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First Church of Otago Newsletter FIRST CHURCH OF OTAGO - WHAT’S ON DURING FEBRUARY 2012 FIRST CHURCH OF OTAGO SUNDAY SERVICES FOR FEBRUARY 2012 WEEKLY EVENTS 415 Moray Place, Dunedin Mondays 1.30pm Mah Jong - McLean Room Thursdays 7.30pm Bells Practice SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5 Fridays 6pm Youth Group Burns Hall NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2012 10.00am - Morning Worship - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph 12noon - Cook Islands Service - The Reverend Anne Thomson FIRST CHURCH MISSION STATEMENT 2.00pm - Samoan Service - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph We are striving to become a truly multi-cultural community, providing a warm, creative and affirming home “ 10 WHAT’S ON DURING FBRUARY base, enabling us to reach out with the Good News to those working and living in the inner- am DUTIES: : Nineva Vaitupu (455 3375), Les and Maureen city and beyond.” Green, .La Faatoese Finance: Les Green Thurs 2 9.30am Craft group starts for year TEA:COFFEE: Maureen and Les Green TUES 7 4.30pm Property Committee Message from The Reverend Tokerau Joseph WED 8 6.00pm SESSION SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12 Mon 13 4.30pm Finance Committee 10.00am - Morning Worship The Reverend Tokerau Joseph WED 15 7.30pm DEACONS COURT 12noon - Cook Islands - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph Thurs 16 9.30am Craft group meets Hello! Kia orana! Talofa lava! Taloha ni! Praise God for 2012! 2.00pm - Samoan Service - The Reverend Anne Thomson 10am DUTIES: Brian Williscroft. Noeleen Williscroft , Isobel I hope you have had a great Christmas and New Year season. The build-up to Christmas was exciting, Napper, and Lex Campbell Finance: Joyce Dyer especially with our Carols for Kids and the Christmas Eve services. I think attendance to our Carol for Kids TEA:COFFEE: Patricia and Marion Wylie was the largest yet and it was great to see everyone so excited and enthusiastic to participate in the service. MEN'S BIBLE STUDY GROUP I would like to acknowledge with gratitude those who helped with decorations and making sure that every- SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19 thing went smoothly. The Christmas day service saw numerous visitors from overseas share in our worship 10.00am -Morning Worship - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph Any men interested in being 12noon Cook Islands - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph part of a men's Bible study and it was uplifting to hear very positive comments of their experience with us. Our New Years Eve service 2.00pm - Samoan Service - The Reverend Tokerau Joseph group to study the New continued to indicate a growing interest from people who recognise the significant transition of their life from 10am DUTIES: Ian Mitchell, ( 471 0335) Margaret Mitchell, June Testament are warmly invited 2011 into 2012. By writing some of their negative experiences of 2011 on a piece of paper and then throwing Evans., Ben Bates Finance: Margaret Mitchell to join a new group. being it into a rubbish bin place next to the cross at the front of the church was a very powerful symbolic act that TEA/COFFEE : John Takacs and Isobel Napper started. helped them leave behind the negative burdens of 2011. Some commented how liberating it felt for them, but it reminds us all of God‟s grace and forgiveness in our life through Jesus Christ. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 10.00am -Morning Worship The Reverend Anne Thomson The prayer week services of our Cook Islanders‟ group during the first week of the new year also continued 12noon - Cook Islands ` - V Hosking Contact Andrew Lewis (022 064 3805) for infor- the theme of how God works in our life. Following the Scripture Union daily reading the overarching theme of 2.00pm - Samoan Service - S Faatoese mation on dates and venue. The timing of the 10am DUTIES: Ian Robertson ( 454 4513) Jenni Elmes, Fred and meeting will depend on the availability of those “The Word of God” set the platform for focusing on different aspects of the word of God for each day of the week. The services were well attended despite some of our community being away for the holidays and it Rhoda Bridger Finance: Tony Stevely involved – probably afternoon or early evening. TEA/COFFEE: Isobel Napper and Florence Wilson was very encouraging to have had non-Cook Islanders participate and share their thoughts on the topic and questions for each day. It was