Christmas and New Year's Message

The year has come to an end for Sunday School. It's been a fun year with plenty to do.

Before we leave you, here's a message from the grade 4 students of our Sunday School.

Have a joyous Festive Season everybody.

Raise Your Voice

Tonight is the night of the eagerly anticipated Raise Your Voice concert led by Essence. The evening has begun in fine fashion with a beautiful song by the lovely Vailelei Setefano.

It's been nearly 3 hours, Essence kept nearly all of God's people on their feet rejoicing and singing his praises.  There has been special performances from young and old members of our congregation who really lifted the roof tonight.

Thank you Essence for an amazing concert and for sharing your God-given gifts.  May God continue to bless and guide your plans into the future, and we look forward to singing and praising the name of Jesus in his house every Sunday.

Get well soon Malulu!

On Sunday the 20th November, Sunday school had the last “Fun-Day” of the year.
Our Fun-Days are themed Sundays in which all the classes have a morning of fun & games in mixed age group teams.

The Summer Slam fun-day was also special in that the money collected for our gold-coin offering would go to one of our young members Malulu who has been bravely battling an illness which has meant he has been absent from Sunday school for most of the year.

The Sunday school kids all signed a special card and gladly gave their offering knowing that it might cheer up our young brother.

As you can see in the picture below, Malulu had the biggest smile on his face when the card and gift were presented to him!

The message from Sunday school read:

To Malulu (Phat Boi)

You are such a good example of what it is to be a brave soldier. God in his goodness and mercy keep you strong, brave and courageous in this time of rest, healing and restoration.

Love from
PIPC Tamaki Sunday School
XOXOXO

Malulu, we wish you the 'bestest' Christmas ever and we look forward to when you will bring your big bright smile back to Sunday school!!

Bible Class comes to a close

Bible Class has had a wonderful year of in depth Bible Study, activities and learning experiences. This year has seen a steady group of committed members attend most Monday nights. Winter typically brings a drop in numbers, however this year a core group of members pushed past the desire to stay home and get to church every Monday.

Our closing evening was spent with one another as well as our minister Reverend Leiite Setefano. We were sharing about holidays and had Tama share with us about the passover festival and it's reason for being. A gift exchange was made between members and a delicious meal served provided by all the BC members.

Our annual prize giving went as follows:
Timothy Award (young up and coming): Nominees: Livingston,Rivalana, Kane and Zina. Winner: Zina
Merry Heart Award (always cheerful/warm to others):Nominees:Livingston,Josie,Marian and Masele. Winner:Masele
Most Improved Award: Nominees: Rivalana, Neta, Sione, Zina, Pamela. Winner: Sione
Most Encouraging Award: Nominees: Marian, Pareu, Masele,Faafeu. Winner:Pareu
Tafa'ipaia Award (all rounder - attendance, contributions,participation etc) Winner: Masele

The night following we went to watch the movie 'Courageous'. It's certainly a movie made by Christians with many strong messages, one being honour begins at home. We would strongly recommend for you to go and watch it. If you want to know more be sure to catch up with one of our BC members or click here to see the trailer. The picture you see we took after the movie. A word of thanks to our church family for your support and prayers for the youth in BC. They have undoubtedly helped us get through the year.

God bless you, be aware of the 'Snake Kings' ; )

Touch, Pause and Engage

Following all the excitement from the Rugby World Cup this months family service was conducted by the dynamic Bible Class.  Touch, Pause and Engage was the theme of their service.

Thank you to all the talented leaders and members of the Bible Class for sharing such an important part of our christian life - to stay in touch and engaged with our Lord - through his Word and in Prayer.

May God continue to bless you all in your studies and in your work duties.

Blessings,

Congratulations Peneueta and Valentine!

Today Peneueta - one of our Sunday School teachers married Valentine. A beautiful ceremony took place at Tamaki PIPC in Glen Innes. Peneueta looked stunning alongside her groom, bridesmaids and groomsmen. A beautiful day for beautiful people. May God bless you both as you start this exciting part of your life together.

Club Talitha - November Night

Key verse tonight presented by Rona was
1 Corinthians 12:4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5 There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6 God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.

