North Pres News - 20 April 2017

Welcome to North Pres News: In here you will find the dates for various Northern Presbytery events. More

information can be found at our website at www.northpres.org.nz

Work groups & Council: Presbytery Council holds its

monthly meeting on the first

or everyone month at 10am.

Presbytery Council Executive

meets weekly on the other

Thursdays at Somervell

Presbyterian Church,

Remuera.

Property & Finance: When:

Tuesday 16th May at 9am.

Where: St David’s Church,

Khyber Pass Rd.

Ministry: TBC

Prayer & Healing Cluster

Group: When: Wednesday

17th May at noon for lunch at

St Peter’s Presbyterian Church,

Mt Wellington – 7 Harrison

Road, Mt Wellington

Youth: When: 27th April at

10.00am Where: 111 Great

South Rd, Greenlane

Requests to work groups, should be made

available to the group a week before the

meeting. Please email these to the

Northern Presbytery office. Thank you.

PRESBYTERY REGIONS UPDATE Dear Presbytery Members

We are beginning the process to establish the 5 Presbytery

Regions.

Can you please put your region date and time into your

diary. The venue and other details will be advised as soon

as possible.

Northland and CTN: TBC

North: Tuesday 2nd May: 7.30pm – 9.00pm

South: Thursday 4th May: 7.30pm – 9.00pm

East: Tuesday 9th May: 7.30pm – 9.00pm

West: Thursday 11th May: 7.30pm – 9.00pm

You can find your region by looking at the second email

attachment alongside the North Pres News

- Wayne Toleafoa – Northern Presbytery Moderator

- Lorraine Francis – Convener

PENTECOST GATHERING – SUNDAY 4th JUNE, ST

COLUMBA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

“I'm happy to announce and give advance notice that our Pentecost gathering will be

on 7pm June 4th (queen’s birthday weekend) at St Columba's Botany downs. The

Pentecost Gathering is an opportunity for people from the Norther Presbytery region to

get together worship be encouraged and hopefully revived for the mission of witnessing

and living for Jesus Christ in our city. The speaker will be the Right Rev Richard Dawson

(Moderator of the PCANZ) and we will be lead in worship by a team from St Mark's

Mangere East... so watch this space for more details and material to advertise it to your

congregations”.

- Rev. Howard Carter: Minister at St Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Mt Wellington

Verse of the week

"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High; Call upon Me

in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me."

Psalm 50: 14 - 15

Hi Richard,

By the time we are back in NZ this coming July and

August it will have been four years since our last

time in kiwi land. Now I am planning our visit.

I propose the 06 August as a date for us to be with

Leith Valley for a Sunday service. Will you still be

in Europe at that time? Do you think that will suit

the program?

I am asking for help to find some new churches

that would be open to partnering with us. I would

be grateful for any help you can give. Do you

know pastors who might be open to having us

come and share and whose churches are not

already overloaded in the missions area?

For the moment I have asked yourself, Graeme

Wilson and Brett Bennet (both pastors with the

Apostolic churches in the Hamilton region) for

help of this type.

Dates and areas where we would be available:

Sun 2 July, Wellington area

Sun 30 July, Christchurch area

Sun 13 August, Auckland area

Sun 20 August, Auckland area (Andrew only)

Sun 27 August, Hamilton area (Andrew only)

Sun 03 Sep, Hamilton area (Andrew only)

Sun 10 Sep, Wellington area (Andrew only)

I attach my draft overall visit program.

Many blessings,

Andrew

Dear Friends,

I am writing to you as a favour to one of my dearest friends, Andrew Jones and his wife Pascale. They have been toiling away in

North Africa and then, when they were ejected from Morocco, in the South of France to bring the Gospel to the Berber speaking

peoples. The now have a wonderful ministry making radio and TV programmes which they beam into these place from

France. They are a dedicated and mature Christian couple who are returning to New Zealand in July through to September and

would deeply appreciate some invitations to share their work and to receive support.

Their timetable is below and I would ask parishes to contact Andrew directly to make arrangements with him. His timetable for the

New Zealand visit is below with the latest newsletter there also and his email is arkjones@free.fr Please do not publicise his work

on the internet in any way at all.

Many thanks, Richard Dawson (Moderator)