Weekly Bulletin: Staying connected as a church - 23 October 2022

Kia ora St John’s whānau,

It is a special worship service this Sunday, as we celebrate a Baptism and with a special guest preacher from overseas.

We are back into the school term, and so peer groups resume for our children and youth, with these young people and their leaders going out to the St John’s Centre part-way through the service.

If you can’t gather in the city, and you want to join the worship service via Zoom, here are the details to access the live-stream:
 
Zoom Meeting ID: 370 260 759
Passcode: worship
 
The link to join the Zoom worship service is below.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/370260759?pwd=b2ZkajZ5d28rTy9EN1VKZDJUM3N4dz09 
 

If using your phone: dial 04 886 0026 (Meeting ID: 370 260 759#, Passcode: 1560107#)

This is the link to the printable Service Sheet 

OTHER THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT...

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)

Our Annual General Meeting is on Sunday the 30th October 2022, in the St John’s Centre after the morning service and a shared lunch. Please bring some food to share!
There will be supervised activities for children in the St John’s Centre during the meeting.

The Annual Report of St John’s in the City for the year ended June 2022 is available on the St John’s website: https://www.stjohnsinthecity.org.nz/publications-and-archive
I know you will enjoy the collection of stories and experiences shared in the various contributions. The Annual Performance Report (financial) is included there also. Printed copies of the Annual Report will be available from this Sunday.

There are other supporting papers available ahead of the AGM: The Agenda, Minutes of 2021 AGM, Draft Budget for the coming year, Plain English Summary of the financial performance of last year.

RAISING THE STANDARD OF GIVING

We are invited to reflect on how our giving is an important part of living out our faith. ‘Raising our standard of giving’ – describes the thoughtful re-examination of our giving as an important expression for our faith. Together we are thinking about our values, re-examining our giving habits accordingly, making carefully thought-out decisions, and re-arranging our priorities in using money to enable us to carry out these decisions. We give meaningfully, not because the Church needs it (it does, of course) but because as Christians we need to give for our own sake spiritually.
More information will be provided in the coming weeks to help us re-examine our giving.

FELLOWSHIP GROUP

The next speaker will be Ken Edgecombe, who will share memories of his time as Chaplain at St Margaret College, the school that St John’s in the City founded!
This meeting will be on Tuesday 25th October 2022 at 11am in the St John’s Centre. Please bring finger food for lunch.

VISITING MATHEMATICIAN

We are delighted to be hosting Dr Gray Manicom for a visit at St John’s in the City on the weekend of 12th & 13th November 2022.
There will be three opportunities to hear him: on Saturday at 3pm (for high school students), in the Sunday morning service, and an informal presentation after the service.

The recent video recording of the presentation ‘What the mysteries of mathematics reveal about the Creator’ by Gray Manicom as part of the Science and Faith seminar at St John’s is available here:

ONE CONFERENCE

This leadership training conference for the Presbyterian Church is being hosted at St John’s in November (2pm 17th of November - 2:30pm Saturday the 19th of November).
We will have many folks travelling from out of town and many have asked if there is any possibility of being billeted. Would you like to consider billeting out-of-town attendees to the conference?
Conference attendees will have all meals provided at the conference except breakfast. If you can offer billeting please fill in this form One Conference Billet Host Form or email grace@presbyterian.org.nz

NEW WINE FESTIVAL

At this all age festival many voices worship the One. 19th-23rd January 2023 (Wellington Anniversary Weekend) at Wairarapa College in Masterton.
For more details and to register to go (along with others from St John’s): https://newwine.org.nz/

NAME TAGS

As we turn our Vision into action, one very easy and practical way we can build community is to wear a name tag.
Please keep your name tag on when you come over for Morning Tea in the Centre, and there will be a receptacle to drop your name tag into before you leave.

The grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Allister