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Upcoming Events

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Have a look at a range of events throughout the Diocese and beyond...

Let us know anything that your Parish, community service or other organisation is doing and we will place it here. Make sure you visit this page regularly and keep all that is going on in your prayers. 

Link to Diocesan Calendar 

Regular meetings and events at/organised by the Diocesan office in a monthly calendar format, and other events are also noted here.

Save the dates....Upcoming Diocesan Events

There are some significant events coming up over the next few months which we invite you to mark in your calendars now....

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St Michael's Andersons Bay: Contemplative Eucharist Sunday 21 April from 8.30 am - 9.10 am

At the end of the service there is space for prayer ministry and anointing with oil for healing.

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Michigan Tech Concert Choir  - 14 May 2024 @ St Paul's Cathedral. 

The Michigan Tech Concert Choir is visiting Dunedin on Tuesday 14 May to perform a concert at 7pm at St Paul's Cathedral.

They are hoping that we can fill St Paul’s Cathedral and have asked that all money raised by ‘Koha’ entry be donated to a local charity. We are pleased to announce that we have chosen Dunedin Night Shelter as that Charity.

It would be great if you would be able to join us on the night, and even more important, whether you would help spread the word by circulating the below information and attached poster to all your contacts.

Father Tony and I look forward to welcoming you to St Paul’s to celebrate the wonderful work done by everyone involved at the Dunedin Night Shelter.

Deborah

Office Manager, St Paul's Cathedral.

(Poster attached below)

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St Margaret’s Anglican Church and Retreat Centre, Brighton

Saturday 18th May : 10am - 4pm Pentecost Quiet Day 

The Southern Coastal Deanery offers a Pentecost Quiet Day with reflections led by Bp Kelvin Wright.

Venue: St Margaret’s Anglican Church, 4 Seaview Terrace Brighton.

Bring Bible, journal and pen if desired, bring your own lunch. Hot drinks provided.

Participants are invited to make an offering of a Koha to defray expenses.

To register and for further information please phone Maureen 03 456 0573; 021 10 71 401 or email maugernz@gmail.com

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The Dunedin City Council has a weekly newsletter with news and events-training opportunities. Have a look at the latest edition (16 April 2024).

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St Paul's Cathedral has a variety of events that you can access here.

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Meditative/contemplative prayer

Every Wednesday a time of meditative/contemplative prayer is offered in the small meeting room at Holy Cross Church – (access 5 Bellona St St Kilda.) We gather at 5.30 pm and move quickly into some stilling music and then 30 mins silent prayer. All are welcome to join us. If you would like to know more about this please phone Maureen Harley 456 0573 (021 1071401)


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Click here for the Southland Archdeaconry Newsletter page.

Archdeaconry Meetings

Venue - Holy Trinity, North Invercargill, with Zoom link available

  • Tuesday 1 May- 12 noon -2pm.


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St John's Theological College Courses for 2024

St John's Anglican Theological College in Auckland offers a range of courses, either as part of the New Zealand Diploma in Christian Studies, or for interest only. These courses, offered online, are excellent and even better, comes at no cost to Anglicans.

The courses for the first semester in the New Year are now open for registration.

Go to Regional Programmes | St John's College (stjohnscollege.ac.nz) for all the information you need, and if you have any questions on the courses or the registration process, contact Richard Johnson on richardsueinvercargill@gmail.com or on 021 124 2746. Richard is the St John's contact person for the Diocese.

Honest Conversations - Information about a conference exploring sexual abuse in the Church on 6-7 June. See separate article for more information. 

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CAIRA Supervision Course for 2024 - see separate article. 

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Cursillo Dates for 2024

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Wider News and Resources



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Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/regen24-tickets-829819541587


The ACM REGEN24 Conference - a deep dive into a deeply gospel saturated vision for leadership, mission and discipleship.”

St Margaret's Hillsborough May 8-10 with Andrew Katay, head of CTC as the main speaker, along with Rev Julie-Anne Laird, Specialist Consultant of Evangelism and Mission and Catalyst for CTC Australia and Rev Dr Nathan McLellan, Director of Venn Foundation NZ.

Fraser, our ACM Chair writes:

"We have just launched a new conference aimed at inspiring and equipping church members and leaders. It’s called REGEN24. It would be really great if you would consider coming along with your leadership teams. It’s an excellent opportunity to take a step back, catch your breath and allow others to minister to you and bless your teams.

We really want to see the tide changing in this country and see churches have the confidence to work together to see NZ reached with the good news of Jesus. My hope is that this conference will play a small part in that becoming a reality."

Andrew Katay writes:

"Fads.

We know that being faddish is no good, but at the same time, it can be hard to not get caught up in it. And the church is not immune to this.

One way to read the history of the church for the last 30 years is as a series of fads - the 1990’s were all about leadership - books, conferences, articles. The 2000’s were all about mission - missional communities, the mission dei and being a community on mission. The 2010’s were all about discipleship - thick community, life on life, accountability.

Of course, as soon as you put it like that, one thing is obvious - they are all essential! We can’t trade these three core commitments off against one another.

But what can hold them together in an organic, compelling way?

One of Tim Keller’s most well known sayings is ’the gospel changes everything’. And the reason that the gospel changes everything is that it is only the gospel - the great victory of the grace of God in the cross of Christ - that can truly change hearts, whether the heart of leadership, a heart for mission, or the heart in discipleship.

Join us for Regen 24, where we take a deep dive into a deeply gospel saturated vision for leadership, mission and discipleship.”

Shared Worship Opportunities

Daily Morning Prayers: Tuesday to Saturday at 9 am via Zoom with Bishop Steve. Meeting ID: 959 771 603 66
No computer or smart phone? Telephone 03 659 0603(it may be a toll call depending on your plan), then key in the meeting ID: 959 771 603 66

Daily Evening Prayer: Tuesday to Friday at 5 pm with Bishop Steve. Meeting ID: 934 8425 0283.
No computer or smart phone? Telephone 03 659 0603(it may be a toll call depending on your plan), then key in the meeting ID: 934 8425 0283

Monthly "Scattered People of the Good Shepherd" Zoom Service - 4th Sunday of the month 10 am at this link. 

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Other Links

For all news to pass on please contact Nicola Wong at the Diocesan Office