It was sad to farewell Ellen Ferencz way before her time. Ellen had bravely fought and conquered cancer only to have it return a year later and take her life. Our love and prayers are with the family.
I also attended and participated in Sue Rayner’s funeral service last Friday. Sue was the first woman to be an Elim Pastor in NZ and had special credentials for prison ministry. In her younger years before she found faith in Jesus Christ Sue spent time in and out of prison. She did a marvelous job as a Prison Chaplin. 

It was good to catch up with Clinton and Jan Kelleher on Saturday. Clinton was up to preach in Cambridge and then for some conference planning, and Jan was meeting our team for our women’s conference planning. 

Then on Monday and Tuesday Mike Knott was up from Wellington. We attended the Transform 2010 conference on Monday which was a gathering of leaders brought together by Bruce Patrick of Alpha. Bruce is doing a top job with Alpha after successfully leading the Baptist Tabernacle. His wife Virginia was part of an outreach we ran in our late teens called “Drift Inn”. It seems (and was) ages ago.

Father’s Day is this Sunday with our iPad/iDad special services. All dads who attend the services across the church go into the draw for an iPad. Two will be given away. We have arranged for one of our Policemen to come to the staff meeting on Tuesday for the draw and we will video this so we can play it the following Sunday.