Thank you church for your great response to our Breakthrough Offering, which goes towards the future building developments. If you were away and want to participate then use the special envelopes and place them in the weekly offering or hand them in to reception.

We are working with the Ministry of Education and the Manukau City Council to make a way forward for the college, and then when this is finalized we can plan for the extensions in the east church. It is a massive vision and I have taken Bill Kathagan on part-time to help facilitate the whole programme. 

We are also ready to put in for a permit to redevelop the bottom church building in the south into a Daycare, which will open up the top site for future development and enable us to get rid of those old classrooms.

This Sunday I will be in the city and we have one of NZ’s top communicators Rob Harley in the east. Rob will also minister in the evenings. And then next week we are starting a new series across our congregations called “Meeting God”. God doesn’t only meet with us when we are worshipping together in church but also in the most unlikely of places. You will be encouraged.