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...

Hello everyone, This weekend members of the Parish Council will lead the Gathering.  At this time of the year, we are directed towards the story of John the Baptist. He was a cousin of Jesus, possibly a second cousin.  His significance is that he pointed towards...

Hello everyone, On Wednesday I was privileged to attend a Voting Day breakfast at Parliament for the electronic launch of the 125 update of ‘Women Together’, edited by Anne Else. To get to the new edition, try https://nzhistory.govt.nz/women-together. I helped with...

“Coming, ready or not!” Hello everyone, One of the strange quirks of the church year is that it ends this coming Sunday!  Advent is regarded as the beginning of the new church year, so we ‘begin’ the 2018/2019 year on Sunday 2 December. At this ‘end of year’ point...

Hello everyone, It’s good to be back in sunny Wellington. Always plenty of threads to pick up – Transgender Day of Remembrance Gathering this week and our annual meeting on Sunday too.  Reading the annual report, you realise there’re a lot of person-hours behind all...

Hello everyone, As gentle rain falls outside, Dunedin recovers from a warm yesterday. Checking weather for today I thought they’d left a zero off the wind figures.  11km/hr?  Really?  Not 110km/hr? Just teasing. This week St Andrew’s has focused on Peace.  Through...