Newsletter of Knox Church, Dunedin September quarter, 2018 . Number 315
Minister’s letter Dear friends, Simone Weil was a brilliant 20 th century French thinker and mystic. In her spiritual autobiography Waiting for God , Weil describes how she had received various promptings through her life. As her physical health failed, she went through what she called a period of wretchedness. Here is Weil’s description of one such incident. “I entered the little Portuguese village, which, alas, was very wretched too, on the very day of its patronal festival. I was alone. It was the evening and there was a full moon. It was by the sea. !e wives of the #shermen were going in procession to [make] a tour of all the ships, carrying candles and singing what must certainly be very ancient hymns of heart-wrenching sadness. Nothing can give any idea of it…. !ere the conviction was suddenly borne in upon me that Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of slaves, that slaves cannot help belonging to it, and I point them to God. I believe these spiritual among others.” encounters come to us in ways as diverse as people. C.S. Lewis called these intense moments Often, it involves being drawn to something “Joy”. His #rst encounter came as a small boy, more — deeper, spacious, enduring. For some #lled with a sense of wonder at a toy moss people, it has led to questions about how they garden, and then are living or what they later, a sudden are giving themselves remembrance of to. the event prompted Knox News Knox In busy or noisy lives, it by the beauty of a is easy to miss a $eeting $owering currant awareness, a sense of bush. And just as “Other”, or to put suddenly as Joy had such feelings aside as come, it left him. It unwelcome intrusions. was a reminder, he I believe, however, these said, of the world can enable us to grow that lay beyond him, as human beings — to a “bright shadow”, open us out, to deepen an “enormous bliss” our joy, to extend our or “holiness” just out love, to remind us of of reach. the Spirit from which People often speak life is most fully lived. to me of times in I pray we make room for such prompting, give Man hands make their lives when they become especially aware it space, let it guide us. lights work: Page 4 of hints or feelings that deepen their faith and With thanks, Kerry Council Report: Time to Take Stock As we complete the #nancial year and move towards the annual general meeting, there is opportunity for us to take stock. We review our #nances, the things we planned doing and what we actually did; what worked well, what was not quite so successful. But annual meetings and reports are not just a time to re$ect, or pat ourselves on the back; they are a time to look ahead and reset our focus. So, what about the future? As we said in our last newsletter, congregations never stay the same. We are always receiving new life, incorporating new people and making new connections. Knox’s morning congregation in particular changes week by week. We are welcoming new families, couples, individuals to our midst. Week by week, we are becoming a more diverse community — diverse in age, culture and experience of church. To be part of such a group is rather special. for book sales, concerts, art exhibitions are some people in our midst who are Our challenge in addition to ensuring or similar. no longer able to be as active as in the we are #nancially sustainable, past so we need to allow them to step continues to be how we, a community We are grateful for the skills of back. If you would like to be involved following Jesus, make room for those who are working to provide in any way, for a small or greater newcomers, their ideas, skills and activities for many at Knox. We have amount of time or want to know how talents while also giving those who a committed group of Young Adults, you could use your skills, then come have been part of Knox for many years a rejuvenated Youth Group and a and talk with us. the security of sameness, regular events $ourishing Sunday School, a dedicated and observances. It means we all need choir and music group, a study group ur AGM, on Wednesday to be mindful and caring of each other. which meets regularly, a women’s O17 October will be a family We proudly say we are inclusive, Kids group and people who work tirelessly occasion. We will meet for a shared Friendly, but we have to keep working on the council committees, and meal at 6pm, followed by a speaker hard to re$ect that. We have to work at Deacons Court property and #nancial and the business part of the meeting having the traditional aspects of our life management activities. concluding at approximately 9pm. If sit alongside the contemporary aspects. !e challenge of 2019 will be to su&cient numbers warrant it, we will continue to o%er and grow groups/ o%er child minding with suitable post- ecently I heard the organist from networks for young families, those on dinner/pre-bedtime activities. RWells Cathedral in the UK say their own, couples without children, In closing it is only appropriate to that the traditional and contemporary opportunities for those who are record our sadness on the death of some can sit alongside each other — as long housebound, opportunities for those of our community — Peter Matthews, as we accept that they can. In this way, who have gifts they wish to share. Sandra Turner, Patricia Goddard and the church will continue to live and be !ese opportunities will arise from Iris Woods. In their unique and varied relevant to the society of the day. In the activities that are already planned such ways, they contributed much to the same programme Sir Andrew Lloyd as the games and bowls evening, a life of Knox over many years. We also acknowledge the passing of Rev Jim Webber — who has an interest in church retreat, and study groups. church architecture as well as music — Milne, a former assistant minister at Knox. May they rest peacefully, free said churches needed to be accessible Council has the task of providing of pain, and know that they will be for all. !ey shouldn’t lie vacant all leadership. We are but 13 people so remembered with love by many. week being kept pristine for the Sunday we welcome ideas, o%ers of help and services, but open for people to enter feedback. We are mindful that there — Alison Tait, Council Clerk Page 2 News from Deacons Court Repairs and Maintenance !e highlight this month has been the replacement of the lightbulbs in the chandelier and other lighting above the gallery level in the church (photos next page ). !e work was delayed several months by the high demand for the only cherry picker compact enough to #t through the were identi#ed and some, but not all, doors to the church yet big enough to of the sources of leaks in the roof were reach all the lights. All the pews had found. !e opportunity was taken to be unfastened and moved to carry to remove the overhead phone cable out the work. Special thanks to Scott between the Halls and the church, Blackwell, Chris Bloore, Paul Crack, with the help of Matthew Gordon. Marshall Ho%man, Lindsay Miller and Looking Forward Benjamin !ew who helped with the Roo#ng contractors are scheduled pews. to repair the church roof and Repairs and maintenance activities downspouts in the next month or so. continue with repairs to the stove and !e work at the rear of the church hot water systems in the Halls kitchen. to increase the space around the exit !e guttering on the Halls has been to the Gathering Area still has to be cleaned by contractors. Lindsay Miller completed. and Chris Bloore inspected much Further quotes will be obtained to supper and donations have already of the church roof by cherry-picker resurface the $oor in the Herron Hall. raised $4500 and we are con#dent that (pictured ). Guttering was cleared where !e work is expected to cost nearly we can raise the rest of the money. necessary. Damaged or missing slates $6000. !e Fashion Show, City Choir — Chris Bloore
&RPHDQGMRLQXVIRUDKDOIGD\UHWUHDW .QR[5HWUHDW 2XUDLPLVWRFUHDWHDVHQVHRIWRJHWKHUQHVV ZLWKDIRFXVRQ:RUOG&RPPXQLRQ6XQGD\ $OO DJHV ZHOFRPH
/RFDWLRQ /HLWK9DOOH\&KXUFK 0DOYHUQ6WUHHW 'DWH6DWXUGD\ WK6HSWHPEHU 7LPH DPWRSP 0RUQLQJWHDZLOOEHSURYLGHG 3OHDVHEULQJVRPHIRRGIRUDVKDUHGOXQFK :HZLOOVLQJSUD\DQGFUDIWWRJHWKHU )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQSOHDVHFRQWDFW ,I\RXSOD\DQLQVWUXPHQWSOHDVHEULQJLWDORQJWRR /RXLVD6LQFODLU
Page 3 Many Hands Make Lights Work
On Monday and Tuesday, August 13 and 14, a large team led by Chris Bloore replaced many of the blown lightbulbs in the lofty heights of the church, including the chandelier. On Monday, the pews were unbolted from the $oor and on Tuesday, the hydraulic cherry-picker/ lifter hoisted Chris and machine operator Ken about 12m into the air to implant new spring bulbs.
