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Dear friends in Christ, I am scheduled to leave Tokyo on 2nd of Feb to return to Auckland. I will stay with my brother and his family in Tokyo on that night before our departure. This Sunday, we are celebrating the feast of presentation of the Lord. It is a Christian holiday that commemorates the presentation […]

Dear AGAC friends Hope you are enjoying a nice summer in NZ. (I am writing this before leaving) While I am away, if I need to be contacted, please send me an email. Otherwise, please contact Les or Cheen for pastoral matters, and In Cheol for any Church related matters. This week will be the

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ By the time you read this, I will be in Hiroshima. While I am away, if I need to be contacted, please send me an email. Otherwise, please contact Les. This Sunday, my husband Cheen will be taking a service at Holy Cross. While I enjoy winter in Japan,

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ This coming week, I am leaving for Japan. My son and I will spend some time in Tokyo and go on a ski trip to Nagano for 3 days before flying to Hiroshima to spend time with my parents. In Hiroshima, I will be spending most of the time

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Happy New Year! & A Blessed Epiphany! I hope you have experienced moments of joy and wonder and beauty in these past few weeks, and I hope your faith was refreshed by the story of God coming among us.  I also hope you feel renewed in your awareness of

Dear AGAC whanau, Hope you had a blessed Christmas. It was lovely to see many of you, your family and friends, people from St John Paul II Catholic Church, and people from our neighbours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I am away from 29th to 2nd January with my family. It will be an interesting

Dear AGAC friends, Each week during Advent, we have watched our world slowly being brightened with the lighting of each candle.  On this last Sunday of Advent, we are lighting the last candle on our Advent wreath that we have patiently been waiting to light, the candle of love.  As we look at these four

Joy. It is the candle we light this week. Joy is a strange thing. It is not a word we use that often. Joy is something we immediately connect with smiles, happiness, pleasure, fun. Taking a moment myself, here is a small sampling of the ways I experience joy: ·      watching my dog sleeping peacefully on

Last week, we embarked on an Advent journey together by lighting the candle of hope on the Advent wreath. The Advent wreath includes many symbols to help us think about Christ and his gifts.  I particularly like the idea that the wreath itself is in the shape of a circle.  A circle has no beginning