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Contacts In Regional Deanery

Regional Dean Rev’d Angela Dutton 03 208 7366 email adutton2@xtra.co.nz cell 021 220 3000

Office Administrator Annette Ainge 03 208 7366 or 03 208 9877

Parish Office 15 Traford Street, Gore 03 208 7366

Gore Local Priests Rev’d Bruce Cavanagh 03 208 4538 cell 027 208 4811 Rev’d Maud Milligan 03 208 5664 cell 027 682 4324 Dean’s Warden Eleanor Groves 03 208 4027 People’s Warden Robin Speden 03 208 3548

Recorder Robert Tattershaw 03 208 5988 Music Rosemary Van Uden 03 208 4559

Hospitality Robin Speden 03 203 9228

Waimea Plains Dean’s Warden Jackie Butt 03 202 5745 People’s Warden Jenny Tayler 03 248 8502 Treasurer Maree Whiteley 03 248 8829

Holy Trinity Gore St Saviours Mataura Waikaka & Tapanui Office Ph 2087366

Email goreanglican@xtra.co.nz www.goreanglican.org.nz

All Saints Lumsden St Mark’s Riversdale

Good Shepherd Mossburn St Marys Waikaia

St Bartholomews Athol St Albans Balfour

Closing date for articles for the next magazine is 15 February

Facebook: Hokonui Regional Deanery

The Hokonui Herald Magazine of the Hokonui Regional Deanery

Parishes of:

Gore & Districts

Waimea Plains

December 2015

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Our Regional Dean writes

Dear Friends

As most of you will have heard by now, I will be leaving you in January to take up the position of Rector of the Parish of Scone in the Diocese of Newcastle, Australia. Whilst I will officially conclude my ministry here on Sunday 7th February, my final ser-vice in the Deanery will be Sunday 17th January at 11am in Rivers-dale. This will be the only service in the Deanery that day and will be followed by lunch in the Church Hall. Following my final service in January I will be taking annual leave and moving during that time. I will be commissioned in Scone parish on the evening of Monday 8th February.

Over these past four years we have come a long way as a Regional Deanery. We are of course not without our challenges. We should be proud of what we have achieved in transitioning to life as a Regional Deanery. Our last Deanery service in Lumsden brought with it a sense of togetherness that we had not previously experience in this way before.

I would especially like to thank our Office Administrator, Local Clergy, Lay Ministers and Preachers, all who have served as wardens, ministry area committee members and Deanery Executive members over these past four years along with our Archdeacon. Without the dedication, hard work and commitment of these people, we would not be where we are today.

As a Deanery we are now moving into a time of review. This is an opportunity to give thanks for what we have achieved, consider what might need to be tweaked or changed and what we might do differently. Most importantly we are called to pray and seek God’s guidance for our future. Who is God calling us to be in this place and how is God calling us to engage in ministry and mission in this part of God’s creation? The real challenge is to put aside our own agendas in order that we might seek God’s will. I have enjoyed these past four years of ministry with you. I am grateful and thankful for the ministry we have shared along with the fellowship and friendship that has been extended to me.

I wish you all and the Regional Deanery every blessing in the fu-ture.

Rev’d Angela

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Regular Services in the Hokonui Regional Deanery

Athol 4th Sundays 9.00am

Gore Sundays 8.00am & 10.00am 3rd Sunday 10.00am Family Service Wednesdays 9.30am

Lumsden Sundays 9.00am or 10am as rostered

Mossburn 4th Sundays 11.00am

Parata 2nd & 4th Tuesdays 11.00am

Riversdale 2nd & 4th Sundays 11.00am

Tapanui (RSA Rooms) bi-monthly (Dec/Feb/April etc) 3rd Wednesday 2.00pm (Please Note next service is 2nd Wednesday 9th Dec)

Waikaka (Waikaka Hotel) 1st Wednesday 8.00pm All other services are listed in the weekly pew sheets

5th Sundays - Combined Deanery Services - watch the Pew Sheet for notification of hosting Church

The Hi Tops singing group

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Social Work team: Sothea (translator), Sreymom (social worker), Sitha (Counsellor), Visal (Social worker)

HymnFest — fundraiser held on 8th November

in support of the McCormicks in Cambodia

This was a wonderful occasion and thoroughly enjoyed by the 140 people who attended. Many have commented on how good it was to sing so many of the traditional hymns, and how nice it would be to repeat this.

The two brackets by the Hi Tops were a delight and most appreciated.

Thanks to parishioners for the requests, the afternoon tea and all the help.

The generous donations have completed our Mission commitment for this year and given us a nice start for 2016!!

