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...]
Hope is the melody of the future; faith is dancing in that melody right now
Blythe Cody Existing in the space of liminality can be disorienting, scary and lonely. It is a bit like being dropped in the wilderness with no map, no compass and no idea how to get back to civilization. Anne Franks and John Meteyard. “Liminality: The Transforming Grace of In-Between Places, Hope is the melody of the future; faith is dancing in that melody right now.[1] I am not a big fan of change. I recently moved house and was reminded again of how much I dislike the disruption of life; the change of what has become comfortable for what is unfamiliar and strange. I still go to the wrong side of the kitchen to find the microwave; and there are boxes in my garage filled with … [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...]
Towards a Theology of Land, with Jekheli Singh
photo by Sharad Kumar Rev Dr Jekheli Kibami-Singh - Leviticus, Land & Jubilee. Presented to the Tikanga Pakeha Ministry Council, May 2021. https://youtube/wIBfiBQXOZI Jekheli Singh is a tribal Christian woman from Nagaland in the North East of India. She came to New Zealand about 15 years ago, and is currently vicar of Te Kuiti. In this talk about the theology of land, she incudes Biblical theology, God the Creator, Land and identity, land as Go’s gift to be shared, and land as new community. She references Leviticus: 25and the concept of Jubilee. Used with permission from Stephen Black, Diocese of Waikato … [Read more...]
Congratulations, Steph!
Stephanie Clay, Christchurch The Revd Stephanie Clay is the Link representative for Christchurch DIocese, for the Anglican Women's Studies Centre. She begins her new position as Chaplain at St Margaret's College in Christchurch In July. https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/features/extra/stmags_chaplain … [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...]
Who was Rosemary’s grandmother?
a story of true love and Christian service, from England, to Fiji, Rawene to AustraliaRosemary Carey spent eleven years discovering the inspiring story of her grandmother. You are invited to the launch on Sunday 13 June, at Arohanui Church. Middle Road, Havelock North 7pm Taste Ethel's famous apple turnovers and get a glimpse of her fascinating life! “Ethel’s Story - An Intertwined Legacy,” traces my grandmother, Ethel Louise Jackson, from her birthplace in Warwickshire, UK in 1878, to New Zealand and then Fiji, where she trained as a nurse at the turn of the century. She met my grandfather, Dr Daniel Coto in Rawene, Hokianga, New Zealand, in 1907. They married and moved to … [Read more...]
Nyasha joins the Council for the Anglican Women’s Studies Centre
Nyasha has been appointed as one of the two tikanga Pakeha Council, joining the Revd Val Riches. Tikanga Maori Council are the Revd Bettina Maxwell, and the Revd Ruihana Paenga. Tikanga Polynesia Council are Mrs Zita Reid and Ms Kelera Oli. The Revd Dr Nyasha Gumbeze Nyasha is an ordained priest in the Anglican Diocese of Auckland. She is the Vicar of St Michaels And All Angels Church in Henderson. She is married with two children. Nyasha and her family came from Zimbabwe 18 years ago. She attended Laidlaw College, St Johns Theological College, is a graduate of the University of Auckland and completed a Doctorate in Ministry in 2019 with Virginia Theological Seminary. Nyasha loves … [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...]
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