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The Association of Anglican Women Volume 48, No CIRCLE The Association of Anglican Women Volume 48, No. 5. May 2016 Theme for 2015-18: Grow in Discipleship, Dreams, Dedication The Aims of AAW: Contents - to unite in prayer and participate in the mission of the Church 4 From our President - to promote, safeguard and nurture Christian family life 5 Editor’s Notes 6 Future of AAW CONTRIBUTIONS Diocesan AAW Group and Members’ Editor:- 7 Items: Please help the CIRCLE editorial Social Concerns Marjorie Brown, 5 Islington team by sending your contributions and Street, N.E.V., Dunedin 9010 reports, email or hand-written, to your 9 Overseas and Outreach Diocesan Circle Publicity Representative Ph 03 473 7751 so that she can collate, edit, proof and Email [email protected] 12 select what to send from each diocese to Business Manager:- Mothers’ Union keep to the approximate Word Allowance Mrs Anne Stratford, 69g of about 360 words per diocese. This Richardson Street, St Kilda, 13 Diocesan News allows for around two pictures. Dunedin 9012. Diocesan Coordinators : All Copy to - The Phone: 03 455 5434 13 - Polynesia Email [email protected] Editor, Marjorie Brown- contact details, 16 - Dunedin right. This includes emailed text - either NZ President:- as an attached single column WORD (not Mrs Margaret McLanachan, 109 19 - Nelson ‘Publisher’) file, or as text typed straight Forfar St, Mornington, Dunedin into your email. 9011. 21 - Wellington Phone: 03 453 0131 PHOTOS: Email (attached as a “FILE”, Mobile 021 216 9640. 24 - Waikato and Taranaki not as a “picture”) original digital photos Email: [email protected] (high resolution jpg files) to marilynjsim@ 26 - Waiapu gmail.com or post commercially produced Graphic layout: Marilyn Sim glossy prints, to 7 Glenleigh Place, Phone: 03 489 2095 29 - Auckland Diocese Mosgiel, 9024. Email: [email protected] Copy deadline for next issue: 30 June Please help us by adhering to this deadline! 2 3 From our President Editor’s Notes Dear Friends Easter is over, Jesus has risen and Pentecost will soon be upon us – the Where has this year gone? It is hard to time when the Holy Spirit entered the believe that we are nearly half way through lives of the followers of Jesus. As I read yet another year. At our March NZ AAW through the articles for this magazine Executive meeting, which we held at the I was struck by the fact that most Conference Centre at Wellington Airport, are about new beginnings. Annual along with all the usual business we had meetings have taken place and new a discussion on the Future of AAW. The committees have been installed ready results from this discussion can be found to become involved in their groups and further on in this magazine. Please give a communities. May the gift of the Holy lot of thought to these. We hope AAW will Spirit be among us. grow from now on. Our sisters in the Pacific had just We have a new Provincial President for 2016 – 2019. She begun trying to resume some sort of normality after cyclone Winston will introduce herself in the August Circle Magazine. It is diffi- devastated their homes, families and cult to believe that my three year term in this office is nearly livelihoods when today cyclone Zena over. By the time you read this I will have made my visit to the caused more disruption to their lives. Nelson Diocese. I am to speak after their AGM and again at an Fiji has been particularly hard hit (but Area Day in Nelson and in Greymouth. I am looking forward to it is not alone) other Pacific nations meeting the AAW ladies in this part of the country. have been caught in the wake of these One thing I have had to do has been to apply for my first ever two cyclones. Our sisters and their New Zealand Passport because I, along with 13 other ladies from families need our prayers as well as throughout the country, am heading over to meet the ladies in our practical help. What can we do Tonga in July. to help? There is a need for financial Whilst I do not have too much to report this time round, help, for food, clothing and shelter. As come the August Circle I will have quite a bit to write about. we thank God for the gifts we have Pentecost Banner, St Luke’s Church, Mosgiel received may we remember to share Take care as winter approaches. those gifts with others. Margaret Greetings Marjorie 4 5 Future of AAW Social Concerns Future of AAW Questionnaire ‘Slipping the Moorings’ is a memoir lies and at work. It also means there by Bishop Richard Randerson, which are fewer volunteers and thus models weaves together faith, justice, ethics of volunteering. Negative forces also At our last meeting, your