GODZONE IS BACK!
Our Sunday kids ministry is back! We are excited to start the year and see the kids again this Sunday as our programmes resume at the 10.30 Service. We have JAM (Jesus and Me) for pre-schoolers, Impact for school years 0-5 and Crossfire for years 6-8.
If you have any questions please do get in touch kate@karorianglican.org.nz
YOUTH – EASTER CAMP 2023
After three years of pause and no Easter camp, the Central Easter Camp is finally back. And to quote the Easter Camp Instagram account” Nab your spot now for 4 days of music, fellowship, donuts, and the Holy Spirit.”
The camp is filled with activities, great main sessions with worship and speakers, nightlife a buzzing village, and a Top Team tournament where your skills and creativity come into play to win the great Price.
The Karori Youth Group and the Johnsonville Youth Group are going to attend the Camp together with duo leadership [Ben Bormann (KAC) and Casey Norman (JNOC)]. We will journey there and back again together, and set up our Tents together, but some activities will be separate. As well as an official team-up with Johnsonville, we have an unofficial team-up with Karori Baptist Youth and will set up our Tents next to each other.
To sign up we are going to register under “JNOC Youth” to manage numbers and registration better. (but please let our Youth leader know that you are coming) If there are financial problems you can approach our Youth Leader Ben Bormann(ben.bormann@karorianglican.org.nz).
The Camp is from the 6th-10th of April. Early bird registration ends on the 12th of February.
FRIDAY YOUTH 10TH OF FEBRUARY 6PM CHURCH OFFICES
This Friday we kick off with the official Youth Program for this year with the battle of Poseidon. Dinner is $1 and we Start at 6 pm bring clothes that can get wet (not necessarily togs). Excited too see you there!
THIS SUNDAY – STAY FOR LUNCH – 12 FEBRUARY – 12 PM
Join us after the service for a lunch in the PlayGarden after the 10.30am service to celebrate the start of a new year. Bring a plate to share, and some sunshine please! All welcome
LENT STUDY GROUPS – SIGN UP NOW
This Sunday there will be sign up sheets available for Lent Study Groups, or you can email the office, or click the link on our website!
The study groups will follow the “Lent for Everyone – Matthew Year A” study guide, existing house churches are also encouraged to follow this series. The guides are still available to purchase from the office (and at services), for $10. Or, you can download your copy from Kindle or similar. Sign-up sheets to join a group will be available in early February or you can email office@karorianglican.org.nz to register. To pay for books, use our Church Account (02 0500 0019955 00) and the reference LENT.
TE KORО̄RIA UPDATE
Lots of dump trucks have been active this week, dropping off fill and soil for the car park and landscaping work. Plasters also have been busy and by next week we should have the plastering all complete and onto the painting! Our voluntary interior design team, Sunday Interiors, are hard at work sourcing and planning (and starting to purchase) items which will make the inside of our café space a pleasure to be in!
WHEELER FAMILY UPDATE
It was wonderful to receive a Wheeler Family update this week where they share future plans and information about their daily lives in Papua New Guinea!
Here is an exert below and prayer request:
“Scott has many projects this year to help Kapuna, the local villages as well as the other GCS Hospital, Kikori with; toileting, solar energy systems and building projects. He is still helping with the sewing class and keeping the Days for Girls project running. To help support him and the kids I will need to downsize my role in the shop a bit (this is what we are working on) which is tricky as we are the only shop in this area. It’s not like you can go to New World or the dairy if Countdown is closed. So I feel a big pressure and responsibility to keep things functioning for the wider community but need to preserve myself and our family too.
This is a prayer point please for us as we navigate this and then also hope to recruit someone to support me and then take over from me next year. This will be our final year in Kapuna so we want to set things up well for the future and can see many areas for improvement and better systems but we need the right people. This place has been blessed by God and has grown gradually, and the hospital has helped so many people for decades. We know His plans are good for those who love Him and this is a place where amazing things are happening in His name and lives in this tough place are being turned around for good. So, please join us in praying for the right decisions and steps guided by His plan and not ours.”
THEME AND FOCUS FOR 2023
Every year we have a scripture which to focus on. This year our verse is:
‘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
See if you can memorize it!
This year will be a historic one for our Parish with Te Korōria opening in April and many opportunities to build relationships with our wider community.
Our focus will be on Equipping and releasing into discipleship and mission.
We have two key aims:
- To find out how God is leading Karori Anglican to use Te Korōria for service to the wider community (parish) and extending His Kingdom.
- To start three new missional communities.
More on our theme and focus at services as we launch into the year!
DATES TO NOTE FOR YOUR DIARY
Friday Youth Starts 27 January
Two services of 9am and 10.30am back on the 5th Feb
GodZone starts back on the 12 February
House churches are starting up again – check with your leaders (see below about Lent)
Shrove Tuesday – Pancakes with ECEC and SMASH whānau – 21 February
Lent starts on Wednesday 22 Feb (Ash Wednesday)
Our usual church “Fair” that we hold as school goes back, will instead be held when we launch Te Korōria in April. So dream up all your great ideas and activities and let Kate know if you want to organise an activity or stall. In the meantime, we will be hosting a stand at Karori Karniaval on the 19th of February to promote our community enterprises Te Korōria, SMASH, and our Early Childhood Centre. If you would like to help out on the day Kate would love to hear from you.
Dio Training Day 6 May
JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE
We have recently advertised two positions on Seek. The first is for a Ministry Administrator, and the second is for a new position – Te Korōria Manager. Click to follow the link to the full job ad. Please do think about anyone you know in your networks who might be suitable for these roles and encourage them to apply!
COVID-19 infection is still around in our community, you have the option of receiving wafers only at communion should you wish. Please, as always, stay home if you are feeling unwell.
‘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