Bream Bay Anglicans

22/06/2026

21/06/2026

What a week we have ahead of us! Firstly, please plan to join us next Sunday, 28 June for our Patronal Feast of Sts Peter and Paul. It is a celebration of our common life together in Bream Bay. We will be at St Peter's in Waipu with a special morning tea following the service. We will also welcome Craig Blockley to our regular monthly roster of musicians--he will play fourth Sundays at St Peter's. Also that day Dr Sue Hancock will present an update on the Op Shop relocation (which we have dubbed 'the Magnolia Project'). Things are moving apace, and it will be important for members to know the facts.
Our Petition for the Magnolia Project has been reviewed by the Diocesan Faculty Committee, and there are some process details to work through. We hope to have these clarified by next Sunday.
Finally, this week is the Diocesan Ministry Conference in Auckland, so the vicar will be otherwise engaged on Tuesday and Wednesday. He will be back in action for this week's Vestry meeting on Thursday afternoon.
Whew!

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21/06/2026

Endless apps, pop-ups, passwords, updates, downloads, and deepfakes - the relentless march of the digital age is enough to make anyone's head spin.

19/06/2026

Isn’t it interesting what we assume about ‘the poor’. These assumptions have informed social welfare policy and practice for millennia.

Multiple people discussing it on the community page were concerned about the type of people the "free food" would attract.

19/06/2026

We condemn in the strongest possible terms hate speech that targets any group, and particularly that promoted by Destiny ‘Church’ that incites violences against South Asian migrants and religious groups in NZ. We have seen that this kind of hate speech results in actual physical harm against marginalised and vulnerablised communities by followers incapable of independent critical thought. Such speech is not only unchristian (remember Acts 2?) but has no place in Aotearoa NZ.

18/06/2026

Bishop Elijah Jang-Whan Kim has been installed as the new Primate of the Anglican Church of Korea.

On 13 June, the Anglican Church of Korea concluded its 35th National Synod, bringing together 123 delegates from the three dioceses of the province. During the synod, delegates unanimously elected Bishop Elijah Jang-Whan Kim, Bishop of Seoul, as the new Primate and Presiding Bishop. He will serve in this role for the next two years.

Following his election, the Most Revd Elijah Jang-Whan Kim said, ‘I am deeply humbled by this calling. During my tenure, I will dedicate myself to fostering true church unity, igniting a spiritual church revival and expanding our meaningful contribution to the Anglican Communion.’

Read the full story at:https://bit.ly/4oEeO7C

17/06/2026

So this is Men’s Health Week. I’m aware that many of the followers of this page are not men (and thank you!) so why should this week be of any interest to you? I’ll get back to that in a moment. Men, we need to know that we are valued for who we are, not merely for what we produce. Yes, the capitalist values system tells us that we are ‘useful’, and have ‘responsibilities’. Implicit in both those words is that we are valued when we live for others, when we subordinate our own needs, health, emotional and mental health in favour of others. That doesn’t mean those needs go away—like tectonic plates they merely slide under the weight of others. Until the earthquake. We don’t need to make a big show of getting core needs met—visiting our GPs, checking blood pressure, paying attention to the niggles that don’t go away, or the flat feeling of just grinding on regardless. When your spirit is starving you can’t really be there with others in any meaningful way.
If you are not a man, or if you have a close friend or partner who is a man, one of the best things you can do is just ask ‘How are you?’ and really listen to the answer. Don’t accept ‘Fine’ or ‘I’m OK’, (or my personal favourite, ‘Well enough’). Ask the next question: what does fine or OK mean? Well enough for what? Sit down as you ask. Show you are prepared to listen.

Jesus spent a lot of time hanging around with men (probably women too, but that’s for another time), and yes he talked a lot about having no fear, or fronting up to authorities. What we don’t hear so much about is what happened in his private, intimate conversations with the guys, who were mostly tradies. The closest we get is his vigil in Gethsemane on the night of his arrest. He poured out his heart to God. That intimate relationship with God is a key feature of Christianity, one that sets it apart from other world religions.

Why not give it a go? If you’re not sure how to start, have a chat with your local vicar or someone whose relationship with God seems solid. We are at St Paul’s in Ruakākā this Sunday. I hope we’ll see you there.

12/06/2026

Our new billboard is up! 🏳️‍🌈

St Matthew-in-the-City has made a submission opposing the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill, and we want to share why.

This Bill doesn’t fix any real gap in the law. What it does do is write trans, intersex, takatāpui and non-binary New Zealanders out of legal recognition, undoing two decades of protection under the Human Rights Act, and ignoring the Law Commission’s own Ia Tangata recommendations for a better path forward.

We believe every person carries the image of the divine. No exceptions. Legislation that treats anyone as less deserving of protection is a moral failure, not just a legal one.

📅 Submissions close July 2nd. If this matters to you, make a submission too.

11/06/2026

We look forward to welcoming you at St Peter’s in Waipū this Sunday. Although we are in Ordinary Time, Fr Richard will be preaching, do you know it will be extra-Ordinary!

09/06/2026

The pause follows 46 detailed submissions now before the Fast Track panel.