| Parish of The Epiphany Masterton Weekly News 10 August 2025 8:00am NZ Prayerbook Eucharist Service 9:30am Family Service 9:30am EKLOL – Children’s programme NEWS  Get you thinking hats on! On Sunday 31 August, Rev. John Hughes will be doing an ask me anything question and answer session. If you have anything that you would like to ask him, get it ready for the 31 August. Epiphany Travel Club: Advance notice of proposed outing. “Two Churches and a Pub” Guided tours of beautiful historic St Albans Tauweru and the brilliant restoration of the Tinui church. Lunch at the very popular Tinui Pub Cafe. Leaving Epiphany 11:00am back by 4:00pm If this is of interest to you please add your name to the list at church or contact Paul. Cost and firm date TBA. Quiz Night Epiphany Church Quiz Night How you can help…… ¨ Buy a ticket and come along for the fun. $30 per ticket which includes dinner ¨ Encourage your family/friends/neighbours to come along – even if Quizzes are not your thing, we promise a good time. Tables of 6-8 people. ¨ Donations of unwanted gifts to go towards raffle hampers ¨ Donations of bottles of wine, chocolates or other goodies for raffle hampers ¨ $20 vouchers from Mitre 10, supermarkets, restaurants etc to use as prizes ¨ High end auction items eg: bach weekend, trailer load of firewood, quilt etc ¨ Cash donations to offset our expenses for running the quiz ¨ Packets of chippies and nuts ¨ Help on the night at the bar or as a host/hostess to serve and clear tables (you will still be able to participate in the quiz) We would like to borrow globes, inflatable earth balls and hard sided suitcases. Contributions can be brought to our Sunday services or call Claire to arrange pick up/drop off (021 025 79294). Any questions, please don’t hesitate to call. Thank you everyone for your wonderful ongoing support for Epiphany, it is so appreciated COMING UP   Sir David John Moxon KNZM GCStJ was until June 2017, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. He was previously the Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, the archbishop of the New Zealand dioceses and one of the three primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. You’re Invited – A Conversation with Sir David Moxon “Faith, Justice, and the Ballot Box: Why Local Elections Matter” St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Masterton Saturday August 16. 11:45am – Doors open, light lunch provided 12:30pm – Sir David Moxon speaks As we approach local body elections, how are we called—as followers of Christ—to seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God? Sir David will speak to the role of Christians in civic life, with a special focus on the Treaty of Waitangi, the significance of Māori wards, and the call to uphold God’s justice here in Aotearoa. This is a powerful opportunity for people of faith to reflect on how voting can be an act of social justice and Gospel witness—right in our own communities. All are welcome. Come be inspired, challenged, and equipped to vote with faith and purpose. We are invited – Masterton Community Church Women’s Event Most of us all run our own women’s events throughout the year. We had this date (Saturday 16th August) booked in but thought – let’s open it up and get together with women from all churches. Not ‘one church agenda’ but to fellowship together, worship our loving Father and be blessed and encouraged through his word. We have Ps Eileen Trail bringing the word. Eileen has recently stepped down from Senior Pastor at Featherston AOG. She is a wonderful woman with great knowledge and wisdom of the word. We would love YOU to come along with your ladies. It’s no secret that women love to have friends, let’s support that by encouraging christian unity in our community! Doors open at 6:30pm for a time of connection over drinks and nibbles. $10 each or $5 for our under 18 youth girls and over 65 ladies. Please click the link below to register. LOVED – Combined Women’s Night | Masterton Community Church Love and Blessing, Nadine and Joella Masterton Community Church   Missions and Outreach Kym’s Way  Weekly Update – Hogan Family Bula Vinaka, Our week just gone and the week to come: A big week of admin, some termite hunting and looking at a project we hope to do later this year. We have recently written annual reports for both MMM and NZCMS, it is encouraging to look back over the last year and see all the projects and ministries we have been able to help and the people we have partnered with from both New Zealand and Fiji. It is exciting as we look forward to the future and all the things we have on the horizon. This week Roy took a trip to an Anglican community inland from Sigatoka to look at project that we plan to do later this year. It is exciting to be able to help people with a real basic need like flushing toilets. Our work truck went in to get some oil leaks repaired using parts brought back from Josh’s recent NZ trip, followed by getting four new tyres which was a harder process than it sounds. We are seeing camper and leaders registrations coming together for our upcoming Kids Camp which is exciting. The majority of funds for the camp have been raised, which is a huge blessing. Roy spent some time with Bishop Gabriel hunting for termites. Roy has been coaching him how to kill the colonies on the vicarage section with the bait that MMM Fiji imported and we are now seeing dead colonies on this site. This is very empowering for locals to go from a massive issue they are powerless to fight to something they can deal with. Today we had the MMM NZ and MMM Fiji AGM’s plus a meeting with the team we have coming to help run the camp, so it has been a Sunday full of zoom meetings. It is only 3.5 weeks until the team comes to help run a Kids Camp and Roy also has a reroof project on the home of a family from our church as well! This week will be lots of organising for the Kids Camp and purchasing materials for the project. Praise We have campers and leaders committing to the kids camp we are running next month. We have had a very generous amount given to support the Kids Camp to make it happen! Roy has been able to teach others to kill the termites on their sections on their own. Prayer Keep praying for our Kids camp in September as we receive registrations and deal with lots of logistics. That we have wisdom as we schedule projects. That we find the right teams for the right projects. That Roy’s termite timber trial will show some results that will be able to help us protect buildings against termites. Vinaka Vaka Levu, Rachael and Roy Our blog: https://www.hogansonamission.com/  Prayer Points We give thanks for God’s love and strength, at work in and through us. We pray the hearts of leaders to enable food aid deliveries into Gaza and other war and famine torn areas so that everyone is fed We pray those that struggle in the cold and dark days of winter We pray for peace instead of war; sharing instead of greed We pray for those that are unwell, injured or grieving. Zoom Morning prayer Monday – Friday Morning prayer happens on zoom Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:00am and Thursday at 8:50am. Use the link below https://us05web.zoom.us/j/8395130520?pwd=vF62P77xFejV5vVTbFsyuVhJ85x3KC.1 OR Meeting Zoom ID: 839 513 0520 Passcode: qUF6YF Lectionary Daily Prayers Lectionary.co.nz is a cut-down digital-friendly version of The Lectionary It gives you morning and evening readings from our lectionary in an easy to access format. As well as being able to read the readings, you can listen to them too. You can check it out here…. https://www.lectionary.co.nz/ |