————————————- Our weekly sales table continues

Please bring goodies and/or coins/notes to purchase.

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Coming up in the Deanery

December/January/February

The December Family Service at Holy Trinity in will be held on the first Sunday of the month, 6 December, and includes the Sunday School break-up. The Healing Service is transferred to the 20th December

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Ordination Anniversary at Holy Trinity

On Sunday 13th December at we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ordination of Rev’s Bruce Cavanagh and Maud Milligan to the priesthood. Rev’d Paul Dyer is our guest preacher.

There will be one service at Holy Trinity at 10am

Following the service we will share in a celebration Morning Tea (Plates would be appreciated)

————————————— Residential Homes Services

All are welcome to join with the team taking services around the Rest Homes. Our roster over the next couple of months includes

Cameron House and Windsor Park on Sunday 10th January Albany House, Resthaven and Parata on Sunday 21st February

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Monthly Fellowship Dinners at Heartland Hotel are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. All are welcome and remember to phone the Hotel by 3pm on the day to book in with the Holy Trinity Group. A 25% discount on the à la carte menu is arranged.

Dates for the diary 15 December, 19 January, 16 February

The Next Regional Deanery Service

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This is being hosted by Waimea Plains, on Sunday 31 January at 11am. Further details will be published in the Pew Sheet

Monthly Report to the Parish from Gore & Districts Ministry Area Committee on the progress of offertories receipted compared with the previous years

To 15 November 2015 46 weeks 2013 2014 2015

Cash Offertories 2,779 3,498 3,025 Envelopes & Direct Credits 20,605 19,693 19,322 Total 23,384 23,191 22,347

Deanery Farewell for Rev’d Angela

St Mark’s Riversdale are privileged to be hosting Rev’d Angela’s final service in the Deanery on Sunday 17th January 2016 - service to start at 11 am to be followed by a luncheon in the Church Hall. The Regional Deanery Executive extends a very warm invitation to all parishioners in the Regional Deanery to join us in celebration of the Ministry Angela has brought to us over the last 4 years.

For catering purposes we would appreciate numbers likely to attend this service and luncheon so could you reply to

jrb@kinect.co.nz for Waimea Plains response or goreanglican@xtra.co.nz for those from Gore & Districts (or add your name to the list on the table at Holy Trinity)

Anyone wishing to donate to a farewell gift may do so by either:

Placing in the plate in an appropriately marked envelope Leaving at the Office Posting to 15 Trafford Street, Gore 9710 Handing to a Warden

Any apologies to the Office or a Warden

We look forward to seeing you all on the 17th January

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they wonder how Anthony is getting on. He sees this blog as my domain – not sure why as I would happily accommodate contributions from him!

In the same time-frame that I have set up my programme, Anthony has set up a social work department at the hospital, starting from scratch, in an environment where social work is not well understood. This is typical of Cambodia, not just the hospital. He began in October last year, working alone initially, developing policies and writing procedures to set the department on a good footing to a professional standard.

A translator joined him and together they worked on making all the documentation bilingual, as there is very little by way of social work resources in the Khmer language. This is due to the fact that it is a relatively new discipline in Cambodia, the first students graduated from a degree programme run in Phnom Penh in conjunction with a Washington university as recently as 2012.

Two fulltime social workers and a counsellor have since joined the team. They have found, as they visit patients in the wards, that there is a huge need for their services. The lives of so many at the hospital have changed forever because of the accidents or incidents which they have experienced. The social work team works to try to help them overcome the difficulties and challenges they will face in their daily lives when they are discharged from the hospital. Training and mentoring the social work staff is a big part of Anthony’s work and is an aspect that he enjoys. He has developed connections with social workers in other organisations and they join his team for monthly training sessions.

Anthony feels that, like me, he is putting his past training and experience to good use and the result is lives better equipped to face a different fu-ture.

The final word…… I came across this excerpt from the “Word for Today” devotional recently and it pretty much sums up how we feel about what we are currently doing: “Your work is a primary place – maybe the primary place – where your calling gets lived out. When you start seeing yourself as “ordained by God” to do the job you do, it’ll put a smile on your face, a spring in your step and add dignity to your work”. And, for us, it has!

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cotton or linen, is redirected and is sewn into bags in which toys and games are kept and circulated to patients

Smaller pieces of handmade paper – too small to be made into greeting cards – are given life as gift cards, matched with the bigger cards and included in the packet to be sold

Plastic food containers are kept and stored for the time when my programme expands to include a room where children can visit to play

Scalpels past their use-by date make great mini craft knives!

