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Remember in your Prayers
Sharing Links to Touchstone
Now that we have transitioned from a printed publication to online only, I encourage you to share the links to the latest online edition of Touchstone in synod and / or parish communications.
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Job Opening: Administrative Assistant (parental leave)
As our nation continues our journey to the lead up to National Elections, here are some questions, you and all of us need to ask our own local candidates.
Does your party have a 5-year plan on the climate crisis issue? If so, what is it and what are the measurable steps that you will take towards it?
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Global Prayer for Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Season of Creation
Farewell to Murray
Operation Refugee
Season of Creation – an international ecumenical resources
"Let Justice and Peace Flow" is the theme chosen for Season of Creation 2023, the ecumenical celebration we hold each year from September 1, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to October 4th, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi
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Te Rito Peyroux-Semu: My journey as a Lay Preacher
We all need to reflect on where we have come from, who nurtured us and the tales we can tell. It's all tied in with our roots and our upbringing.
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Friendship Scholarship
FOR PACIFIC ISLAND GIRLS RESIDENT IN NEW ZEALAND ATTENDING A NEW ZEALAND SECONDARY SCHOOL
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Season of Creation - September
With the urgency of the climate crisis upon us, in September churches might consider following the alternative lectionary themes provided for the Season of Creation.
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Does anyone remember LOTU – the Children’s Missionary Paper?
It was a free magazine handed out to NZ Methodist Sunday School children in the 1950s and 60s. Its 15 pages were filled with stories, letters and photos of missionaries working in the Pacific Islands.
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Wesley Broadway Community Radio In partnership with the Manawatu People’s Radio (MPR) August/September 2023
3-Part Series on hymns of Aotearoa Published by the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust
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Summary of proposed changes for Accreditation of Lay Preachers in English-speaking Parishes July 2023
These suggestions on changes for accreditation in English-speaking Parishes were circulated by email to all Lay Preachers, in a notification in the Connexional email in July and outlined to some Synod Superintendents at their July retreat.
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Why Equality Matters
I hope that you have seen a copy of the resource that the Methodist Alliance working group campaigning to increase benefit levels and abatement thresholds have created.
Visit this articleNurturing Faith, Empowering Women, and Serving the Community.
The Mornington Methodist Women’s Fellowship (MWF) in Dunedin is a vibrant and devoted group of women who have played a pivotal role in the life of the Mornington church and the wider community since the Women’s Fellowship establishment in the early 20th century.
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Building a Solid Foundation for the Future.
Matthew 7:24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”
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An invitation to attend
Zines and beyond for doing theology Workshop With David Bell and Lavinia Elder
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The Whakaari trial and questions we should be asking
It has been almost four years since Whakaari erupted and claimed so many lives, and irrevocably affected so many more. The judge-alone trial is currently underway for the remaining WorkSafe prosecutions, and we should take notice.
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