Update from the Wheelers
Nikki and Scott Wheeler and their family are NZCMS mission partners who have, after a long wait, arrived in Kapuna, Papua New Guinea. Read Nikki’s update here about how they are settling into life in Kapuna, and navigating the challenges they are facing.
Anglicans meet with Minister to hand over Big Hearts messages
In December, as part of the Big Hearts campaign, our diocese wrote over 300 messages to ministers and Members of Parliament asking them to boost our funding for overseas aid. On Friday, Bishop Eleanor and others hand-delivered those messages to Minister of Finance Grant Robertson, one of the key decision-makers setting the government's budget.
Oases of joyfulness: missional communities commissioned for the year
An increasing amount of people within our movement are choosing to live in missional communities, centred around corporate prayer, hospitality and mission to those who are vulnerable.
Listening at Waitangi
Tertiary student Anna Smart, a member of our Movement, is currently serving as a short-term intern for the New Zealand Church Missionary Society. She writes her reflections on visiting Te Tii marae on Waitangi Day.
It's all go for the Wheelers
About a year ago, Scott and Nikki Wheeler from our Karori whānau were confirmed as new mission partners with NZCMS, destined for Kapuna in Papua New Guinea. But COVID-19 put a stop to all of that, throwing them into a year of waiting and wondering what might lie ahead. Now, their departure date has (almost) been set, and they're nearly ready to go.
‘Some things remain the same’: Margaret Poynton in PNG
Margaret Poynton, a member of the Wellington Cathedral whānau, has been stationed as a Women and Children’s Worker in Papua New Guinea for a number of years, providing support to the Bishop and their wider community in the Diocese of Dogura, in Milne Bay. She has shared recently on the way things around her are quietly chugging on after the lockdown lifted for them, “some things however remain the same: the roosters continue their daily ritual of waking all and sundry, the sunrises and sunsets continue, the frogs and geckos still visit, and creation tells me that all will be well and that I am part of something much bigger than myself.”
Mission to Seafarers’ call for funding heeded
The Ministry of Transport has now allocated $295,000 to help those stuck in New Zealand ports through the Mission to Seafarers' organisation. Reverend Lance Lukin dof Upper Hutt Parish is the Oceania Regional Director for the organisation, and he talked to Kim Hill on RNZ's Saturday Morning about the situation.
Generosity Flows at Feilding Fundraiser
The Feilding whānau gathered recently for a high tea event that served up more than just petit delicacies. The parish would normally have held a fundraiser around this time of year, but instead chose to use it as an opportunity to give to others. “This event was all about blessing others – so it ticked all our boxes!” said Rev. Sarah McMenamin, the Priest in Charge of the Oroua Parish.
Four-Square to Fundraise for Kolkata
For the past five years, a collection of young adults from Blueprint Church in Central Wellington have been hosting handball (foursquare) on the corner of Cuba and Manners Streets. Every Wednesday night from 9.30-11pm, anyone and everyone is welcome…
