Mar 28, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, It doesn’t seem right to wish you a ‘Happy’ Holy Week – perhaps a blessed one or a special one would be more appropriate… or maybe ‘thoughtful’. Our accompanying weather at Easter is not the northern hemisphere spring. Our New Zealand autumn imagery...
Mar 23, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Greetings everyone, Palm Sunday this weekend; Jesus enters Jerusalem and willing or unwillingly wittingly or unwittingly engages with forces ranged against him. Yet, his entry is marked with cheers and applause and psalm singing – it’s a strange world. What is...
Mar 16, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, This week news filtered through that 21 year-old Zena Campbell, the young person murdered in Te Aro in February, was a member of the transgender community. Her community is in mourning. We have lit transgender candles in the church. Sadly, New...
Mar 9, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, A note on flowers sent yesterday said “Being back in Wellington must be surreal”. ‘Surreal’ is right. The cold Roger generously passed on is in full flight. I eventually took the week as sick leave. I watched Roger poleaxed with this cold during Dad’s...
Mar 2, 2018 | Weekly e-news
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...
Feb 23, 2018 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone This Lent so far… we’ve talked about WHY we might journey. (worked your “why” out yet?) We’ve talked about what we would NEED TO PACK for the journey. (what’s your list?) This week we’ll consider, WHO’S IN THE WHOLE ADVENTURE – who is accepted on...
