THE COMBINED CHURCH OF AKAROA AND THE BAYS

Sunday 9 September 2018

9.30am Trinity 11.30am Duvauchelle

We welcome you all, parishioners and visitors, to our service this morning. We are really pleased to have you with us, and hope that you will join us for morning tea in the hall after the service.

TODAY’S PRAYER

Healing God, you speak into the hurting and wounded places;

empower us to speak your vision of wholeness,

and turn us to action in the face of injustice,

that empowered by the Spirit we may be agents of your healing love;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

MIKE’S MESSAGE

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ

Our first reading today is from the Book of Proverbs chapter 22. Proverbs was something of a manual for living a godly and upright life. Modern scholarship has found similarities to what we hear today with a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian text called Instruction … Read More »

THE COMBINED CHURCH OF AKAROA AND THE BAYS

Sunday 26 August 2018 – 9.30am Trinity

We welcome you all, parishioners and visitors, to our service this morning. We are really pleased to have you with us, and hope that you will join us for morning tea in the hall after the service.

Message from the Diocesan Manager

Dear Friends, It has been a momentous week for the Christchurch Diocese. The Electoral College went very well. Archbishop Sir David Moxon, who was the President of the College, and Bishop Ellie Sanderson, chaplain to the College, presided at the opening Eucharist attended by 192 members of the Electoral College. Proposers, seconders, and supporters spoke in favour of their own respective candidates during the conference on Saturday and all discussion was respectful and encouraging. I was impressed that a number of periods of silence and prayer were … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

Sunday 3rd June 2018 – 9.30 am – St Peter’s – Holy Communion

Queen’s Birthday Weekend

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike.  Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning.

THE COLLECT

Eternal God, you have exalted your Son to be Lord of all; Send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, so that we may labour for the coming of your kingdom on earth; For the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

MIKE’S MESSAGE

My brothers and sisters in Christ,

On April 21st this year, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 92nd birthday.  Some of you may have already celebrated this in your own way. However, in New Zealand, her official birthday falls on the first Monday in June, which makes this weekend an … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

Sunday 12th November – 9.30 am – St Peter’s

11.30 am – Duvauchelle

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike. Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning.

THE COLLECT

Grant to us, O Lord, the grace of inward happiness and the serenity which comes from living close to you.  Daily renew in us the sense of joy and let your Holy Spirit dwell in us, filling every corner of our hearts with light and grace, so that we face life with the infection of good courage and meet all ills and accidents with an inner peace, giving thanks to you always for all things, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Ame

MIKE’S MESSAGE

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Only six more days before our … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

All Saints’ Day Sunday 5th November – 9.30 am – St Peter’s – Holy Communion                    

                                                                             11.30 am – Little Akaloa 

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike. Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our

All Saints’ Day service this morning.

THE COLLECT 

Almighty God, your saints are one with you in the mystical body of Christ; give us grace to follow them in all virtue and holiness until we come to those inexpressible joys which you have prepared for those who truly love you.  We ask this … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

Sunday 15th October – St Peter’s– 9.30 am
Guest Preacher – Rev. Kirstie MacDonald

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike. Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning.

THE COLLECT
Kind and generous God, you prepare a feast for all people. May we prepare for your banquet by putting on the garment of love that springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a genuine faith. Help us to bring the lost and lonely, the poor and those in need, to your feast where all are fed. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

COMING UP THIS WEEK
Monday 16th October
10.00 am Mainly Music – Trinity Hall

Wednesday 18th October
10.30 am Prayer Group – St Peter’s lounge
11.00 am Holy Communion – St Peter’s … Read More »

Un accueil chaleureux aux paroissiens et aux visiteurs. Joignez-vous à nous pour le thé du matin et une confrérie au salon de St Peter qui suit notre service ce matin.

Dimanche 8th Octobre – St Peter’s– 9.30 am
(A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike. Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning.)
THE COLLECT
Loving God, yours is the vineyard and the harvest. Help us to recognise the one you send and to follow him. Make us willing workers in your vineyard, so that we may offer you an abundant harvest. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

…………the apostles come to Jesus and say, “Why do you speak in parables?” Matthew 13:1

COMING UP THIS WEEK
Monday 9th October
10 am Mainly Music takes a break for school holidays
Wednesday 11th October
10.30 am Prayer Group … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

Sunday 1st October – St Peter’s – Holy Communion – 9.30 am
Bishop Richard Randerson’s seminar on Euthanasia at 11 am

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike. Please join us for morning tea and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning. The seminar will follow in St Peter’s.

THE COLLECT
God of all authority, enable us to hear your call and do what you ask of us. Forgive us for judging others, help us to embrace the outcast and the downtrodden. Transform our lives so that everything we do may proclaim your generous love. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

MIKE’S MESSAGE
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
We welcome this morning Jackie and Richard Randerson to our 9.30am service, and look forward to Richard’s facilitation as we grapple … Read More »

The Combined Anglican and Presbyterian Churches of Akaroa & Banks Peninsula

Sunday 18th December 2016

9.30am                 St Peters – Holy Communion and Baptism

7pm                       Akaroa Community Carols

A warm welcome to parishioners and visitors alike.

Please join us for refreshments and fellowship in St Peter’s lounge following our service this morning.

MIKE’S MESSAGE

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

The gospel today makes me worked up. What a vulnerable situation for Jesus to be conceived and born into. It was within Joseph’s rights to have Mary his betrothed publicly humiliated, if not possibly stoned, once he found out that she was pregnant to someone else. It says something of Joseph’s character that he was willing to release her from their commitment to marriage without making a scene. Perhaps in his mind it was giving Mary a chance to marry someone else whom she truly loved. Nevertheless … Read More »

                       Combined Church Fair,   Saturday November 12th   9:30 am

To all members of Trinity and St Peters Churches

Our finances are seriously depleted. We desperately need your help to make this fair a resounding success, as we need funds to continue to support a full time Vicar in this parish.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

White Elephant.       Contact Ann Pattison 304 8955

Do you have goods you can donate?

Plants                        Contact Allison Craw 304 8708 (Flowers)

Clive Weir 304 7151 (Vegetables)

Cuttings need to be potted up now.

Can you sow some seeds?

Do you have pots or potting mix you can donate?

Jams, Chutneys.        Contact Meryn Curry 304 7619

Can you make a batch?

Could you provide sugar or produce for someone else to use?

Do you have spare clean jars to donate?

Cakes and Biscuits      Contact Wendy Weir   304 7151

Can you provide baking on the day?

Sewing, Knitting, Craft     Contact Mary McNutt   304 8719

Could you … Read More »