'The Anchor Church' Tagged Posts (Page 6)
Men required – repairing graves at Pauatahanui Cemetery
Mens Breakfast Time: 8:30 am May 6th at Pauatahanui One of our local projects is to do repair work on the graves at the historic Pauatahanui cemetery. A good morning’s work to chip in with the community to look after our local area. Concrete and breakfast are provided (gold coin donation). Wheel barrows and shovels are handy to bring along. Some history for you! Thomas Hollis Stace originally donated the land to build a small Protestant chapel and establish a…
Join us at Easter
Join us at Easter Easter is a moment in history which changed everything – everyone is welcome, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, bring the family, spend a moment to wonder about those things that are important, to wonder about the depths of love and reconciliation, the miracle of grace and forgiveness and the new life that we find in Jesus. There are two opportunities – Good Friday at 9am and Easter Sunday at 10 am. We would love to…
Tomorrow – Mini Bible School with Greg Burgess
Mini Bible School with Greg Burgess Join us over three nights, March 7 – 9, as Greg engages us in three separate topics 1) End times – what does the Bible tell us about the future of our world 2) Church History – from the Reformation. This year it is 500 years since the Reformation, what has happened in that time and how has this changed the world. 3) Understanding the Trinity. How do we understand the nature of God,…
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…
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…
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.