Cardboard is kept to strengthen soft book covers prior to covering them with plastic for the collection which is circulated to patients

The collection of toys I have accumulated was given a kick-start when the office staff took me to a storeroom where items previously used in the classroom on site, were stored. I was invited to retrieve anything which would be of use to me.

The Days for Girls project needs supplies of flannelette fabric which is very hard to source here. Each group that comes here is asked to visit their local op shop to find old flannelette sheets or men’s workshirts to be cut up and used in the project.

Many hospital patients have benefitted from donations of reading glasses from an optometrist in Melbourne, brought here by the Care for Cambodians group which visits a couple of times a year. The two most common reasons I am given when asking patients if they would like to borrow a book to look at are “Knyom ot jeh arn” (I don’t know how to read”) and “Knyom ot merl kern” (I cannot see). While we can’t help with the first reason, the donated glasses I have go a long way to helping people who otherwise couldn’t read the books I offer them.

Anthony and I are both using recycled laptops, reconditioned and donated by one of Australia’s leading computer suppliers.

I find it very satisfying to see how the various as-pects of my project inter-connect and especially, how leftovers from one part of the pro-gramme, or from another hospital department, can be utilised. I continue to marvel at how God has equipped both me for the work I am currently do-ing, as well as the programme with resources. My room, empty except for basic furniture when I started just 11 months ago, is now bulging with equipment. My heart is warmed and a smile cross-es my face when I reflect on how I am making a difference in the lives of hospital patients who have met tragedy in their lives. That is what I came to do. Thank you, Lord!

(Almost) the last word (a little about Anthony’s programme) Many readers have commented that, while it is great hearing about the debut of the papermaking project and the other things I am involved in,

Sokim, sewing for the Days for Girls project

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From the Deanery Registers

FUNERALS 7 October Laural Iona McDonald 27 October Audrey May Woodrow

Christmas Services in the Deanery

Thursday 24 December Christmas Eve 4.00pm Eucharist — Athol 6.00pm Eucharist — Mossburn 7.30pm Eucharist — Waikaia 9.00pm Eucharist — Lumsden 9.00 pm Eucharist — Gore 9.30pm Eucharist — Riversdale

Friday 25 December Christmas Day

9.00am Eucharist — Gore

Sunday 27 December Christmas 1 9.00am Eucharist — Gore 10.00am Eucharist — Lumsden

Note — January Services

Gore & Districts

There will be one service only on Sundays at 9.00am at Holy Trinity, Gore on the 3rd, 10th & 24th January

Deanery Farewell Service at Riversdale on 17th January 11.00am Deanery Service at Waimea Plains on 31st January 11.00am

Regular Sunday services recommence on 7th February

Wednesday morning services recommence on 3rd February

Waimea Plains Regular services continue on Sundays

Deanery Farewell Service at Riversdale on 17th January 11.00am

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Lunchtime at Route 6 Café following the Deanery

Service at Lumsden on 30th August

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What, you may wonder, do I do, and what does it have to do with the “Nothing is wasted” theme of this blog post? Sometimes I feel as if I have graduated from the Recycling 101 class with fly-ing colours…… I am taken back to my Guiding days when I well remember learning as part of the Guide Law, that “a Guide is thrifty”, or to the times when I heard Mum say – “Be careful and don’t waste anything!” Both Mum and my Guide leader would be proud of me as I really have got into recycling and making something out of nothing in a big way! – a direct result of having to be a creative problem-solver as my project is reliant solely on donations (money and re-sources) and currently receives no hospital fund-ing.

Let me share some of the ways I recycle with you:

The paper I use as a base for the fabric pulp has had a previous life in the hospital office or social work department, or as pages that children in the hospital have coloured in and discarded when they have finished.

The cotton fabric scraps I use in the papermaking machine are all pre-loved and started their days as clothing, bedding, towels or tiny bits of fabric of no use by Sokim who sews for the “Days for Girls” project I have started. (Visit daysforgirls.org to find out more about this worthwhile project)

Staff in the sewing room keep the cotton scraps from the pyjamas and bed linen they make for the hospital for my use in papermaking

A tailor in the market keeps small scraps of traditional Khmer silk for me for use in trimming the cards we make Small pieces of silk fabric (too small for trim) are cut into tiny pieces, offcuts of krorma material (the traditional Khmer checked scarves) are frayed and the waste threads from the overlocker machine used by Sokim, are added in to the water with the pulp as it is put onto the molds, to add colour and texture to plain paper. My friend who runs a foot massage project which uses coconut oil products made by her staff, sends the leftover husks my way

Sugarcane husks are rescued from the roadside where they have been discarded by the man who makes sugarcane drink

