WelCom October 2019: Congratulations to Holy Family School, Porirua, on winning the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Award for ‘engaging with the community’. The 2019 awards were held at a ceremony in Wellington on Tuesday 10 September. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the winners. The national awards recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements in early learning, primary and […]
WelCom October 2019: On Sunday 18 August, Our Lady of Kāpiti parishioners gathered celebrate a final Mass of farewell to their much-loved Our Lady of Fatima Church, 29 Parata St, Waikanae. The church, which has served generations, has been closed and sold as the parish looks to the future with its new parish centre complex being […]
WelCom October 2019: Ngā Tangata o te Awa Tupua We continue with personal stories from some of the ‘People of the River’ who have longstanding connections with the Catholic Church the Whanganui River. Ka rere tonu ngā kōrero motuhenga mō ētehi o ngā ‘Tāngata o te Awa’ e hono roa nei, e pūmau nei ki te […]
WelCom October 2019: Piki Boyles Wellington’s St Francis of Assisi Ohariu Parish Youth ministry team, formed by Challenge 2000 staff, is involved in several parish and community activities that support children and young people of the Northern suburbs. Through their involvement our team of eight leaders has been learning how to apply their faith in their […]
WelCom October 2019: Peter and Mary Fama With a welcome $3000 contribution from the Palmerston North Diocesan Catholic Charities Board and a mighty fundraise of $12,000 from family and friends, this year’s ‘Thermals for Children’ project was off to a big start. And as a result, hundreds of children in the Hastings Parish and community area […]
Two clues were inadvertently omitted from WelCom’s October crossword, p 18, Seeds of Hope – the Caritas State of the Environment for Oceania Report 2019. Here are the two missing clues. Down 21. Today’s young people are saying, ‘The … is ours.’ (6) 23. In New Zealand 112 landfills are at risk from a 0.5 metre […]
WelCom October 2019: St Mary’s College student and a member of the Archdiocese’s Integral Ecology Committee of the EJP Commission, Xyryll Gayagoy, and her friends share their story about their 2019 Young Enterprise Scheme business, which is providing plant-based wraps as an alternative to using plastic wrap. We – the ‘It’s A Wrap!’ team – are […]
WelCom October 2019: On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons, which is observed internationally each year. Earlier this year, St Mary’s College Yr 12 students, Kathryn Arand and Jeanie Lyons, developed a project called ‘Goldies’ to offer support, compassion and service for the elderly. Along […]
WelCom October 2019: The UN International Day of Older Persons is celebrated every year on 1 October to honour contributions older people make to society and to highlight issues that affect their lives. On 1 October the Vincentian Home and Hospital, Wellington’s only Catholic aged-care home and hospital, will hold a fashion parade day with residents […]
WelCom October 2019: A presentation by international speaker Sr Laurie Brink op, a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, Professor of New Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago and an associate editor of The Bible Today, will be on 15 October 2019, 7pm–8.30pm, at St Bernadette’s School Hall, 190 Naenae Road, Lower Hutt. This session proposes that […]