The Messenger The Messenger PARISH OF SAINT MARK REMUERA PARISH MARK November 2018 OF SAINT Parish website: www.stmarks.org.nz Editor: Debra Hall REMUERA A time for remembering Welcome to the last edition of The Messenger for 2018! The greater part of spring is over and summer is on the doorstep, but the first month that this edition relates to, November 2018, is not a month to be passed over lightly as the golden weather beckons. As you will no doubt be aware, Sunday, 11 November is the centenary of the cessation of hostilities – the Armistice – on the Western Front that ended the First World War (WW1). New Zealand casualties – those killed and wounded - in the ‘Great War’ were very high, approaching 60% of those who went to war from these shores. The Parish of St Mark, like churches around the country, suffered the loss of young people who had grown up in and around the parish boundary, and for whom St Mark’s was ‘their’ church. There are memorials to some of these individuals on the walls of our Church. In the article below I’ve written a bit about them, aided particularly from a World War Roll of Honour Commissioned by the Orakei Local Board which is available online at Orakei WW1 Roll of Honour. The earliest WW1 death referred to on these memorials is that of Graham Reid. His memorial plaque is located beside the first row of the choir stalls and there is a stained glass window to his memory in the north transept of the church. Graham’s mother lived on Dilworth Avenue, and he was her only son. He was a former president of the Kings College Old Boys Association, a natural leader, and had a wide circle of friends in Auckland. Graham was killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 May 1915. He died a lieutenant, which is a rank he must have gained in the field at Gallipoli shortly before his death; when he left from training in Egypt in April, he was still wearing corporal’s stripes. REID, Graham Templeton 12/503 Graham Reid died one calendar day before a large memorial was erected in St Mark’s Church in memory of William Read Bloomfield, Lieutenant Colonel and Commanding Officer of the Third Auckland Mounted Rifles.
Bloomfield died in a maritime disaster on the St Lawrence River in Canada on 29 May 1914, two months before WW1 began. Less than a year later, ANZAC forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915. One can only imagine that the mood surrounding the dedication of Bloomfield’s memorial on 9 May 1915 was a sombre one, as news came in about the mounting casualties at Gallipoli, but there was probably optimism, or hope at least, that our boys would soon have the Turks on the run. It was not to be. The Turks turned out to be formidable opponents and by 2 June 1915 another Parishioner of St Mark’s, Vincent Hall, was one of some 2779 New Zealanders who died in that particular campaign. He was an Aucklander, but served in the Wellington Infantry Battalion. His family home was in Arney Road, Remuera. Vincent was an able student who earned an MA degree in languages from Victoria College in Wellington. Prior to the war he was a Lieutenant in the cadets, but he refused promotion beyond the rank of corporal in the army because he had defective eyesight and felt that would make him a liability to the soldiers in his charge. HALL, Vincent John Baird 10/651. The carnage continued. Vincent’s younger brother, Lionel was killed in action in France on 12 June 1917 at the age of 23. Lionel was working as a surveyor in the King Country when the war began. He enlisted straight away and became, perhaps not surprisingly, a very able signaller. Not long before his death he was selected for and completed a special course in signalling. His memorial is located below his brother’s, to the left of the screen that divides the main body of the church (the nave) from the raised chancel area. HALL Lionel Willam Baird 4/1081A Another young man with a strong connection to St Mark’s, Thomas Harry Kinder, also died in France, at Ovillers, on 3 July 1916. His family home was in Arney Road, Remuera. Thomas was educated at Kings College in Auckland and later Wanganui Collegiate and was an excellent student and athlete. He was halfway through a degree at Cambridge – with a view to being ordained - when war broke out. He enlisted in the Cavalry and rose to the rank of Captain in the 7th Suffolk Regiment. He was killed in action leading his men against a heavily defended position. He was 24. His memorial is near the Organ Console on the south side of the nave. KINDER, Thomas Harry, son of Harry and Emily Kinder 2
Perhaps the saddest memorial is that of Graham Wakefield O’Connor who died at the New Zealand General Hospital in Codford in the UK on 9 November 1918, just two days before the Armistice. He died of bronchitis, possibly succumbing to the influenza pandemic of 1918-9 that was at its worst around that time. Months earlier he had been severely wounded in France and been hospitalised ever since. Mrs O’Connor received the news of her son’s death on a Friday at her home in Omahu Road, Remuera. Graham O’Connor was, like Graham Reid, his mother’s only son, and their memorials share the same location in St Mark’s Church. O'CONNOR, Graham Wakefield 60184. When the armistice bells rang out on 11 November, there was not much to celebrate for many families in New Zealand and around the world, but there was at least relief that, finally, the carnage had ceased. On Sunday, 11 November this year, at the 9.30am Communion Service we will call to mind the sacrifice made by these young men who lived in houses on the streets we inhabit ourselves, who once sat in the pews we worship in and whose lives were ended far too early with so much potential yet to be realised. God rest their souls. Tony Surman
