HELP NEEDED – This Saturday 24 June – We need muscle
If you are available this Saturday morning to help lift and carry furniture and boxes your help would be much appreciated from 9am -12pm.
Please contact Kate directly kate@karorianlican.org.nz. 0r text 021 1245471 if you can come and help lift and carry.
Saturday 1st June is a working Bee also, all day from 9am – Cleaning the Vicarage and moving the remaining office and SMASH items down to our new buildings.
Diamond Anniversary
The flowers in the church this Sunday have been donated by Jenifer and Arnold Hart in celebration of their Diamond Anniversary. Congratulations to the happy couple.
TE KORŌRIA UPDATE
The day finally arrived when we got to celebrate a service in Te Korōria! What a joy it was to be in the building and praising God together. Huge thanks to everyone who helped make it happen. A lot of people were involved during the week and on Saturday getting everything ready. It was wonderful to be able to be in the space and try some coffee and drinks together for the first time! Kelsey has kindly taken some great photos of the event to record the moment, some of which are shared in this newsletter – thank you Kelsey they are fantastic!
The final pieces of the build will happen in the next couple of weeks, Asphalt is due to go down on 28 June. However, the lift is still a work in progress, and we need our Certificate of Public Use (CPU) from the council. Until we receive the CPU, Te Korōria is not generally accessible to people yet as it is still considered a building site. Unless you are accompanied by a staff or have something to do on site, please check in at the church office before going onto the building site, . All meetings like House church meetings, board meetings etc will continue to be in the Vicarage until we get the CPU. In the meantime, the staff are busy packing up the office and moving things down to Te Korōria.
Once we have fully moved into Te Korōria, The Vicarage will become rental accommodation. Four of our rooms have already been rented out and the tenants will be moving in from 2 July onwards. If you regularly use the Vicarage for a meeting, please note that you will not be able to use the Vicarage after 2 July!
ROOMS FOR RENT
We are still looking for tenants for the remaining three rooms in The Vicarage. If you know of anyone looking for a room, please refer them to our listing on the Roomies Website. You can click here to access it. Or send them this link : https://www.roomies.co.nz/rooms/397402
CASUAL STAFF AT TE KORŌRIA
Are you a young person looking for some casual hospitality work? Dana (Te Korōria Manager) is recruiting a pool of casual staff who she can call on to work in the Café/soft play. You need to be able to learn quickly, use initiative, and make people very welcome. If you are interested please send your CV to dana@tekororia.org.nz. If you have no experience, that is not a barrier, but you may need to do a few unpaid hours as a training.
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.
The Collective
Apparently we beat them so thorough last time, that Johnsonville will not Join us this term. But we’ll determine the greatest Youth Group.
Face off athletes in our own ranks. Come along to an evening of challenges, chat and dinner (1$).
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 30 June, so we need to have a really good clean of all the rooms and set it up to be a rental property on 1 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.
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.
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.”
SMASH
SMASH is running their school holiday programme. Please let people know who could be interested, it’s a fun programme and run by great staff. If financial hardship is an issue for families attending there are fund opportunities that can be applied for to reduce cost barriers if needed.
Email office@thesmashclub.org.nz or Click on the poster below for more information or visit their website: www.TheSMASHClub.org.nz.
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.
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:
Infoodle
We use the programme Infoodle to organise and manager church activities. If you need to use Infoodle and you already have an account, here is a gentle reminder that the website is : https://kac.infoodle.com/home
‘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