St Martin's St James Church February 2022 Nau mai, haere mai! W el com e to S t Ma rt in ’s St James Church. We hope you have found some sun, fun and shalom (peace) over the summer. It’s exciting to see the liveliness of our community coming back together along with being reunited with those back from holidays. We had a wonderful farewell thanksgiving service last Sunday for our Youth Pastor Tom along with his wife Rosa, family and friends. What a joyful send off as Tom continues on a discernment for ordination path along with a year at Grad School for a primary school teacher qualification. Go now to love and serve the Lord, go in peace. In January I attended the New Wine New Zealand Summer Festival in Whanganui. If you a not familiar with New Wine, they are a Spirit-empowered movement whose goal is bringing the nation back to Jesus – through the local Church – one renewed life at a time. I first attended this (then called New Wine) as a brand new follower of Jesus in about 2003 where I attended with my family for a few years and it was there I
began to hear God speak directly to me leading me towards a vocational calling and seeing healings and the Holy Spirit moving and ministering. Over the years the Summer New Wine family camps grew into Festivals with over 1500 attendees. Other events during the year include one-day worship training sessions and leaders retreats or online equipping sessions, all seeking to help followers of Jesus to grow in living and ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit. New Wine has a compelling vision to see churches filled with the presence and power of God, overflowing with love and hope to their communities with people learning how to move in the