The Word Street Spirit Hui held last week in Naenae zeroed in on the inseparable nature of justice and mercy in our fidelity to Jesus’ mission.

A new coalition of faith, climate and construction groups launched the Don’t Subsidise Pollution campaign last week, calling for an end to free carbon credits and introduction of a Carbon Border Mechanism to decarbonise Aotearoa’s emissions intensive industries like concrete, steel, and aluminium.

SUNDAY 24 September 2023, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings: Exod 16:2-15; Phil 1:21-30; Matt 20:1-16

Let us pray for God’s people and for the whole family of the church.

Readings: Exod 14:19-31; Rom 14:1-12; Matt 18:21-35

Let us pray for the church and for the world, giving thanks for God’s goodness.

The rain was holding off, the coffee was Fair Trade and Living wage, the coffee caravan a small local business, and the conversation political, as the St Paul’s Waiwhetu whānau hosted their Meet the Candidates event on Sunday.

In March St Margaret’s in Taihape held an art exhibition and sale in conjunction with the Taihape Art Society and other local artists in the church hall.

In the Bishop’s News for August 2023, Bishop Justin reflects on his recent time in Israel-Palestine while on sabbatical and the call for us to be ‘living stones’.

The movie, Sound of Freedom, is loosely based on the rescue of children from a sex trafficking ring in Colombia in 2010. We include an article from Sarah Scott Webb, Director of Oceania Freedom Network, co-founder/director of SIM for Freedom, and anti-trafficking specialist for the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission.

Readings: Ex: 12:1-14; Rom 13:8-14; Matt 18:15-20
Let us pray for the church and for the world, giving thanks for God’s goodness.

Readings: Exodus 1:8 - 2:10; Rom 12:1-8; Matt 16:13-20
Let us pray for the church and for the world, giving thanks for God’s goodness.

Renewal, learning and connection were key themes at The Abbey – National Youth Leader Conference over the weekend.

Word Spirit Street arose from the desire of community practitioners to have a space where we could engage deeply and faithfully with scripture, reflect on how this impacts our missional practice, and receive empowerment from the Holy Spirit to keep doing the good work.

There’s an amazing new feature to experience at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul’s.  

Grab this opportunity to learn from Bishop Justin about Being Church.

At Training Day, Bishop Justin spoke on the parable of the wheat and the weeds from Matthew 13, emphasising that we will all experience hard times, or “the weeds”.

There is a significant need for more parishes or groups to support and be trained to do refugee house set-ups.

The recent sale of St Laurence’s Church in Whanganui has resulted in a 10 percent contribution to the Diocesan Development Fund, meaning more funding for mission projects.

Anglican Missions has partnered with NZCMS to produce a study series featuring five video sermons to help churches join in with August Mission Month.

We had an amazing time at Training Day at Samuel Marsden Collegiate on Saturday.

On the 21st-23rd of July, a dozen Anglican Studies students made the journey to Palmerston North for our Doing Theology block weekend paper taught by Tom Noakes-Duncan and Joe McGarry. Rev. Heidi Nayak tells us about it.