Yes, prayer works! A big thank you to St Marks and the St Marks Prayer Group. “We truly appreciate the prayers for Bruno- he has not had a hospital admission for a year now, and I believe that he is managing his illness better is due to the prayers. They are truly appreciated. He is currently with the Kings School Jazz band in Brisbane on tour, and even though he cannot be billeted (he and his mum, my daughter are staying in an apartment and joining the tour daily, due to his high medical maintenance) he is enjoying the trip and loves the saxophone which he plays. Many thanks again for the prayers. I too join in your prayer requests and pray for the wider community of St Marks a well. Kind regards Kerry”
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A Message from the Wardens St Mark’s Parish is doing well, and we continue to be grateful for our Vicar’s energy and enthusiasm. Our excellent Parish Administrator has come through her hip surgery safely and is recuperating at home. Our thoughts and prayers for a very speedy return to full health are with Diana, but we do hope she will be well rested before she returns to the busiest time of the Parish year. The Office is being looked after with the combined assistance of Annette and Liberty and our multi-tasking Vicar, who has been responsible for keeping things ticking along. Our grateful thanks to you all!! Tony, with the assistance of Trevor Brooker and Bob Driver, led a very fitting memorial service on Sunday afternoon, 16 September, for Dr Hugh and Shona Maslen, long-standing Parishioners of St Mark’s. Hugh was a Vestry Member for many years and a past Editor of our Parish Newsletter. Hugh and Shona’s ashes were interred on the lawn near the gravestones of Shona’s grandparents. A splendid shiny new spade was purchased for the occasion and the family were very happy. We have at least one new Liturgist and hope to add more to the Roster. Please consider offering yourself for this rewarding role. John Sievers, our wonderful loyal and very long-serving “Lawn Master” and voluntary manager of all things to do with the lawns, edges, rosters etc. needs to retire and enjoy a very well earned rest. We do hope this very special mission will find new volunteers to take on these roles. John and Mirabel Sievers celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary on Wednesday 25 October, and on Sunday 28 October the Parish joined together with them and their family to help them celebrate this significant milestone after the 9:30am Service. They were presented with gifts from the Parish and a lovely morning tea, topped off with a wonderful cake was shared and enjoyed by all. The building at No 1 St Marks Road continues to progress, and we have a new tenant at 85 Remuera Road, who seems to be a good fit, and has been helpful. We are now about to enter the busiest time of the Church year, and hope that we can provide all the support our Vicar will need in the weeks ahead. Yours in Christ, Peter Allen Christine Koefoed
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Choir Corner Brian Millar, Director of Music Community, Commemoration, Carols, and Christmas…. We’re heading towards the end of another year – but not without a lot of music to be prepared before then! Even before Advent and Christmas arrive, your hard-working and loyal choir will be singing as part of a special Remembrance Service at St Mark’s at 9:30am on Sunday November 11th, with “peace” as the theme in much of the music that will be sung by choir and congregation. This service will also be promoted to the wider local community, being of course the centenary of the Armistice signing in Nov. 1918, ending World War 1. Watch our website or Facebook page for more details. Our final Evensong for 2018 is the following Sunday at 5 pm; then another Evensong (our fourth Evensong away from St Mark’s this year!) on Sunday Nov 25th, when the choir will provide the choral part of the service at St Thomas’ Anglican church, Tamaki, where Rev. Bob Driver is priest-in-charge. By the time you read this the choir will have already started learning all the music we’ll be singing in December; which includes our Advent Service on Dec. 2nd and Nine Lessons and Carols on Dec. 16th. Not forgetting our Christmas Eve service (starts 11 pm with carol singing) and then again Christmas Day. I may be biased, but I warmly recommend all these services for your presence and enjoyment as we worship and thank God for the birth of our Saviour Jesus. The TV news people keep And don’t forget ‘Carols on the Lawn!’ Friday saying that this could be December 14th from 5:30 pm. Another the greatest Christmas we community event, with choir members, plus ever had. I kind of thought the first one was. singers from the Opera Factory – a relaxed Milton Berle occasion for us all to sing the tried and true carols and songs we all I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Bernard Manning
know and love. He who has not Christmas in his heart, will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith
There is nothing sadder in the world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck
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The 1st Anglican Service in Aotearoa Annabelle Couldwell Much of the following article was taken from a very readable book, “The Years Before Waitangi� by Patricia Bawden.
