In early 2023 the parish was contacted by Heritage New Zealand, inviting them to apply for funding from the David Luke Heritage Bequest.
She recalls with a chuckle that, as a seven-year-old, she pictured God like a big blue balloon stretched over the earth. Diana wondered in her young mind if she could scale a ladder sufficient in height to pop him with a fork!
“We acknowledge and take full responsibility for our failures to provide the safe, caring and nurturing environment those who have been in our care had a right to expect and to receive.”
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A well-timed refresh for the "lighthouse of the community".
Diana was destined to be an unconventional lass growing up in unconventional ways.
"We owe it to survivors to ensure that this Report is a catalyst for great change."
"It’s been so good to be with other folk from across the diocese..."
Who would have thought: a transcendent moment, and the rugby hadn’t even started.
It is a young child who Jesus places in the midst of the competing disciples.
“The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God..."
We are all called to be witnesses to the good news we have received.
Some of the most powerful moments of my life have happened in spiritual direction.
God of covenant and calling, you bind us together.
We lead out of who we are more than what we say.
"We pretend like everything’s fine when our houses are burning down."