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Friday 24 February 2023

Still in a state of emergency

Responding to Cyclone Gabrielle is a mammoth task, so the National State of Emergency has been extended for seven days.

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This means strong, experienced coordination across all arms of government can continue on a national level, in partnership with local government, the business community, social service providers, iwi and community groups. The National Emergency Management Agency we know as NEMA continues to operate its National Coordination Centre to support the ongoing response and is coordinating the all-ofgovernment response. A new Cyclone Recovery Taskforce ensures local voices have direct input into decision making, and that recovery is led by the needs of those on the ground. Lead Ministers have been assigned to each affected region, working within their communities and reporting back on their local

Warren-Clark List MP based in Bay of Plenty

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TODD MULLER

needs. They will join a new cabinet committee making decisions relevant to the recovery chaired by Grant Robertson, who has been appointed as the new Cyclone Recovery Minister. Barbara Edmonds has been appointed as Associate Cyclone Recovery Minister. More support has been announced. This includes $250 million being provided to help Waka Kotahi and local councils to assess and fix roads. And $50 million will deliver interim emergency business and primary sector support. Inland Revenue is being supported to deliver interest write-offs, tax concessions for donated trading stock and an extension of R&D Tax Incentive filing deadlines. This is only interim support and there will be more to come. It certainly helps but it doesn’t undo the destruction, anxiety and heartache. My thoughts are with all affected, we will get through this together. Kia kaha!

Thanks in the wake of the cyclone

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I’d like to thank our community for their incredible generosity towards victims of Cyclone Gabrielle, and especially Tenby Powell and the pilots, ground crew and suppliers at Tauranga Aero Club. Tenby and TAC were supported by Auckland and Waikato pilots who flew six tonnes of essential supplies to the East Coast and Hawke’s Bay.

Monthly Bay of Plenty Electorate Constituents’ Drop-in Clinic: Third Monday of the Month (Feb-Nov) 9-11: Te Puna Hall 12-2: Welcome Bay Community Centre Todd.MullerMP@parliament.govt.nz www.toddmuller.co.nz 3/9 Domain Road, Papamoa 3118 07 542 0505

Thank you to TAC, Brett Marsh Transport, supermarkets, social clubs and everyone in the Bay of Plenty who helped with supplies, logistics and financial donations. If you’d still like to contribute, TAC would appreciate help towards fuel costs; they are accepting donations to 02-0372-0019669-00 with ‘DB donation’ in the reference field.

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I am so proud that the Bay of Plenty has been represented in such a special way, when we ourselves are still recovering from the anniversary weekend storms that affected many in our region, including families in Maungatapu who still can’t access their properties. The coming months will continue to be challenging for us locally and for many regions in the North Island, including neighbouring Coromandel. For a tourism destination whose international market has been locked out for two years, losing their domestic market due to bad weather and flood damage is devastating. I urge you to support them and other local businesses while they provide products, services and employment under stressful conditions.

Churches Active In Our Community The Bible: the mouth of God

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Tauranga Churches ST JAMES

70 Pooles Road, Greerton office@stjamestauranga.co.nz Ph 07 541 2182 Rev Philipp Potgieter Ph 020 4010 7364 10.00am Fellowship 10.30am Morning Worship

ST PETERS IN THE CITY Cnr. Cameron Rd & Spring St www.stpeters.org.nz Phone 578 9608 Rev Enosa Auva’a 10.00am Family Service Contemporary

ST ANDREWS

Cnr Macville Rd & Dee St

EVANS RD COMMUNITY Mt Maunganui CHURCH, PAPAMOA Phone 575 9347 30 Evans Road Phone 574 6190 Rev. Mike Uttley 10.00am Family Service

www.mountchurch.org.nz Rev. Douglas Bradley 9.00am Traditional Service 10.30am Contemporary Service

ST COLUMBA

502 Otumoetai Rd Phone 576 6756 www.stcolumba.co.nz Email: office@stcolumba.co.nz 9.30am Worship Service

BETHLEHEM COMMUNITY CHURCH

183 Moffat Rd Phone 579 1600 www.bcchurch.co.nz 9.30am Worship Service

ST ENOCHS

134 16th Avenue Phone 578 3040 www.stenochs.org.nz Rev. Jaco Reyneke 9.30am Morning Worship

We sometimes hear the saying that goes like this: “doctrine divides, but experience unites”. While there are many beliefs held by the Christian church that have caused serious divisions over the millennia of church history, there is surely one doctrine over which all Christians agree: that the Bible is the Word of God. Jesus – the incarnate Son of God – described the Scriptures as “the mouth of God”. In Matthew 4 we read that when tempted by the devil to turn stones into bread, Jesus answered by quoting from

242 Dickson Road, Papamoa Rev Philipp Potgieter Ph 020 4010 7364 9.00am Morning Worship 10.00am Fellowship

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Deuteronomy 8:2-3, where God reminded the people of Israel (through Moses) that, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God”. The same thing is said in 2 Timothy 3:16: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness”. In Isaiah 50:4 we are invited by God to wake up every morning and listen to His voice: “Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught”. Dear reader, where are you seeking the daily bread of sustenance for your soul? Simply open the Bible and when you read it, you will hear God speaking to you from His own mouth, the Holy Spirit inspired Scriptures. Listening to God’s own words is the primary means of growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and becoming more like Him. Richard Roodt – Redeemer Church Tauranga