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christ church cathedral NelsoN suNday BulletiN

3rd Sunday of Easter 15th April 2018

Dear Cathedralites Today is Harvest Festival. How well I remember as a kid waling up the aisle of St John’s Anglican Church in Woolston proudly holding up the corn that I’d cut from my Dad’s veggie garden. It was a thrill. So today we thank God for the harvest. And welcome to the seasonal workers from Vanuatu, to the Hoddy family, to others who have been part of the scheme that enables those from the Pacific to come and help harvest many crops in the Nelson Region. I learnt a little lesson this season about gardening. About 3 weeks ago I got sick of the messiness of all the pumpkins growing everywhere and taking up space and looking all untidier than what I usually am. However I resisted the temptation to pull everything out and to make it all nice and tidy. I could see there were some younger pumpkins and courgettes that still might mature if I didn’t pull it out. Sure enough 3 weeks later these have matured and so I’ve had the thrill of an extra crop after the main crop. Sometimes in our efforts to be tidy and linear and straight thinking we unwittingly snuff out the thrill of the residue that can make a late appearance and add to our level of production! Just a thought, random though it is. A huge thank you to Maureen Wagg and Anne D’Herville and the team who made the flax crosses for Palm Sunday. Also thank you to them for the weaving they do every week in the Cathedral. If ever you want to learn that handy craft then make sure you join the group. It’s amazing what they are creating. Can I commend to you Maree O’Connor who is a very modest lady. Maree hates any self-adulation or publicity. She works best behind the scenes. However she has got a back bone of steel and is keen to lead a peace ‘Walk for Life’. This will be next Saturday at midday. We will start from the Cathedral grounds and finish at the same place an hour and a half later. Don’t forget the Annual General Meeting straight after the 10 ‘o clock service next Sunday. You’ll see elsewhere in this bulletin the number of vacancies that exist on Council. It will also indicate other information that you will need to know. It is important that we have a good showing of parishioners at the Cathedral at the Annual General Meeting.

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Sentence: The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it. Psalm 24:1 Collect: We bless you, God of Seed and Harvest, and we bless each

other. We pray that the beauty of this world, and the love that created it, might be expressed though our lives and that we may be a blessing to others. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen

I also want to commend the Cathedral Holiday Programme headed once again by our enthusiastic Johnny Laing. You’ll see the exciting posters all around town advertising it. So, come along, be a helper, bring your children, your neighbours, the grandchildren. It’s often many years later it has occurred to me a wee while ago, that people in the 30’s look back and remember those days when they attending the Church Holiday Programme, and explain how much it impacted positively on their lives. It was good once again to go to The Loaves and the Fishes at All Saints last Thursday and to lead a bit of community singing. It’s an opportunity to meet folk in Nelson who come to enjoy such a lunch. Tonight at Word & Worship is this wonderful and gifted Youth Pastor of Mapua Anglican Church, Mark Waweru, who hails from the Nairobi Chapel. He’s a great speaker, come and hear him. He is also bringing some of the young people to join us in the 7pm service tonight. Of course at 5.30pm we will be having Choral Evensong with a special Anthem. I hope you are enjoying the spectacle of the Commonwealth games. While it’s wonderful to see the underdogs coming up from nowhere and getting gold my sympathies lies with the gold medal favourites who are expected to win. The pressure on them must be enormous and it must be such a relief when they do win the gold. To that end maybe our netballers might strike gold unlikely though it seems, because we have lost all expectations that they will win! In His service, Mike

Congratulations to Wale Ilori on becoming a New Zealand Citizen. Wale and the Mayor Rachel Reese

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8.00am HOLY COMMUNION (Yellow book)

Celebrant Dean Mike Hawke Preacher Dean Mike Hawke Readings Jeremiah 29:1-12; 1 Corinthians 3:5-9;

Matthew 13:1-9 10.00am CHORAL EUCHARIST (Booklet)

Preacher Dean Mike Hawke

5.30pm CHORAL EVENSONG

Officiant Dean Mike Hawke Preacher Reverend Nigel Whinney

Introduction Opening hymn 418 Father Lord of all Creation Psalm 142 Old Testament Reading Deuteronomy 7:7-14 (Jenny Wells) Magnificat New Testament Reading Revelation 2:1-11 (Graham Allen) Nunc Dimittis Apostles’ Creed Hymn 563 Rejoice the Lord is coming (Omit v3) Sermon Reverend Nigel Whinney Anthem Prayers Notices Offertory Hymn 612 We have a Gospel Blessing Sung Amen Organ Voluntary 7.00pm WORD & WORSHIP

(Informal charismatic style worship)

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1These are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jeru-salem to the remaining elders among the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 This was after King Jeconiah, and the queen mother, the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the artisans, and the smiths had departed from Je-rusalem. 3 The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom King Zedekiah of Judah sent to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. It said: 4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jeru-salem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters

in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. 7 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into ex-ile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your wel-fare. 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, 9 for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD. 10 For thus says the LORD: Only when Baby-lon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. 12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the

growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have a common pur-pose, and each will receive wages ac-cording to the labour of each. 9 For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Matthew 13:1-9 1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. 2 Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the

beach. 3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other

Jeremiah 29:1-12

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seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up

and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 Let anyone with ears listen!’

