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three of the four teams above them on the table. With a healthy squad to choose from, and support from their Bishop Park fan base, the team is nicely placed to put their recent losses behind them and reel off a few wins against teams sitting lower on the table.

The Junior season has got off to a great start. This year we have ten Junior teams ranging from First Kicks, up to U15s. We also have some new coaches across grades, with some having recently attended Capital Football's coaching courses so we can really support our kids. Two of our teams are a collaboration with Lower Hutt City AFC. Both the U15s and U12 Girls Only team are made up of Eastbourne and Lower Hutt players, this is to make teams with really good numbers, with the added benefit of making new friends. Both teams are off to flying starts turning in some great results so far.

- Mike Andrews, EFC

News from our local playcentres

At Point Howard Playcentre we have been experimenting with recycled and reused materials like cardboard boxes. We have explored the different possibilities with shape and texture to produce art (like Flossie’s cat, pictured!), role play equipment (TVs, robot costumes) and crawl spaces for littlies (tunnels and cubbies)... not to mention crashing into some boxes on our bikes!!

We are also working with older tamariki to explore project based learning, where they use different skills to create something over a series of sessions. We have a papier-mâché volcano being built and here you can see the tamariki making their own gingerbread figures & forms after mixing the dough on the previous session and refrigerating it.

Join us to give your tamariki a chance to explore their interests and make mess - but not in your house!

Sessions Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:15-11:45. Drop offs available for 2.5 year olds. Contact Lucy 021335391.

Right: Recycling cardboard into a cat.

Below: Sculpting forms out of gingerbread.

Faith in the Community

Faith, hope and charity..

Recent events, locally and internationally, have been consistently horrible – floods in New Zealand and Australia, typhoons and hurricanes in the Americas, earthquakes in Europe and a massive volcano erupting in the Pacific. All these underscored by the climate emergency. And these are just a few such events. It’s not difficult to extend this list of woes almost indefinitely…

In contrast, we in Eastbourne are very fortunate, most of our lives have not just been turned upside down. So, it’s our time to think how to help others. We recall that well-known verse in 1 Corinthians 13:13 –“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” We can and we should dig deeper to make changes and to provide help to those who need it. And, we can and we should think of and pray for those we cannot reach with our material and financial help. And, recalling the wider implications of that old word for love, ‘charity’, with which we started, we can ensure we speak more kindly to that annoying neighbour, or workmate, or relative, or close family member. Most interpersonal differences can be resolved peacefully if we will but forgive, and accept, and try...

St Ronan’s: Services Sun 9.30am - informal 1st and 3rd, traditional 2nd and 4th. Ask if you’d like our monthly printed magazine the Record

E:office@stronans.org.nz

W:www.stronans.org.nz

St Alban’s: At Wellesley College Sun 10am communion with guest vicar. Special activities for children during term time. 1st Thurs only, 10am communion at St Ronan’s Church with guest vicar. E:office@stalbanschurch.nz

W:www.stalbanschurch.nz

San Antonio: Vigil Mass, Sat 5.30pm.

Sacred Heart, Petone: Mass, Sun 9.30am and 5.30pm. E: holyspiritparish41@gmail.com W: www.holyspirit.nz