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Cory from work has talked me into this! (Not that I needed much convincing for such a worthy cause). Now come on friends, open your wallets!!!

Andrew McKean • Sweat with Pride I’m taking on Sweat with Pride this June to raise money for our Rainbow communities! 💦🌈 Our schools, workplaces, and doctors’ offices are still not safe places for many Rainbow New Zealanders and it’s putting lives at risk.

All welcome to Maribel and Br Andrew's exhibition of photos from the Camino to Santiago - Monday 2 to Friday 6 October. Father JP will facilitate a talk on pilgrimage at 5pm on Wednesday 4 October. See you there!

All welcome at the Interfaith Service this Saturday 5 November. 5pm at the Chapel.

Disability & the Inclusive Faith Project: join the kōrero in Kirikiriroa!

What does your sacred literature teach about hospitality, inclusion and equality?

At the hui, 10th August, we will explore:
- How to navigate challenging conversations about disability and inclusion in the faith community.
- How organisations are coming together to support this process on national, regional and local levels
- How you can take practical steps to foster inclusion in your faith community
- How we can all continue to advance respect, understanding, social cohesion and a fair society
… and more

This is a multi-faith, multi-sector project that will have very practical outcomes for your faith community, including resources for initiating conversations and effecting change on a local level.

The Inclusive Faith Project will result in justice, equality and a better Aotearoa New Zealand for us all.

Enquiries to [email protected]
For registrations, please click here:

Waikato 10 August 10 AM-1PM
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/inclusive-faith-project-waikato-regional-hui-tickets-345121195787

Interfaith workshops seek to foster inclusive communities
10am to 4pm on either Fri 1 or Sat 2 July

The Tauranga Moana Interfaith Council, Welcoming Communities and the University of Waikato are bringing back a new series of Religious Diversity and Overcoming Bias workshops to Tauranga. Last year these workshops were offered to people from a wide variety of work situations, faith traditions (and a number of no faith tradition), and cultures to help us celebrate their differences and to explore how to welcome the growing religious diversity in New Zealand today.
In Tauranga, approximately one in five people are born overseas, and as the western Bay of Plenty is growing and changing, this is reflected in its increasingly diverse population.
“Cities like Tauranga have become multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-faith communities,” said the chair of the Tauranga Moana Interfaith Council, John Hebenton.
“The mosque attacks in 2019 and the racism which arose post Covid-19 show us that this is not always an easy thing to create and discrimination based on ignorance can easily turn to violence.
“It takes time and effort to overcome our lack of knowledge about those different from us.”
The Interfaith Council will be running a one-day religious diversity and overcoming bias workshop with the University of Waikato and Welcoming Communities on both the 1st and 2nd of July.
“We hope this course will help us all look at what we assume is normal and learn about all the groups that make up our city, so that we can create welcoming communities in which all can thrive,” said John.
These workshops are being offered twice (10am to 4pm, Friday 1st July and Saturday 2nd July) and will be facilitated by the Religious Diversity Centre of New Zealand. The topics covered include: Identities, Cultural Awareness, Examining the Issues, Overcoming Bias.
They are being held at Waikato University's Durham St campus.
Cost $25 (includes morning and afternoon teas, but BYO lunch).
To register, email Shona: [email protected]
Limited to 25 participants each day

Our colleagues in the Maclaurin Chaplaincy at the University of Auckland invite you to join them for tonight's Empathy Transformation Webinar, honouring the memory of our sisters and brothers who were killed and injured in Christchurch three years ago. The Zoom link is https://auckland.zoom.us/s/93985591611,

I've invited the members of the Waikato Interfaith Council and their friends to join me on Wednesday in responding to Pope Francis' call for 2 March to be a day of prayer and fasting for Ukraine. The Chapel will be open for prayers for peace.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-02/pope-announces-2-march-as-day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-ukraine.html

Pope announces 2 March as day of prayer and fasting for Ukraine - Vatican News Pope Francis says his heart aches over the situation in Ukraine and announces a “Day of Fasting for Peace” on Ash Wednesday.

Service of Imposition of Ashes - Wednesday 2 March at 12 noon. All welcome. (Hosted jointly by Brother Andrew and Father Juan Pedro.)

It is indeed the season of peace and goodwill to all. My friends Imam Sabah and Mirza and other members of the Ahmadiyya Community have come bearing gifts including a copy of the Kur'ānu Tapu, the Arabic text of the Holy Qur'an with a Māori translation. Many thanks!

A useful contribution to the discussion from Gareth Jones, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at the University of Otago.

An individual’s Christian response to a vaccine mandate in the workplace Vaccination mandates and the workplace: Are Christians in the firing line? Gareth Jones attends Dunedin City Baptist Church and is Emeritus Professor in Anatomy at the University of Otago. In this …

With the return to Level 2, the Chapel is once again open during the week, and Hillcrest International Church and the Society of Friends have resumed meeting on weekends. Student groups have mostly finished their activities for the year, but the Chapel is still available for study and private prayer, and Brother Andrew's Eucharist still takes place on Tuesdays at noon. Please note that 1 metre social distancing between bubbles still applies at Level 2.