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25 November 2018

November 22, 2018

Last night at our monthly Session meeting, one of the key pieces of business on the agenda was the data gained from the recent parish review which has been sent to us by the coordinator of the process. Overall, the data that we’ve just begun to look at shows a very healthy church which meets […]

18 November 2018

November 15, 2018

There was an interesting devotion from David Jeremiah as he was writing about pride and he incorporated a quote from Charles Stanley. Stanley said “Each morning, the enemy lays out his landmines in our lives. If we are not discerning we will fall prey to his tactics. The landmine of pride can tear a gaping […]

4 November 2018

November 1, 2018

FROM REV TOM’S DESK I was talking to someone the other day and the nature of being a Minister in a church came up. This coming December, I will actually pass my 26th year of being a nationally ordained Minister in the PCANZ so I’ve been around for a while fulfilling this calling that God […]

28 October 2018

October 30, 2018

FROM REV TOM’S DESK At the moment, the parish is undergoing a Presbytery review of us as a church. Many years ago the Presbyteries across NZ used to have what were called quinquennial visitations, meaning they happened every five years. In my 26 years of ministry in a parish, I’ve been seconded onto heaps […]

16 September 2018

September 13, 2018

FROM PASTOR TOM’S DESK It was a busy day for us all last Sunday. Speaking for myself, I had communion in the first service which is an important sacrament to share, then Anna’s commissioning in the second service, followed by soup and buns together followed by the two baptisms at 1pm. A short time at […]