Auckland Community Church
Te Hahi Waka Huihui i Nga Tangata o Tamaki Makaurau
Family Circle September 2008
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From the South
• Campion.on the Mountain top
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From the past
• Bob Scott on Ngaio Marsh
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From the board
• survey results
Ski Report:
The skies were blue and there was a lot of snow. We skied Cardrona, Treble Cone, The Remarkables, and Coronet. All were blissful in different ways.
Much love, Campion
Bob Scott on Ngaio Marsh
Bob Scott gave a short speech at the launch of Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime
. A couple of extracts: There are a great many people throughout New Zealand, especially around about the 70s as I am, who have reason to be very grateful to Ngaio Marsh. She took our love of theatre; our love of drama; our love of dressing up; our love of showing off; and made something grand of it, while still being fun. They were memorable times which have stayed with us. One of my friends still calls them “my golden days”.
Who could forget Ngaio? In draughty rehearsal halls; her beret askew on her head; her cigarette dangling from the corner of her mouth with the ash drooping in a downward curl as we waited for the moment it would drop; her huge book of the script with its many side drawing and production notes; her deep demanding voice which rose to a shriek if the theatrics demanded it.
To Jo: thank you for writing this biography. You have done it so well. And borrowing words Elric Hooper sent to you last week I want to say: “with this biography you have helped us fall in love with Ngaio all over again”.
The survey about our services
has been collated and was considered at a Board Meeting. The next stage is a community discussion. In the meantime the board has made some minor decisions which were obvious outcomes of the survey, including :
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more efforts to encourage women to attend
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some steps that preparers are urged to take to ensure our services are not too long: options of
- additional dispensers of communion if there is a crowd,
- fewer verses of hymns where appropriate,
- two rather than three Bible readings where appropriate and use of a non-biblical reading where appropriate
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homilies / sermons should not be longer than 20 minutes.
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announcement slot to be focused and not extended
There are some broader issues to consider, and these will be discussed at a church meeting in place of the Bible study on Tuesday 21 October at Mark and Alan's house.
Peter Lineham
Contacts:
by email: info@aucklandcommunitychurch.org.nz
by phone: Cathy and Liz (64)(09)578 1292 or Hugh Dyson (64)(09)579 1850
by snail mail: c/- 187 Federal Street, Auckland, New Zealand.
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