Weekly Notices - 7 July 2024
This Sunday, Jenny, Liz and Christine from the ‘Prayer Working Group’ will be speaking to us about their vision and hopes for how we can ‘stimulate prayer and faith’ for the remainder of 2024 (and onwards!). With this in mind we thought it was timely to re-visit the Diocesan Prayer for Regeneration as follows:
God of mission,
Who alone brings growth to your Church,
Send your Holy Spirit to give Vision to our planning
Wisdom to our actions
Joy to our worship
And Power to our witness.
Help our church to grow in numbers, in spiritual
commitment to you
and in service to our local community.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Today’s service
Theme: Courage - like prophets of old, Perseverance, Human weakness
Sentence: ‘Of Jesus many said, ‘What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands!’ Mark 6:2
Collect: Christ of the new covenant, give us the happiness to share, with full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, all that you give us. Hear this prayer for your name’s sake. Amen.
Readings: 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 & Mark 6:1–13
Monthly Prayer Focus: The strengthening of our Prayer Ministry Team
Parish News
New Parish Directory
The Parish Directory for 2024-2025 is now available (in booklet and A4 form) at the back of the Church
St Aug’s & Beyond…
Ellel Ministries event - Friday 26 and Saturday 27 July
Ellel Ministries: are very excited to announce an upcoming Explore event, focusing on Healing from Accident and Trauma, at Hope Presbyterian Church.
Please refer to the flyer on the noticeboard at the back of the church for more details.
Living Faith Conference
PRAY DISCIPLE INSPIRE - Bring your parish team and join us for the 2024 Living Faith Diocesan Conference! With Guest Speakers: Elanor SANDERSON, Dallas HAREMA, Grant NORSTWORTHY
This will be a great opportunity for spiritual growth and encouragement as we hear from inspirational leaders who canhelp us grow in confidence in our faith and get better at making new disciples. There will also be a Q & A discussion panel to address your questions.
This conference is for everyone - younger, older, exploring faith, new to faith and the seasoned Christian.
So bring a friend, join a group and register!
Tickets $40/pp, see Jo Ashton Martyn for these, or, scan the bar code on the poster below for this event at the back of the Church, or visit www.bit.ly/LivingFaithConference
Cathedral Reinstatement Project Update
(Summary) post Synod 22/06/2024
Subject to a funding pathway to completion of the reinstated Cathedral we have agreed to contribute a further $16.2m of Diocesan funds to the Project. Since a significant portion of this amount would come from the sale of the Transitional Cathedral site, any such sale will need to be on the basis of that pathway being established (since otherwise we need to remain on that site) and on the condition that we have continued use of the site until we return to the Square. We also resolved to support CPT accepting recommendations to descope the Project such as reducing the seismic strength of the building from 100% New Building Standard to 67% of that standard, and deferring construction of the proposed Visitors' Centre and Cathedral Centre to an unknown future date. Accepting such recommendations will reduce the overall cost of completion of construction from $248m (as announced on 6 April 2024) to $219m or lower.
City Mission
Check out the latest City Mission newsletter Reach Out featuring our very own Carlie Jones!
https://www.citymission.org.nz/reach-out-winter-2024
Helpful info
Giving
Online Giving - “Green” Tokens (trial) for the Offertory Plate
Hey lovely people, now that the majority of you donate ‘on-line’ we have created green tokens for you to place (if you wish) into the offertory plate. These tokens will then be blessed at the front of the Church along with any other cash/envelopes. If you would like to join those who give regularly online, you can find all the details you’ll need on the Giving Page.
Groups
It’s easy to connect and get involved with some great social and faith-focused groups that meet regularly across the parish. You can find out about all our regular groups on our Groups page. If you have any questions, just click the contact button to connect with the group’s organiser.
Need prayer?
We’d love to pray for you. See the ‘Prayer Support’ section on the Help & Support page for more information on how we can help with your prayer needs. There are confidential and anonymous options available.