As I am sure you are all aware, the first Christian service was preached on Christmas Day 1814 by the Reverend Samuel Marsden, at Oihi Bay, Rangihoua, northeast of Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands. Oihi Bay as it is today is a small, steep edged bay far away from anywhere, as indeed it was for the missionaries and their families who first came here. The Pa site was on the western hill overlooking the bay. It is regarded as a place of beginnings for all New Zealanders, because Samuel Marsden and his 2 families of missionaries subsequently established the first permanent European settlement here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Looking down the steep slope to Oihi Bay
The sermon was preached to a Maori and Pakeha congregation thanks to the close partnership of Marsden and Ruatara, a young chief from the Rangihoua Pa. This special relationship became pivotal in the development of the special relationship between Maori and Pakeha, and was the foundation for our nationhood. It began the journey that led to the Treaty of Waitangi and the bicultural nature of our nation today. But back to the beginning: Samuel Marsden was a kindly missionary who resided in Parramata, west of Sydney. He had long held the Maori in high regard. His ambition was to establish a mission and to preach to Maori in their own language in New Zealand. However, this was to take him nineteen years to accomplish. For many years prior to 1814, Marsden gave food and board to any Maori who arrived in Sydney, at his home in Parramata. He became fond of many who learnt how to grow crops and tend to animals on his farm and under his guidance. Ruatara was one such young warrior chief and he too became attached to Marsden and learnt of Christianity from him. 6
When Ruatara decided to join the crew of a boat and sail to England to meet the Queen, he met a fate suffered by numbers of young Maori attempting to do the same. Lured onto the ship by promises of fame and glory, Ruatara was ill treated, abused and left sick and without money or sustenance on the London docks. Here he was discovered and assisted by the kindly Reverend Marsden, who brought him back with him on his ship to Parramata. Here he brought him back to full health. In the process Ruatara converted to Christianity and became a regular attendee at Marsden’s services. The two men became close and it was Ruatara who assisted Marsden when translation was required for Maori at Parramata. Ruatara also wanted Christianity to be brought to his home in New Zealand. And so, with Ruatara as his translator, the way was made for the introduction of Christianity to New Zealand, as Marsden had long desired. Ruatara went back to his home pa on the hill above Oihi Bay, to prepare for Marsden’s arrival and the first mission settlement in New Zealand. Ruatara was instrumental in gaining the agreement of his chiefs to offer not only land for the proposed mission but also their warriors’ protection for the missionaries, from attack by other Maori tribes. Samuel Marsden chose as his missionaries William Hall, a carpenter and John King, a rope maker. John King and Ruatara became good friends before they had even landed at Oihi Bay. Thomas Kendell, a school master, joined the little group before they went from Sydney to Rangihoua.
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They sailed from Sydney arriving in Oihi Bay with only the bare essentials required for building the Mission Settlement. As they came ashore from the ship in small rowing boats, Ruatara was there with all his people on the beach to greet them. Can you imagine what it must have been like-they arrived on the beach to about 100 Maori warriors performing a haka on the beach for them as greeting! How frightening and strange for the newcomers! The Maori were barely dressed, with tattoos and fearsome faces. Mrs Hannah King, the young wife of the head missionary, had only a week to go before the birth of her second child. She had her baby within the week, in a leaking grass hut newly built for her confinement. Sadly, this little boy died at the age of three. He was the first European child born in New Zealand. Only two of her other four children lived to adulthoodshe lost two more in the privations in this country. One lived only 10 days. What a sad and hard life they led, these first missionaries. How grateful we can be that they stayed and contributed what they did to the establishment of the Anglican church in this country! On the site given to them by the Rangihoua tribe, they established a school, two houses and a vegetable garden. They were able to teach many Maori children about the love of God and the values of a Christian life. Many Maori were converted to Christianity and many of the people of the Rangihoua area are to this day devout Christians.
