Feb 19, 2021 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora te Whānau First, a message from Rev Ross Scott who is leading worship on Sunday. Lent has arrived. And it got me thinking about last year and the way we were given a form of Lent. The lockdown. Not exactly forty days but then lent is a bit more...
Feb 12, 2021 | Weekly e-news
Morena! This Sunday we will be reflecting together on the Transfiguration, the story from Mark’s Gospel which describes how the three disciples Peter, James and John experience a vision of an illuminated Jesus in conversation with Moses and Elijah. Visions can...
Feb 12, 2021 | Weekly e-news
You can “Google” Six Honest serving men to get the whole poem. However these six words provide us with a good start in trying to understand passages of scripture. WHAT kind of literature am I reading? Is it prose or poetry or proverb or apocalyptic or history? Our...
Feb 12, 2021 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora te Whānau Tau Hou hari. Happy New Year. Like many people, Ben and I have this week returned from our summer holiday. We were in the Far North for some of our time away but managed to avoid crossing paths with the person who left managed isolation infected with...
Dec 18, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora te Whānau Do you get the feeling that Christmas is suddenly almost here? Just seven sleeps to go! We’ve known about it all year but it seemed very far off for a long time, not least because the pandemic has so dominated our lives this year. Here in New Zealand...
Dec 11, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora te Whānau This week we will light the Advent Candle of Joy when we gather on Sunday for our Carol Service. What could be more appropriate than to express our joy about the coming of Christmas through singing Christmas carols, both old and new. Singing is...
