Anglican Parish of Pauatahanui

Saturday 25 September
A Fun, Stitch and Patch Day at our Parish Centre with the Prayer Quilt Ministry.
On Sunday 26th Prayer Quilt recipients,sponsors and their families are invited to bring along their quilts for a special blessing at the 9.30am service at St Andrew’s @ NPBC

Awesome Church

Sunday 26 September
St Mark's, Pukerua Bay, 11am
God's Creation with St Francis. All your pets are welcome.

E 100 Bible Reading

E for Essential
50 Old + 50 New Testament
= E 100
Our Parish is taking on the challenge. Go to Study Groups to read more about it.

Back to Church Sunday

12 September at all our services. Click here for service times. The welcome will be warm and the coffee hot.

The FAQs page is now up.

We need to know what you want to know so please email us with further questions. Additional material to our answers will also be considered.

Of course you will probably have lots of other ideas about FAQs or additions to these answers - while we are not wikipedia all ideas are welcome!

Jenny is home from Turkey, Italy and Ireland

Click here and scroll down to read about her study leave and retreat..

St Andrew's Rebuild

The rebuild has started! Click here to read more.

Looking for where St Andrew's services are on a Sunday? Map

St Andrew's Foyer Project Click here to read the foyer project.

Matariki in Pukerua Bay -
Click here to read about it.

In case of emergency:
Click here for How to worship with others without leaving home! Click here for telephone numbers of Community Agencies and helplines.

Welcome to our Church

St Alban's, Pauatahanui
St Andrew's, Plimmerton
St Mark's, Pukerua Bay
St Philip's, Paremata

Kia ora tatou and welcome to this website of the Parish of Pauatahanui. The photo (which is the cover on the cover of our parish magazine this month) shows the very beautiful Inlet that can be seen from most parts of the parish but especially from the village which gives us our name. One of our congregations GEOH (God's Earth Our Home) has a special concern for the environment and caring for creation so at a Whole Parish Service they led at the end of August our speaker was the Porirua Harbour Strategy Coordinator, Keith Calder. He spoke about our call as Christians to love God, love each other, and love God's world. This year Conservation Week is 12 - 19 September when the theme is Love New Zealand. Recently at Awesome Church, we have adapted the traditional Benedicite (or "Song of Creation") into the "Benedicite Pukerua" which you can read here.

Our parish is proudly part of Porirua City, just north of Wellington, and we are glad that the current mayor, Jenny Brash, is one of our Plimmerton congregation. As a parish we care about local issues and the communities in which we live, in fact you could describe us as "local church for local families". We have 10 different congregations that meet at different times and places, with varying styles of worship, so there are plenty of options for you if you can join us. If you are further away do please contact us as we appreciate knowing who uses our website.

We are of course also part of the wider Anglican Communion and the Diocese of Wellington. We enjoy using A New Zealand Prayer Book/He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa in some of our congregations, and we love celebrating God's presence among us in both contemporary and traditional ways.
We hope that this website encourages you on your journey of faith. May you discover God as Creator, Redeemer and Holy Spirit today in the place where you are!

Archdeacon Jenny Dawson

Pauatahanui Anglicans Parish Prayer Cycle

Day 1 The Bishop and Diocesan support staff
Day 2 The Vicar
Day 3 Church wardens and other priests in the parish
Day 4 Vestry and Parish Office staff
Day 5 Licensed lay ministers
Day 6 Liturgists and Liturgical assistants
Day 7 Musicians
Day 8 The Parish Choir and the Music Group
Day 9 Local Church Meetings especially the Convenors
Day 10 Cleaners and flower arrangers
Day 11 Woodchoppers and Divine Caterers
Day 12 Those who care for the grounds of our churches
Day 13 Sacristans, readers, welcomers
Day 14 Sidespersons and bankers
Day 15 Sunday School
Day 16 Youth Group and the young people of our communities
Day 17 The St Andrew’s 8.00am congregation and the people of Plimmerton
Day 18 The St Andrew’s 9:30am congregation
Day 19 The St Philip’s congregation and the people of Paremata/Papakowhai
Day 20 The St Alban’s congregation and the Burial Ground
Day 21 The St Mark’s congregation and the people of Pukerua Bay
Day 22 The Friendship Group congregation
Day 23 The Harbourview congregation and all older people
Day 24 The Choral Evensong congregation
Day 25 The PreSchoolers congregation and all children
Day 26 The St Andrew’s Thursday morning congregation and study group
Day 27 The GEOH congregation, and our environment
Day 28 Explorations Group
Day 29 Women’s Fellowship (AAW), and Men’s Group
Day 30 Prayers and Squares
Day 31 “Breaking Open the Word”

Anglican Parish of Pauatahanui

Our Mission

2010 Growing Passionate Spirituality

Parish Day 2010