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Our Parish Community The Quiz night was held once again in September. A fun evening was had by all who attended in the pursuit of answers to trivial questions. A lovely supper was provided by Koru Kitchens. Many thanks to those who provided the funds for prizes and for some parishioners who would otherwise have been unable to attend. On Sunday 2nd September our Patronal festival lunch was held for a large number of parishioners. This was to celebrate also Bishop Selwyn’s consecration of the first church of St Mark on this site which also took place on 2nd September. A delicious lunch, catered for again by Koru Kitchens was followed by delectable slices and desserts provided for by those cooks in the Parish!
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Key Dates for your Calendar Saturday, 10 November: Working Bee from 9am till midday. Please come along and lend your skills and elbow grease to getting the Church, Hall and grounds sparkling for the Christmas Season. Sunday, 11 November: Armistice Day Remembering the Fallen of World War 1 and Praying for Peace. This is the centenary of the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front in 1918. At the 9.30am Choral Eucharist, parishioners of St Mark’s who fought and died in the First World War will be remembered, and we will pray from peace. At 11am, the time at which hostilities ceased in 1918, the bells of St Marks with toll out, calling to mind the sacrifice made by so many during the ‘Great War.’ Sunday 18th November: Final Evensong of the year at 5pm. Friday, 30 November: Thank you to our Volunteers Drinks and light refreshments between 5.30pm – 7.00pm. Everyone who has volunteered at St Mark’s over the last year is encouraged to attend this event which will be hosted by the Vicar and the Parish Life Committee. Sunday 25 November: 50th Anniversary of the Ordination of the Reverend James Withers to the Diaconate. James was ordained in St Mark’s Church, so it is fitting that we mark this occasion in a special way at the 9.30am Choral Eucharist in the same Church that his ordained ministry began. Sunday 2 December: Advent Carol Service at 9.30am. Come along and sing your way into Advent and the Christmastide! Saturday, 8 December: ‘AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS’ by Menotti, 2pm and 7pm in St Mark’s Church, a performance by the Opera Factory. Bookings available from 31 October. The perfect opera for Christmas. Friday 14 December: CAROLS ON THE LAWN This fun event includes everything from a Bouncy Castle and a visit from Santa, to a variety of musical numbers, craft stalls, exotic food stands and – by no means least – the singing of Christmas Carols. Come along and get into the Christmas Spirit. All proceeds from the event go to support the Anglican Trust for Women and Children (ATWC). Sunday 16 December: Christmas Pageant at 9.30am Service. All Children Welcome! Sunday 16 December: Nine Lessons and Carols at 7.30pm The quintessential Anglican Advent Service.
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Christmas Services Monday 24 December: Christingle Service, 6.00pm A Service particularly geared towards children and families but to which all ages are very warmly welcome. Monday 24 December: The 1st Eucharist of Christmas (Midnight Mass 11.30pm, Carols from 11.00pm. Come celebrate the Feast of Christ’s Birth! Tuesday 25 December: Christmas Day 8.00am Eucharist with Carols 9.30am Festal Choral Eucharist
Christmas By Annabelle Couldwell Ring the bells it’s ChristmasWhat‘s it all about? Jesus Christ was born today We celebrate in every way His promise of new birth! Sing with joy and laughter, Great happiness we feel! Christ’s birth brings hope To all good folk And the promise of Peace on Earth.
