Weekly Services:
Sunday 8am - NZ Prayerbook Communion
10am - Communion Service
Wednesday 9:30am Shortened Prayerbook Communion The Rock on the Hill
THE aroma of freshly sawn and varnished kauri and the air of proud excitement at their 'modern' church, would have stirred the emotions of St Peter's first worshipers. No longer was it four walls and roof - attractively designed though they were. It
was the special place the Katikati Anglican community had worked so hard and waited so long for and their worship began to imbue the church with the tangible atmosphere of serenity and love which it endure today. It may have been raw new building constructed of simple and somewhat impermanent materials, so unlike the churches of their homeland, but it assumed the mantel of a house of God. For it is not four walls and a roof which make a church. It is the people who worship there, celebrate their love of God, rejoice in marriages and births and mourn the deaths of loved ones and pray for others in need. Over 125 (now 137) years their music and singing, their prayers and sermons have seeped into the very fabric of St Peter's Anglican Church, Katikati's Rock on the Hill. (Introduction taken from inside front cover of 'The Rock on Hill' by Elaine Fisher.....a soft cover book detailing the first 125 years of St Peter's Anglican Church available to purchase from Church Office for $25 plus postage)
