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Topic: St Martin’s Sunday Worship

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Meeting ID: 815 0869 6154
Passcode: 712158

NOTICES:

A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today – either in person or online. Many thanks to Rev Alan Webster for leading our service.

The Golden Rules for Level 2 worship:

Don is on leave until 21^st November. Please contact Irene for any urgent pastoral concerns.

Anna will not be in the Office this Thursday 18^th November.

Wednesday Walkers 17^th November: meet 9.30am outside Oderings Cashmere Road for a walk around the new sub-division opposite and surrounding area. Morning tea at Urban Eateries Cashmere Road. All welcome Joan Mac 022 081 4088.

“Advent Art” @ St Martins – if you are an artist, painter, sculptor or creator of anything artistic – and would like to share in “Advent Art” @ St Martins please contact Jo Fergus 022 599 3309.

MOVIE NIGHT Saturday 27^th November: ‘The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as Macy’s department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit…except his boss, Doris Walker who’s raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane and put on trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test as young and old alike face the age old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?’

Miracle on 34^th Street is an irresistible fable that has, for many years, become synonymous with celebrating Christmas. Winning three OSCARS, it features Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara and Natalie Wood.

BYO takeaway tea from 5.15pm. Tea & coffee available. Koha appreciated.

TWILIGHT CHRISTMAS MARKET Friday 10^th December 5-8pm HERE. A combined fundraiser with our Anglican neighbours at St Mark’s. Sign the list in the foyer if you would like to help. Please NO clothes, shoes, white elephant or magazines. Further details from Irene.          

What’s on This Week:

Monday 9am-12noon St Mark’s Elder Care. Therese 337 1225.

Tuesday 10am – 2.30pm South Elder Care. Jeannette 332 9869.

Tuesday 7.15pm Christian Meditation Group. Dugald 380 5024.

Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: Cashmere. Joan Mac 022 0814088.

Wednesday 7pm Global Voices choir. Nick 027 2255142.

Thursday 10am – 12 noon Crafty Crafters. Bring along your own craft items or learn a new skill. $3 per session. Jeannette 332 9869.

Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit. Anneke 328 7459.

Thursday 5-7pm Familial Trust. Nadine 981 1093.

Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm Sign & Sing. Becky 022 20862211.

10am Sunday worship in the church has resumed or you are welcome to worship with the St Martins Presbyterian congregation via Zoom. To join us, just click on the link below:

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 – either in person or online.

The Golden Rules for Level 2 worship:

• If you’re sick, stay home and Zoom
• If you’re feeling unwell, stay home and Zoom
• If you don’t want to join a large crowd just yet, stay home and Zoom
• If you plan to be in Church, we encourage you to wear a face covering
• Please continue to wear your mask until seated at morning tea
• You must sign in using the app or the paper copy – this is mandatory

NOTICES:

A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today – either in person or online. Many thanks to Rev Chris Elliot for leading our service.

Don is on leave until 21^st November. Please contact Irene for any urgent pastoral concerns. Next Sunday’s service will be led by Rev Alan Webster.

The Parish Office will be closed on Friday (Show Day) – any notices to Anna by 11am Wednesday at the very latest please.

Wednesday Walkers 10^th November: meet 9.30am outside Beach Café 16a Beach Road North New Brighton for a walk around the area. All welcome. Barbara & Alan 021 126 3801.

“Advent Art” @ St Martins – if you are an artist, painter, sculptor or creator of anything artistic – and would like to share in “Advent Art” @ St Martins please contact Jo Fergus 022 599 3309.

For your diaries: a special Christmas movie on Saturday 27^th November.

TWILIGHT CHRISTMAS MARKET Friday 10^th December 5-8pm HERE. A combined fundraiser with our Anglican neighbours at St Mark’s. Sign the list in the foyer if you would like to help. Please NO clothes, shoes, white elephant or magazines.          

What’s on This Week:

Monday 9am-12noon St Mark’s Elder Care. Therese 337 1225.

Monday 1-4pm Foot Clinic. Judith 332 1577.

Tuesday 10am – 2.30pm South Elder Care. Jeannette 332 9869.

Tuesday 7.15pm Christian Meditation Group. Dugald 380 5024.

Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: North Beach.

Wednesday 7pm Global Voices choir. Nick 027 2255142.

Thursday 10am – 12 noon Crafty Crafters. Bring along your own craft items or learn a new skill. $3 per session. Jeannette 332 9869.

Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit. Anneke 328 7459.

Thursday 5-7pm Familial Trust. Nadine 981 1093.

Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm NO Sign & Sing. Becky 022 20862211.

10am Sunday worship in the church has resumed or you are welcome to worship with the St Martins Presbyterian congregation via Zoom. To join us, just click on the link below:

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 – either in person or online.

