Hello everyone, The moon last night reminded me of the Easters when we used to drive in the moonlight on a Thursday night from Gore to Riverton (south coast) for the annual Easter Camp – each year of my pre-teen and teenage years and then later as a youth leader. It...

Hello everyone, No doubt Holy Week and Easter will involve a variety of activities for the variety of people we have at St Andrew’s.  School holidays are the reality for some – both parents and their children and grandparents as holiday minders – all the best...

Hello everyone, We continue to learn from the events of 15 March. Visiting an Iraqi family the other day, I was disagreeably surprised to hear the boys of the family aged 4,7 and 9, were staying inside more often, too scared to go out.  It hit home to me again the...

Hello everyone It’s that time again – the end of March.  This is the month your annual donation total is calculated.  Thank you all very much for the increased level of giving we are noticing in the accounts. April is the month charitable organisations start working...

Hello everyone, There are few words we can use to express the enormity of the events of this past week.  Many groups are doing exactly the right thing – dealing with gun ownership, raising money, bringing flowers, reporting tragedy, feeding responders, opening...