EVENSONG THIS SUNDAY
Join the St Mary’s Choir for Evensong, this Sunday at 6pm
INTRODUCING OUR NEW STAFF POSITION
Kate Harvey-Green is now our Community Enterprise Manager (CEM).
Kate has been working for us as a contractor focused on the Te Korōria project and general support on various projects and activities across the whole of Karori Anglican.
SMASH, St Mary’s Early Childhood Education Centre, and now Te Korōria are all enterprises that deliver services to our community, and are significant operations in their own right. They are all important to our mission to the community as we share and live out our faith. To date, the Vicar has been directly responsible for the enterprises.
Kate as CEM, will continue the work in establishing Te Korōria (which will be managed by Dana Reddy from mid-April), and oversee the operations of SMASH (managed by Yvette Mischalska) and St Marys’s ECEC (Head Teacher is Heather Te Huia). The CEM (part-time) reports to the Vicar, and will be on the governing boards of all three enterprises. A key part of the role is to enable each enterprise to achieve it’s own operational outcomes while working together to achieve Karori Anglican’s overall vision. This change will release Ian to be able to focus more on his many responsibilities as Vicar.
Tax Receipts
The office will be preparing the annual tax receipts following the end of the tax year. As in previous years these will be emailed and you can expect to receive them by the 21st April. Please contact the office if you would like to have a paper copy.
Still want to make a donation for this tax year? You still have time! Make your donation online before the end of the day on Friday.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES – 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.
WORKING BEES – SATURDAY, 1 APRIL & 15 APRIL
Our first working bee kicks off this Saturday. Thank you for all who have signed up. Please remember to bring along some drop sheets/masks/ gloves if you have them already.
Boxes – If you have My Food Bag, or Hello Fresh Boxes we would love to have them!
It is still not too late to sign up and come along, after all, many hands make light work. Let us know if you can help by emailing office@karorianglican.org.nz
EASTER SERVICES
PALM SUNDAY – 2 APRIL
9.00 am TRADITIONAL
10.30 am FAMILY FRIENDLY
GOOD FRIDAY – 7 APRIL
10.00 am FAMILY FRIENDLY
12.00 pm TWO HOUR VIGIL
EASTER SUNDAY – 9 APRIL
8.00 am TRADITIONAL
10.00 am FAMILY FRIENDLY
10.00 am ST. MATTHIAS (MAKARA)
Thank you to everyone who came we had 25 people attended the AGM on Monday night . We are very grateful for the dedication and hard work put in by many people in 2022. The reports presented reminded us that we are a thriving church actively serving the people in our community. The report on the progress of Te Koroōia reminded us that a new chapter is starting soon for all of us!
Printed copies of the AGM report and financial reports are available in the church foyer and you can view it online at this link.
The Last Collective Night for the Year. With a special Easter Celebration. A Few Surprises but one that isn’t a surprise is our shared Dinner for 1$.
See you on Friday!!!
Cinema Night:
The long-awaited Super Mario Bros. Movie will premiere next Wednesday. So If you want to come along with the Collective to go and see it let me know until this Sunday. And we’ll buy tickets (Students 17$, Child 15$, Adult (Age 15+) 15$
The meeting point is 05.04.23 6 pm at the Embassy.
Easter camp:
Registration for this year’s Easter camp has closed, and KAC will go up to fielding on Maundy Thursday together with the Johnsonville Youth Group.
ROOM NAMES IN OUR NEW BUILDINGS – INTRODUCING TE WHARE O MERE (House of Mary)
Room Names
Now that Te Korōria is nearly complete, we have finalised names for all our rooms in the new buildings. When choosing a name for the second building, we wanted to use Te Reo, so that it aligns with Te Korōria. Te Whare o Mere (House of Mary) was chosen because St Mary’s Early Childhood Centre and St Marys After School House (SMASH) are key users of the building, and of course parishoners of St Mary’s.
