March Family Service

This month's Samoan family service was conducted by the families from Otara under the leadership of Lemalu.  Here are two of their creative dances they performed.

No going back

Grade 3 and 4 are the very first classes to lead our monthly family services. This talented group of students lead us in prayer, Bible readings, singing and through a very good play. The play showed us Abram's journey when he was told to leave Haran, land of his relatives and Father to the land God was 'going to show him'. Well done to all the students in this group, you all acted, sang and spoke confidently so that we all got your message loud and clear. No going back!

News Flash! - Abram Reports

Breaking news! - Grade 5 Reporters have some amazing findings about God's faithful servant - Abram.
Please watch and enjoy their reports then leave a comment.
Be blessed!

Welcome to Grade 9 for 2012!

Greetings from Grade 9

2012 Sunday School year has started and the students of Grade 9s thirst for God's word and eagerness for homework is a gear changer.  Grade 9 has 7 students, and each brings a different quality, a different like & dislike, different strength & learning method and plenty of humour to dynamics of the class.  In the 3 weeks of class so far, they have completed comic strips, self-made maps for lesson 1 & dissected lesson 2 into quotes-direct action-direct result table to show that nothing said, done or authorized by our Heavenly Father is without reward for us today.

In God we trust - Leni & Lorraine

Welcome to Grade 1 for 2012!

Greetings everyone!

This year Grade One is made up of a group of 9 students, 5 lovely, loud and keen young girls, plus 4 polite, quietly spoken but just as competitive young boys.

All of who are looking forward to 2012 and learning about some great and obedient people of the bible such as Abram!

God Bless

Liva and Laki (Grade One Teachers)

Welcome to Grade 6 for 2012!

Greetings to you all in the name of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ
Grade 6 2012 consist of 3 intelligent beautiful young ladies & 6 alsoyoung strong talented young men.  Grade 6 has already lost a pupilParis Salu in which she has moved overseas with her family, we wishthem all the very best & hope to see them again one day.Thank you Jesus for once again blessing us with bright individuals wholove to meet every Sunday & discuss your word & teachings.We look forward to sharing postings of Grade 6's activities &discussions & we pray you all enjoy popping through.

God Bless Bob & Emma
Grade 6:  Toreka Tele'a, Legatasia O'Brien, Josephine Luatua, EreneTuala, Jordan Tele'a, Junior Tulua, Korinito Seuala, Lafoga Rokeni &RJ Sumeo.

Welcome to Grade 11 for 2012

God Greetings to you all, 2012 has started and Grade 11 with its 6 students is ready to walk by FAITH and not by SIGHT. The class is keen to learn from Abram, Joshua, Caleb, Ruth & Naomi how to live out the theme for Sunday School this year. We look forward to fellowshipping with you all each Sunday.   From Grade 11 we PRAY - all the best.  2 Cor 5:7:  For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.  God Bless. 

Teiho

Welcome to the Open Class for 2012!

Shalom.  Welcome to the Open Class of Tamaki PIPC Sunday School.  We're a group of talented young men and women who enjoy meeting every Sunday.  We've decided this year it's time to get the spiritual milk and do our best to move onto solids.  We hope to this through more study, life application and opportunities to serve and act out our Lord's example in our parish, homes and communities.

It's cool to be a Sunday School kid - that's why we're still here!  God bless our teachers and our students with many fun learning times this year.

Grades 3 & 4 leave Haran for Hebron

Students of grades 3 & 4 from Tamaki PIPC found out all about Abram and Lot's journey from Haran to Hebron. How did they do this? Simple they walked down Pt England Rd, stopped at Te Ao Hou Childcare, then again at Pt England Reserve. All these places represented those in this famous story when Abram was first called by God to 'Go to the place I am going to show you'. All the way down Pt England Rd we followed chalked arrows on the footpath with this verse from God to Abram until we arrived at the sacred tree of Moreh, in Shechem where we built an altar, prayed, set our camp then packed up again stopping at the place between Ai and Bethel. Result - we got to experience some of what Abram may have and now know all the place names and people in lesson one for NZ SSU 2012.
Thanks to the amazing students of Grades 3,4 and 12 for being so open and willing to take part and be part of Abram and Lot's lot on this very sunny day in GI.

Welcome to the Kindy Department for 2012

Greetings to you all in and through the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!

The Kindy Department is a very awesome place to be on a Sunday morning.  We begin at 9.30 with free play activities then at 10'o'clock we start our Bible lessons, followed by activities then snack time. Finally, we close our session with a round up of the lesson and prayer time.
Our Bible lessons so far have been focussing on God's amazing story of Creation and now we have begun a new series on Noah.

We have up to 30 children attending regularly ranging from the ages 3 months - 5 years old, along with  many enthusiastic and helpful parents supporting our kindy.

The Kindy Teachers this year are Nape, Suliana, Ria, Finau and Pamela (Teacher helper).
We look forward to an inspiring and fulfilling year in the Kindy Department.

May God bless our children and the work in our Sunday School,

The Kindy Teachers

Welcome to Grade 2 for 2012

Day 1 for Grade 2 was one of mixed emotion as we bid farewell to Faith who has now moved to Perth in Australia with her family. I'm sure everyone will agree that we will miss having both Faith and Paris around, but at the same time we wish their family all the very best as they start a new journey in Australia. 

We have a very cool class made up of 6 boys (Bailey, Izac, Lorenzo, Cyrus, Maroroa and Sam) and 2 girls (Lofi and Imogen). Imogen is Bailey's cousin who lives on the North Shore - that's a pretty good effort!

Our class have designed shields that represented 4 things that were special to them. There were many common themes such as: Family, sports, food, culture and there was even chocolate, fast cars, fishing and money..That's right, we have the next Mr Trump in our class!

