Mar 8, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone Traditional Ash Wednesday services say ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’ We converted that on Wednesday night to the concept that ‘we are stardust’. Think, every element in us is from the original Big Bang. We are kin to...
Mar 1, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, This Sunday we host Peter Wilson, Richard Lawrence, Stuart Vogel and Robert Reid (not necessarily in that order!). They’ll launch a new Don Borrie Memorial Fund for promoting communication with North Korea. Considering the US-DPRK summit this week,...
Feb 22, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, A drippy day today but the gardeners amongst us are probably happy! On Wed 20th, a Prayer Vigil in St Paul’s marked 50 years of NZ Council of Christian Social Services. www.nzccss.org.nz Trish McBride, Lois Robertson and Jeni Bryant worked on a...
Feb 15, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, Two important people died this week. Our own Margaret Megwyn died naturally, in her sleep. Judith McKinlay, a former Old Testament teacher of mine died a few days earlier. Both women suffered chronic conditions. In dying when they did, they’ve...
Feb 1, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Today is my first day back in 2019. A little cooler than some days we’ve been having! The inbox claims one’s attention, and one or two tasks left over from 2018. But let’s not think about all that just yet! On...
Dec 14, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, It’s Murphy’s law really. The weather forecast earlier in the week said it would rain Wednesday through to Friday. After dressing too warmly on Wednesday and Thursday, I dressed down on Friday (today) to find it cool and maybe drizzly – the luck of...