Page 4 Vale Peter Matthews: A Good and Faithful Servant eter Matthews was a careful, neighbouring churches. Knox thorough, conscientious organist, Roy Spackman, Pand organised person with a taught Peter to play the pipe wonderful, quiet sense of humour. organ and so he played for He loved his wife Elizabeth and her regular services, funerals, family. He enjoyed singing, playing the weddings and for broadcast organ and #xing things. He was very services. After Mr Spackman’s fond of border collies. death, Peter #lled in until a And he loved his church. new appointment was made. Peter had a life-long association with In 1967, Peter joined the Knox Church. Session and served until Peter was baptised here on June 4, his hearing began to fail, 1939, by the Reverend John Penman preventing him from from North Merchiston Church in participating in meetings. Edinburgh, with whom the Knox In the 1980s, when people minister had a six-month exchange. experienced #nancial Knox became Peter’s spiritual home di&culties, Peter was part of as it had been for his mother. For an inter-church group to help Peter through the years, that included provide practical assistance. Peter was also a singer. He joined the junior choir at the age of eight and completed 24 years in the adult choir in 1971. He was instrumental in raising funds “In all my years at Knox I felt to restore the vandalised grave of Dr privileged to have met, worked Stuart in the Southern Cemetery. with and worshipped with so many Along with Elizabeth, he helped wonderful people. My one regret was organise the dressing of the church for that I was never asked to preach.” Communion for In falling ill and 14 years. He also facing death, Peter pushed hospital was honest and beds so patients straightforward could attend about what was chapel services, happening to his and collected on body. He was sad, Sunday School, Bible Class, the Cub poppy days and for naturally, and Pack, the Scout Troop, the Seniors hospital chaplaincy. disappointed, but and the Rover Scouts. Camps and he was determined Jamborees and life-long friendships ver recent to live all the days were forged as young people through Oyears, Peter he had. He was the experiences of burnt mince and was assiduous in realistic about cleaning pans after burnt porridge. attending to some death as a natural painting in the transition. or many years, Peter served on Halls, clearing the He did not pretend Fthe Deacons Court including garden and washing all was well. He did as chair of the Works and Grounds window sills and pews, until about not avoid a di&cult Committee. During those years the March this year. He was determined to subject. Nor was there a doleful spirit. old manse was demolished, perhaps rid the Pitt Street hedge of unwelcome Peter was ready to die and there was a not a straightforward decision. In weeds. He just kept on keeping on, gentle prayerful faith-#lled preparation 1956, Knox established a congregation in a conscientious, unpretentious, for it. in Waldronville and Peter was the undemanding way. Although it is still tough, Peter’s organist, also helping at Ross Home I want to quote something Peter wrote, approach made it easier for others, and in Wakari Hospital and in changing the words just slightly: including Elizabeth, including us.
Page 5 Iris Woods: A Spirited Woman of Faith and Kindness Iris, the daughter of George and Eva was not her true or #nal calling. Woods, was born on August 7, 1935 in She went back to live with her parents, Te Awamutu, in the Waikato, North and after doing a few short-term jobs, Island and passed away one day shy of applied to become a deaconess in the her 83 rd birthday. Presbyterian Church — ignoring the While Iris’s father was involved in fact that she was “too young” to apply. the North African campaign during !is was in the days before women World War 2, the family shifted to the ministers were allowed. South Island, the place which would Iris attended Deaconess College in eventually become Iris’s home, and a Dunedin from 1957 to 1959, and was place she loved. ordained a deaconess on December !e family moved around a lot in the 14, 1959. She dedicated many years of early years … [including] Otaio, near her life to serving God, by serving the Waimate, North Otago, where they Church and God’s people. lived in a condemned school house on She worked at the PSSA Eventide the condition that they provided board Home in Ashburton from 1959 to1962. for the teacher. Iris and her brother, After this, she brie$y returned to Lawrence, attended the school which teaching, in Invercargill, and #nally the farm. When Iris reached college had a grand total of 12 students. gained her Primary School Teacher’s age, she $atly refused to attend the When her father came back from the Certi#cate in 1963. local school, and instead went o% to war, he found the South Island a little She served at Milton, part of Putaruru, 25km away. too cold, and so the family moved to the Clutha Presbytery, from 1963 She boarded there, and so at the start Pukeatua, southeast of Hamilton. until 1967, and then was accepted of each week she would cycle from Iris showed her characteristic grit and for missionary work in Papua New home to the bus stop and then catch determination from an early age, not Guinea. a bus to the school… and then do the accepting the domestic role women And so, in June 1967, she travelled to reverse each weekend. and girls were expected to lead at the All Saints Training College, in Sydney, After high school, Iris enrolled at time. When told she couldn’t ride a to prepare for her missionary role. Ardmore Teachers’ Training College. horse, she got on and rode it anyway. She moved to Papua New Guinea in She got her training, and then was sent When told she should stay and help in December of the same year. o% to teach in Reparoa near Rotorua. the home, she went with the men and Iris spent six years working alongside While there she decided that teaching watched what was happening out on villagers in the remote highlands. Vale, Patricia Goddard Patricia Goddard lived at 1015 George who was a market gardener near was not a self-centred person. Street for nearly all of her 70 years. That Port Chalmers. They met through She wanted to serve and for home and garden were the centre of a shared interest in the Social a