The Golden Rules for Level 2 worship:

• If you’re sick, stay home and Zoom
• If you’re feeling unwell, stay home and Zoom
• If you don’t want to join a large crowd just yet, stay home and Zoom
• If you plan to be in Church, we encourage you to wear a face covering
• Please continue to wear your mask until seated at morning tea
• You must sign in using the app or the paper copy – this is mandatory

Don is on leave 5^th – 21^st November. Please contact Irene for any urgent pastoral concerns. Next Sunday’s Communion service will be led by Rev Chris Elliot.

Wednesday Walkers 3^rd November: meet 9.30am in Stourbridge Street near Oderings for a walk around the area.  We will gather for morning tea at Urban Café. All welcome.  Janette 021 075 6780.

Pastoral Care Team meeting TOMORROW Monday 1^st November 9.30am in the church foyer. Lyndsey 388 1264.

Men’s Group end of year dinner, Visions Restaurant Thursday 4^th November 6pm – please let Rob C 384 4320 know if you’re coming.

Articles are now required for the next ‘Messenger’ – please email any contributions to Charlotte (hooty@xtra.co.nz) before 7 November.

Joan would like to thank the congregation for the flowers you sent her last Sunday. She is feeling a lot better than she was a week ago and will be back on her feet in due course! Thank you for the flowers.

For your diaries: a special Christmas movie on Saturday 27^th November.

TWILIGHT CHRISTMAS MARKET Friday 10^th December 5-8pm HERE. A combined fundraiser with our Anglican neighbours at St Mark’s. Sign the list in the foyer if you would like to help. Please start putting aside items suitable for gifts, making Christmas crafts, decorations, cards. Nearer the time we will require lots of baking eg Christmas cakes, sweets. There will be plenty of food for sale on the night. Please sign the green list in the foyer if you would like to help. (Helpers will be encouraged to get into the “spirit of Christmas” by wearing hats, masks, festive jewellery, t shirts etc…There will be some live music too! Enquiries to Irene. Please NO clothes, shoes, white elephant or magazines.          

What’s on This Week:

Monday 9am-12noon St Mark’s Elder Care. Therese 337 1225.

Monday 9.30am Pastoral Visiting Team meeting. Lyndsey 388 1264.

Monday 1-3pm Hillsborough-Heathcote WI meeting. Jennifer 332 3314.

Monday 6-8pm MenzShed AGM. Brian.

Tuesday 10am – 2.30pm South Elder Care. Jeannette 332 9869.

Tuesday 7.15pm Christian Meditation Group. Dugald 380 5024.

Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: Sonya 027 253 3397.

Wednesday 9.30am-12noon Port Hills U3A. Anneke 328 7459.

Wednesday 7pm Global Voices choir. Nick 027 2255142.

Thursday 10am – 12 noon Crafty Crafters. Bring along your own craft items or learn a new skill. $3 per session. Jeannette 332 9869.

Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit. Anneke 328 7459.

Thursday 5-7pm Familial Trust. Nadine 981 1093.

Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm Sign & Sing. Becky 022 20862211.

10am Sunday worship in the church has resumed or you are welcome to worship with the St Martins Presbyterian congregation via Zoom. To join us, just click on the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81508696154?pwd=cnErZFM5VG5OQVhsZkxYc0dxOHdvUT09

Meeting ID: 815 0869 6154
Passcode: 712158

A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today – either in person or online.

The Golden Rules for Level 2 worship:

• If you’re sick, stay home and Zoom
• If you’re feeling unwell, stay home and Zoom
• If you don’t want to join a large crowd just yet, stay home and Zoom
• If you plan to be in Church, we encourage you to wear a face covering.
• You must sign in using the app or the paper copy – this is mandatory.

Next week’s Bible reading is: Romans 1:1-17

Wednesday Walkers 27^th October: meet 9.30am in Opawa Café carpark, Hawford Rd for a stroll around Opawa. All welcome. Sonya 027 253 3397.

Movie Night Saturday 30^th October ‘Hello Dolly’ – Barbra Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman “who arranges things … like furniture and daffodils and lives”. The plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant, Horace Vandergelder (played by Walter Matthau)! Good fun and great music.  Bring your tea & be at the church any time after 5pm. The film will start at approximately 6.15pm. Tea and coffee provided. Koha appreciated. Irene 332 7306.

Pastoral Care Team meeting Monday 1^st November 9.30am in the church foyer. Lyndsey 388 1264.

Men’s Group end of year dinner, Visions Restaurant Thursday 4^th November 6pm – please let Rob C 384 4320 know if you’re coming.

Articles are now required for the next ‘Messenger’ – please email any contributions to Charlotte (hooty@xtra.co.nz) before 7 November.