Psalm 142

1. I call to the Lord with a loud voice: with a loud voice I entreat his favour.

2. I pour out my complaint before him: and tell him all my trouble.

3. When my spirit is faint within me you know my path: in the way where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

4. I look to the right hand and see: but no man will know me;

5. All escape is gone: and there is no one who cares for me.

7 It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you—for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 It was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a

thousand generations, 10 and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him. 11 Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today. 12 If you heed these ordinances, by diligently observing them, the LORD your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors; 13 he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain

Deuteronomy 7:7-14

6. I call to you O Lord I say ‘You are my portion in the land of the living.’

7. Heed my loud crying for I am brought very low: O save me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me.

8. Bring me out of the prison-house: that I may praise your name.

9. When you have given me my reward: then will the righteous gather about me.

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and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. 14 You shall be

the most blessed of peoples, with neither sterility nor barrenness among you or your livestock.

Revelation 2:1-11 1 ‘To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2 ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers; you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them to be false. 3 I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up for the sake of my name, and that you have not grown weary. 4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5 Remember then from what you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6 Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 Let anyone who has an

ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God. 8 ‘And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the first and the last, who was dead and came to life: 9 ‘I know your affliction and your poverty, even though you are rich. I know the slander on the part of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11 Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Whoever conquers will not be harmed by the second death.

SERVICE INFORMATION Those receiving Holy Communion are invited to do so EITHER by intinction, i.e. retaining the wafer when it is given to you and then dipping it in the cup of wine before consuming it OR by consuming the wafer when it is given to you and then drinking from the common cup.

• Grape juice is available at communion. • Gluten free wafers are available. • Hearing Aid Loop available - please turn to the T position on your hearing aid ALSO • Three individual speakers on the Pulpit side in rows 4 and 5. • Ramp for access to the Sanctuary (on the right side) • Special chairs are available from the Pulpit side for those with disabilities or back

problems. Note that the leg height can be adjusted to suit.

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NOTICES

FLOWERS FOR 2018

Cost: $45.00

Thanks to Helen Tyson for donating the flowers today.

‘With thanks for our time as Cathedral chorister: my sons Christopher & Nicholas Kiddey, and me Helen Tyson

(formerley Kiddey)

WEEKLY CATHEDRAL ATTENDANCE

2 April – 8 April 2018 = 363

The Cathedral needs to receive $5115.00 p/w in giving from all sources in order to meet this year’s budget. Last week we received $3062.00

HOUSE OF PRAYER & HEALING IN THE CHAPEL

Monday, Tuesday, Friday: 8.00am-9.00am

Wednesday & Thursday: 9.00am-12.00pm

Last Monthly of every month we all meet in the Chapel for combined prayer.

Feel free to contact Tapita on 027 255 3013 for prayer requests or for further details.

HERE TO HELP: If you know of someone who is in need of prayer, a visit, home communion, or other support, please let Steve know, and the pastoral committee will respond as best it can. This includes telling us of recent bereavements of parishioners, congregants or families. Don't assume we know, please tell us! We would rather have had ten notifications than none. Help us to help our friends and families! Steve Jordan :steve@nelsoncathedral.org

If you would like to flowers for 2018, folders at the main

donate towards please fill in the entrance.

Does anyone have an exercycle that they are willing to loan one of our parishioners for a few weeks? She needs to regain her strength after a big operation. If you can help please contact Jenny Dickie on 021342227/ jenny.dickie@remax-elite.co.nz

We are planning to have a Cathedral Working Bee Day one Saturday in May. Anyone keen to be the co-ordinator please let me know so we can ‘get the ball rolling’ and set a date.

Thanks! Teresa

PRAYERS Please pray for the repose of the soul of

Dr Barrie Simpson, retired Detective Superintendent, head of the Murder Squad,

International Hockey Referee, former Archeologist after genocide.

May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

INTERCESSIONS * Please pray for Hazel Simpson and those who morn late Dr Barrie Simpson. * Please pray for Sue & Guy Haller.

ANOTHER THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

When people cease believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

G. K. Chesterton

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UPCOMING EVENTS

PRAY FOR MUSIC & MUSICIANS Eternal Lord God, source of all beauty and harmony, we praise you for the gift of music: for the inspiration given to those who compose it, for the skill and devotion of those who perform it, for the faculties and powers which enable us to enjoy it; and we pray that as by this gift our lives are enriched and renewed, so we may glorify you in a fuller dedication of ourselves. Guide the team charged to lead the music in our Cathedral giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen

FOR OUR PRAYERS CHURCH

* Pray for Margaret Poynton in Papua New Guinea. * Pray for Overseas Missions * Pray for the Parish of Mapua (Hill Community Church)

WORLD

*Pray for peace in Jerusalem and Syria *Pray for persecuted Christians throughout the world.