time helped teach English Patricia’s life, from which she came and Credit Party. as a second language at Aged went, and to which she returned. When George fell ill, Patricia did Concern. It had been the home of her parents Mr her best to care for him. She was She was frustrated with the and Mrs Fitzsimmons. very faithful in visiting him in impact of her illness. Academically capable, Patricia did Ross Home, every day if she could In and out of hospital, the well at school, training afterwards to manage it. He died nearly eight last year of Patricia’s life was become a teacher. She taught at Pine years ago. tough — away from nature, away from Hill School. Later, Patricia picked up her academic home, away from everyday friendships. In her "rst year of teaching, Patricia interest and studied history at the The last few months in particular were became unwell, and spent time at university. very di$cult indeed. Patricia was an Cherry Farm hospital. It marked a major She enjoyed children coming to visit, intelligent person; she knew what was transition in Patricia’s life; it so a#ected and provided them with well-baked happening and did not welcome it. her that she had wanted to write pikelets and omelettes. She greatly She had spirit, although medication about the experience to help others cherished her friends: one made could dull that spirit. understand what it was like there. clothes for her; another chatted about Patricia was a remarkable woman who Eventually, Patricia returned cats and had co#ee with her; another remained thoughtful and engaging for home and nursed her mother through took out the rubbish; one kept her as long and as fully as she could. the "nal years of her mother’s life. Later in touch with Knox Church. Another t&YUSBDUGSPNUIFFVMPHZHJWFOCZ in life Patricia married George Goddard tended her garden for years. Patricia ,FSSZBU1BUSJDJBTGVOFSBMPO+VOF Page 6 Supply ships with goods for the mission She was well educated and well arrived at Port Moresby only twice a read. She loved playing scrabble. She year, so Iris had to ensure the supply regularly attended talks and discussions order was correct — or it was a long at the university, and was interested in wait until the next consignment! To all manner of learning. reach the port, she travelled #rst by Iris also liked to travel, and had dugout canoe and then by Land Rover particularly fond memories of her trips over a very rough track through the to Canada and the United Kingdom, dense bush. especially Scotland. She would also One time, alone, with her vehicle travel all around New Zealand, broken down, two groups of tribesmen often alone, showing a wonderful suddenly emerged from the forest. independent spirit. Within short order, she had them She was indeed, a strong and McKinlay, and Nora Calvert. #xing the truck and she was on her way independent woman. Long before Iris also joined Knox Church at this again. it was widely accepted, she was an time, becoming an elder and serving Iris returned to New Zealand in 1973. advocate for women’s rights, for equal in a variety of roles — always with a By this time, the Presbyterian Church pay, and for an equal role for women in cheerful smile and a readiness to help. in New Zealand had started to allow the church. And she was not shy about Indeed, Iris’s faith continued to support female ministers (the #rst being in speaking her mind when the need and guide her, and she continued to 1965), and so following this calling, Iris arose. love and serve others for the rest of her was ordained as a minister of word and On the other hand, she was kind and life. She was a member of the APW, sacrament in Tahunanui Nelson, on 26 always caring. kept in close contact with her church, May 1977. In her last years, Iris moved to and continued visiting and caring for She went on to minister to Redroofs care home in 2016, and then people, conducting funerals, and acting communities in Maniototo, in 1982, #nally to St Andrew’s in May this year. as a chaplain long after she o&cially and then Lyttelton, in 1990. Iris was a loving sister, aunt, great aunt, retired. She retired and was granted the status deaconess, minister, and friend. She was also many other things. Her of Minister Emerita in 1992. She will be missed by many, and she family was very important to her, as After her retirement, Iris moved to will also leave many with a wealth and were her friends. a unit on George Street, Dunedin, abundance of happy memories. She was a very social person, and loved right next door to three good friends &YUSBDUGSPNUIFFVMPHZHJWFOCZ eating, going on outings, and just and colleagues, Bob Paterson, Judith 3FW.BY8IJUUBLFS spending time with those close to her. An Appreciation of a Trailblazing Sister By Rev Rachel Judge Milton, Papua New Guinea, the Rev Yvonne Smith (another Tahunanui, the Maniototo, and in woman minister and recent Knox Iris Wood was a trailblazer who Lyttleton, (and in her 26 years at member!) heard the word “no” as a challenge. Knox Church when retired), Iris I’m aware that the ’80s were not She and other women ministers served diligently in her Presbytery, an easy time for the farming of the PCANZ ordained in the taking up with enthusiasm the community, but Iris faced the 1960s and ’70s were ground- roles that were asked of her. challenges of this time along with breakers, who blessed the church Iris loved a party, and I have the people of the Maniototo. in signi!cant ways with their warm memories of her enjoying Iris was remembered by this ministry but who also had to cope the fellowship and stories at the community as hard-working, easy with initial resistance to their celebrations for both the 40 th to relate to, ‘no-nonsense’ in her ministry. and the 50 th anniversaries of the approach, and as a preacher who Iris was a woman of courage, good ordination of women as ministers made the Bible come alive, using humour and fortitude, so these in the PCANZ, in 2005 and 2015 language they understood. $ey early reactions didn’t faze her. I know more of Iris’s ministry in appreciated the long distances she Wherever she served, as deaconess the Maniototo in the ’80s, as my drove to lead worship and o%er or parish minister, Ashburton, husband Alan and I served in the pastoral care, in ordinary times Maniototo, later on, following and in times of crisis.
