Weekly Notices - 1 February 2026
Normal service times resume: February 1, 2026,
8.45am: West Melton, 11am: Hornby, 5pm: Templeton
Craft Day
Saturday 31 January 2026, St Columba’s Church Hall, 10am-3pm.
Recently we had the joy of feeling Gods presence as Alice preached at West Melton. She introduced us to the very helpful idea of needing to be ‘Fruit inspectors’, of the world's words and deeds and of our words and deeds.
Last week was the reminder to first examine the log in our eye before we call out any imperfect fruit we see around us. I called out our lack of fruit today, a result over the decades, of congregations (here in our parishes and across all denominations) not fulfilling our calling. All I am doing is fulfilling the priest's vows to prophetically call a spade a spade. The fruit facts are right beside us in our empty pews. It is in small groups that sewn seeds get watered, and become fruit as we ooze Jesus because we love Him (“with all our hearts, with all our minds, with all our strength” as he rightly expects).
I look forward with hope to hearing from 10,000 miles away, that Alpha groups are seeding small home groups: that would be fruit whose pips can seed more fruit and bring such praise and pleasure to our Heavenly Father. Productive paddocks indeed!
I hope and pray and plead that memorising Jesus’s own stories from the Gospel of Mark will enable you to sow His words to those you chat with. eg “Have you heard the one about Jesus angering religious people?”. Mark 13
God's Message to you is to “Quote Him”. God’s Message through Micah is “to walk humbly WITH your God”. Easy as if you have a close relationship with Him, Listening to him and loving Him.
Patrick
Thank you to all who helped with the Templeton School Leavers Dinner.
To those who helped on the day and to those who donated money and food. It was a wonderful success. Thank you Jean.
Today’s Sentence and Prayer
Sentence: Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
Prayer of the Day: Grant, O God, that we may love you with our whole being, and love all people as you would have us love them; through Jesus Christ, who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Readings: TBC
Parish News
Time For You
Tuesday 3rd February at 1.30pm, Guest Speaker: Patrick, who will be sharing about his ministry in West Africa
All welcome
Contact Gina for more information
Next Prayer Meetings
Templeton will be held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday mornings of the month -
9:15am: at Jean’s place.
Hornby will be held on Wednesdays mornings -
Wednesday 10.30am, prayer gathering at Bolton's place
Anglican Parish of Hornby, Templeton and West Melton & Beyond…
Prayer for Leading Your Church into Growth
God of mission, who alone brings growth to your Church, send your Holy Spirit to give vision to our planning, wisdom to our actions, joy to our worship, and power to our witness. Help our parish churches to grow in numbers, in spiritual commitment to you, and in service to our local community. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
News from around the Diocese
See Anglican e-life: http://anglicanlife.org.nz/publications/e-life/
Helpful info
Groups
It’s easy to connect and get involved with some great social and faith-focused groups that meet regularly across the parish. You can find out about all our regular groups on our Groups page. If you have any questions, just click the contact button to connect with the group’s organiser.
Recycling
Used batteries can be placed in the boxes in each church or taken to Mitre 10
Soft plastics can be dropped off at participating store locations. This is any plastic you can fold up in your hand.
Pastoral Care
Need meals or other in-home pastoral support? Please contact the Parish Pastoral Care Co-ordinator.
In-Home Communion
If parishioners can't attend church but would still like to have communion, this can be brought to you at your home or rest home. Please get in touch with the Home Communion Co-ordinator to organise this.
Need prayer?
We’d love to pray for you. See the ‘Prayer Support’ section on the Help & Support page for more information on how we can help with your prayer needs. There are confidential and anonymous options available.
