Young People - Anglican Parish of Pauatahanui

At St Mark's, Pukerua Bay there is “Awesome Church- a growing place!” every 4th Sunday at 11.00am. Intergenerational, with games, singing, creativity, a short Eucharist - and always food afterwards! We have potatoes, kumara, garlic and a grape vine growing.

The Youth Group - LIME - is based in Pukerua Bay and meets on Sunday evenings.

All-Age Liturgy is on the fourth Sunday of each month in St Philip's, Paremata.

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Preschoolers

All pre-schoolers and their caregivers are invited to a special babies and young children’s service and shared playtime at Plimmerton on the first Wednesday of every month.
The service from 1.00 to 1.30pm in St Andrews Church is short and fun beginning with a prayer, ending with a blessings, and including songs, story and communion and followed by playtime and refreshments to 2.30pm in the Parish Centre next door.

Come to the service at 1.00 or just come in at 1.30 for coffee and a chat - bring along your older children during the school holidays.

This is New Generation Church. However, if you are under five, we would like your email address so we can remind you a few days before. Please, parents and care-givers of little ones, send their contact email address to the Parish Office and we will help you remember the Preschoolers!

COME AND PLAY

Pauas

The youth choir meet on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday of each month at 10.30am (directly after the 9.30am service/Sunday school) for about 30 minutes. Parents are welcome to watch or have tea in the hall during practice. Anybody who loves to sing is welcome.

Sunday School

As the kids say, 'Sunday School is cool'.

At St Andrew's we gather in St Andrew's church at 9.30am when we say our family prayer then go to the Parish Centre for songs, a story, activity and prayer. We re-join the service for communion and the final hymn.

St Andrew's
Sunday School Prayer

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Youth Group - LIME: Life is More Exciting

The Youth Group for 12 to 15 year olds meets on Sunday evenings at St Mark's.

Here are some links that you might find interesting for school, for help, for careers and for interest. If you've got a good site which you think could be here, please send us an email: pauanglican@xtra.co.nz

www.studyit.org.nz

www.aucklandlibrary.co.nz/teens

www.wcl.govt.nz/teens/studygroove.html

www.youthministry.org.nz

/www.atomiceventscentre.com

www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed

LIME Youth Service

Eighteen-year-old Anglican youth leader Harry Newton made an impassioned appeal for care for the environment in his presentation to the first LIME Youth Service at St Mark’s Pukerua Bay on Sunday 19 November, at 7pm. Youth group members enjoyed particularly his description of world environmental advocate Al Gore – not a good looking guy according to Harry but one with a great message.

Harry has just spent a year in Tanzania, courtesy of the Anglican Mission Board. He had lived in Africa as a child and was able to spend time again with his uncle who, despite suffering from AIDS, is working to diffuse tensions by negotiating the release of child soldiers and the handing over of guns. Harry is looking forward to returning to work with his uncle again, “or his son if he is dead”.

Harry gave first hand accounts of the growth of the church in Tanzania, which had gone from a handful of people to services of 4,000. Services are all-day events with an air of festivity, song and dance. He showed images of the continuing desertification of Africa and described the difficulty of sustaining human life. The parish’s youth group members were all ears.

The youth group themselves were key players in presenting the service which included music by Adeaze, Bill Withers, Don McLashan and The Beatles.

A regular youth service is now guaranteed a place on the parish calendar.

For further information on youth group activities, contact Gill, phone 239 9054 or Michael, phone 233 6332.

Chris Wilson, Youth Group Leader

Anglican Parish of Pauatahanui

Young People in Our Parish