In our final week looking at forgiveness, we consider what the goal of the whole practice is and the way that might impact what the church is about and how we engage with our neighbours.

Passage: Ephesians 2:11-22

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

We continue looking at the practice of forgiveness by considering the need to forgive ourselves, and wondering about the link between this and the work of true repentance.

Passage: The denial and restoration of Peter in John's Gospel

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

In this second week of our Forgiveness series, we consider our responsibility to do the work of forgiveness without being able to guarantee the outcome.

Passage: Matthew 18:21-35

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

For four of the six weeks of Lent, we are reflecting on the practice of forgiveness. In this first week we consider the foundation for forgiveness being God's posture towards us.

Passage: Psalm 103:1-14

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

In our latest 'Who Are You?' slot, we hear something of Bethany's journey following Jesus.

Passage: Romans 12:1-21

Speaker: Bethany Miller

In 2025, a group of us read Ngāpuhi Speaks, the account of the Ngāpuhi claim through the Waitangi Tribunal. It tells the story of He Whakaputanga, Te Tiriti and the breaches of both. Some of the reading group share their reflections from what the learned.

Speakers: Thea Jacobs, Roger Miller and Steven Goulstone

As we gather together for the first time, combined with our sisters and brothers from St Hilda's Anglican and Island Bay Presbyterian, we reflect on the purpose of the church that Paul states, being our participation in Christ's ministry of reconciliation.

Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

We reflect on the expression of love through hospitality and presence, sitting with the story of the Pharisee and woman who had been judged as a sinner. How does Jesus respond to both characters and how might that inform who we are and how we engage in our neighbourhood as a faith community going forward?

Passage: Luke 7:36-50Speaker: Steven Goulstone

What does it look like to have peace in the midst of uncertainty? Our church has some big questions ahead of us that could leave us feeling a lack of peace. As our Advent journey continues, we are invited to seek God’s peace no matter the season.

Passage: Colossians 3:12-17

Speaker: Steven Goulstone

Trigger warning: this message deals with topics of abusefound in Whanaketia, the report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in state and faith-based care.

In October 2025, the Baptist Union of New Zealand issued anapology to the survivors of abuse in the care of our churches and associated ministries. We reflect on the need to be intentional going forward as a local church as the truth of the abuse has been “unveiled” and sit with the words of the apology.

Passage: Daniel 9:1-16

Speaker: Steven Goulstone