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This weekend at Forest Lakes
This Weekend (March 3 – 5th) – join us at Forest Lakes Camping and Conference Centre, just north of Otaki. We will be there from Friday night till lunch time on Sunday. We would love you to join us at any stage during the weekend. With the new expressway open through Kapiti we are expecting that the trip will be a bit more relaxed than it has been for the last few years. What is happenning There will be a…
Freeset Fabrics – Weaving Freedom
Last year we had the absolute privilege to go to Freeset Fabrics. It is in an old cinema building in a distant village in West Bengal. The streets are dusty and crowded. Upstairs above the main intersection in town is the old cinema building now filled with weaving looms. Here some rural women in this community are finding freedom. We had invested in a project to enable some young women to gain the skills to take roles in a new…
Generation starts tonight
GENERATION starts back tonight! This term’s theme is Adventure! Tonight we will be playing games to get to know one another, and discovering what the Bible says about us. Looking forward to seeing all the year 7&8’s there:) Contact Ruth de Villiers on Ruth.e.devilliers@gmail.com for more info.
A Weekend Away
What’s so important about a weekend away? Numerous reasons come to mind, it is a weekend away together, it is an opportunity to seek to change things in life by engaging with God’s word, you can spend some time deepening relationships and you can share some times of worship. True, but can’t we do all that at any other time like heading along to church in the weekends? Yes and no. A weekend away gives you time for deeper discussions and…
A New Year
When we think of the New Year ahead, I wonder what our priorities will include. We know from past experiences there will be financial, physical, relational, emotional needs. In all of those needs we are required to decide whether God is at the centre of all things. To submit to Christ as the head of the Church is not as easy as it should be, yet we are required to recognise His majesty and authority. So in order to do that we seek to love and adore Him far above…
For all year 6’s
All Year 6’s – you are welcome to join some of our GENERATION nights this term!:) Generation is our Yrs 7 – 8 youth programme that runs every Monday evening during term time. Generation runs from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Our Generation volunteers run an action packed programme that includes games, crafts, movies and much more. These activities are done alongside life lessons from the Bible. On occasions they go offsite to do activities and also host family nights to connect…
International Student Ministries
Join us next Sunday 30th at 6:30pm – get inspired by International Student Ministries, how God is working through them and learn about what Yvette is doing in her role in this area. Who are International Student Ministries of New Zealand (ISMNZ). ISMNZ came into being in late 1999 at just the right time, when the numbers of international student enrollments went from thousands to tens of thousands. Over 100,000 international students study in New Zealand every year. They leave their…
Mens Breakfast – November
Whitby Mens Breakfast Saturday 5th November 8:30am at St. Mary’s Church At the mens breakfast in November, Neil will be reporting back on the Habitat for Humanity trip to Samoa. They are building new hurricane safe homes – like this style which is category 5 hurricane safe. The aim is to build 6 of these in two weeks and the target is to have 100 homes up to this standard in the islands by Christmas this year. Bacon, Sausages, Hash Browns,…
This Sunday with Karl Udy
This Sunday We have Karl Udy speaking on Sunday morning on the unchanging gospel in a changing world. Karl works for Tandem Ministries as a digital media specialist. Why digital? Because our community is communicating this way, the new generations understand and expect technology, and feel free to switch at any time – a recent presentation said people switch media 27 times a day! This is a challenge and a huge opportunity. We all want to see the gospel change the lives of…
Mens Breakfast – Kris Faafoi
Whitby Men’s Breakfast 1st October – 8.30am at North Porirua Bapitist Church Discovery Drive, Whitby Kris Faafoi will be speaking of a recent personal experience and the importance of men and family members talking to each other in times of trouble. How openness, honesty and understanding can be difficult for the best equipped people in the community and more, so how hard can this be for those with few resources and little knowledge of support. The importance of men being open minded and…
A video montage
We have a video montage of clips, reflective ones, fun ones, thoughtful ones and ones that show some things about us. Enjoy them.
Womens Retreat
Womens Retreat – it’s springtime and the Women’s ministry team is very excited about our upcoming event “Refresh” for our ladies. When our team was praying and sharing ideas about what we can do in 2016, one of them was to have this womens retreat – a weekend away to spend time with the Lord and time together getting to know the women in our community. Everything has now fallen into place and we look forward to a great time together.…