St Aidan’s Anglican Church (63 Brookside Terrace, Bryndwr, Christchurch)
Guest speaker will be Rev. Ron Hay, a former Vicar of Sumner-Redcliffs Anglican Parish and author of the award-winning book ‘Finding the Forgotten God’ (copies will be available for purchase).
The title of his address will be: Re-vangelising Aotearoa New Zealand
All are welcome, but only members can vote.
Last one for the year(!) – yes it is the Christmas meeting, so we hope to see people there to celebrate our year and to think about next year.
Hannan Centre, Tuesday 26th November @ 2.00 p.m. Tea, coffee, light refreshments.
Order the 2020 Lenten Group Study Book Now via the Theology House website!
Early bird pricing of $7 +p&p if ordered before 31 December 2019.
Life in the Garden is a garden tour through Scripture. Your green-fingered guides are Tom and Dorothy Innes. In these studies they invite you to meet God in the garden and to experience the abundant life and the blessings that God offers us there.
A HANDFUL OF CHANGE—Journeying Through Advent
Available for purchase, this book (by Craufurd Murray) contains daily readings for personal reflections in the weeks leading to Christmas. These are available @ $10/copy through Ecclesia books. If you are interested in purchasing this book, please contact Paula in the office for more information.
Their ‘Hotmail’ email address is no longer reliable so they have moved to gmail as follows: cepharchrisp2@gmail.com
So if you are one of those that used to receive regular updates from them (and have noticed that they have stopped…), this is why.
If you want to again receive regular email updates from Paddy & T, they would be very grateful if you could first contact them using the new email address above. (This way they can build up their new email address book again).
This year’s appeal is focusing on two NZCMS Mission partner families:
The Miller family believe that God is continuing to quicken the Church in Latin America to send thousands of people in a missionary movement to the most unreached people in the world. Andy & Shona see their role as working alongside this move of God through mobilising, networking, training and interpreting.
Cambodia is a youthful nation with a rapidly rising urban population and rate of development. Still in recovery from its recent turbulent past, this predominant Buddhist nation is in desperate need of the Good News of Jesus. Neill & Rebekah are excited to see what God has in store as they serve and disciple members of the developing Church.
THERE ARE NO SEPARATE APPEAL ENVELOPES THIS YEAR. INSTEAD:
To donate to both or either of these causes, either include your donation with your regular offertory envelope – with a note on the outside indicating ‘what is to go where’.
Or place a separate envelope in the offertory plate (remember to include your name if you want this amount included in your annual tax receipt).
Or, you can do this on-line via internet banking. (Again indicate ‘who it is for’ in the reference/code fields.)
IRD Numbers! Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have elected to place your tax rebate(s) into the Church’s bank account!
(This choice can be made when you are completing your tax return(s) Simply enter the Church’s bank account number (see below) into the return instead of your own… This is a simple (and relatively painless!) way of increasing your giving to the Church…)
However; IF you have done this, AND you want this action treated by us as an additional donation to the Church; – then you need to supply us with your IRD number. As all IRD will release to us is your IRD number – NOT your name… (Some of you have already supplied your IRD number from previous years, if so check you can check with Paula in the office to see if she already has your number in her records.)
Again MANY MANY thanks to those of you who have already elected to do this!! (And just in case – here is our bank account number for any who still want to consider this option J : 06 0801 0052951 00)
Please can you check if you have any books from the library from away back? There are a few missing.
We went through the books late last year and made a list; this list will be put at the library.
If you have any of these please can you mark it off on the list as to where it is and return it when finished? The books are all marked with a coloured sticker near the base so easily identified.
Many thanks
The eleven sharp service – welcoming, contemporary and informal
What is eleven sharp?
The 11.00am service, eleven sharp, is being relaunched following a congregation meeting last week. It will be a welcoming contemporary informal worship service lasting an hour, with music, youth and children’s programmes, opportunities to listen to God, applying and discussing the Bible and relevant issues, prayer and hospitality. To do this we all need to be working and serving together building God’s kingdom.
When is eleven sharp?
We’ll meet each Sunday at eleven sharp having grabbed a coffee if you want, from 10.30am. We’ll finish at 12.00pm and have refreshments, or a shared lunch or sharing hospitality with one another.
How will eleven sharp be run?
We want to establish a core team to work together to plan and help shape the eleven sharp community. Talk to us about being part of the core team
So how else can you be involved in eleven sharp?
Sign up to serve one another (perhaps once a month) as part of, or as co-ordinator, in the following areas:
After eleven sharp events
3rd Feb – tea and coffee, then 2.30pm afternoon tea and cakes at Matthew and Claire’s
10th Feb – shared lunch, immediately after service at 12.00pm in Hannan Centre
17th Feb – tea and coffee
More dates and events to follow
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