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Book Reviews The Christian Idea of God: A Philosophical Foundation for Faith, by Keith Ward. Cambridge University Press, (2017). Reviewed by Tony Surman I first came across the work of Keith Ward about five years ago, through a lecture series which he had given at Gresham College, London, UK, in late 2005 and early 2006. The series was later turned into a book entitled, Rethinking Christianity which, like the lecture series, examined key points in the history of Christianity when Christians rethought the nature of their religion in quite radical ways. Both the lecture series and the book left an impression on me and caused me to examine Ward’s other works and writings more closely. Ward has had an impressive academic career, having taught philosophy at the highest levels in some of the most prestigious universities in the UK, and written prolifically in the field of philosophy and religion. He is a very engaging lecturer who manages to convey some very tricky, abstruse concepts to his audience with humanity and humour, and he writes in a similar vein. Keith Ward (b.1938) was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1972. He has taken his priestly responsibility to advocate for Christianity very seriously, using his skills as a philosopher to repeatedly make the case for the reasonableness of Christian belief in the face of attacks from many quarters, not least the works of Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene (1976) and The God Delusion (2006). In his dialogue with critics of religion over the years, Ward has revealed the weaknesses in the materialist account of the world that underpins much of that critique, and, more positively, has shown how reasonable it is to believe that the world is much more than matter, that it has purpose and value, and that we have agency over our lives – and even our selfish genes – because everything, including ourselves, is the creation of a purposive Mind that is prior to any material thing. In the language of philosophy the position that Ward has advocated over the years is personal idealism – which is the belief that spirit or mind with agency and intentionality is the most real thing in existence. Ward, I hasten to add, does not deny that the material world, including our brains, exists, but his conviction that mind is prior to matter causes him to view the material world as the stuff through which minds express themselves and develop as persons in relationship with one another and the Mind that made them. For the greater part of Christian history, the faithful have thought about themselves and God along similar lines to Ward’s form of personal idealism, but the language used to describe things was different. 13
We have talked of the essential part of ourselves as our soul which transcends physical death and finds its ultimate home in God alone, who – as St John reminds us – is spirit (John 4:24). Since the Enlightenment period in Europe, and particularly since the rise to ascendancy of the physical sciences in the nineteenth century, Christians have struggled to justify their faith in the primacy of spirit in the face of the overwhelming success of the physical sciences to explain so much about the world. Over the last two centuries a good number of Christian thinkers have effectively conceded that the materialist account of the world is insurmountable, and have been content to envisage God as a human construct, the work of minds which are themselves entirely explicable by recourse to the grey matter of the brain; there just didn’t seem to be an intellectually satisfactory way of thinking otherwise. Keith Ward, over the course of the last fifty years writing about the philosophy of religion in general and Christianity in particular, has provided a remedy to this situation. His most recent book is a synthesis of his thought on the nature of God, the universe and ourselves. It is not a long book –there are no more than 230 pages including a full index and bibliography. Although it has been written with the academy in mind (no pun intended) it is free of jargon and straight-forward in its presentation, so it will definitely reward thoughtful reading by anyone who has pondered the meaning of life and questioned the robustness of their deepest religious intuitions. I commend it to you.
Educated by Tara Westover
Reviewed by Annabelle Couldwell
Tara Westover’s memoir is about shaping the mind, yet her story is also about the maiming of the bodies of her siblings and parents as they work from an early age in the scrap metal business owned by her father. Born in Buck’s Peak, Idaho, the youngest in a fundamentalist Mormon family of survivalists, with a father who believes the end of the world is nigh, she determines to educate herself in spite of a woeful lack of schooling opportunities. Home-schooling gives her the ability to read, and from this foundation and the environment surrounding her, she continues to re- shape her perception of the world. Eventually Tara decides to leave all that she knows to embark on a journey towards worldly knowledge and understanding. In leaving all that she has held dear, her parents, her siblings and the mountain at home in Idaho, Tara finds a vastly different reality that lives up to, not her father’s promise of forsakenness, but hope, understanding, love, joy and finally her own redemption. Through hard work and self-sacrifice, with scholarships and support, Tara eventually gains a PHD in History from Cambridge University in England. The story of her difficult beginnings and her courageous journey from a narrow perception of the world to being “educated” is both heartening and humbling. This is a very readable and highly recommended memoir. 14
What’s been happening in the Parish? Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of Marriage At the 9.30am Choral Eucharist on Sunday, 28 October parishioners gave thanks for John and Mirabel Sievers’ Marriage, which is now 65 years in the making. Both Mirabel and John have contributed mightily to St Mark’s over the decades, so it was a privilege for us all to be able to celebrate with them and their family as a parish, both at the Service and at the special morning tea that followed. May they have many more happy years together and with us.
Sunday School going strong! Our wonderful Children & Families Minister, Anne Driver, continues to engage and inspire our young people, encouraging them to take a full role in our All Age Worship Services.
