Our Friday Notices
Cottage Café this morning - 10am to 12pm at the Cottage - 5 Kawakawa-Orere Road. A place to meet and have a chat, Great Coffee and Home baking. No charge although coin donations will be gratefully appreciated.
Community Daffodil Dinner. Friday 23rd August, 6 pm. Kawakawa Bay Community Hall. Orere School are providing the dessert. Please leave a message at the church Cottage 2922241 if you’d like to come. All welcome. No charge.
Foodbank—The call for food parcels continues from families in need. Thank you for your donations. Our pantry would benefit from tinned tomatoes, ricies, cornflakes, tinned tuna, pasta sauces, coffee, drinking chocolate, self-raising flour, 1kg plastic bags sugar (to foil the ants), 1kg rice, dried pasta, tinned sweetcorn, body wash, muesli bars and biscuits.
Alternatively, we also like to include a Supermarket voucher in the parcels to allow people to purchase fresh items like cheese, butter, meat.
Community Lunch. Thursday 5th of September. 12 noon, Clevedon Church Lounge. If you can, bring some food to share - a good time to catch up. Martin will be giving a short presentation on his recent trip to Mexico. All welcome.
HATCH – our community dinner and church on Sunday at 5 pm. All welcome. Please let Mathilde know if you are coming. mathilde@clevedonpresy.co.nz
Tuesday Morning Home Group. Meeting in Ardmore. Please contact Bev Sutton 0273 107 421 for directions.
Tuesday Evening Ladies Bible Study meets during the school term in locations in Ardmore and Conifer Grove. 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm. If you would like to find out more, please give Geraldine Oosterbeek a call on 027-2704-904
Men’s Group meets Wednesday evening 7.30pm in Clevedon Church Lounge
Come along for fellowship, discussion and prayer.
Prayer Circle Requests. For anyone who is seeking prayer for any concern or situation: prayercircle.clevedonpresy@gmail.com or text: Cath at 021 349 417, Elaine 022 071 7201, or Nikki 021 973 799
AA - every Thursday at 7.30 pm at the Clevedon Church lounge. Friendly and supportive. For anyone with alcohol or drug problems. https://aa.org.nz/
Sunday Services and activities:
Clevedon Church
Sunday morning service at 10 am. Join us in person or watch the live stream on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxBzxjBb3xU8ra2NHwvD_9A(The service can also be viewed at any time afterwards.)
The reading for this Sunday is from Ephesians 1:1-14
Prayer before the Service. Join us at 9:15 am every Sunday in Martin's office to pray for the church and community.
St Aidan’s Takanini (23 Walter Stevens Drive, Conifer Grove,)
Sunday morning service at 10 am
Playgroup - Every Monday and Tuesday morning in the school term. Contact Brenda at 021 657 178.
Wednesday Communion service 9.30 am. All welcome
Women's friendship and study group. Evening group, Tuesday, 7 pm. Day group, Friday 10 am. Contact Lorraine Richmond at 027 476 1169
Know your Bible Women’s study group. Thursday 12.30-2.30 pm. Contact Susanna Ph. 027 450 1926
Men’s group. Thursdays at 7 pm in the St Aidan’s Church lounge. A time of sharing, fellowship, prayer and study together.
Kawakawa Bay
The service is held in the Community Hall each Sunday at 9.30 am.
Playgroup each Wednesday from 8 am in the Community Hall (during the school term)
Thank you for your prayers and generous support of our church and its mission.
Martin
Forthcoming musical events:
Alexander’s Feast 17th (Pitt St) &18th (St Andrew’s Pukekohe) August at 3pm. Handel’s glorious ode to the heavenly gift of music. Gina and Josh take prominent roles in the Handel Consort & Quire production.
Open Performers’ Group at Clevedon Presbyterian: Saturday 31st August 3.45 - 5.15pm. open to all musicians, actors, dancers who wish to “air their creativity” before a friendly audience. No age limits. Gold coin donation to take part, audience free!
Sunday Serenades at St Andrew’s 8th Sept 1.30pm: - Plans, Projects and Promises Celebrating the remarkable abilities of over 80 children and youth musicians with the added attraction of young visual artists. Puhinui School Choir, Tuakau College Choir, CAMA Youth Choir and soprano Grace McCarthy-Sinclair.
Bach Musica orchestra and choir present Mendelssohn’s beautiful Lobgesang Sun 15 Sept with soprano Gina Sanders - Auckland Town Hall 5pm.
CVMFT Scholarships Sun 13 Oct. Applications open next week for these excellent awards in 3 age-groups across all musical disciplines.
Resources
Right Now Media. We have recently purchased a church subscription for this extensive library of video resources suitable for small groups, teaching and education. Please use this link to take a look at the library for your personal or group use: https://app.rightnowmedia.org/join/clevedonpresbyterian . We are trialling this subscription to find out how many people might benefit. If you do make use of it could you let Martin know? (martin@clevedonpresy.co.nz)
