Onehunga Cooperating Parish

29/12/2025

Thanksgiving Week - A Week of Gratitude & Faith

As we begin a new year, we invite you to join us for a full week of Thanksgiving - a time to pause, reflect, give thanks for what God has done, and give thanks in faith for what is still to come.

Thanksgiving Week Schedule (7:00am each morning):

• Monday 29th - Leaders of the Church
• Tuesday 30th - Senior Mothers
• Wednesday 31st - Men
• Thursday 1st - Younger Mothers
• Friday 2nd - Youth
• Saturday 3rd - Anyone who may have missed a day during the week.

Saturday Morning Breakfast
After our Saturday Thanksgiving Service, we’ll share breakfast together - please bring a plate to contribute.

Sunday 4th January - Combined Thanksgiving Service
Our first combined service of the month, with the whole church coming together in thanksgiving.

Join us in this special week as we thank God for His goodness and step forward in faith into the year ahead.

24/12/2025

Christmas Day Service

Our Combined Parish Family Christmas Service will be held at 9:30am at the Grey Street Church.

Please note the earlier time.

Let us all celebrate the coming of the Christ child into the world with our whole church family.

All welcome.

19/10/2025

Sunday 5th October - Combined Communion & Sunday School Service.

31/01/2025

Rev Kaurasi Lagi's Ministry at Onehunga Cooperating Parish.
The Lagi Family of Kaurasi, Ruby, Kafoa, Sulu and Manase had been at OCP for 6 years. This commenced in February 2019 and concluded January 2025. It has been a full on Ministry.

In the first three years, I was serving the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand as the national Moderator. This meant that the Rev Kaurasi "hit the road running", in his Ministry at OCP. It was a huge task and a major learning path for a new minister in his first placement. And especially so with the nature of a Union Parish, made up of Methodist Church, Christian Church and Presbyterian Church, formed in Advent 1996. The Rev Lagi rose to the occasion. His warm nature and permanent smile, and a positive attitude was appealing and pleasing to this new community of faith. He was consistent and came across as a caring, loving servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. His Ministry was build on his positive nature and with a clean heart.

In the Ministry at OCP, ethnic languages is a big part of this set up. Beside English, there was also Samoan, Cook Island and Niuean. This meant conducting and leading Worship Services in the languages of OCP, every month. There were 6 or 7 Worship Services each month. Most Sundays there were two Services, one in English and another in a Pacific Island language.
The Rev Lagi did not speak any of the PI languages of OCP. He rose to the challenge well.

We met most Tuesday for Ministry conversation, sharing, reflecting, planning and praying. We divided the Ministry of Onehunga Cooperating Parish between us. We agreed to having different days off. We tried to cover the whole of OCP, not just between us, but with the wider leadership of OCP. The Rev Kaurasi Lagi took care of Youth Ministry, Pastoral Visitation (Home Communion), Handicraft Groups, Onehunga wide (Ministers, Priests, Clergies) Ministry.
The Rev Lagi was also prominent in the Auckland Methodist Synod, Chair of Auckland Regional Forum, and on the representative on the Standing Committee of the UCANZ.

My dear brother Rev Kaurasi Lagi, it has been an honour and a privilege to have shared Ministry with you. You are a special and a loving servant of the Most High. Thank you for our full and challenging years together. It has been extraordinary and a pleasant and a memorable experience. Thank you to Mama Ruby for her support and encouragement. Without our wives we would be in the forest still. Blessings to your beautiful children Kafoa, Sulu, and Manase. Stand firm and supportive of your parents. Thank you for your love, respect and servant heart.

Our love and our prayers,

Very Rev Fakaofo, Mama Ruth Risati and our children, and Kalos, Jonas, Lily.
And also the Faith Community of Onehunga Cooperating Parish.

04/10/2024

The totara in the forest of Onehunga has fallen.

The Rev Peter Nicholas Wedde passed away on Sunday 29 September, at 11pm, at Middlemore Hospital, surrounded by his beloved family.

Some of his last words, "we are at peace, let us pray, it is well". Such tremendous faith, even to the very end.

The Rev Peter Wedde was ordained in 1961. Together with his wife Barbara they served in Papua New Guinea for many years. They returned to New Zealand and commenced Ministry at the Onehunga Presbyterian Church in 1975. In the Advent of 1996 he commenced Ministry with others at Onehunga Cooperating Parish. The Rev Peter retired from Parish Ministry in 2001.

He continued to serve the PCANZ via the Auckland Presbytery and latterly the Northern Presbytery. Specifically as Interim Moderator or Convenor of Ministry Settlement Boards. The Rev Wedde was a major player in the filling of many vacancies in PCANZ Parishes. He also helped out at many Methodist Churches in filling the pulpit. The Rev Peter Wedde returned back to Onehunga Cooperating Parish in 2013, a good twelve years absence from a Parish he was instrumental with others, in its establishment. He was involved in all areas of Church life, especially the leading of Services, the preaching of the Word, and Ministry Leadership.

The Rev Peter Wedde was an intergral part of our Church life and witness of the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. We will miss our beloved Peter. Such an incredible, caring, loving, knowledgeable servant of Scripture and follower of the Lord.

Ke manuia tau malaga, te kaukauna lelei ma te fakamaoni. Ulufale mai ki te maota i te lagi.

Well done good and faithful servant. Enter now in to the glory above. Our love and prayers for Barbara and all the family.

02/10/2024

Our Very Reverend Taimoanaifakaofo Kaio

02/10/2024

Investiture Ceremony 1 October 2024.

The Very Reverend Taimoanaifakaofo Kaio, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to the Pacific community.

Investiture Ceremony 1 October 2024.

The Very Reverend Taimoanaifakaofo Kaio, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to the Pacific community.

The Very Reverend Taimoanaifakaofo Kaio was the Moderator of the North Shore Presbytery and played a pivotal role in the inception of the Northern Presbytery in Epsom, where he also served as Moderator.

He served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, the highest position within the church’s hierarchy. He led the Church through the COVID-19 pandemic with online pastoral messages and sermons.

He is a Minister with the Onehunga Cooperating Parish and a multi-denominational, multicultural and cross-culture faith community.

He has represented the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand at Global Assemblies and consultations. He is a member of the Book of Order Advisory Committee for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Very Reverend Kaio is a Trustee of Mataliki Tokelau Akoga Kamata.

Photos: Focal Point Photos

23/06/2024

Our St Stephens Family congratulating Very Rev Fakaofo Kaio for his Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) and wishing Mama Ruth a happy birthday.

10/06/2024

Congratulations to PCANZ former Moderator Very Rev Taimoanaifakaofo Kaio ONZM who has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday honours for services to the Pacific community. Read the full interview with Fakaofo, "A journey of faith, language and service: Presbyterian Minister receives ONZM"
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/518523/a-journey-of-faith-language-and-service-presbyterian-minister-receives-onzm #:~:text=The%20Very%20Reverend%20Taimoanaifakaofo%20Kaio%20has%20been%20recognised%20in%20the,Order%20of%20Merit%20(ONZM).

03/06/2024

13/05/2024

Beautiful photos from our combined service service for the first Sunday of May.

10 baptisms by Very Rev Fakaofo Kaio.
Blessed.

30/12/2023

New Year Week of Thanksgiving Devotions.

7am EVERY morning from tomorrow at Grey Street Church.

Monday 1 January to Saturday 6 January.

All welcome.