The Church has never closed
WE are the Church
You are welcome to join us
We worship, we pray, we unpack and consider Scripture together, we laugh and be together as a church family.
We look forward to you joining us when we gather.
Sunday: 9 am – St Michael and All Angles, Greenhithe and
10.30 am – Holy Cross, Albany
From our Priest in Charge
A Day to Remember
Dear AGAC whanau,
Thursday, 25th April was ANZAC day here in New Zealand. For us, I believe, it is a moment when heaven meets earth in the silence, the remembering, the prayer, and the hope. This is the atmosphere across New Zealand on this holy day. Whenever I can, I participate in Anzac Day dawn services. My observation of such days of remembrance is that they provide a bridge between our world and eternity, between earth and heaven, between God and humanity. In these services, we somehow sense this in the gathering in silence, the communal presence, and the solemn ritual.
At the rising of the sun, as on Easter day, people remember that earthly life does not end in death.
On Anzac Day Aotearoa pauses, for a national day of remembrance, a break from work and study routines to remember. Perhaps all our problems in life come from our forgetting to remember, from neglecting to take pause to ponder the essential. I am inviting you to join me in taking pause to reflect.
May God surround you with peace.
Yukiko
SPACE for you and your baby
Space for you and your baby is a parenting programme mainly for first-time parents of newborn babies. Parents and babies attend the sessions together and extended whānau are always welcome. Participants usually join Space when their baby is between two and four months old. Parents of older babies are welcome to enquire if a suitable group has a place available for them to attend.
Our vision is “empowering and encouraging parents to support the development of the whole child in their first year of life.”
Space provides a safe place for parents to bond well with their babies, meet other new parents in their community and receive information and support from trained facilitators and each other. It allows parents and infants to learn and grow in a supportive, teaching-based, community environment.
A new group will be starting at Holy Cross Albany on Wednesday 1 May: 11am – 1pm for anyone who has a new baby born January to April 2024
The programme runs for two hours a week over the course of 30 weeks (excluding school holidays).
Each week there is the opportunity to:
- participate in group discussions on child development topics
- explore play, music, movement, books and stories with parent and baby
- chat to other new parents over refreshments.
For enquiries please contact Yukiko: priest-in-charge@agac.org.nz or phone 021-0474753.