The Friday Food Share, an initiative of the Waikanae Anglican Foodbank providing a new model in response to food poverty, recently won the Health and Wellbeing award for Kāpiti in the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards. We took the opportunity to talk to Pippa about journey that bought her to this point.

E te tino Tapu, ka whakapaingia koe, i roto i tāu Tamai tuohu nei ki te horoi i ngā wae o āna ākonga,te tohu o te kaimahi tūturu.

Blessed are you, most holy, in your Son,who washed his disciples’ feet.‘I am among you,’ he said, ‘as one who serves.’ (ANZPB)

Imagine you have a job cleaning offices in Wellington after hours. You live in Wainuiomata and your shift finishes so late there are no trains or busses available to take you home. So you drive to work. Petrol prices soar and public transport prices are subsidised, but you can’t take advantage of the public transport subsidy. You get paid minimum wage, but wonder if it is even worth it given how often you need to fill the tank.

As +Ellie prepares to leave, we were lucky to find her underneath a pile of boxes and ask her some questions about her season within our Movement. As usual, there is such wisdom and depth in her responses and well worth pondering over with a good cup of coffee.

Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a choice to remain safe and challenge injustice from the outside; the secure periphery of the conflict and ultimate danger. Yet he chose to return home to Germany against his friends' advice, to work for justice and freedom from within the ravages of World War II. A choice that would see him executed just days before the allied troops, and ultimate freedom, arrived.

Following on from last week’s story about Scott & Nikki, we bring you the next instalment on what life is like for the Wheeler whānau in Kapuna, Papua New Guinea.

We celebrate Wellington City Missioner, Murray Edridge, who received an Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Award at an awards ceremony last Thursday night at Te Papa.

Miriam Freeman-Plume from Pauatahanui Anglicans, assisted by Rev Jessica Falconer from Otaki, led two Godly Play style workshops over 2 Saturdays in July and August.

Scott and Nikki Wheeler and their three children Isaac, Abby and Levi have been living in Kapuna in remote Papua New Guinea for the last year and a half. Scott and Nikki joined us at Training Day in Karori, where we caught up with them.

In April, we brought you news that Renew Communities were planning to put out a second album. We are pleased to announce that their album is coming out this Friday.

Once again, Training Day was a great time to connect with our wider movement whānau and an opportunity to hear from great speakers who encouraged and challenged us in our faith.

St Philip’s Revive is a new church plant in Stokes Valley. We have recently had the opportunity to partner with Te Awa Kairangi Kai Collective and the Stokes Valley Food Bank to put on free cooking classes and Kai Kit making in the Stokes Valley hall on Wednesdays at 10am till 12pm.

Kia ora whanau! Greetings from Lambeth where we (Tim and Jenny) are having an amazing adventure alongside those bishops of ours!!

Greetings to you all from the UK. We thought it would be good to offer a few updates from the Lambeth Conference. Technically the Conference proper does not start for another few days but the Bishops have all gathered early for a two day retreat.

We stood in clusters in the carpark prior to the pōwhiri starting. I experienced the usual social discomfort of making small-talk with people – some that I knew, and some that were new to me.

The Religious Diversity Centre (RDC) is pleased to announce the Climate Action Workgroup’s 2022 programme: E tū te mana o Te Ao: Building a Climate of Hope.

It’s Monday night in a cold, damp Cathedral carpark. Ten blokes are standing round admiring a motorcycle, holding cups of strong, hot coffee, complaining about dangerous Wellington drivers and talking about life’s challenges.