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St Anne's Pantry September Update

11/9/2020

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​2020 has been a year of significant changes for the St Anne's Pantry Food Bank. These changes can be summarised thus:
  • Sofia and Margaret Alve took over as Pantry facilitators following the long service of Diane and Bob Stuart and Val Grace in these roles.
  • The Pantry was relocated to a more modern and fit for purpose location.
  • Covid-19 came along in March and things got busy.  We partnered with Civil Defence's Porirua Emergency Operations Centre. During April we delivered 155 food parcels and in May 136 more as we moved through pandemic levels 3 - 4 - 3 - 2. Activity has lessened a little during June - August but we continue to operate at more than twice the level we were at in February 2020. See the pie graph in this post.
  • We have gone online. Initially via a web page on the Porirua Anglican website and now on an independent website www.stannespantry.nz 
  • We continue to work closely with Porirua Citizens' Advice Bureau who provide referrals - currently about 60% of the requests we receive. We also have a request form on the Porirua Anglican website and now this website. Occasionally we receive phone requests.
  • The Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA) food rescue service, operating out of a new warehouse, continues to provide the bulk of our food supply. As St Anne's Pantry food distribution has grown this year, so too has the amount of food we source through KCA. We continue to be most grateful that they support our food charity.
  • Funding has substantially increased. Individual donors, mainly living in the northern suburbs of Porirua, have dug deep to fund our increased level of activity. With the pandemic government and local authority funding has been significant.
  • In addition to our pre 2020 food donors - New World Porirua and Mana plus local Presbyterian and Anglican Churches - St Anne's Pantry has found support from Porirua Rotary, Girl Guides, St Teresa School, Karori and shortly we will benefit from a food drive at Pauatahanui School.
  • In addition to the two Facilitators and the Porirua Anglican Priest, ten other volunteers help run the Pantry operation by purchasing food, stacking shelves, packing food parcels, delivering food parcels, volunteer management, administration and promotion.
  • We have moved from being a three delivery days to a five days a week operation; and during pandemic levels three and four we delivered food parcels every day.

Our motto "Addressing Food Insecurity in Porirua" inspires us constantly keep in mind the families we are here to serve by delivering food parcels to them. This is our core business and we unashamedly seek to bless in the name of Christ the 450+ families and households we have delivered a food parcel to during 2020, and those we have not yet delivered to.

Pantry July-August 2020 Update
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St Anne's Feast Day - 26 July

21/7/2020

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St Joachim and St Anne were the parents of St Mary the mother of Jesus. In other words they were Jesus' grandparents on his mother's side. I quote from the website of St Anne's Catholic School in Woolston, Christchurch.
Each year the Church venerates the memory of Saints Anne & Joachim on July 26th. An ancient story dating to the first centuries of the Church’s life recalls how Saints Anne & Joachim, like Abraham and Sarah, were scorned by their neighbours because they had no children.

Years of longing did not weaken their trust in God, but grief eventually drove Saint Joachim into the wilderness to fast and pray. Saint Anne, remaining at home, dressed in mourning clothes and wept because she had no child of her own.

Seeing her mistress distressed, a servant girl reminded Anne to put her trust in God. Saint Anne washed her face, put on her bridal clothes and went to a garden to plead with God for a child.

Angels appeared to Saint Anne in her garden and Saint Joachim in the desert, promising that, despite their old age, they would give birth to a child who would be known throughout the world. The new parents ran to meet one another at Jerusalem’s Golden Gate, and rejoiced in the new life which God had promised would be theirs.
​This info comes to us from the Gospel of St James which is an Apocryphal writing dated a little later than the Bible Gospels and which does not carry the same authority in some Churches. Nevertheless, the story seems to be credible in the light of the stories we have in the Bible of Jesus and Mary.

We will take time on Sunday 26th July this year to remember St Anne and her husband Joachim and in the process honour the faith that their story inspires, true or apocryphal, that speaks of faithfulness to and trust in God in the light of very difficult circumstances.  At the same time we will remind ourselves that the ministries of St Anne's are entirely fitting to be named for St Anne in that she was a kuia who cared for her mokopuna (Jesus and others) and in so doing was blessed to have the Son of God as her moko.

​Please pray for all the ministries of Porirua Anglican that is named for St Anne, that they will faithfully reflect Gospel truth, love and compassion.
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July Parish & St Anne's Pantry News

6/7/2020

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Its a new month as we enter the second half of 2020. What a year it is! 

Our July News encourages us to keep thinking about what God is and has been doing in our midst. When we share in church or elsewhere what we believe God has been up to we reinforce a sense of the presence of God with us. That's always a good thing to do. That's what we read about in Genesis as we continue to follow the story of Abraham and his whanau as he becomes the father of the people of God. Recently we heard again how Rebekah, who became Abraham's son Isaac's wife, exhibited great faith firstly as she shared water with Abraham's servant and his camels and later as she left her close family behind and traveled far to become Isaac's wife. You can read this interesting story in Genesis 24.