Page 7 Obituary: Rev Jim Milne Former assistant minister to 2 February 1965. He then of Minister Emeritus by Knox Church, the Rev Jim accepted a call to St Columba presbytery on 31 March Milne, QSM, LLM, died in Tauranga, part of the Bay 1993. Jim also served the recently at his home at Wattle of Plenty Presbytery, on 25 Council of Assembly as a Downs, Auckland. February 1969. Regional Advisor, and on the Born on 18 April 1928, Jim Jim was appointed Director Administration and Policy attended the !eological Hall of PSSA (now Presbyterian Group. Dunedin from 1962 to 1964. Support Services) in A funeral for Jim was He was ordained and Auckland on 6 February held at St Andrew’s First inducted as an assistant at 1975. Presbyterian Church, Knox Church, Dunedin, on He was granted the status Auckland, on 14 August. A Stitch in Time
:HOFRPHWRDVHULHVRIDUWLFOHV DERXWLWHPVRIKLVWRULFDOLQWHUHVW DW.QR[&KXUFK7RGD\VRPH ZRQGHUIXOQHHGOHZRUN ehind everything is a story. In this Bcase, two embroidered cushions, where countless couples have knelt to receive their wedding blessings over the past 50 years (and now reside around the communion table). Who embroidered them? Whose hands stitched every stitch with care? While there, Valerie noted the cushion has stood the test of time. Valerie Wilson and the late Miss embroidery work which Miss “I think, ‘Gosh, I did that, and there Ambridge. Ambridge had done. doesn’t even seem to be a mistake! “Miss Ambridge did a lot for the “She asked me if I would help her And the colours have not faded. It’s church. Many of the older folk at embroider a cushion for the church. worn really well’.” Knox will remember her,” recalls I was delighted! I’d always wanted An act of faith and service, in every Valerie. to do a tapestry, like the Victorian stitch. Miss Ambridge was the housekeeper ladies with their looms. I didn’t have for a lady, a Miss Stevenson, whose children then, so I had the time. I got t*GZPVIBWFBOZTUPSJFTCFIJOEJUFNT home was later donated to the a lot of enjoyment out of that.” PGJOUFSFTUJOUIF$IVSDI University. One time, the choir — Miss Ambridge bought the wool MFU+JMM3VUIFSGPSELOPX in which both Valerie and husband and the pattern, and the two women 8FQMBOPOQSJOUJOHBSFHVMBS Gerald sang (Gerald for almost began their work. DPMVNOJO,OPY/FXTJGXFDBO BT 60 years) — were invited to Miss More than 50 years later, Valerie BXBZPGQBTTJOHPOTPNFPGUIF Stevenson’s home. is impressed by how well her own IJTUPSZUPPVSZPVOHFSHFOFSBUJPOT Page 8 Vale, Sandra Turner Sandra Turner, right , respected 1999. Faith was important to psychotherapist, caring friend, her, but she admitted it was “an “sassy” wife and mum, woman evolving process” in a 2011 ODT of faith, died recently after long article on her book To Rakiura living with cancer. and Beyond. On the pastoral roll at Knox for Psychotherapist, many years, Sandra was known psychodramatist, psychiatric for the comfort and counsel she nurse, Sandra had her own gave people as they struggled practice for many years, was with di&culties. Until recently, involved in professional bodies, she led a Living the Journey and supervised and mentored group which met once a month many in her #eld. at Knox, o%ering support to Sandra’s book about living with those living with cancer. an incurable illness o%ered She was remembered at her comfort and courage to others funeral service by Ran, her treading the same path. husband of 43 years, as “sassy”, Lyndell Kelly said Sandra was a “dynamic woman who moved by the image of Jesus was fun, cheeky, intelligent, “turning his face towards generous, and with a wonderful Jerusalem”, knowing his death wonderful generosity of spirit. You ability to gather people” around her. awaited him there. embraced life with all its kaleidoscope “We have walked through this life “!at is how Sandra faced and of colours.” together,” he said. “You have given me handled her own decline, with wisdom, Sandra earned a Diploma for a life of riches, of loving and challenges. courage and amazing strength. It was a Graduates in !eology from Otago in Of community, of celebration and rare honour to know her.” Cheerio, Jonathan ,OPY:PVOH"EVMUTHSPVQGBSFXFMMFEMPOHUFSNNFNCFS BOEWJTJUPSGSPN8BMFT +POBUIBO8JMTPO QJDUVSFE BUMFGU XJUIMVODIBU(PWFSOPST$BGFSFDFOUMZ+POBUIBOIBECFFO TUVEZJOHIPSUJDVMUVSFBU0UBHP1PMZUFDIBOEXPSLJOHBU %VOFEJO#PUBOJD(BSEFO/PXIFIBTHPOFUP&EJOCVSHI 4DPUMBOE UPöOJTIIJTEFHSFFUIFSF8FMMNJTTIJTMPWFMZ 8FMTIBDDFOUBOEXPOEFSGVMQSBZFST Eat, Pray, Sing at the Knox Retreat I would like to personally invite you We will sing, pray and do craft to our Knox Retreat at the end of together. If you play an instrument September. Our aim is to create a please bring it along, too. sense of togetherness through spending We have chosen Leith Valley Church time with each other outside of as our location to take us o% site from Sunday worship. !e half-day retreat Knox but still handy for everyone to will include music, prayer and art, attend. !e location is child-friendly, with a theme of planning for World with a lovely outdoor space including a Communion Sunday the following small playground. week. I would like to thank the team of Location — Leith Valley Church, Jordan, Sara, Jack, Mavis, Angie, 267 Malvern Street (see map, right ) Warren and Marita for their time in Date — Saturday 29th September preparing the retreat. Time — 9am to 1pm So, save the date and come and join us! Morning tea will be provided but please For more information please contact me, bring some food for a shared lunch. Louisa Sinclair, at 021 031 6131 .
Page 9 Diva delights audience at Knox concert
!e superb Auckland-based singer Tami Neilson played a packed-out Knox concert on Saturday, July 28, with her backing band. !e concert was moved to Knox, after originally being booked for the Glenroy, to avoid clashing with a sell-out rock concert at the Town Hall.
Knox Choir members off to Berlin Karen Knudson will lead a party of 11 Knox Church singers and supporters heading to Berlin, Germany for a massed choir performance of Karl Jenkins’ "e Armed Man: A Mass for Peace on November 2. !e singers will join a choir of 3000 singers from 26 countries under the baton of the Welsh composer, Sir Karl Jenkins, to celebrate the centenary of the end of hostilities in World War I in 1918. Knox Choir singers Jesse Hanan, Grace Togneri, Jill Rutherford, Geo% Swift and Karen will leave Dunedin at the end of October to arrive in Berlin for the rehearsals for the concert, which also incorporates specially made #lms. !e not-for-pro#t concert will be held at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, right , a multipurpose indoor arena built in 2008, which seats 17,000. A television #lm will be made of the event. Most of the Knox singers and supporters will return in time for the start of carol services in mid-November.
