Sunday 27 July 2025

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Here’s our Zoom link –

Topic: St Martin’s Sunday Worship. To Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81508696154?pwd=cnErZFM5VG5OQVhsZkxYc0dxOHdvUT09

Meeting ID: 815 0869 6154
Passcode: 712158

NOTICES:

A very warm welcome to all who worship with us today. Please join us for morning tea following the service.

We pray for the Linscott family as they mourn the death of Viv’s father Peter Anderson, whose memorial service was held here last week. Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord, and light perpetual shine upon him.

NEW TIME for Meditation Group – during the winter months this will be at 4.15pm each Monday.

Wednesday Walkers 30 July: meet 9.30am at Homebase carpark,199 Marshlands Rd for a walk around the area and then have coffee at Esquire which is just near the corner of Homebase and Marshlands Rd. Barbara & Alan 021 142 7668 or 021 1263801. All welcome.

Annual Reports are now due. If you convene a parish group, please email a report to the Parish Office by 17th August. The AGM is on 21st September.

Donations: if you would like to support the ministry at St Martins our bank account is: 03-1598-0011867-00. Please include your name as a reference.

THIS WEEK AT ST MARTINS                                    

Monday 10am               Tend cuppa & chat (lounge) Emily 022 094 1492

Monday 4.15pm           Meditation Group (lounge) Dugald 021 161 7007

Tuesday 10.30am         South Elder Care (lounge) Jeannette 332 9869

Tuesday 7-9pm             Mums n Tums (lounge) Livvy 027 327 6369

Wednesday 9.30am      Walking Group: Marshlands Barbara 021 142 7668

Wednesday 7-9pm       Cantabile Choir (lounge) Rose 027 254 0586

Thursday 10am             Crafty Crafters (lounge) Sally 332 4730

Thursday 1.30pm          Sit & Be Fit (church) Anneke 021 077 4065

Friday 10-11am             U3A meeting (church) Joy 337 2393

Friday 11.15am             Mums n Tums (lounge) Livvy 027 327 6369

“Being Green” ~ from Fern:

Ways people are making ‘green choices’ around the world – and in New Zealand – a good news spin to the green message – we are not alone in the world.

  • We have been burning fossil fuels on international flights recently and sleeping in a number of different hotel rooms and this is where we have noticed small green changes. When I was a child and Dad went ‘away for work’ he would return with the empty individual cereal packets which we fought over and played with, so it is a family tradition to collect these souvenirs! Or, in other words, a family tradition never to throw away ‘anything which might be useful’.  Since then, hotels introduced little containers of shampoo, body wash and hand lotion. These were found in abundance on the West Coast during the big clean up after the Fox River flood. You will remember hearing about this in 2019 – it took until 2022 to clean up and cost over $3 million. Well, we have noticed that in most places we stayed, these liquids are now in refillable bottles and Budapest was the only place that had these presents for our grandchildren.
  • However, in Vietnam we managed to collect lots of toothbrushes and combs… some bamboo and some plastic. Plenty for all the grandchildren.
  • In Amsterdam the focus was on shoes—giveaway shoehorns and polishing cloths—and early in the morning here we saw lots of litter on the streets but being rapidly cleaned up.
  • In Hong Kong they offered the toothbrushes, combs, hairnets, sewing kits etc but from the main desk for $5US as part of their green ethic. We were given disposable slippers [in Budapest too] possibly because of the swimming pool.
  • Hong Kong had ‘reverse vending machines’ where you could feed clean plastic bottles [with lids] into a machine and either receive a credit or donate it to charity. We saw a number of people scouring the streets for bottles to return. The plastic is used again and again in a closed loop, helping to preserve precious resources.

Anyway—we are not the only place in the world trying to make a difference and cut back on plastic waste.