Our People - Anglican Parish of Pauatahanui

To help us all learn more about the Christmas story and how we fit into it, we have a special project called the Travelling Crib. It is a tradition common in the Czech Republic, the Philippines and Mexico, and may become out tradition too, with help from the Families network.

Everyone will have the opportunity to take our nativity crib into their home for one night. It will be brought to them by one of their friends. Together they will unpack the basket and set up the crib scene on the special cloth made by the ladies who make the prayer quilts. There is a candle for the adults to light and story books telling the Christmas story. There is an advent calendar, a simple song to sing when the candle is lit and some prayers. The cloth has threads for tying in your own prayers.

The following day the basket will be carefully packed and taken to the next home where the process will be repeated. Finally when the crib has travelled to all the homes on our list it will return to St Andrew's Church on Christmas Eve for the special Children's Service at 4.00pm.

Call the Parish Office (233 9781) and leave a message if you would like to share the Travelling Crib in your home.

Celebrating St Andrew

We celebrated St Andrew on the first day of summer with an evening pilgrimage. People met at St Andrew's in Plimmerton and after prayer walked along the waterfront of Karehana Bay to the Harwood's boat house in Hongoeka Bay for a sausage sizzle.

Congratulations Rosie

Wellington Cathedral, 22 November 2008

A very happy Rosie Dell with sponsors The Rev Derek Lightbourne and Dr Anne Hadfield following her ordination as a deacon.

May Rosie proclaim the good news,
inspire our prayers,
and show us Christ, the Servant. NZPB p897

St Andrew's Foyer Project

The need:

We are a welcoming people
Present foyer space is congested
Difficult access for weddings and funerals
Overflow space is needed
Compliance with mobility access needed
We are open to all

Donate to the development of St Andrew's: Gifts for the Foyer Project can be posted to the Parish Office, 11 Steyne Avenue, Plimmerton, 5024 or handed in at any service. Make sure you include your name and address for a receipt.

Sam Manzanza had Liz Sandell up and dancing

Our first fundraising event was at the Sesqui Celebrations at Wellington Cathedral on 1 November. Sam Manzanza with his guitar and mouth organ inviting customers for Peter Rutledge and Liz Sandell at the stall of home made jams, preservers and baking.

Check the December Messenger pages 10 and 11 for further details of fundraising events.

Bake & Book Sale on Saturdays.

Wine sales

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What's been happening?

Parish Centre Carpark

A good example of our adage that “Teamwork does make the dream work”.
The deadline to beat the weather (have the wet of winter behind us and before the ground turns to concrete in the summer) was met, the donations for blocks met the target and in just one Saturday of our carpark has been weather proofed. The people involved on the day were: Peter Rutledge, John Gibson, David Treseder, Paul Leeks, Mark Berry ,John Stevenson and son Matthew, Ron Stevens, and Susan Worthington. Morning/afternoon tea and lunch provided by Glenis Rutledge, Lesley Hall, Rosemary Patterson, Edna Davidson, and Lyn Wilkinson.
Jenny says, “While I was enjoying the seminar, great work was being done on the carpark behind the Parish Centre. Thanks to all involved.”

Whole Parish Fifth Sunday Service 31 August at 9.30am

This service in the Parish Centre, Plimmerton, was hosted by the GEOH (God's earth our home) Connection with the theme: "Kaitiaki - guardianship of God's earth" Earth’s Ten Commandments

You will love and honour Earth for it blesses your life and governs your survival.
You will keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
You will not hold yourself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
You will give thanks for your food to the creatures and plants that nourish you.
You will limit your offspring for multitudes of people are a burden to the Earth.
You will not hide from yourself or others the consequences of your actions upon the Earth.
You will not kill nor waste Earth’s riches upon weapons of war.
You will not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.
You will not pursue profit at the Earth’s expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
You will consume material goods in moderation so all may share earth’s bounty.

Respect all life
Reject violence
Share with others
Listen to understand
Preserve the planet
Rediscover solidarity

Diane Campbell-Hunt

Diane and Colin Campbell Hunt with St Andrew's Sunday School

Diane’s tragic accident in Taranaki came as a shock to us all. Colin, Diane and their children have lived in Dunedin for six years but prior to that spent many years playing a full role in our Parish life: singing in the Choir, on Vestry, a Synod Rep, teaching Sunday School. We witnessed their wedding, saw their children baptised, and we shared in the progress of their family.
Diane played a major role with the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and on arriving in Dunedin soon became involved in a similar, but new, project, the Orokonui Ecosanctuary. Diane’s love of the outdoors and her connection with the natural world took her to many places, including her last tramp in Taranaki with her daughter. In spite of all her carefulness and her outdoor skills, the force of nature proved too much, and Diane was swept away in a flooded stream.
Around 500 people attended her funeral at St John’s Anglican church in Roslyn, Dunedin. Diane’s environmental work was acknowledged and her time as a most loved mother and wife was recognised in the most glowing tributes from her children and from Colin. Perhaps this was best summed up in their youngest daughter’s words, who said Diane was a real angel.
Diane was a most special person, one in whom we could sense a special spirituality, one with whom we could so easily feel connected at the level of our souls. Our sympathy and love go out to Colin and their children at this time.
Graeme Ogilvie

She touched so many of our lives with her keen intellect, sense of humour and love of family and life. She will be missed by so many but especially her loving family. Glenis R

It's Love, Isn't It?

By Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Meg Campbell

Launched at St Mark's, Pukerua Bay by Dr Nelson Wattie on 29 June, with readings from It's Love, Isn't It? by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Jenny Dawson.

Click here to read Dr Nelson Wattie's transcript from the launch of It's Love, Isn't It?

ANZAC Day 2008 at Pauatahanui

The annual Service of Remembrance was held at St Alban’s, Pauatahanui. The Whitby Scouts, Cubs and Keas and their leaders were part of the large crowd who attended.

Also present, together with their families, were a number of serving New Zealand military personnel and servicemen from other countries who are currently studying in New Zealand. Part of their study includes how we remember those who died on active service and those who returned to New Zealand.

The Rev Harold Gunson from Hongoeka was the speaker. Following the service wreaths were laid at the Pauatahanui War Memorial.

Meg Campbell

19 November 1937 - 17 November 2007

Meg lived in Pukerua Bay from the early 1960s with her husband, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. She attended St Mark's regularly.

Six collections of her poems have been published: The Way Back (1981), A Durable Fire (1982), Orpheus and Other Poems (1990), The Better Part (2000), Resistance (2004) and Poems Adrift (2007). Her poems have also appeared in journals including NZ Listener, Landfall and many anthologies. Her first book of poems, The Way Back won a NZ Society of Authors PEN award in 1981.

Meg died on 17th November 2007. Her last book, Poems Adrift, was launched the next day by Prof. Roger Robinson of Victoria University.

If I don't wake one of these
mornings, you know my spirit
will be in travelling mode, looking
for equilibrium with the other departed,
and a welcome somewhere
called Heaven.

from Prayers and Squares
15 October, 2006

Click here to read about Poems Adrift and some of her work.
Click here to read Prof. Roger Robinson's transcript from the launch of Poems Adrift

Art & Christianity

This Spring issue of Art & Christianity has Life as Art as its main theme. Parishioner Stephanie Drew writes about Everyday Creativity.

Read the spring newsletter.

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