Weekly Notices - 27 July 2025
Don Pilgrim made the final pilgrimage.
Partway through his long planned pilgrimage in the North Island, Don had another brain bleed and not long after Justine and Amos and Alice flew up to be with him, he passed peacefully to his Saviour, and to our Saviour.
We can be jealous that he got there before us. See you when we get there too Don.
Our Brother in Christ Donald Pilgrim's Funeral will be held at St Nicholas's Church Barrington Street at 2pm on the Saturday the 2nd of August. For those of us inclined to send flowers, Justine and children are suggesting Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula would love donations in Dons name, it's a favourite place of Don’s.
Next Sunday 3rd August at our 11am St Columba's Hornby service, a young Christian Palestinian man born and raised in Gaza Palestine (just like Jesus was in Nazareth) will be sharing his testimony and his story of life there. He and his family came to New Zealand seeking safety away from the war. (All are welcome to the service but please, no visitors who may have any strong political beliefs as it's hard at times being a Christian Palestinian in Christchurch let alone facing any possible opposition to what he might be sharing about Hamas for example.) Questions in advance ARE requested by him, not so that he can filter out any tough ones, but as he says, so he can share in such a way that covers what we are wanting to know about life there. It promises to be quite an eye opener, perhaps similar to St Peter and St Silas and St Barnabas & St Paul’s reports of gentiles responding to the Gospel in their day?!
Be aware, Be awake for the sake of any children you know. Want help in how to help kids be aware of porn temptations. Go to netsafe.org a NZ SAFE guarding community organisation, its been around for about 25 years. Evil lurks and is prowling around like a lion ready to pounce and devour young and old alike.
"XAI’s 12+ Chatbot Designed to “Be Explicit” and “Go Full Literotica”
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog contains images of sexualized chatbot; images have been censored but are still suggestive
Do you know a 12-year-old? Maybe your child, or younger sibling, or niece or nephew? Imagine that 12-year-old experimenting with an AI chatbot – as the majority of children do – and the chatbot saying it’s horny. That it gets sexually aroused by being choked. And proceeding to roleplay sexually explicit bondage scenes with the child. Well, this imaginary scenario is all too possible. Because xAI’s chatbot offers an A.I. companion that does exactly that. And the chatbot is rated on the Apple App Store as appropriate for users 12+.
Love in Christ, Patrick
Combined Parish Service: Sunday 27 July at St Saviour’s, Templeton at 4pm.
Today’s Sentence and Prayer
Sentence: How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him (Luke 11:13).
Prayer of the Day: O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; enfold us in your gracious care and mercy, that with you to govern and to guide us we may so use your gifts in this fleeting world that we do not lose the good that is eternal; through Jesus Christ who is alive with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Readings: Luke 11:1-13 and 1 Maccabees 2:1-22
Parish News
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.
