- in partnership with Manawatu People’s Radio (MPR)

August 9/16: 
5 hymns for Pentecost, including old favourites and 3 texts by Shirley Erena Murray, performed by the Festival Singers of Wellington, Viva Voce, Chamber Choir of Auckland, and Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt. Composers: Jillian Bray and Colin Gibson.

The two older hymns are ‘Bless the Lord O My Soul’ and ‘We Plough the Fields and Scatter’, sung by the Durham Street Methodist Church Choir, chosen to honour the ministry of the Reverend Eileen Shamy (1926-1999). She chose traditional hymn music for services with sufferers from Alzheimers diseases and related Dementias. It was an experience to stir emotions and revive remote memories, leading to worship, in her own words: ‘more significant than sermons’.

August 23/30:
Stories from the Agape Fellowship, a Palmerston North support group for people living with physical and mental illnesses, including social isolation in older years. The Agape Fellowship has been central to the outreach ministry of Wesley Broadway for more than thirty years.

Future programmes for 2022:
 more Pentecost songs from the New Zealand poems and poets, including carols for Advent and Christmas.

HOW TO LISTEN TO THE PROGRAMMES

Live:
These can be heard live in the Manawatu area at 11 A.M. each Tuesday and Saturday, on Frequency AM999.

Online: Programmes can be downloaded via the Station website:www.mpr.nz/show/wesley. Programmes stay for 2 to 3 months, and are listed by topic and date.

Wesley Broadway Radio Hosts:

Gillian and John Thornley welcome responses/enquiries. 

Email: johngill@inspire.net.nz