Page 10 Knox Church diary Choir practice: Each Wednesday during school terms: 5.15pm-6.30pm (children), 6pm-8pm (adults). All welcome to audition. Knox Church Council: Fourth Wednesday of the month, 7.30pm. Deacons Court: Second Wednesday of each month, at 7pm. Sunday 26 August 10am Pentecost 14 7pm Worship Sunday 2 September 10am Pentecost 15. Creation: Planet Earth / Father’s Day 7pm Worship: Brendon Macrae Sunday 9 September 10am Pentecost 16. Quarterly Communion. Creation: Humanity 7pm Worship: Quarterly Communion Sunday 16 September 10am Pentecost 17. Creation: Sky. Su#rage Day (September 19 is the 125th 7pm anniversary of women’s su#rage in New Zealand. On 19 September 1893, NZ women won the right to vote, the "rst self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.) Sunday 23 September 10am Pentecost 18. Creation: Mountain 7pm Worship School holidays: start Friday 28 September until Monday Note: 15 October. University Semester 2 resumes 3 September. Sunday 30 September 10am Pentecost 19. Creation: Blessing of the Animals. DAYLIGHT SAVING STARTS! 7pm Worship Sunday 7 October 10am Pentecost 20. World Communion Sunday: Jordan Redding 7pm Worship: Jordan Redding Sunday 14 October 10am Pentecost 21 7pm Worship Wednesday 17 October University 2nd semester exams commence Sunday 21 October 10am Pentecost 22. Week of prayer for World Peace (3rd-4th weeks October) / Industrial Sunday. Ross Home Centennial Service 7pm Worship Monday 22 October Labour Day public holiday. Church o"ce will be closed. Sunday 28 October 10am Pentecost 23. Reformers of the Church 7pm Worship Sunday 4 November 10am All Saints 7pm Worship Saturday 10 November End of University 2nd semester exams Sunday 11 November 10am Pentecost 25 7pm Worship Sunday 18 November 10am Pentecost 26 7pm Worship Sunday 25 November 10am Sunday of Christ the King 7pm Worship Sunday 2 December 10am Advent 7pm Worship Sunday 9 December 10am Advent 2. Quarterly Communion 7pm Worship. Quarterly Communion 18-20 December Christmas holidays start. Christmas falls on Tuesday 25 December this year, so the midnight Christmas Eve service will be held on Monday, 24 December. Schools start back again in 2019 between Monday 28 January and Thursday 7 February. Services will continue at Knox throughout January.
Page 11 Kirk and Academy: Knox Church and the University By Peter Matheson
“We think it expedient that in ev- erie notable town … be erected a ĐŽůůĞĚŐĞŝŶǁŚŝĐŚƚŚĞĂƌƟƐ͕ĂƚůĞĂƐƚ ůŽŐŝĐŬĂŶĚƌŚĞƚŽƌŝĐ͕ƚŽŐĞĚĚĞƌǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞƚŽƵŶŐƐŝƐ͕ďĞƌĞĂĚďLJƐƵĸĐŝĞŶƚ ŵĂŝƐƚĞƌŝƐ͙͘͟ — John Knox, First Book of Discipline (1560)
ext year will see the 150 th anniversary of the University Nof Otago. !e fact that it was the #rst-o%-the- blocks in New Zealand has quite a bit to do with the courage of our Presbyterian forebears, and no doubt we’ll be remembering that at the anniversary service to be held here in mutually bene#cial one. !e values the and the university so closely together? Knox Church next year. academic community lived by often To understand this, we need to look I’m beginning to write up the story came from the Knox pulpit, as did the wider a#eld. of our relationship at Knox to the prophetic critique when things went For starters, Dunedin was settled university over the years, and would amiss. In the sleepy 1950s, for example, predominantly by Scots for whom be most grateful for any memories or Jim Matheson startled folk with his church and university, secular and thoughts members of the congregation nuclear paci#sm. religious education, were assumed to might have. From the early years of the province, be complementary. Education and Knox Church and the University Clock University Council and Knox Session literacy were highly valued in Scottish Tower, quite close neighbours, are were close partners, though looking society, as was a rough egalitarianism, among the signi#cant identity markers back from the 21 st century we have to with parish schools educating young architecturally for the life and culture remind ourselves that Knox Church Scots regardless of standing. Folk were of Dunedin. was far more prominent in numbers expected to be able to read their Bible! and in in$uence at that time. !is enlightened attitude towards enerations of students had one By 1861 it had seats for 900 and was learning was soon felt in the new Gfoot in the lecture rooms of the regarded as the most prosperous church colony. university and the other in Knox, as in the colony. Its o&ce bearers played is true of many of their professors and a key role in civic and business life, For Stuart, New Zealand should be a lecturers. and its dynamic and popular minister, “a home of religion and happiness: a Knox Church, of course, has shared Rev Dr Donald Stuart, personi#ed the community of high resolves and strong this privilege with many other churches emergent culture of the go-ahead new purposes”. and has been happy to co-operate community that was Dunedin. His vision found a receptive audience with them and with the ecumenical in the citizens of early Dunedin. For chaplains over the years. But if Knox was a dominant force the most part young and energetic, Chancellors and vice-chancellors were at the time, the university was a they were an ambitious lot – as a often members or even ministers of struggling infant. When classes visit to Toitu Museum reminds us Knox (Rev David Herron, for example, opened in July 1871, only 81 students today. !ere was a hunger for self- served as chancellor for 10 years). enrolled. Yet clearly the church had improvement. Intellectual and spiritual dimensions faith in this $edgling institution for it !e #rst meeting of Dunedin thus complemented one another. !at invested both time and money into the Presbytery in 1854 committed itself was not only the ideal, it often took venture: Stuart sat on its council, and to establishing a broad and liberal shape in the teaching and in$uence of Knox funded a £30 scholarship over education system, “liberal” meaning sta% and the later life of students. three years for one of its promising but the classics, mathematics, the mental !us, the relationship between Knox impoverished students. and the university was frequently a What was it, then, that bound Knox &RQWLQXHVRQ3DJH
Page 12 Poem: &RQWLQXHVIURP3DJH A Gift from God and physical sciences, and "e trees so green, the sky so blue languages. Knox Church Water on the leaves called dew itself was at the forefront of "e sea that waves each time you pass championing high schools "e shining, breathing, swishing grass for boys and girls. All of this is a gift from God For us in Knox Church It should be admired and be so awed today, as students begin But if you dare pollute this land to $ow back in sizeable And if you kill it although unplanned numbers to our services, "e result will be so devastating adding their own distinctive So much you can’t start demonstrating contribution to our So, care and care and care some more congregational life, it’s not Until you #nd the perfect cure just a matter of looking back Heal the ground, the grass, the trees to the past. Bring back the river and open the seas We are surely conscious of "is is what only you can do how many of our members So here’s a tiny little clue have had, and still do Go and plant some trees and $owers exercise a distinguished role And after maybe a thousand hours in the university as lecturers, Joy will come and #ll your heart researchers, surgeons, So that you can never part professors, deans, Vice- With this amazing land of green Chancellors and Chancellors. Where pollution can never be seen. CARE FOR THE WORLD t’s been two-way tra&c. !e university has fed us, I York. #Z-VDZ,JN ZFBSTPME and we have resourced it with people, “A few years later this group became /PSUI4IPSF,PSFBO$IVSDI ideas, challenges. After all, Knox has the Dunedin Abrahamic Interfaith always been a rich mix of folk, many Group, which still meets monthly. of them with very di%erent priorities !e minister of Knox Church from those of the academic world. therefore took a prophetic initiative It’s good for the university to be which has had ongoing bene#ts reminded of that! Academics all too for our world in terms of building often have a blinkered view of the respect between people of di%erent world. faiths, and working together for Our Gospel, too, can be — as St peace and justice in Dunedin and in Paul reminds us — folly to the our world.” wise. Our prophetic tradition, going back to ancient Israel, is not easily here are huge issues here, accommodated by the Academy. Not Tsummed up in the phrase infrequently our leaders in Knox, “Christ and Culture”. Currently, lay and clerical, have spoken out in a some of our best theologians argue way some academics #nd disquieting. that the church should represent a counter-cultural option. Currently, niversity chaplain, Greg too, some of our worst church leaders UHughson recollects one take up an anti-intellectual stance. such example: “A few days after !e thin gruel o%ered in so many September 11th 2001, (then Knox church services up and down the Church minister) David Grant country testi#es to the barrenness of "anks to the sta# of Governor’s Cafe, contacted me and suggested we bring that particular option. George Street, who passed on this artwork together local Jewish, Christian and So maybe a healthy tension between on a napkin from one of their customers. It Muslim leaders to support each other Church and Academy is the best is a sketch of Knox Church, drawn from the — especially the Muslim community option. !at, at least, is Peter window of Governor’s. "e unnamed artist — in the aftermath of 9/11 in New Matheson’s view, so it can’t possibly apparently liked what he saw.