especially exciting to hear how the services enabled our young people to continue discussions in their homes afterwards. Already I have witnessed encouraging signs within my own family. Thanks be to God. Speaking of family, during the Christmas and New Year period, the manse was a hive of activity. Since our summer weather was exceptional we had family members from the Cook Islands, Australia and Auckland who wanted to holiday with us here in Dunedin (where else?). St. Clair beach, Moana Pools and Doctor‟s Point were the usual places to hang out. We pitched up a tent on the back lawn where the boys could annoy the birds and insects with their snoring. Volleyball net was also set up and with the long daylight hours, friends coming around, and high energy levels it sometimes meant games going on longer than we would have liked. Despite the chaos and noise at times, it was great to have a sense that the manse was alive and able to make noise rather than always having to hear it from the outside. On a bitter-sweet note, our son Emmanuel has left for Auckland for a new employment opportunity and we wish him well for that. No doubt he will have to return home at some point because since losing a bet with me on an NFL game, he has to help lead a service with me here at First Church. Let‟s hope his return is sooner rather than later, even if for a visit. Now back on board with work, I‟m looking forward to our journey together in Carols for Kids 2012. Sometimes it‟s much easier to go through the motions and do the things Service 5.30pm we‟ve always done before. Those things have been great and we need to December 24 2011 acknowledge that, but I think we also need some new things to challenge us so photo R Duff that we do not get too comfortable with what we‟ve been used to. I wonder if we could consider how we might do mission differently this year. Sometimes it‟s much safer to do things based on worship services, but mission can also take different forms. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts and hopefully we can SENIOR MINISTER: The Reverend Tokerau Joseph, phone 477 7792 cell 027 371 4733 discern together a creative and relevant way of sharing the good news of Christ to our PART TIME ASSISTANT MINISTER: The Reverend Anne Thomson 477 7150 cell 027 467 5488 community. PART TIME PASTORAL ASSISTANT MINISTER : The Rev John Sinclair (473 9950 or 027 436 9204) FIRST CHURCH BELL RINGERS - Practice 7.30pm Monday and Thursday nights; Thank you and God bless. Tokerau MESSSAGE FROM THE REVEREND ANNE THOMSON LECTIONARY READINGS FOR FEBRUARY Dear First Church folk At the 10 am and 2pm services, we follow the Revised Common Lectionary. This year is the Year of Mark, and the Gospel readings come mainly from Mark. The Tia is used at the 12 o'clock service, and this year the Sunday readings are going consecutively through the The new school year begins. Time for parents to be checking out how much their child has Psalms. grown –after the holidays a growing child often can't go back to school in last year's clothes, toes cramped in last year's shoes. Sometimes that simply means buying the next Revised Common Lectionary Te Tia size up. But there are the times when everything changes - going to a new school in the February 5 Isaiah 40: 21-31 Salamo 6 new year, and needing a whole different set of clothes, a new uniform to go with the new Epiphany 5 Psalm 147:1-11, 20c school. 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1: 29-39 Paul talks about changing clothes: February 12 2 Kings 5:1-14 Salamo 7 Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Epiphany 6 Psalm 30 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, Mark 1: 40-45 religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ. February 19 Is 43: 18-25 or 2 Kings 2:1-12 Salamo 8 So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, Epiphany 7 Psalm 41 or Psalm 50: 1-6 kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to for- or Transfiguration 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 or 2 Corinthians 4: 3-6 give an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what Mark 2: 1-12 or Mark 9: 2-9 else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it. LENT (Colossians 3:10-14 The Message) February 26 Genesis 9: 8-17 Salamo 9 Lent 1 Psalm 25: 1-10 As the people of God we have a different uniform, because we are at a different school, learning new skills 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1: 9-15 and lessons, learning to live as God's people.
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