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Last time I was in Dunedin, I visited the Smith Gallery in the Otago Settlers Museum. I found myself surrounded from floor to ceiling with portraits of hundreds of dour Scottish faces. These imposing patriarchs and matriarchs were settlers from pre 1865. This...
Feb 14, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Those of us of a certain age may well remember “The Seekers” – a music group that gave us songs like “Puff the magic dragon”. “There is a Season, Turn, turn, turn” and “The Times They are A’Changing”! The latter could well be a theme song for our world today. ...
Feb 7, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whānau, The demands of the gospel, while sound simple – to love others, to be peacemakers, to do justice; in fact are at times downright inconvenient, and at times feel impossible! In some ways the easiest ways to express our commitment to Jesus’...
Jan 31, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Happy New Year from all at St Andrew’s!This year St Andrews on the Terrace is 180.On 22 February 1840, our first members arrived on the Bengal Merchant, from Glasgow. The next day their minister Rev John MacFarlane, who travelled with them, held a service...
Dec 20, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Like many of us, living in New Zealand we cannot be unaware of a diversity of religions. Linda and I are particularly aware of how Islam works in practice because of the Muslim part of our family in Cairo and our involvement with our Syrian friends here. Of course...