Page 13 A life in Mission: Pakistan, Kenya and Kiribati #Z.ZSUMFBOE+PIO3PVHI
“The country of God is not narrow. And my foot is not lame.” "O6SEV couplet
yrtle was born and brought up Mon a farm in County Down, Northern Ireland, near the town of Newtownards. Her home church was First Newtownards (Presbyterian Church of N. Ireland). John, born in Dumbarton, grew up in St Monan’s, a small #shing and boat-building village in Fife, Scotland. His home church was the historic St Monan’s Kirk, built on for the next two years. We didn’t see been rare — and sometimes very costly. the rocky shore of Firth of Forth in the home and overseas mission as di%erent On a personal level, however, we 14 th century. in essence, just in context. For Myrtle, enjoyed good relations, hospitality, For both of us, growing up in cycling through the city to her work kindness and friendship, especially Christian families, actively involved at the Christian hospital (teaching with our Muslim colleagues (about 50 in our churches and other groups such English to trainee nurses and assisting per cent of the sta%) and many of the as the Student Christian Movement the American missionary doctor students. We made a tentative attempt and Scripture Union had a powerful with administration) was often not a to engage in a Muslim-Christian in$uence on our life choices. pleasant experience. For a man, it was dialogue with our sta%. One of our Myrtle was inspired by a talk at the much less threatening! own best and happiest experiences of Girls’ Auxiliary to become a deaconess, For both of us, however, these years one-ness and close camaraderie was her main motive being to reach out to in Pakistan were a rich experience of a live-in workshop/camp in the hill people. living in and learning about a di%erent country, where a group of Christian John had a life- but fascinating culture, and Muslim sta% were introduced to changing experience of experiencing Christian group dynamics by a Dutch professor. of a year teaching fellowship and warm in Pakistan (VSO- friendships with people of all fter two years back in Scotland, British equivalent). He nationalities, races, religions Aour next overseas assignment was recognised a need and a and theology. teaching in government schools in post- way to use his training A major insight was into independence Kenya, #rst at Kapsabet and gifts. what it is like to live as a Boys’ High School in Nandi District, We met at St Colm’s tiny, insecure and sometimes and then at Alliance Girls’ High School College in Edinburgh threatened Christian minority in the small town of Kikuyu near where Myrtle trained in a country that is not only Nairobi. as a deaconess and overwhelmingly Muslim It was lucky that we happened to be John as a missionary. As it was a numerically, but also de#nes its committed Christians at Kapsabet residential college, we could say we national identity as being Muslim. We as John found he was in charge not lived together! Near the end of the year, were impressed with the courage and just of English but also Bible teaching we got engaged, but because of our steadfastness of local Christians, many (also an exam subject). He acquired an commitments, had to endure two years’ poor and uneducated — historically, intimate knowledge of the Synoptic separation. With no Skype or Facetime many are from a low caste background. Gospels which proved very useful later! or even phone contact, the little blue Christian schools, colleges and !e boys of the Christian Union were aerogrammes were our lifeline! hospitals have made a signi#cant running Sunday morning services by Myrtle worked as a parish deaconess contribution to the life, education and themselves and, as advisors, we were and then at Friendship House, a drop- health of the nation, but it’s a service able to steer them away from some in centre in a deprived area of Belfast. not often publicly acknowledged. In “wacky” self-styled evangelists to more John learnt Urdu and lectured at fact, public expressions of support and orthodox practices. Unlike Pakistan, Murray College in Sialkot, Pakistan. reassurance of safety from threats, and After marriage, Myrtle joined John safeguarding rights of minorities have &RQWLQXHVRQ3DJH Page 14 A life in Mission: Pakistan, Kenya and Kiribati &RQWLQXHVIURP3DJH Kenya was and is a predominately Christian country. But Kenyan Christians had to struggle against a common perception, that Christianity was a handmaid of colonialism, and so to be truly African it had to be rejected. One response to this was an explosion of home-grown African independent churches — very de#nitely African but also very eccentrically Christian. !e mainline churches sought to #nd an African identity without abandoning orthodox teaching. In contrast to our experience in Pakistan, we found Kenyans were more reserved and cautious in relationships with us. “Mzungus”: it was not a glass ceiling but a glass partition , which we thought was a likely (unfortunate) legacy of the colonial era. around a central maneaba (meeting Christ about taking no thought for house). !e maneaba was where tomorrow. We have to admit that we e felt in a very real way that the morning and evening worship was held kept our larder stocked and guarded WChristian Gospel had the power each day, summoned by the conch our water tank sel#shly! to break down that barrier. In the shell, and also all social and formal A culture of sharing held strong. political sphere, where most Kenyans’ gatherings. It was also a place of peace In Kiribati, there were no obvious #rst loyalty is to their tribe rather than where con$ict or friction could be dealt extremes of wealth and poverty. Even the nation, and tribal rivalries can with. in the college community, if someone threaten harmony, the unifying power Mention of Kiribati today leads usually received a gift of $our or sugar for of the Christian Gospel was undeniable. to concerns of global warming. A little taking a service, it would be shared. Our biggest fear for Kenya was the over 20 years ago, there was surprisingly widening gap between the rich and the little talk of it. One of our colleagues pecial memories include leading the poor. We could see the e%ects of it in once commented that the existence SANZAC day service, alternating rising crime, especially in the cities. of Kiribati itself was something of a between Protestants and Catholics, in As in Pakistan, we will never forget the miracle, situated on such unfruitful, the graveyard beside a monument to people who became our friends and the NZ coast watchers killed during those who treated us with kindness, the Japanese occupation — just a and the Christian fellowship we enjoyed Our biggest fear for few metres from the beach where which often cut across deep theological ‘Kenya was the widening thousands of US marines died in the di%erences. It was an Australian CMS gap between the rich and battle of Tarawa. missionary, our friend and colleague, Looking back, there is one Pakistani who was instrumental in our move to the poor ... story that is a salutary reminder of New Zealand in 1978. ’ over-estimating the e%ectiveness of Fast-forward 17 years (including inhospitable coral atolls. mission, and under-estimating how theological college training in Dunedin We were struck by how the i-Kiribati often the real changes occurred in us, along with Kerry!) — years that people calmly and optimistically cope the missionaries: included ministry in various places with things that would have us frantic A bride married into a family of — we were appointed for two years with anxiety or frustration: “!e water tanners. She found the stench as missionary partners from PCANZ tank is nearly empty — it’s going to unbearable and complained incessantly. at Tangintebu !eological College in rain soon.” “!e power has been o% for Weeks later, she had grown accustomed Kiribati. 