We reflect on New World Porirua's support for St Anne's Pantry through the Family2Family promotion. We publish Sunday Bible readings for July. And more ... 
JULY PORIRUA ANGLICAN PARISH NEWS
St Anne's Pantry Mid-Year News
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Porirua Anglican News June 2020

9/6/2020

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Today marks the beginning of Covid-19 Level 1 in New Zealand.  It aslo marks the publication of Porirua Anglican June News, hich you can read here and/or by opening your email attachment which will be sent today. News issues are:
  • A reflection on the importance of all and how the Trinity reflects our unity
  • A June Thought - what have we noticed buring the Lock down?
  • Saturday & Sunday readings for June
  • St Anne's Rebranding - new St Anne's roadside sign
  • Our Programme for June
  • Christians Against Poverty
  • St Anne's Pantry report
Enjoy - Terry
Porirua Anglican News June 2020
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St Anne's Pantry Update to 30 April 2020

7/5/2020

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1250 People Served!
278 Household Deliveries - 155 during April 2020

St Anne's Pantry has continued operating during Level 3 & 4 phases of the NZ Covid-19 pandemic response. The graphic above vividly illustrates how deliveries have grown especially during April. As an essential service we have delivered grocery parcels most days with many referrals coming via the Porirua Emergency Operations Centre.

​The update report below highlights how need has grown as many  recipients of food parcels have put their hand up in the light of serious income decline through the pandemic. The Pantry has experienced an unprecedented rise in financial and other support which has ensured generous deliveries of groceries to Porirua households.
St Anne's Pantry Update - 1st Trimester 2020
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St Anne's Pantry, Porirua Foodbank Easter 2020

14/4/2020

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Along with other Pantries/Foodbanks nationwide, St Anne's Pantry has experienced a record level of emergency food requests during Easter week 2020.

In the midst of the Covid-19 level 4 lockdown, 45 food parcels were delivered during the week beginning Wednesday before Easter to the Tuesday after. St Anne's Pantry is one of the emergency services that the Porirua Emergency Operation Centre (Welfare) is using to meet emergency need requests.

The Pantry has benefited from its ongoing relationship with Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA) who have supplied increased quantities of groceries as other supply sources reduced during the lockdown. A generous grant from the MSD has enabled the Pantry to buy groceries in short supply and ensure that food parcels were generously supplied. In addition, donors new and old have not forgotten that St Anne's Pantry provides a much needed resource in our City at this time.

To all who have supported St Anne's Pantry during this time our heartfelt thanks is offered.

We read in the Gospel of Matthew 25:40 that such support is noticed by God,

And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”
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A Message for Good Friday Afternoon 2020

10/4/2020

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Billy Graham

The late Dr Billy Graham is commonly recognised as one of the greatest Christian Evangelists of modern times. Many people in New Zealand acknowledge that it was his message of assurance, hope and challenge that significantly encouraged them to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. This video (approx. 30 minutes) offers us a perspective on this man's sincere Christian faith and challenge to 20th & 21st people of all races.

​Porirua Anglicans, indeed the people of Porirua and beyond, are invited to view and hear this message between 2:30-3:00pm on Good Friday 10th April 2020 - the time when many of us associate with the death of Christ at the 9th hour (3pm) on that first Good (God's) Friday. At 3pm you are invited to tune into a discussion via Zoom (5531369442) for 20-30 minutes to unpack the Message of the Cross.

The Death of Jesus
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St. Luke's Gospel
23:44 Around noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until the middle of the afternoon. 45 The sun stopped shining, and the curtain in the temple split down the middle. 46 Jesus shouted, “Father, I put myself in your hands!” Then he died. 47 When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Jesus must really have been a good man!” 48 A crowd had gathered to see the terrible sight. Then after they had seen it, they felt brokenhearted and went home. 49 All of Jesus' close friends and the women who had come with him from Galilee stood at a distance and watched.

St. John's Gospel
19:28 Jesus knew that he had now finished his work. And in order to make the Scriptures come true, he said, “I am thirsty!” 29 A jar of cheap wine was there. Someone then soaked a sponge with the wine and held it up to Jesus' mouth on the stem of a hyssop plant. 30 After Jesus drank the wine, he said, “Everything is done!” He bowed his head and died.
The Love of God
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St. John's Gospel
3:16 God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.

The video message concludes with an appeal from Dr Graham for us to decisively and wholeheartedly  follow the Lord Jesus Christ and with a prayer inviting God to become the Lord of my life.

If this message has impacted you in this way we would love to talk with you, pray with you and offer you the free gift of a Bible in a modern translation. Please connect with us via one of the options on our Contact Form.
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