Vicar

Thank you for inviting us into your lives

my hopes and prayers for this community

my season of ‘lasts’

Some (good and bad) News

Holy work

how blessed I am to be able to seek God and His Kingdom with the wonderful people of Opawa-St Martins

I’m very happy to relieve in this place while Ben has a sabbatical. Depending on what role and what metaphor you use I am, for rugby players, the substitute, for cricketers I’m the 12th man, for musicians this is a 12 week gig, or for those teachers I am a reliever!

If someone has borrowed (and finished reading) Peter Bouteneff’s book "How to be a Sinner", could you please return it to the Book Marks library as the Vicar would like to borrow it for a book club.

Our body has rhythms for day and night, our earth changes with the seasons, and in God’s grace one of the commandments is to set aside a day and make it holy, thereby giving us this weekly rhythm of holy work and holy rest.

Today’s readings are about temptation, desire, and FOMO. But they are also about the supreme grace of God. It is hard to be tempted when we already have all that we would ever need.

Walk with Jesus to Jerusalem, to the upper room, to the garden, to the cross, and finally to the empty tomb

It has been a harrowing week

Three names for one day

A new year has begun, and you know that that means…

It never ceases to amaze me just how much can be packed into 12 months.

It’s a joy to celebrate new birth in baptism so close to celebrating the coming of the Christ child.

Shine a different light on a familiar story

From 3-5pm daily from 11-18 December we will have a nativity back drop which people from the community can come and take photos in.

“Jesus is Lord, and Caesar is not.”

No matter where we have come from, in baptism we are made worthy…

Let me introduce you to someone…

The gathered bishops [at Lambeth Conference] will be responding to some ‘calls’ to action for the church… like this one on climate…

…our liturgical calendar offers so many options for what to celebrate on any given Sunday. Today is one of the days where we have a plethora of options. And being a little indecisive, I’m keen to celebrate all of them!

Lambeth: They have asked for our prayers and they will certainly need them.

Keeping the green-season fresh

It’s a somewhat un-nerving and discombobulating time.

Mānawatia a Matariki – we welcome Matariki!

God reveals that perfection requires a level of diversity and relationship…

I’m still in party mode…

Whoever you are, wherever you have come from, nau mai, haere mai ki tenei whare karakia…