Feb 26, 2021 | Weekly e-news
When I looked out my window early this morning a heavy fog was shrouding my harbour view. A rather dismal sight. But now it is lifting and I am hopeful for a brighter day. This Sunday’s Service will be an extra musical one. There is something universal about...
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...