The last dregs of each batch of paper as well as the scraps left over when we make cards, are collected and put aside to be soaked in water and softened again for use in the next batch

Flowers from the Bougainvillea bushes near my room are carefully removed from the pile of pruning done by the gardener, to boil up to make dye for the more uninteresting coloured paper we produce

Fabric given to me for the papermaking machine, if it is not pure

Caregivers plaiting handles for bags

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Cambodian Connection – August Anne and Anthony McCormick in Cambodia

Nothing is wasted

As I work away happily at the hospital these days, I can’t help but think back to all the training and experience I have had through-out my life, both at work and in other arenas and realise afresh that it is all being put to good use as I pursue my current role. My library training and desire to put books into the hands of Khmer people who, traditionally, are not great readers, meant that one of the first things I did when I started in this role was to purchase some books, have a trolley made by the hospital maintenance team and trundle around the wards several times a week to deliver books to the patients and their caregivers– my own mobile library!!! The book trolley was cobbled together from old IV drip stands and other scrap metal from retired hospital equipment of various types! I found what I needed in a shop, photographed it, showed it to the team and, bingo! – a week later I had my very own recycled trolley. It works a treat! Not every-one has a trolley made from recycled hospi-tal equipment!!

Almost all patients have a caregiver staying with them 24/7, as nurses in this country (as in some other parts of Asia), give out medication and do dressings, but they don’t feed, bathe or toilet their patients – those tasks are left to relatives to do.

Every day is different – I never quite know what I’ll be doing from one day to the next. My interaction with the patients is governed by the schedules of the doctors and medical staff who do the ward rounds daily. If the rounds are completed efficiently, I am able to spend some time in the mornings with patients. If there are delays, I have to work around the doctors’ schedules, which may mean little or no patient contact. If that is the case, I usually try to do some activities with the caregivers. I have found that the best way to generate interest in what I have to offer is to take an activity into the sitting areas outside the wards and just start doing it. I am usually joined quite quickly by folk curious to see what I’m doing and before long, quite a crowd gathers and they all join in. It is obvious to me as I watch that my activities are stress-relieving, as the relatives and caregivers chat away to each other and laugh – a welcome release from the rather tense atmosphere in the wards where there is often so much pain and tragedy.

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Lent commences on Ash Wednesday—10th February

There is a service at Holy Trinity at 9.30am and we also host the Ecumenical Service at 7.00pm

Lent Studies, based on the movie “The King’s Speech”, will be held for 5 weeks at Holy Trinity on Wednesdays

at 7.30pm, commencing on 17th February

Please let us know if you are coming to these studies so that the books can be ordered—$12.50 each

Visit from Bishop Kelvin

During the past week Bishop Kelvin visited both the Waimea Plains and Gore & Districts Ministry Area Committees to discuss the future.

Bishop Kelvin outlined a number of options for the Regional Deanery. If we are to remain a Regional Deanery as we are, every Faith Community in the Deanery will need to make a 100% commitment to the Deanery. This would likely involve the sale of church properties if we are to maintain a full time Regional Dean. If we did not wish to sell property we could afford a part time Regional Dean.

Other options include reverting back to our original two parishes which may mean becoming Local Churches. We could also change the boundaries of the Regional Deanery with a number of centres joining together to form a Local Church.

It is important that we prayerfully consider our options and seek God’s will for our lives as a Church.

Items for the Salvation Army Christmas Food Bank and Toy Appeal may be left at any services up to the 20th December

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News from Parata

Parata Garage Sale Thanks to everybody for their assistance

The amount raised was $2440.00

Raffle result—Grocery Hamper — Esme Butson

Note—the Day Care Centre raffle is yet to be drawn

Retirement After 44 years Julie Tattershaw has retired from the position of Executive Manager, also known as The Administrator, of the Parata Residence. Julie’s replacement, appointed by the Parata Anglican Trust Board, is Kath Waller.

Kath was born in Auckland and was educated there, including at Auckland University and Secondary Teachers’ College. She has a Batchelor of Science degree and has also has done university studies in accounting, management, law, marketing, history, philosophy, religious studies, women’s studies and Latin.

Kath has been working in Invercargill in recent times; she worked in Gore for 14 years prior to that. She has outdoor interests, including motorcycling and reads a lot, particularly real and fictional history and enjoys historical drama and handicraft.

Julie continues as a Trustee of Parata and during the next few months will be passing on her accumulated knowledge and managing the Parata Village.

National

Shake-up Day

Heather Heteraka helps Residents during

the earthquake drill

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News from Parata

The annual All Souls’ Day service