Oct 13, 2020 | Weekly e-news
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...
Oct 2, 2020 | Spirituality, Weekly e-news
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...
Sep 25, 2020 | Weekly e-news
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...
Sep 18, 2020 | Weekly e-news
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...
Sep 11, 2020 | Weekly e-news
This week in the Season of Creation we focus on rivers. Rivers are a transient state of water. Water evaporating off the vast oceans of this planet of ours form clouds of water vapour, which in turn condense as rain to flow from catchments forming rivers...
Sep 4, 2020 | Weekly e-news
Kia ora e te whānau, How exciting it is to come to this Season of Creation. We notice that there is change – the length of daylight seems to increase quite noticeably every day and certainly every week. And we have the opportunity over the next four Sundays to think...
