Mar 29, 2019 | Weekly e-news
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...
Mar 22, 2019 | Weekly e-news
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...
Mar 15, 2019 | Community, Minister’s Musings
In Christchurch right now, there is much news flying about. Television reporters are trying to find out facts in a fluid, rapidly changing situation. But it seems that the shooting, perhaps two shootings in Christchurch were against Muslim worshippers by at least...
Mar 14, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone, An earlier than usual e-news this week because there are some things to remind you about which are happening before Sunday First, The Lenten study series based on the movie Les Miserables begins tonight. The first session is at Central Baptist...
Mar 8, 2019 | Weekly e-news
Hello everyone Traditional Ash Wednesday services say ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’ We converted that on Wednesday night to the concept that ‘we are stardust’. Think, every element in us is from the original Big Bang. We are kin to...
