Tena tatou whanau katoa. What have you been working on this week? What’s been your mahi? One of the enjoyable things about working on a service of wor(th)ship is discovering websites and writing that, as a layperson, I don’t often spend time with. A pithy quote I’ve...

Kia ora e te whānau, I always look forward to election day, the build up, the debates and the opportunity to contribute in a democratic process, and on the night watching the coverage on TV, the party leaders leaving their homes as they go to party headquarters, the...

Kia ora We live in interesting times. What with Covid19, elections and climate change. I have just returned from a trip around the Te Waipounamu, the South Island, with my grandson. Passing through the Mackenzie country I was tempted to drive up to Lake Ohau as I had...

kia ora. One of our Tipuna Jack Somerville was Minister here 1947-64.    He once famously said “...when you turn 65 you have reached your Anecdotage.”    Like me, many of you reading this have qualified!   I vividly recall the childhood joys of swimming in the...

Kia ora e te whānau, Near our house there was a group of very large pine trees to which the local kākā used to swoop evening after evening, delighting the neighbourhood with their screeching ‘hellos’. Recently those trees have been cut down to make way for…not sure...

Kia ora e te whānau, I’m adjusting to passing the Peace on Sunday mornings without shaking hands. How are you finding it? Have you got a new habit or are you trying out different ways of contact-less gestures of connection? Greeting people while wearing a facemask is...