Welcome to the Anglican Parish of Fendalton, Christchurch

St Barnabas & St Thomas

Thoughts from Chris

With our Vicar Mark away, I have been asked as the Youth and Young Adults minister to give you an update – a dangerous thing!
But it is my pleasure to, so here we are:

Youth: One of the most exciting things about Youth Group this year is our leadership team. With Matt Chamberlain, Ngahuia King, Rosee Neville and Anna Abrams all on board, it is a strong and faithful little unit. This means we are growing in relational depth with more of the youth. Also, as we have been looking at Mark's Gospel and a series on 'Awkward Questions' about Christianity, we have had more leaders to engage in discussion with our young people. Our youth group membership has been in rebuild mode this year, and we are slowly growing in both number and togetherness.

Young Adults: The Antioch service, by God's grace, has had an increasing 'buzz' about it this year. Our engagement with the passion (death and resurrection) of Jesus at the end of Luke's Gospel, and with Paul's passion for the gospel from Galatians, has been exciting and inspiring. Our numbers have been steadily building, most excitingly with a number of people bringing friends along to experience the good news of Jesus in word, sacrament and relationship. I am so thankful to God for the way this community seeks to warmly welcome those who come along, and for the way so many commit to the service. I am also thankful for their commitment to hearing what the Spirit is saying to the church through the Scriptures.

Our Tuesday Space group is still hooked in with the diocese wide 'Society of Salt and Light' movement – and at the moment we are wrestling with some big issues arising from the start of Paul's letter to the Romans – things like shame and the gospel, sin, and wrath! The thing about Young Adults is they don't just want to paper over the tricky stuff, and they are prepared to wrestle openly with it as a community. That's one reason why I love working amongst them so much!

As always, your prayers are deeply appreciated and welcomed. And if you want to know more about any of this, please feel free to chat to me.

With thanks to God for his goodness in Christ,

Chris Spark

Corner of Fendalton Road & Tui Street
8 Tui Street,
Fendalton
Christchurch 8041
Phone: +64 3 351 7064
Email: stbarnabas@xtra.co.nz
Website: www.stbarnabas.org.nz

St Thomas'
17 Strowan Road,
Bryndwr
Christchurch 8052

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Earthquake Pictures

Below: Cracks in the north wall of St Barnabas Church




Bracing to stabililse the church ready for repair:








Links to Post-Earthquake Notes
from our Vicar
   
                30 March                

19 March

16 March

12 March  

8th March

4th March

01 March

Letter to Parish following Earthquake Feb 2011 

 

2012 AGM News

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