Exec was and doing the Minutes etc at the end. and community. As Rod Oram notes, include big companies and banks heartened members wish the AAW Give enthusiastic reports on Over- Bishop ‘Richard has been in the thick making meeting financial commit- to continue as a vital part of the seas & Outreach and Social Concerns of many … defining battles ... His ments harder and sometimes requiring church’s mission. at meetings. Choose an item and make memoir is not just the story of one workers to live away from their work it memorable! man’s work in Church and Society communities to stop local involvement We discussed the way forward for Encourage each other in outward through decades of turbulent change. and also the attitude of the media in groups and came up with some sugges- facing activities – group to group, as It is a font of wisdom and practical beating up negative stories. tions: well as O&O and Social Concerns. advice for those seeking God’s help We considered how the Church is Make sure the parish knows Ask people personally – not every- today on society’s even greater chal- having/ can have a say in all this? One about AAW - share snippets of what’s one will want to join but don’t be put lenges.’ As you can imagine, ‘Slipping parish is planning a forum on local happening in our own groups or the off – try someone else. the Moorings’ makes excellent reading issues with an article to be written. wider organisation at notice time Wear your AAW badge – this can and is full of the challenge of making Another had a service for the start of at services for example. be a conversation starter. Have a sure the Church has ‘a voice in the the farming year, which acknowledged Be enthusiastic about the Aims positive response ready, if someone public square.’ the hardness of the times. Parishes when speaking with parish members. asks about the badge e.g. ‹We support At a workshop run in connection and individuals are involved in a wide Get something positive about women and children, clean water, with the book, Bishop Richard led array of social programmes to support AAW on the parish website to publi- anti-violence against women , school discussions aimed at renewing the people from birth onwards. cise activities and to help younger lunches› – something you know AAW momentum gained by Richard Davis’s Bishop Richard drew our attention to women to catch the vision. Then they supports either as a whole or in your 2014 report ‘Making a Difference’. We some resources we could use. ‘Reach- can decide their own approach to AAW own group. discussed the current social issues in ing Out in Loving Service – Not Rocket and activities. See if you can get something inter- our own area, which will be famil- Science’ is a tool (from Perth) to assist Be open when sharing re AAW esting in your local paper – e.g. Tongan iar across much of the country: the building links. It encourages parishes Projects/involvement to parish, on own water tanks, school lunches etc etc. downturn that has affected the farming to look at their resources (human and face book pages, Charter face book, Plan ahead – have a good speaker community and the flow-on effects of physical) and current ministries; then AAW face book etc. and invite others to come along – that in loss to communities, mental to look at what the unmet needs of the Put the emphasis and energy on the make them welcome. local community are and, in consulta- main event at meetings – put business We’re a dynamic, relevant and ef- health, loss of jobs and lack of stabil- matters to the edge. It can be effective fective organisation - let’s tell the ity – some local schools have a 30-40% tion with others, to design projects leading off with your speaker or activity world! turnover of students each year. Stress that will use the Church’s resources is bad for relationships, both in fami- to the best effect. He commented that the Church tends to be very good at 6 7 SOCIAL CONCERNS CONTINUED Overseas and Outreach providing social services for people on every measure from life expectancy Greetings to all members. I trust this A mere drop in the bucket in terms and we do need food banks, transport to trust, from social mobility to impris- finds you warm and well as winter of their need, but at least I did what I for people, drop-in centres and the onment. New Zealand used to pride approaches. Our Mission Partners could. like. There are also other possibilities itself on being egalitarian but is now live in places where the climate is very And they all, hospital patients and and ways of working that both help quite low in the world list.
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