Some work has gone into possible funding and legal arrangements for a hall refurbishment project. Te Papanui Trust has spoken with several funders and things are looking good: they could probably access several hundred thousand Dollars. However, most funders do require parties to such a project to partly commit finances themselves. That’s one of the…

Synod 2022 set up a Biblical Literacy Task Group to examine the state of Biblical Literacy in the Diocese of Christchurch. This group reported back to Synod this year. It recommended the following: The Diocese has already recommended some of the resources referred to. You will hear more about them in due course. I thought…

Earlier this week I tried out the new bus routes in Christchurch by walking between them across the port hills. It wasn’t the nicest day. At one stage it rained, or at least it was something between rain and drizzle. As Lyttelton came into view I saw a ship berthed at one of the wharves.…

Last week we went on a walk in the Craigieburn Ranges with our children. Most of the walk was through bush on a fairly gentle track. In the higher reaches we got into snow and the children enjoyed playing in it. With boots and clothes so wet, we decided to take the quickest way back…