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St Mark’s Sanctuary Guild From Gillian Clarke
There has always been a group of volunteers at St. Marks who quietly and efficiently, week after week, praise and worship Our Lord by keeping the Sanctuary and all it entails in pristine cleanliness and beauty. This requires 3 rosters covering silver polishing and general cleaning and dusting of the Sanctuary, washing of altar linen and finally the altar flower arrangements. The first roster is an on-going 2 weekly cycle with 2 volunteers working together. All the silver articles must be buffed and or polished - this latter takes place every third cycle. Candles are cleaned of excess wax. The sanctuary is dusted and kneelers puffed up. If you can give an hour of your time twice a year. you would be very warmly welcomed onto the Sanctuary Guild. The second roster is for caring for the linen and is a month-long duty. It entails picking up the linen from the Vestry after Sunday Services and returning it before the following Sunday. The altar cloth and serving table cloth also need to be checked and changed if necessary. The third roster is for flowers. Currently there are 6 ladies doing 2 consecutive weeks in rotation. We are desperate for some help in this area. There is money available for fresh flowers and there are artificial flowers which look good with fresh greenery.
A call for Volunteers! If you would like to give the Lord some of your time in any of these areas of parish life, please ring the office on 520-2258 or Gillian Clarke on 529-5907
Join our Holy Dusters!
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A Christmas Quiz (with prizes!) Ten questions to test your general knowledge about Christmas, courtesy of our Director of Music, Brian Millar. 1. In what country is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)? 2. Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country? 3. In which country is it said that finding a spider web on Christmas morning brings good luck, and so Christmas trees are decorated with artificial spider webs? 4. Which traditional Christmas plant was once so revered by early Britons that it had to be cut with a golden sickle? 5. In the song 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas', how many swans were aswimming? 6. In which country does Santa have his own personal postcode HOH OHO? 7. In which country is it considered inappropriate to send red Christmas cards? 8. What was the cyclone named that hit Darwin, Australia, in Christmas 1974? 9. What Christmas-time song did James Pierpont compose in 1857? 10. What Christmas item was invented by London baker and wedding-cake specialist Tom Smith in 1847? Send your answers via email to music@stmarks.org, all correct answers will go into a draw for one of three mystery prizes (caution - may include chocolate). Closes Friday November 30th; answers on the St Mark’s Facebook page soon after.
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Special Christmas Event AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS (a short musical fable by Menotti) Saturday 8th December, 2pm and 7pm.
A semi-staged, costumed performance of this delightful tale of the boy Amahl, his mother and their encounter with the Three Kings. Presented in the beautiful historical Saint Mark’s Church, the performance features Krishna Peddinti as Amahl with June Dams (Mother), Michael Potts (King Kaspar), Campbell Ellison (King Melchior) and Tyran Talamaivao (King Balthazar) and a chorus conducted by Arthur Adams-Close, with piano accompaniment by Juan Kim. The performances will conclude with a flourish of favourite songs and carols. 1hr followed by light festive refreshments (included). Tickets $30 (Adults) $25 (Seniors) $20 (Amici donors), $10 (School Students) Special price for St Mark’s parishioners $22 Adults/Seniors To secure a seat book now by emailing: admin@operafactory.com or phoning 09 921 7801 Payment by direct credit or cheque/cash. Account Details: 12 3025 0291776 00 (Ref Amahl)
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From the Registers August – October 2018
Baptised Lee William WALLACE, 19 August 2018 Committed to God’s Care Evelyn MOUNTFORT, 27 August 2018 Belinda Jane BATES, 31 August 2018 James BATES, 5 September 2018 Richard (Dick) VERNON, 8 September 2018 Hugh Stafford MASLEN (Memorial), 16 September 2018 Carolyn Edna EDGAR, 11 October 2018
Candles for Samantha By Annabelle Couldwell
Today I went to church And remembered all the candles I have lit for you. I lit another candle To wish my brother well; He also has an illness that will take him from me I can tell. Another and another, you all sneak quietly out ‘Til I am left here lonely The one who’s missing out.
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Parish Contact Details Vicar: The Reverend Dr Tony Surman Children & Families Minister Anne Driver Director of Music: Brian Millar Lay Minister: Trevor Brooker Parish Administrator: Diana Swarbrick
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The Anglican Parish of Saint Mark, Remuera. Email: office@stmarks.org.nz Website: www.stmarks.org.nz @StMarksRemuera
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