We are a welcoming and accepting family:
worshiping and following Christ;
loving and serving in the world;
and meeting here...
49A Mungavin Avenue, Ranui
Porirua Anglican Parish
is part of
The Anglican Movement in the Diocese of Wellington
and
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Te Hahi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tireni, ki Nga Moutere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
LEADERSHIP
Parish Priest
Reverend Terry Alve
Priest in Charge and Pastor Terry is a senior Anglican priest who specialises in
interim ministry, parish change and development. |
Church WardensThe Church Wardens are the leaders of the people of Porirua Anglican Church who: support the Priest in Charge; are spokespeople for the people of the Church; and consult with the Bishop/s as necessary.
|
Vestry Members
The following people form the Parish Vestry in addition to the Priest in Charge and the Church Wardens Stuart and Charles are: Mrs Dawn Herewini-Donovan, Mrs Jo Benaki, Mrs Patricia Gordon, Mrs Margaret Catchpole, Mrs Jane Dagger, Mrs Diane & Mr Bob Stuart.
The Vestry is chosen by the people of the Porirua Anglican ministry unit to work with the Priest in Charge. The vestry usually meets once a month on the first Sunday. The primary calling of the vestry is to:
The Vestry is chosen by the people of the Porirua Anglican ministry unit to work with the Priest in Charge. The vestry usually meets once a month on the first Sunday. The primary calling of the vestry is to:
- promote the worship of Almighty God;
- discern, articulate and be committed to the mission and vision of the parish;
- foster the spiritual growth and well being of Porirua Anglicans;
- lead parish congregational change where this is appropriate; and
- observe best practice in its governance of the parish.
Introducing Mai
Mai Lucy Sa |
Mai Lucy Sa arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand as a refugee from Myanmar (Burma) with her husband Robin and two sons. They live in Cannons Creek and regularly worship with Porirua Anglicans in te Whare Karakia.
Mai has developed an international Christian community focusing on prayer, healing and teaching. In 2019-20 Mai became very ill and the doctors despaired that her illness seemed terminal. All the while much prayer was offered in Porirua and worldwide as Mai shared her burden with her international communities in Myanmar, U.S.A. where she has family, Australia and elsewhere. God miraculously healed Mai and has subsequently released her in a new way to minister the healing love of God. Her own experience has shown her that nothing can separate us from God, as St Paul wrote in the Bible book of Romans giving the words below. Currently Mai makes periodic visits to the U.S.A. and Australia ministering principally to Burmese nationals who have been dispersed by persecution. God has given her a healing ministry. |
Romans 8
31b If God is for us, who is against us?
32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.[w] 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
‘For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
FIRST and FOREMOST we are a community of love - we aspire to be in loving relationship with all people beginning with those who are members of the local Church community. There is no limit to the love we seek to express because we believe there is no limit on God's love for each of us.
THE CHURCH
The Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all baptised persons are members, believing that God is one and yet revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit ‑ a Holy Trinity, and
(a) lives to be the agent and sign of the Kingdom of God.
(b) is called to offer worship and service to God in the power of the Holy Spirit and
(c) as the community of faith, provides for all God’s people, the turangawaewae, the common ground;
The church is:
ONE because it is one body, under one head, Jesus Christ,
HOLY because the Holy Spirit dwells in its members and guides it in mission,
CATHOLIC because it seeks to proclaim the whole faith to all people to the end of time and
APOSTOLIC because it presents the faith of the apostles and is sent to carry Christ’s mission to all the world;
OUR MISSION
OUR BELIEFS ARE BASED ON:
Holy Scripture (from the Bible), Christian tradition and as explained in A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.
THE CHURCH
The Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all baptised persons are members, believing that God is one and yet revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit ‑ a Holy Trinity, and
(a) lives to be the agent and sign of the Kingdom of God.
(b) is called to offer worship and service to God in the power of the Holy Spirit and
(c) as the community of faith, provides for all God’s people, the turangawaewae, the common ground;
The church is:
ONE because it is one body, under one head, Jesus Christ,
HOLY because the Holy Spirit dwells in its members and guides it in mission,
CATHOLIC because it seeks to proclaim the whole faith to all people to the end of time and
APOSTOLIC because it presents the faith of the apostles and is sent to carry Christ’s mission to all the world;
OUR MISSION
- proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
- teaching, baptising and nurturing believers within eucharistic communities of faith,
- responding to human needs by loving service and
- seeking to transform unjust structures of society, caring for God’s creation, and establishing the values of the Kingdom
- striving to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth
OUR BELIEFS ARE BASED ON:
Holy Scripture (from the Bible), Christian tradition and as explained in A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.
