Kua neke te wa o ta tatau hui ko Te Orokohanga o te Ao/The Earth as our Mother/na Tina ni Vanua, ka tini ki a Aperira 2022. image: Sophie Marie Thirsk Our AWSC Hui has been postponed till April 2022. Your Council has been closely following the progress of the Covid-19 Delta outbreak, with hopes of being able to go ahead with the October Hui. However the outbreak is not yet under control, the future looks uncertain, and advice has been to postpone for some months. We are very fortunate to be able to move our booking at St Peter’s School in Cambridge to next year. The new dates are 27-30 April 2022. So we hope very much that the date will be entered into in your … [Read more...]
2021 Women in Leadership Hui – is it still on?
Covid-19 is changing our lives again. Is our long awaited Hui still going ahead? The AWSC will make a decision on 10 September . Registration is extended to 20 September, and you are still encouraged to register. If the Hui does not go ahead as an in-person event, all monies will be refunded. In the event of a Covid related cancellation, the Hui will be presented on line, with some webinars, Zoom chats, and interactive events. Watch this space! STOP PRESS . Please note the Marae Retreat has sadly been cancelled Te Orokohanga o te Ao/ Na Tina ni Vanua/The Earth as our Mother Anglican Women’s Studies Centre Provincial Hui 2021: Equipping ourselves to safeguard the integrity of … [Read more...]
Kahui Wahine – clergy and lay women leaders in tikanga Maori
KAHUI WAHINE Kahui Wahine are women and lay-leaders in Te Pihopatanga o Te Tairawhiti who hui together to maintain whanaungatanga and training opportunies through regular local hui, and attendance at the National Kahui Wahine conferences held bi-ennially. Key activities include fund-raising and advocacy for womens representation, social justice, and children's ministry. Renewal Conference 20 November Kahui Wahine ki te Tairawhiti are proud to announce that the RENEWAL Conference will now be held on Saturday 20th November, 2021. We hope you are able to attend as it is important to show our strength in numbers in unity. The conference will give you the opportunity to … [Read more...]
Scholarships from St John’s College Trust Board for study in 2022
Applications close 30 Sept. photo: christina-wocintechchat, unsplash Lay and ordained women and men are invited to apply for scholarships. The St John's College Trust Board provides scholarships to Ordained Clergy, Candidates for Ordination and Lay Members of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia pursuant to the provisions of section 7 and section 3(1)(c) of the St John's College Trusts Act 1972. Applications are able to be submitted twice a year, with deadlines for submission being the 30th of September and the 31st of March each year. Applications submitted by 30 September are for courses of study that will commence in the first half of the … [Read more...]
Have you seen the new Prayer Book?
The much-awaited new edition of A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa with Eucharists in six languages; Māori, English, Tongan, Fijian, Samoan & Hindi, as well as Sentences & Collects in Māori https://youtu.be/EjdNzEskMto Order your copies through the General Synod Office At $30.00 plus P&P Email gensec@anglicanchurch.org.nz or phone (09)5214439 https://anglicanprayerbook.nz/ … [Read more...]
Farewelling a home with karakia and love
Dr Jane SImpson by Jane Simpson On Easter Monday a householder in Aranui, Christchurch, was sluicing down her front steps. In the sweltering heat they were dry in next to no time. The packing was done. The movers were coming the next day. Thirty minutes later a small group gathered at the entrance, each holding a copy of a new book left: Prayer at the entrance Their son, Wayne, had come down from Wellington to help with the packing and cleaning.The whānau were joined by two friends from the Diocesan Bicultural Education Committee, Marjorie Smart and Shirley Free, and by the author left: Family group When … [Read more...]
Virtual Theology Chat with Jane Simpson
7 pm 20 May Dr Jane Simpson: The Farewelling of a Home: writing and publishing a new liturgy. https://youtu.be/gyHbsQVCObc Last year, as I was writing an academic article, a new liturgy was born. Unlikely as this sounds, reviewers have said that ‘The Farewelling of a Home’ is grounded in scholarship, the rigour of a poet and the restraint and beauty found in our Anglican liturgies over time. Published as a book this year, the liturgy was written to meet an expressed need, for people leaving their homes for last time. For it to be used by those who need it most I became a publisher. I dream that every parish in our Anglican Communion and beyond will have a set of five copies to … [Read more...]
Council and Links hui, February 2021
Tapita Ching, Val Riches, Mila Fong Toy, Tulimata'i Smith Celebrating our three tikanga richness as we move forward AWSC Council and Links gathered for two very interesting days of sharing experience, leadership training, theological reflection, personal growth, and local facilitation. The setting was the hospitable St Francis Retreat Centre, in Hillsborough, Auckland, right beside the beautiful old Pah homestead and Monte Cecilia Park. Council and Links worked together to construct the program for the Provincial Leadership Hui to be held 13-16 October 2021, in the Waikato. It was an exciting and creative process Who's Who? Present back row: Val … [Read more...]
It’s here! Talanoa, Telling our stories, Kōrerohia a tātou pūrakau
Happiness, sadness, reflection, anger and laugh out loud humour -all can be found in our latest publication. Deep spirituality, theological reflection, profound faith and aroha are also in these pages. Over forty Anglican women , ordained and lay, have written their stories, contributing to a beautiful, moving account of their lives, before during and after the history making decision to ordain women as Priests in the Anglican Church of these islands. Women were encouraged to write in their own voice, thus revealing the texture of our three tikanga church, and the sacredness of each story. from the foreword Order your copy now for $25.00. Orders of 5 or more are $22.00. Plus postage … [Read more...]
Ko Tōku Mana Wahine
A theological reflection on mana wahine and how it can address gender based violenceThe Rev Ruihana Kaylene Marama Paenga rangatahi@tpoa.nz 3 Nov 2020 Images are property of Robyn Kahukiwa, PaengaWhanau Colletion, Michael Tubberty and Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou Mana Wahine as a faith- based expression of indigenous female leadership was the concept explored in a fascinating virtual theology chat on 4 December. Speaking from a Tuhoe perspective, Ruihana Paenga wove the Maori and Biblical creation stories together into an illuminating discussion of the concepts of mana and tapu. You can hear the recording … [Read more...]
