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Connexions April 2024

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Welcome to the monthly newsletter of the Methodist Church of New Zealand Te Hāhi Weteriana Aotearoa

by Connexional Office

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Remember in your Prayers

by Connexional Office

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Digital Archivist Position Available

by Archives

Kei Muri Māpara - The Methodist Church of New Zealand Archives in Christchurch is looking for a Digital Archivist to help the National Archivist to manage and care for our collection holdings, and to make these more readily available online.

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WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY – 2024

by Rev. Tony Franklin-Ross Secretary – National Dialogue for Christian Unity

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is offered to take time to listen and hear from sister churches and fellow Christians in diverse parts of the world that take turn in preparing the theme and material.

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Wesley Community Action’s Just Change: A new way of giving

by Wesley Community Action

After three years of trialling and refining its innovative giving programme, Just Change, Wesley Community Action is inviting more donors to come onboard as Just Change enters its next phase.

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Resources for the Season of Creation

by Climate Justice Working Group

Work is underway to provide the Connexion with liturgical resources for the five Sundays in September, the Season of Creation.

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Korero Mai: Earth Our Parish (edited by Te Aroha Rountree and George Zachariah)

by Climate Justice Working Group

This is a congregational resource book on climate justice. It is an open-access ebook that can be downloaded from the Trinity College website now.

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Methodist Mission Southern: Holy Spirit, the promised gift.

by Julie Roberts

Drawing from Philippians 4:6-7, we embrace a ‘peace that surpasses understanding’. We bring our requests without reservation to our God not only for ourselves but for the rangatahi residents of the Methodist Mission Southern's Youth Transition Houses.

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Recommended reading

by Climate Justice Working Group

Plastic Jesus: Real Faith in a Synthetic World, published by Creation Justice Ministries, USA.

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Join the movement and make a statement with our exclusive Hāhi Climate Justice Decade – Rekindle the Vā of Papatūānuku t-shirts!

by Connexional Office

NOW AVAILABLE IN BLACK AND WHITE

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Plastic Free July

by Climate Justice Working Group

A half day event in Auckland is being planned to raise awareness about the hazard of plastic waste.

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Rekindle the Va of Papatuanuku – Stories and Perspectives

by Climate Justice Working Group

This is an inspirational resource written by members from around the motu.

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Prayers for the Middle East

by Christian World Service

The situation in the Middle East is alarming.

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Methodist mission Northern hosts the Methodist Alliance Housing forum in Auckland

by Elizabeth Elliott

It was an honor to attend the recent Methodist Alliance Housing Forum alongside representatives from all over Aotearoa. The forum took place from Friday, 8th March to Saturday, 9th March at Vaughan Park in Long Bay, Auckland and was hosted by Methodist Mission Northern (MMN). The aim was to address the pressing issue of the housing crisis in our community.

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WesleyCare Open Day

by WesleyCare

WesleyCare is hosting an Open Day on Sunday 5th May from 2:30pm.

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Mother’s Day Gifts

by Christian World Service

On May 12, we will celebrate Mother’s Day, a special time to celebrate the important women in our lives.

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Tax Credits

by Christian World Service

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Messy Church Training Roadtrip

by Jocelyn Czerwonka

In May 2024 the MC National Team are doing a Training Road-trip from Auckland to Cromwell bringing guests Rev Dr Dave Gregory and Rev Gregory Ross from the UK and Western Australia to somewhere in NZ near you.

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