In the middle of their shields they had to write a cool slogan that they could look back on over the year for inspiration. Some of the slogans included: 'Do you smell what God is cooking', 'WWGD - What would God do', 'No Pain no gain' and 'God is cool'.

We look forward to the exciting year ahead!

Mene and Jacci.

Welcome to the Beginners Grade for 2012!

Welcome to the Beginners Grade for 2012!  This year the Beginners Grade will be sitting their first scripture exam.
The Beginners Grade is taught by Pareu and Rona.
Have a fantastic year.

God Bless

Talitha Cumi - Young lady, arise!

Rejoice - YEEE HAAHHH they all shout in return as Club Talitha was declared officially open for 2012! A gorgeous group of girls turned up adorned in their pink bits and pieces for our opening night.

Tina - Lealofisa led us in a lovely devotion that touched on many of the things we will endeavor to learn and practice this year. Tina invited Norietta to be a disciple and then her sister Galatia to be Jesus. Galatia had the task of washing Norietta's feet. As this happened Tina pointed out to us the humility, care and love Jesus would have given to this task. How it was normally the job of a slave/servant to perform. It showed of Christ's care for others and making of others important. A special lesson for us all to take much away from.

After a little talk about the gear we'll need every month, Norietta prayed for our session as well as our food. A light meal followed then we moved over to our arts and crafts table where we decorated our own butterflies. On the back of them we have attached our calendar for the year.

Our evening closed with our leaders introducing themselves and the group they care for. Each introduction was met with a noise of rejoicing girls : )

Girls if you are 8 years old and older you are very welcome to join us every Tuesday after Holy Communion. 5.45pm till 8.00pm. Please remind your parents to bring you into the hall and to come back in when it's home time : )

Girls are going to have so much fun! TALITHA CUMI - LITTLE GIRL, YOUNG LADY...ARISE!!

Grade 5 Artists

Picasso, Da Vinci, Donatello and Michelangelo are some of the world's most renown atrists. Now meet the up and coming talent of Grade 5.

Grade 5 Artists

Loia

Makayla

Julia

Canaan

Hosannah

Bethany

Exodus 35:35 "He has given them skill in all kinds of work done by engravers, designers, and weavers...They are able to do all kinds of work and are skillful designers."

TAMAKI PIC TEACHERS RETREAT

Talofa and greetings everyone from the teachers retreat at Point England School...

Opened with fun and new activities to get the group started...already we are calling each other by their middle names....other cool ideas to help the kids, cross word, food treats, map out journey for the class, its great to share ideas and look at interesting ways of putting the same lesson across to our kids....

This is also my first time writing on our BLOG so feeling pretty happy to get the chance...

Its been an awesome day, thanx to the crew for first half of the day....now its lunch time...master chef Tatupu....

God bless Kereti.

TAMAKI PIC 2012 - Grade 8

Talofa and greetings!

This year we have been blessed with four keen spirits, whom we're excited to get to know better and hopefully learn from them, as much as pray they will take away Gods teachings and learn life lessons in a fun, supportive and uplifting environment.

One month in the Sunday School year and we've been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm and intelligence of Duck, Cow, Dog and Cat :) We've packed our bags for emergencies, comforted ourselves with the love of family, nourishing food and water etc. We look forward to a joyous and inspirational journey with the FAB FOUR and hope 2012 brings many breakthroughs and rewards. May we be lead by Faith and not by sight!

God Bless, Villa and Kereti

Talofa lava and welcome to Grade 5 for 2012

Grade 5 so far consists of 3boys and 4girls all with 100% attendance. They are a lively and talented bunch of kids who all aim to get higher marks for the Sunday School Union Exam on June 17th.

On Sunday 4th March, we will be filming our live report from Haran based on Lesson 1 "Abram by faith went" so watch this space.

















Back row: Lama, Julia, Loia, Bethany 
Front row: Canaan, Makayla, Hosannah, Iavana


God bless,
Grade 5

Grade 4 Title Pages

Students of Grade 4 were given the task of designing and creating a title page for their new exercise books which were kindly donated by Meauli and Margaret Seuala. Here are some of the title pages that the kids made. Aren’t they awesome?? Please leave a comment.

Vita


Sulu


Senila


Raeleen


Muamai

Grade 4

Greetings! We are the cool kids of Grade 4 and we are looking forward to another awesome year of Sunday School in 2012! Our teacher is Ray. Throughout the year we will be posting a lot of articles, stories and photos of our journey. Please make sure to leave some comments for us.
Lots of love, Grade 4.

The Perfect Storm: Sunday School Teachers Retreat

Talofa lava, Kia Orana, Fakalofa lahi atu,

Greetings to you all in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

This weekend was a very anxious one for us all as the Civil Defence issued a storm warning! For many of us, Friday night was a very rough and windy experience. As Saturday morning dawned, I asked myself, "Should I go to the retreat? Is it still on?" It was the best thing I could have done!

What a great privilege it was to attend the Sunday School teachers' retreat on Saturday and participate in what was a very special time of fellowship, worship and planning! After a couple of ice-breakers and a bit of singing and dancing, we heard a devotion from Luke 2:52 encouraging us all that in obedience to God, not only will we grow in wisdom and stature, but we also become recipients of God's favour. Thanks for that very encouraging message Ray. We also looked at the lessons for the year using our creative imaginations to prepare exciting games and activities that would make learning the stories of God interactive and fun - our God is not a boring God! We also got a few tips from Ria on how to blog - and so here I am!

Thank you to our Sunday School teachers that made this retreat a pleasure to be a part of. Thank you to Pt. England Primary School for the use of their facilities. And praise God for turning nasty weather into the Perfect Storm. God is good!

Blessings to you all,

Gary Mauga.