As the sun set over Strathmore on Sunday 4 October, around 15 people gathered on the Kāinga Ora site on Nuku Street to pray for justice and hope.

How do you celebrate the life of someone who died 800 years ago and, yet, still influences the world today?

For more than a decade, St Christopher’s Tawa has hosted a children’s holiday programme during the first week of the September/October school holidays. This year, with the church building under reconstruction, the programme simply moved down the road.

Every year, the bishop(s), ministry coordinators, vicars and parish representatives from all over the diocese gather in one place for the weekend to do business. It’s called synod.

Christmas reminds us that God comes close, especially to those who are doing it tough. Jesus arrives in a humble home, surrounded not by wealth but by love. His birth tells us that God sees every struggle, every quiet worry, every parent doing their best.

Throughout our diocese, parish communities are rolling up their sleeves in a practical and vital way to help people enrol to vote.

Wellington's Anglican Cathedral of St Paul gathered two archbishops, front-line workers, and five election candidates to wrestle with a question the country keeps failing to answer: why, in a land with the resources to house everyone, are people dying on the streets without a home?

St Luke’s Greytown is preparing to celebrate a significant milestone, marking 150 years since the consecration of its original church building in 1876.

Synod reps are delegated by their parish to represent them at synod. They review and discuss matters with the rest of the members of synod and help make decisions accordingly.

The realities of rural ministry in Aotearoa New Zealand were reflected in conversations with church leaders from around the world when Reverend Alison Seifert attended the International Rural Churches Association (IRCA) Conference in Romania in July.

A group of youth leaders from Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand came together to lead a children’s camp where local Fijian youth could play, learn and explore faith in a safe and welcoming environment.