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Reducing the family footprint: Kate and John-Luke’s story

Kate and John-Luke Day live in Wellington, and are part of our St Tom's church whānau in Newtown.  When they were holidaying in a small South Island village last year, a wildfire swept through the area overnight.  Everyone was saved, but the village was destroyed.  The wildfire was caused by unseasonably warm, dry conditions - a symptom of climate change. Read / watch how they then chose to reduce their family’s carbon footprint.

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Cathedral whānau hosts state memorial

Dominating the intersection that overlooks our Parliamentary buildings, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul was built to be a cathedral for the nation. Now overlooking the most secular city in the country, it was still here in our Cathedral that the nation farewelled our Queen's loyal and loving husband - and behind the ceremony was the hard work and long hours of Richard, Katie, David, Pixie, Michael, and our whole Cathedral whānau.

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Conference takes anti-trafficking mahi to next level

Government ministers, CEOs, NGO leaders and migrant community representatives were all part of the recent "Tango i te Kaupae Muri - Take the Next Step" conference on people trafficking and exploitation, which we co-organised. It was a conference at which Government launched our new five year action plan to tackle the issue, and feedback suggests it has taken our country's response to the issue to a whole new level. Yet within days of it ending, another prosecution has hit the news - and the exploitation happened right under our noses.

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Anglicans meet with Minister to hand over Big Hearts messages

In December, as part of the Big Hearts campaign, our diocese wrote over 300 messages to ministers and Members of Parliament asking them to boost our funding for overseas aid. On Friday, Bishop Eleanor and others hand-delivered those messages to Minister of Finance Grant Robertson, one of the key decision-makers setting the government's budget.

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A tale of two Training Days

The kaupapa of Training Day has always been a gathering of the extended whānau, whilst upskilling and learning in the areas of ministry God is calling us into. And that kaupapa was strongly held to at our recent Training Day events, despite one of them being held online due to the week-long Level 2 lockdown.

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It's all go for the Wheelers

About a year ago, Scott and Nikki Wheeler from our Karori whānau were confirmed as new mission partners with NZCMS, destined for Kapuna in Papua New Guinea.  But COVID-19 put a stop to all of that, throwing them into a year of waiting and wondering what might lie ahead.  Now, their departure date has (almost) been set, and they're nearly ready to go.

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Love into action: City Mission staff commissioned for important mahi

Wellington City Mission staff and their families gathered with our diocesan whānau at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on Sunday afternoon, the 1st of February, for the first of what will hopefully become an annual event. Bishop Justin and Bishop Eleanor were there to commission the staff for their important mahi in the year to come.

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Deacons dance into new roles at Thanksgiving and Ordination service

On Saturday the 21st of November, about 800 members of our whānau packed out the Cathedral to celebrate a flurry of ordinands in our Diocesan Thanksgiving and Ordination service.

This year, five of our deacons were ordained as priests, and a further fourteen of our whānau were ordained as transitional deacons. Twelve of those ordained (ten deacons and two priests) are couples, who went through the discernment process together.

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“Dancers on a razor’s edge”: Vocational Deacons’ Ordination to proceed in October

This October, our movement will gather together (hopefully!) to tautoko / support the call of God on the lives of Paul and Hannah, two of our own who are called to be ordained as vocational Deacons. Our annual Vocational Deacons’ Ordination was to occur on Ascension Sunday in May, to mark the command to God’s people to spread the Good News into all the world, but was postponed due to our national lockdown. We now look forward to being together at the Cathedral on Sunday the 11th of October.

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Enough For All: How political parties will help New Zealanders to thrive

As Election Day nears, how might we use our voting privilege to love our neighbours? Are the policies and parties we support going to help or hinder those who are struggling to flourish? How might we, Christ's body, stand up for the last, the lost and the least in our democratic process?

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