The Parish Council met on Thursday evening (21 October)  and amongst other things discussed these issues:

1. Following the unexpected dissolution of the Ministry Settlement Board because of the difficulty it had in agreeing on the name of a person the MSB could bring to the Parish Council, Council requested that Presbytery extend Don’s contract for ministry within the parish until November of next year, 2022. Presbytery agreed to this request.

• We decided to ask the company that cleans the church to clean it every week rather than every second week.

• Following Warren’s presentation about the Menzshed metal working shed project, and having received no significant objections to it, Council signed off on this project.

• Lyndsey McKay will attend the first PC meeting in the new year to report on the pastoral visiting team’s project .

• Rob Meier is to be thanked for the work he has done in placing a ‘cage’ around the gas bottles behind the church; Menzshed is to be thanked for replacing the roof over the toilets and kitchen and for building new shelving for storage upstairs; Colin Wilmshurst was thanked for his outstanding work in upgrading the sound desk; and appreciation was expressed to Sonya Hodder for her work with the Zoom project.

• Before the meeting ended, the Council discussed a number of issues about the Covid 19 virus and agreed that in the future, there may be some difficult issues for Parish Council and the congregation to manage.

What’s on This Week:

Monday 9am-12noon NO St Mark’s Elder Care. Therese 337 1225.

Tuesday 10am – 2.30pm South Elder Care. Jeannette 332 9869.

Tuesday 7.15pm Christian Meditation Group. Dugald 380 5024.

Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: Opawa. Sonya 027 253 3397.

Wednesday 7pm Global Voices choir. Nick 027 2255142.

Thursday 10am – 12 noon Crafty Crafters. Bring along your own craft items or learn a new skill. $3 per session. Jeannette 332 9869.

Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit. Anneke 328 7459.

Thursday 5-7pm Familial Trust. Nadine 981 1093.

Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm Sign & Sing. Becky 022 20862211.

Saturday 5.15pm Movie Night. Irene 332 7306.

10am Sunday worship in the church has resumed or you are welcome to worship with the St Martins Presbyterian congregation via Zoom. To join us, just click on the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81508696154?pwd=cnErZFM5VG5OQVhsZkxYc0dxOHdvUT09

Meeting ID: 815 0869 6154
Passcode: 712158

A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today – either in person or online.

The Golden Rules for Level 2 worship:

• If you’re sick, stay home and Zoom
• If you’re feeling unwell, stay home and Zoom
• If you don’t want to join a large crowd just yet, stay home and Zoom
• If you plan to be in Church, we encourage you to wear a face covering.
• You must sign in using the app or the paper copy – this is mandatory.

Next week’s Bible reading is: Mark 15:42-16:8

Wednesday Walkers 20^th October: meet 9.30am at Beckenham Library Carpark.  We can only hope the weather will allow us to walk!  Otherwise Coffee at Novel Café  at 10am.  All welcome. Sonya 027 253 3397.

Movie Night Saturday 30^th October ‘Hello Dolly’ – Barbra Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman “who arranges things … like furniture and daffodils and lives”. The plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant, Horace Vandergelder (played by Walter Matthau)! Good fun and great music.   Bring your tea & be at the church any time after 5pm. The film will start at approximately 6.15pm. Tea and coffee provided. Koha appreciated. Irene 332 7306.

What’s on This Week:

Monday 9am-12noon St Mark’s Elder Care returns. Therese 337 1225.

Tuesday 10am – 2.30pm South Elder Care. Jeannette 332 9869.

Tuesday 7.15pm Christian Meditation Group. Dugald 380 5024.

Wednesday 9.30am Walking Group: Beckenham. Sonya 027 253 3397.

Wednesday 7pm Global Voices choir. Nick 027 2255142.

Thursday 10am – 12 noon Crafty Crafters. Bring along your own craft items or learn a new skill. $3 per session. Jeannette 332 9869.

Thursday 1.30pm Sit & Be Fit. Anneke 328 7459.

Thursday 5-7pm Familial Trust. Nadine 981 1093.

Thursday 7.30pm Parish Council meeting.

Friday 10.30am – 12.30pm Sign & Sing. Becky 022 20862211.

Drive Through Vaccination Clinic: Until Sunday 31 October, Monday – Friday 1.30pm – 7.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 5pm,Christchurch Arena Addington, entrance off Wrights Road. No need to book, but those who wish to book a specific time and be prioritised can do so at www.bookmyvaccine.nz or by calling 0800 282 926 8am – 8pm, 7 days. Essential workers returning to this site for their second dose can bring unvaccinated friends or whanau, up to 4 people max per car.

Free Bus Travel available: On Greater Christchurch Metro bus and ferry services until 31 December 2021. Caregivers and dependents can also travel free. A Covid vaccination appointment letter, text or email confirmation can be shown to the driver. Any questions, call Metroinfo on 03 366 88 55.