I still have problems with the understanding that Christmas is over on Boxing Day. As a child for us Christmas lasted from Christmas Eve to Epiphany. In many countries these days, New Zealand included, Christmas seems to begin sometime in the middle of November, and certainly is here by the 1st of December until it…

Earlier this year the New Zealand Church Missionary Society (CMS) asked us whether St Paul’s Papanui would consider becoming a Link Church for Neill and Rebekah Dunbar. A Link Church is a church that has committed to supporting a Mission Partner through the CMS. Link Churches provide spiritual, financial, practical and relational support for Mission…

About three weeks ago we checked the hutch of our female rabbit and found some new arrivals there. Eight little rabbits had arrived. And this time they thrived. The female rabbit had already given birth earlier to some young some weeks earlier, but that being her first litter the little rabbits had not survived. This…