36 hours — it will be on soon.” “We to it, and she commented: “See what a !is was a very di%erent experience haven’t been paid for six months — it di%erence I have made! When I came again. Sta%, students and their families will be coming.” here, there was such a terrible smell. live together in a close-knit community Life is lived much nearer the saying of Now it’s gone.” Page 15 Children’s book review: King of the Sky
A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. Dislocated and desolate, he #nds solace in the improbable friendship of his elderly neighbour, Mr Evans — a retired coal miner who spends his days caring for and training racing pigeons. “Just one thing reminded me of home — of sunlight, fountains, and the vanilla smell of ice cream in my nonna’s gelateria. “It was Mr. Evans’s pigeons in their loft behind my house, cooing as if they strutted in St Peter’s Square in Rome.” One day, Mr. Evans puts a grey pigeon with a head “whiter than a splash of milk” into his young friend’s hands — a pigeon he believes is going to It rained and rained and rained. be a champion, one whose “eye blazed with #re”. He asks the boy to name the bird. Re del Cielo, he replies in an instant — King of the Sky. ‘Little houses huddled on the Gradually, as Mr Evans grows frailer, his King of the Sky becomes a humpbacked hills. Chimneys smoked soaring alter-ego for the displaced boy trying to make a home in a new and metal towers clanked. The streets land, trying to fathom the depth and meaning of belonging. t;PPMPHJTUBOEBVUIPS/JDPMB%BWJFTBOEJMMVTUSBUPS-BVSB$BSMJO smelled of mutton soup and coal dust. explore with uncommon tenderness the issues of immigration and And no one spoke my language... ’ “otherness” in King of the Sky (Candlewick (June 13, 2017) 48 pages). i5IFZXFSFMJUUMFQSFWJFXT PGIFBWFO UIFTFFWFOJOHT CFOFBUIUIFMJHIUCVMC
Page 16 100 years on: Knox response to Spanish Flu Epidemic
'SPNUIF"SDIJWFT similarly used, with both places required until early December. neeze a few times and Of Knox’s involvement, our someone will always ask, 1919 Annual Report states: S“Are you getting the $u?” “We cannot but rejoice that Sneeze in November 1918, and God placed it within the power you could have been in for some of the congregation to render real trouble — or even dead the this service, and that He gave same day. us hearts to carry the burden.” For in that month, the Spanish As well as serving others, Flu hit Dunedin. And within Knox members carried their three weeks, 273 people in the own burdens, with the funeral city (almost four per 1000) had register four to #ve times the died from the disease. usual number. It was, however, a comparatively low death rate for New Zealand, he horror and loss of the mainly because Dunedin had Tswift epidemic 100 years fewer Maori who’d proved ago, had a very far-reaching tragically highly susceptible to the result for Knox. !e poverty disease. and lack of resources among many people became apparent, here had also been urgent Stuart Hall in Knox’s Sabbath School and so a legacy from Miss Twarnings from the North Island on Frederick St — pictured above — Jessie Watt Dalglish was used for a which had given the city a few crucial was urgently requested. And so, almost new type of outreach: nursing work in days to get organised. immediately, the Knox Auxiliary Dunedin. Canon Bryan King, the popular Hospital was in business. Knox employed Nurse Jessie Torrance. chaplain to industrial institutions, was She gave unparalleled free service the chief organiser (later given an OBE tuart Hall held 50 beds but soon to anyone who needed her in North for his work). Sthere was an over$ow into adjacent Dunedin from 1919 to 1942. Within a few days, $u patients entirely rooms until 74 beds were in use. — This article, by Lyndall Hancock , #lled Dunedin Hospital, and the use of Hanover Street Baptist Hall was "rst appeared in the November 1993 edition of the Knox News. Page 17 Jonathan Boston: Reflections on the Welfare State #Z)FMFO5IFX +POBUIBO#PTUPOJT1SPGFTTPS PG1PMJDZ4UVEJFTBU7JDUPSJB 6OJWFSTJUZPG8FMMJOHUPOT4DIPPM PG(PWFSONFOU BOEBNFNCFSBU 4U+PIOTJOUIF$JUZ1SFTCZUFSJBO $IVSDI 8FMMJOHUPO)FTQPLFUP UIF4PVUIFSO1SFTCZUFSZT%VOFEJO /PSUI0UBHP3FTPVSDF(SPVQ SFDFOUMZXIFOJUNFUBU,OPY5IF GPMMPXJOHBSFOPUFTGSPNIJTBEESFTT
his month marks the 80 th anniversary of the passage of Tthe Social Security Act 1938 under the #rst Labour Government which included many Christians. Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, a Catholic, called it “applied Primary health care is not fully their low child poverty and hardship Christianity”. subsidised and child care costs only rates are a result of a consensus across But what do we see as the proper role partly subsidised. Unlike most political parties on policies addressing of the state in the provision of social developed countries such as the UK unemployment and sickness insurance, assistance, and how should we regard and some states in the USA, New family assistance, social housing, child the current government’s agenda, Zealand has no comprehensive food in and health care — a consensus that which includes goals to reduce child schools programme. !e child support NZ has not yet achieved. poverty and enhance child well-being? system discourages contributions from non-custodial parents. Electricity tari%s avage saw the welfare state as a way ew Zealand performs well in Sto build the Kingdom of Heaven Nsome measures of well-being Professor Boston on Earth and ful#l the obligation of relative to most other OECD countries identifies some neighbourly love. A Christian re$ecting in the Better Life Index — notably in ‘ on the welfare state might note that health status, environmental quality problems with New there is no ready-made theology of the and civic engagement. But while elder Zealand’s largely tax- state in the Bible. poverty is low, child poverty/material funded benefit system. It !e Bible a&rms many