ALPHA Begins 17 January

​Happy New Year to you and yours. May it be a great one!

We have just completed our Advent-Christmas-New Year community outreach with 150 people attending our various weekend and weekday community and worship events in te Whare Karakia. It is most satisfying from my perspective to see such great responses to what we offer in the Eastern Porirua community. The core group of around 25 people who are the heart of the Porirua Anglican community have excelled by both attending, and encouraging others to attend the ten weekend, and other weekday activities, during December and New Year's Day. We have built an amazing group of people who seem increasingly proud to gather and contribute to our life together.

Recently three of us from Porirua Anglican did an ALPHA Course at Johnsonville over 11 Thursday evenings and a Saturday, and benefited greatly from the food and fellowship. We even got together for a meal pre-Christmas in a group Reunion too. And we greatly benefited from the ALPHA videos and discussions that followed. We were a mixed group; there was even a young Nepalese man there for part of the time, and and an older Chinese lady. The uniqueness of ALPHA is that it attracts people of all ages and, as above, all ethnic groups. More than that, it gives people an orthodox Christian and very understable opportunity for people to ground their faith.

In two weeks time we will begin an ALPHA Course at te Whare Karakia, beginning Wed. 17 January @ 7pm. Details of this and an online enrolment form are here: 

https://www.poriruaanglican.nz/alpha-course.html

The first five sessions will be addressed via video, and allow discussion of these five questions ...

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•  Is There More To Life Than This?
• Who is Jesus?
• Why Did Jesus Die?
• How Can I Have Faith?
• Why and How Do I Pray?
• ... and more ...

On Saturday 2 March we will spend a day together focused on questions about the Holy Spirit.
Each session will begin with food so don't eat too much before you come as we will eat together for 30-40 minutes before watching a 25-30 min. video which we will then discuss, finishing sharp at 9pm.

The last session will be on Wednesday 27 March when we will address, "What about the Church?"

Want to know more? Contact us via any of our Contact Us channels.

And, let's know you are coming so that we can prepare and maximise your experience of ALPHA.

Hei konā mai | Goodbye for now
Terry

Terry Alve
Priest in Charge