Clergy are eligible to apply for a maximum of three months’ leave after every seven years of service in any diocese, calculated from ordination, commission or appointment. I was ordained deacon on 15 December 2017 and began work as a curate on 15 January 2018. That’s why I applied for study leave and a grant…

In my personal devotions I have recently come across a few verses that stressed that humans may make plans, but often things turn out quite differently. They also suggest that God’s hand is somehow part of this different course of events. I was thinking that this also held for church affairs. In the office here…

On the weekend I was at a public reserve and noticed the dog poo in the grass. “Who would not clean up after their dog?” I thought. Someone clearly had not been considerate and I was getting a bit annoyed. But then I thought back a few years. I remembered how not that long ago…

If you’re not around the Hall during the week, you may not notice that this can be quite a busy place. Many groups use the Hall and Lounge. The Mana Ako group for young disabled people is in the Lounge on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That means that some of these young people spend a…