values but some of these (love?) are in tension. deprivation is high. (Older people vote; is tightly targeted and not children don’t. Are these older people !ere have been huge economic, keener to protect their own interests generous. ... social and technological changes since than to ensure a better present and ’ Biblical times. !ere are also di%erent future for their children?) have increased by at least 70 per cent political theologies, even within speci#c Housing a%ordability is low; the in real terms for residential consumers Christian traditions. number of people receiving NZ since the early 1990s. Superannuation is rising rapidly. Child poverty rates in New Zealand rof Boston suggests that Catholic are higher than in Scandinavia; New Psocial teaching is the most rof Boston identi#es some problems Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product comprehensive and integrated body Pwith New Zealand’s largely tax- per capita is less than the OECD of social and political theology, funded bene#t system. It is tightly average. Added to this are the (low) still evolving since Pope Leo XIII’s targeted and not generous. Core levels of participation in the labour encyclical De Condicione Opi$cum bene#ts are indexed to prices but market; mental health and addiction displayed the Church’s concern for not wages. !e social housing sector issues; New Zealand’s high rate of sole social justice in 1891. represents only six per cent of the total parenthood and a high rate of divorces Catholic social teaching emphasises housing stock and many private rentals involving children. are of low quality. Citing Scandinavia, Prof Boston says &RQWLQXHVRQ3DJH
Page 18 Jonathan Boston: Reflections on the Welfare State &RQWLQXHVIURP3DJH a percentage of their income. !e government’s percentage the a&rmation and protection of contribution is smaller.) human dignity; the importance Prof Boston does not believe of human interdependence that New Zealand’s welfare and solidarity; the pursuit of state should replicate that of the common good (this is the Scandinavia but that existing overarching goal); preferential policy institutions should be option for the poor and modi#ed over time. !is will vulnerable; stewardship of require: Creation; and the belief that A broad, enduring cross-party citizens have rights and duties t commitment to the goal of low to participate in society and its child-poverty rates; governance. t Signi#cant and sustained additional public expenditure, he main Christian applied cost-e%ectively; objections to the welfare T Some substantial policy state are that charity and gift t reforms; relationships are undermined: Changes in cultural norms love and compassion cannot be t and practices, including family institutionalised. !e model of functioning; the Good Samaritan is personal, Support from civil society, spontaneous, improvised and t social service providers and compassionate. community groups; Public welfare bureaucracies Citizens who care for by contrast can be heartless, t evidence of child sexual abuse being a their neighbours and are insensitive and impersonal — and even high-pro#le example. compassionate; coercive — resulting in loss of liberty, !e state needs to be accountable and Political leadership and e%ective less privacy and reduced opportunities. t responsive; the pursuit of justice is a advocacy. !ere is also a concern about high derivative of love. He was hopeful that despite huge #scal welfare dependency, intergenerational and political hurdles, it is possible to poverty and disincentives to work. Ultimately, neighbour love needs not reform New Zealand’s welfare state, only spontaneity but also planning, to ensure income adequacy and a hese objections can be answered by foresight and collective action. British reduction in hardship. Tnoting that all human institutions theologian Haddon Wilmer suggested are imperfect, argues Prof Boston. And “since the Good Samaritan would reform agenda would include a Christian institutions can be as cruel not be on the road every day, though principled system of indexation and inhumane as public ones, recent A people have for all forms of social assistance to accidents there maintain relative and real living every day, it standards. !e housing market would be good could be transformed to reduce costs to set aside through massive public and private someone to be investment in a%ordable quality on permanent housing over several decades. !ere watch”. would be signi#cant changes to other (It was pointed policy levers such as child support, out that New primary health care, child care, food in Zealanders schools… rank second in the world And about those children who cannot on an index yet vote: Nelson Mandela observed that of personal “there can be no keener revelation of a charitable society’s soul than the way in which it donations as treats its children”.
Page 19 Knox kids... Delivered by:
Contact:
Contact Information Minister: Kerry Enright 477-0229, 0274 675-542 or email [email protected]
Clerk of Council Alison Tait 476-1778 Knox children impress in national or 021 136-2404 Kids Friendly competition [email protected] Clerk of Deacons Court Works by Darcy and Tegen Baldwin viewing and discussing who to award Suzanne Bishop 476-3271 were praised in a recent nation- as winners and runners-up in the #ve [email protected] wide art and writing competition; categories. It was NOT an easy task!” a colourful exhibition of all the Darcy was the winner in the Visual Planned Giving Secretary Helen Thew 471-2147 children’s e%orts is on display at Knox Arts, Year 5 to 8 category, impressing [email protected] Church until 11 September. the judges with her use of material and Children in Presbyterian churches collage to show the contrast between Organist & Choir Director and schools were asked to submit litter and no litter: “It was a bold Karen Knudson 477-2749 either visual creations or written piece.” compositions exploring the theme of Sister Tegen was runner-up in the Church O"cer Benjamin Thew 477-0229 “Love reaches out — Caring for our Written, Year 5 to 8 category, with the churcho"[email protected] World”. judges noting how well she combined !ere were 151 entries set up at Knox a story, photos and information “into a Parish O"ce in mid-August. Organiser Cheryl complete entry”. Church secretary: Harray said the judges had “an Five Knox children entered the Jacqui Carroll, enjoyable but challenging three hours competition. Well done! 449 George St Phone (03) 477-0229 Mon-Fri 9am-Noon
449 George St, Dunedin, 9016 [email protected] www.knoxchurch.net
,OPY/FXTJTQVCMJTIFERVBSUFSMZCZ ,OPY$IVSDI %VOFEJO͇&EJUPS+JMM 3VUIFSGPSE ͇KJMMSVUIFSGPSE!PVUMPPL DPO[͇ $POUSJCVUPST͇)FMFO5IFX $ISJT#MPPSF "MJTPO5BJU ,FSSZ&OSJHIU 3BDIFM+VEHF -ZOEBMM)BODPDL +PIOBOE.ZSUMF 3PVHI1IPUPT͇*BO5IPNTPOBOEPUIFST %FTJHO4DPUU#MBDLXFMM*GZPVIBWF BOZTUPSZJEFBTPSTVHHFTUJPOT QMFBTF DPOUBDU+JMM
Page 20