Tēnā koutou katoa ~ We Welcome You.

Dean Jamie Allen writes :

Nau mai - haere mai - welcome.

How ever you have come to this website - warmest greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We hope that you will find here food for your journey... for, alleluia, Christ is Risen!

This week, we have celebrated the Festival of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour,

first-begotten from the dead.

Thou alone, our strong defender,

liftest up thy people's head.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Jesus, true and living bread! 

 

Now, we wait with excitement and joy in our hearts for Pentecost - the coming of the Holy Spirit. We celebrate this with a Family Service full of love and singing - and the baptism of four children - at 10am on Sunday 27th May.

We would love you to join us.

 

I am supporting World Vision's "Forty Hour Famine" for the people of Niger by spending 40 hours over the coming week in a wheelchair (loss of independence). I am sincerely hoping this will help me to empathise and understand better, what it is to be in the home/workplace/church in a wheelchair, and to work to improve things in each context. I hope to be able better to identify with, and pray for, those who are wheelchair-users (albeit whilst knowing I only have 40 hours in the situation). Let’s make a difference for a community in terrible poverty, with this opportunity.

Thank you, most sincerely, for your support and sponsorship... - please do visit : http://www.famine.org.nz/jamieallen

 

Lovingly, Jamie

 

 

A message from our bishops :

It is with deep sadness that we must inform you that the Reverend Graeme Clark died peacefully at home on Monday 14th May. Graeme and Judy have been the longest serving deacons in this Diocese having been ordained in 1990 by Bishop Roger Herft. Graeme’s life and work has been inspirational. His gentle but straight talking, clear thinking manner endeared him to us all.


Our love and our prayers go out to Judy and their family. May Graeme Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory

++David Moxon
+Philip Richardson

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Thought For The Month

 

Four Degrees of Love.

 

"Bernard of Clairvaux, the great spiritual master of the Cistercian tradition, in his basic teaching on love tells us there are four 'degrees' of love. First, there is the love of self. It can be good or bad, ordered or disordered. But a good self-love is an essential foundation. For how else can we love our neighbour as ourselves and how can we love God?" 

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Events

• 31May

  Easter Season
  Tena Koutou, Malo Elelei, Namaste, Talofa Lava, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka. Warm Greetings to you all. Grace and peace to you from God. The message of Easter is a story of the victory of God in Christ over the power of...
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