Sabbatical Leave
Please note that our Vicar, Rev Ian Cook will be away on sabbatical from Monday, 19th June for three months. Sabbatical leave is an important time to reflect, learn and be renewed for priests. Ian is visiting Australia and Europe during this period and will be taking part in learning communities, retreats and visiting various parishes in the United Kingdom. In Ian’s absence, we have a number of people temporarily taking on particular roles. If in doubt about who to talk to about anything, please contact the office in the first instance.
TE KORŌRIA UPDATE
Today is a fantastic day for our last concrete pour which is now underway! The lift install is expected to be complete by Monday 12th, which will be a huge help as we move office equipment into the new space from next week. Railings have been installed around the deck and stairs which look fantastic, and the engraved pavers are now laid making the front entrance onto the street nearly complete. We are just waiting for the asphalt to go down on the 21st June (weather dependent).
CAFE SERVICE ON SUNDAY 18TH JUNE
We are very pleased to inform you that the 10.30am Service on the 18th June (next week) will be a café service in Te Korōria. This will be our first test of all the systems. If you are attending you will need to sign into the site on arrival (as it is still officially a building site) and we will need to stay within the Te Korōria building. There will be coffee (and other drink) available for purchase. So arrive from 10 am to get signed in and order a drink! After the service, there will be an opportunity for the kids to play and drinks to be shared. The access to the site will be from the road front, but will be over gravel.
Once the asphalt is complete and we have our Certificate of Public Use we will be able to open fully, which we expect to be before the end of June.
We will be holding our formal dedication of Te Korōria and celebration event in early November.
The Collective
We have a star line up for the Cluedo night. Every Character is played by a world famous in Karori Anglican actor or actress. Bring a Dr. Watson(friend) to assist you in your endeavour to find the Killer a Bounty is set in this case.
Working Bee
Clean up of The Vicarage – 1 July, 9am – 4pm
We have our first tenants ready to move into the Vicarage. Staff will have moved out of the Vicarage offices by the 30th June, so we need to have a really good clean of all the rooms and set it up to be a rental property on the 1st July. If you are able to help clean, or carry, or do simple handyperson jobs then please let Andrew know by emailing office@karorianglican.org.nz Helping out for a couple of hours during the day would be great, just let us know if you are able to come.
CURSILLO – KĀHUI
From Maree Foster:
“We are pleased to advise that we have two Cursillo’s taking place this year, a men’s Cursillo in June and the woman’s Cursillo in Masterton. Cursillo is a short course on ‘Christian Living’ but it is more than this. This is a lay ministry run through the Anglica n Church. We have two teams who have trained hard the past year and have put together some fantastic talks and testimonies to share throughout the weekend. Cursillo is a time when we draw closer to the Lord in our relationship with him and a time to simply come and experience all that he has for us. It is a time to be blessed with so many unexpected blessings throughout the weekend and to experience Christ’s love in action as well as fellowship with those around you. Meals are all provided and you will have your own bedroom. Cursillo is such a gift to us all. If you would like to come and experience a Cursillo as a pilgrim our weekends are on:
Men’s M45 – 22-25 June 2023 – El Rancho, Waikanae
Woman’s W45 – 6-9 July 2023 – St Matthew’s Collegiate – Masterton
If you would like to attend, please click on the link and complete the application form: https://cursillo.org.nz/downloads/app_forms/cursillo_application_form_2017.pdf
We can arrange a sponsor for you and your sponsor will take you to and from your Cursillo weekend so you don’t need to worry about transport. Once you have completed the application form, please scan and email this to: registrar@cursillo.org.nz Applications close on Friday, 9 June for the men’s Cursillo and Friday, 30 June for woman’s Cursillo.”
40 Hour Famine
The World Vision 40 Challenge is going to this year from 16 to 18 June 2023. We are keen to have as many participants join this year, children and adults. We have set up an online page that you may join – see; https://my.worldvision.org.nz/ss/iOFNIY/karori-anglican-church
You may create your own fundraising page and link to the church’s main page. We have given our church a goal of $5000 – we got this. We have also been giving about 20 hard copy fundraising booklets that may be more suitable for those not yet on social media and who’d rather issue their receipts by hand. Please let Natalie know if you would like one on: nsshaw@gmail.com some will also be left out on the table during morning tea after church. This year World Vision is focussing on raising money for clean water in Malawi as every day 11 children under 5 die from diseases related to dirty water – that is around 800 children a day who die due to lack of clean water. We look forward to creative participation and possibly doing an event on the Saturday afternoon of the challenge. We look forward to your participation. Thanks.
MindHealth Counselling Available
Please continue to promote our koha counselling with Rochelle to neighbors, friends and family. Just email counselling@tekororia.org.nz.
Rochelle has now seen several clients and has had lots of positive feedback.
Sarah Richards is also available, please email sarah@mindhealth.org to book.
Counselling times are available between 8.00am – 5.00pm Fridays with Rochelle or Wednesdays with Sarah.
Contact counselling@tekororia.org.nz to book a time:
Early Childhood Education Centre
CHEF POSITION AND REGISTERED TEACHER POSITION
Qualified ECE or primary teacher job opportunity – Full time or part time to work in our early childhood education centre. We pay our teachers along the pay parity line to level six but this can also be negotiated for the right person. St Mary’s ECEC is a small boutique centre with a great team.
We are looking for a part-time cook for our early childhood education centre, in Karori. The hours are 8:30 – 1:30 Mon – Fri.
If you are interested or know someone who might be, please contact heather@stmaryschildcare.org.nz both positions due to start ASAP.
SMASH
Infoodle Training
If you are a user of the Infoodle program, there is training available to help you.
Check out the Infoodle Help system or join a free online training:
Training Schedule
New User Basic Training: 21st June 10 am NZT, 27th July 1pm NZT
Systems Administrator Training: 1st June 1pm, 5th July 10am NZT
Open Training: 7th June 10am NZT, 13th July 1pm NZT
Finance Training: 15th June 1pm NZT, 19th July 10am NZT
Special workshop – Infoodle email Designer: 29th June 10am NZT
Transitioning to Parish Giving
We are very grateful for all the donations towards Te Korōria and the property fund. Going forward, money that is being donated regularly to Te Korōria will become part of our general giving donations, unless we hear from you that you specifically want this funding ringfenced towards Te Korōria. This enables Vestry and Finance committee to plan and manage our finances as effectively as possible, balancing our financial obligations (including the loan we have for completing Te Korōria) and our ministry needs (including salaries for Youth worker, Treasurer etc ) as we seek to increase the way we serve and strengthen our local community.
If you have increased your donations over the short term to contribute to Te Korōria, we ask you to prayerfully consider keeping up this level of overall giving to Karori Anglican to enable the ministries we believe God has called us all into to continue.
We will return to serving both elements at communion.
‘You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything.’ Matt 5:13