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Topic: St Martin’s Sunday Worship. To Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81508696154?pwd=cnErZFM5VG5OQVhsZkxYc0dxOHdvUT09
Meeting ID: 815 0869 6154
Passcode: 712158
NOTICES:
A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today. Please join us for morning tea following the service.
There will be a farewell morning tea for Dan & Monica next Sunday 23 March following the service.
Donations: if you would like to support the ministry at St Martins our bank account is: 03-1598-0011867-00. Please include your name as a reference.
Wednesday Walkers 19th March: Meet 9.30am in the carpark of Charlesworth Street Reserve. Coffee at Mitre10 Columbus Coffee. All welcome. Sonya 027 253 3397.
Articles are now being sought for the next ’Messenger’. Deadline is TODAY. Please email any contributions to Charlotte & Sally (hooty@xtra.co.nz). Thank you.
CONSERVATION – Week 22 For this week we discuss cryptocurrency. You may well ask what this has to do with conservation. The answer is quite a lot. The security of cryptocurrency trading is ensured by very sophisticated computer algorithms. The particular algorithms work with a system called block chain. It is very computer intensive. So intensive that the computers within data centres require a huge amount of electric power. Most of the data centres are in China. What they have been doing and still doing is to power them from a power plant built on top of a coal mine. Each data centre uses as much power as a small town. So, the message is, don’t use cryptocurrency. Besides it is a Ponzi scheme. Cryptocurrency has no fundamental value so could vanish in a flash.
Garage Sale thanks – many thanks to all who helped at the sale and to those who donated goods to sell. Total raised is $1709. Well done!
HOT CROSS BUNS Fundraiser for St Mark’s Opawa. $5 for a packet of six delicious Couplands buns – available in traditional, chocolate or cranberry. Contact Anna in the Office before 3 April to place an order. Buns will be delivered on 13 April.
SUNDAY 30th MARCH 10am Combined Harvest Festival service at Cashmere Presbyterian Church, McMillan Ave with our neighbours from Cashmere & Hoon Hay parishes. All are welcome – please bring fruit & vegetables from your garden or non perishable grocery items which will be distributed to local community groups (including Waltham Cottage).
THIS WEEK AT ST MARTINS
Monday 10am Tend cuppa & chat (lounge) emily.ingram@tend.nz
Monday 1-4pm Foot Clinic (lounge) Janette 021 0756780
Monday 7.15pm Meditation Group Dugald 021 161 7007
Tuesday 10am South Elder Care (lounge) Jeannette 332 9869
Tuesday 7-9pm Mums n Tums (lounge) Olivia 027 327 6369
Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: Ferrymead Sonya 027 253 3397
Wednesday 7-9pm Cantabile Choir (lounge) Rose 027 254 0586
Thursday 10am Crafty Crafters (lounge) Sally 332 4730
Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit (church) Anneke 021 077 4065