Using colours for the names of rooms gives us a simple naming system. The colours will be reflected in some elements in each room’s interior. Gold star’s if we hear you using the new names!!
Te Whare o Mere (House of Mary)
Contains :
– the SMASH Office
– St Mary’s Early Childhood Education Centre (ECEC)
– St Marys ECEC Break Out room
– Kōwhai / Yellow Room (former activity/supper room) used by Youth, GodZone, SMASH, and others.
– the Kōwhai / Yellow Kitchen
– the Māwhero / Pink and Kākāriki / Green rooms will be used for Counselling
– and the Waiporoporo / Purple room which will be used for SMASH seniors and is available to book for other purposes
Te Korōria
Contains :
– the café and the soft-play room – upstairs
– the Karori Anglican offices – downstairs
– and the Kikorangi / Blue meeting room – downstairs
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.
TE KORORIA UPDATE
Opening Date! Please mark in your diaries the 6 May as our public opening date for Te Korōria! We will be inviting to the opening everyone who has been connected and invovled in this project over the years!. If there is someone who you think we should send an invitation to who is no longer directly connected with our church whānau, please let Andrew in the office know, and we can make sure they can an email invitation. More details to come on exact timing etc.
On the 30th of April we plan to hold the 10.30am service as “cafe church” in Te Korōria, this will be a test run of our systems before the offical opening.
This week the scaffolding has come down everywhere. We still have a number of rails and fences to go up to make the site safe, but it’s great to see the face of the buildings without the scafolding over it it. The bottom cortyard is going to be a great space to play, covered in grass. We have just had the top soil and compost delivered which will be spread all over. Te Whare o Mere is 99% complete on the inside, and the working bee this weekend will be a huge help in getting this ready for occupation. Te Korōria is flat tack on both internal fit out, with the soft play structure being installed as well as lots of other elements. From the above photo you can see the new office space with lighting all operational, and painting complete. There is lots of external work to get through, but it’s on track, and various concrete pours are scheduled with engraved pavers on track for installation on the 11th April.
INFOODLE IS CHANGING TO TWO FACTOR AUTHENTIFICATION (2FA)
From the 1 April, access to Infoodle on your computer will require two factor authentication. This is a mandatory change infoodle is bringing in internationally to ensure data security (there is no work around!).
You will need to set this up to use Infoodle and you will need to have a smart phone and a computer to do this.
- Download the ‘Google Authenticator App’ from the app store on your phone.
- Logon to Infoodle on your computer and select set up your 2 -step authentication – you will be prompted to do this.
- Open the Google Authenticator App on your phone and scan the QR code that comes up on your computer screen
- Then when you log in from now on you will need to put in the 6 digit code that comes up on your phone’s authenticator app ( note this changes approx. every minute), as well as your password.
Note : you will need your smart phone and your computer every time you log in
The Infoodle App on your phone – If you use the infoodle app on your smart phone – make sure you are logged in before the 1 April. Then you will not need to do two factor identification to access the information you can see in the app on your phone.
If you get stuck please contact the office, and we will help. You can also email support@infoodle.com
MINDHEALTH COUNSELLING AVAILABLE
MindHealth™ is having the clarity of thought and perspective that stimulates an optimal state of wellbeing. This state of wellbeing influences all aspects of life from your emotional world to your working world. In other words, Mind Health™ is all about creating the best version of you.
Counselling times are available between 8.00am – 5.00pm Fridays.
Contact counselling@tekororia.org.nz to book a time:
ROSTERS FOR MARCH – JUNE ARE ONLINE AND ON NOTICEBOARD
Thank you to everyone who helps at our services, from welcoming to morning tea, many hands make light work! Our rosters until the end of June are now available through infoodle, or you can see them posted at the notice board in the gathering area.
Please remember to set your clock back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday night.
Please note that due to the current resurgence of COVID among our community we will be offering communion by one element only (wafers) for the next few weeks.
‘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