COMMUNITY

* Pray for the final arrangements for the ‘Walk for Life’ on Saturday 21st April and that many will turn up on the day. *Ongoing mental health issues, especially amongst youth.

SICK:

John, James, Andrew, Jean Crockett, Lachlan, Tim Hurd, Jake, Elizabeth, Catriona, Roger Williams, Sean Eichstadt, Russell Dickson, Robyn Robertson, Shirley Eichstadt, Mary Frank, Jennifer, Joshua & family, Chris, Anja, Rayner, Verena, Jason Hayles, Cathy.

ST BARNABAS PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, we pray today for the “Chibok girls” of Nigeria, kidnapped from their school in Chibok during the night of 14-15 April 2014. You know, O Father, the ordeal that these mainly Christian girls suffered, as they were forcibly converted to Islam and made to marry jihadists. We pray especially for the 100 or so who are still in captivity. Be close to them in their hearts, reminding them of Your love and the truths of Your Word. Enable them to cling to You as their Saviour, Lord and God, despite the teaching of radical Islam forced on them for four long years. Thank you that around 160 girls have escaped, been rescued or released; we ask that You would help them too, as they recover from the trauma of what they have endured.

Amen.

YOU'RE INVITED TO THE 2018 NELSON WALK FOR LIFE!

This is a celebration of life from conception to natural death. It is a peaceful, non-judgmental statement that life is precious and worth living. It opposes abortion and euthanasia by making a

positive case for life (rather than being a protest march).

It is a family-friendly event. It starts at the top of the cathedral steps on Trafalgar Street and walks to Halifax St and back (return via Rutherford Street).

All welcome to join us in making a great statement.

Mark the date 21 April at 12:00–13:30

Marie: 021 1085 988 / walkfolife2018@gmail.com

MARK THE DATE!! NEXT SATURDAY

21 APRIL

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

TAKE NOTE: The next AAW meeting is

TUESDAY 17th April- NOT 19th!!

MONTANA BONES & THE NELSON RAIDERS OF THE EMPTY TOMB

TUESDAYS: Meditation at the Cathedral at 6pm. All welcome AND Walking Group meet at the Cathedral at 9am, then morning tea afterwards. WEDNESDAYS: Flax group meet at the Cathedral at 1.30pm (Quiet Room). Exercise for health meet at 11am (Quiet Room) **due to school holidays, no exercise Wed18/4** THURSDAYS: Monthly Services at Bishopdale Chapel on the first Thursday of the month at 11:15am - Holy Communion

Fantastic school holiday program for kids 6-12 years of age. Each day is filled with

fames, singing prizes, Bible stories, movies in the crypt. Fun & laughter and lots more.

17 – 20 April

If you are aged 12+ and are able to help John at the Cathedral Holiday Program, there will be a brief meeting at the Cathedral this Sunday at 3.30pm (Quiet Room)

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WELCOME

We are delighted to have families with children worship with us. During school term time we have a children’s ministry during the ser-

vice. We have clipboards with activity sheets available for

children during the service. Toilets can be found outside down the path to the left or, (if it is raining)

can find toilets off the Teaching Room. Please join us for a cup of tea or coffee after the service.

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Newcomers

I would like to know more about: Kids Church Choir AAW Prayer Meditation Exercise groups Parish Nurse

I would like to go on the cathedral emailing/postal list I would like to go on the Parish Roll. I would like to have a visit from the clergy

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The Very Reverend Michael Hawke: 548 1443 / Mobile: 021711726 Email: mike@nelsoncathedral.org

The Reverend Steve Jordan Mobile 021 294 6105 Email: steve@nelsoncathedral.org

Organists: Jane Mitchell – Mark Patterson Children’s Ministry Worker: John Laing - Mobile: 0272 959 261 Email: jwlaing53@gmail.com

Dean’s Warden: Graham Allan – 548 8166 Peoples Warden: Jenny Dickie – 548 7705 Mobile: 021 342 227 / jenny.dickie@yahoo.co.nz Office Administrator: Teresa Coombs - 548 1008 Email: office@nelsoncathedral.org Web: https://nelsoncathedral.nz Facebook: Christ Church Cathedral PO Box 657 Nelson Office Hours: Week days 9.30am – 12.30pm

Services Next Sunday 22nd April 08.00am Holy Communion 10.00am Family Eucharist (with Children’s Church Programme) 11.30pm AGM 12.30pm Whakatu Maori Mission Community Service (noon-3.30pm)

5.30pm Sung Evensong 7.00pm Word & Worship

SERVICES THIS WEEK

Monday 16th April 12.15pm Tuesday 17th April 12.15pm Wednesday 18th April 10.00am Thursday 19th April 12.15pm Friday 20th April 12.15pm Saturday 21st April 08.00am

OIKOS

OIKOS is the simple name for home groups. Sally Astridge will be talking to

us about Oikos at the main service (10am) on 22nd April, before the AGM.

Bible Verses for next week 08.00am Nehemiah 8:5-12 10.00am Acts 4:5-12

John 10:11-18 5.30pm Exodus 16:9-16 Revelation 2:12-17