So how did we learn further about this? We had three stations set up.
1. Flax bouquets and arrangements with Pareu
2. Sketching the cross with shading techniques with Pamela
3. Making and baking of Pagi Popo with Pola
A night for the 'P' ladies indeed. From the same sources we ended up with different outcomes - different spiritual gifts but the same Spirit...

It was enjoyed by all the girls and ladies present. We've put together a slideshow to show you some of the fun we had. Thank you to Rona and the team - Pola, Pareu and Pamela. We loved the lesson and time we had together. We hope all our families got to enjoy the pagi popo that arrived home hot and ready with a cup of tea.
Bless you all church. Lots of love - Club Talitha.

Tamaki PIPC @ Glen Innes International Carnival

This movie shows you more of all the groups that took part in the International Carnival that was hosted by Glen Innes.

International Carnival hosted by Glen Innes from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Tamaki @ GI International Carnival

On Saturday the 15th of October our parish got to be part of our local carnival. It was the International Carnival and it was hosted by our community of Glen Innes. Many local Glen Innes residents came out on this fine day to watch, take part and enjoy the day. It was kicked off by a parade of all the local groups. Starting with the Samoan part of the community. Why? Well Glen Innes had the Manu Samoa as their adopted team from the RWC. So our Samoan community came out in force alongside all the other cultures in GI to strut their stuff.

This video shows you mainly our parish and their participation, we will soon post a movie that shows you more of the wider community who took part.

Definitely a day to remember and be a very proud GI local! God bless our community as we keep working together to make this place an even better one.

Lotu a Tamaiti 2011

A scene certainly to make any parent happy and be reminded of the precious gift we have in children. This scene unfolded yesterday in our church. Many happy children, parents, grandparents and families enjoyed the Lotu a Tamaiti at Tamaki PIPC.

Like year's before it was service that had so many different and valuable messages for parents and families alike. Parable of the servants in the vineyard, the denial of Jesus by Peter, debate of the greatest mountain, story of Queen Esther, the brothers Esau and Jacob and their important lesson on forgiveness were presented to us today by our children.

Some made us smile, laugh and cry as we received and reflected on their messages. Well done to all our children, teachers, Tama and Tina who prepared another uplifting White Sunday for us all to enjoy and grow from. We hope you had an enjoyable lunch with family and friends. God's blessings be upon us all as we venture into the last few months of the year.

Ia manuia outou matua, ae ola matou le fanau. Ia soifua ona o Iesu.

Congratulations Canaan

Congratulations to Canaan on coming second in the Auckland Primary Principals Association Champion of Champions Year 5 and 6 Speech final 2011, held at Ponsonby Primary School on Monday 26 September.

Canaan's topic of his speech was 'Kiwiana - what it means to be a Kiwi'.

Road to the final
1st in his schools 'Good Shepherd's speech competition
1st in the Eden Albert zone speech competition (13 school participated)
2nd in the APPA champ of champ (16 cluster representatives)

(2010)

1st in his schools speech comp last year, and represented his school at the Eden Albert zone speech competition.  Topic of his speech last year was 'Samoa'.

May God in his wisdom and love, continue to bless you with the confidence to excel in all that you do.  We look forward to hearing about your future speech competitions/achievements.  

Keep up the good work Canaan!  Keep aiming high and believing, in reaching your goals.

0800 God's Line

This month the talented students of grades 9 & 10 conducted our family service.  Their theme was called, 0800 God's Line - focussing on Prayer and the story of Daniel.
Well done to all the fantastic Teachers and students for presenting such a powerful message, that God is always there waiting on us to call him and talk to him, anytime and anywhere.

May Gods' blessings continue to shine upon you, your studies and in your work for the Lord.

Pulega Tupulaga(Youth) Service 2011

Every year our Tupulaga (Samoan Youth) combine with our neighboring PIPC churches to conduct a youth service. This year the Tupulaga service was hosted by Onehunga. Although the day was cold and wet, this didn't stop the Awesome name of our Heavenly Father lifted up - beginning with Praise and Worship. Later Panmure performed a Creative Dance, followed by a Chorus speech by Tamaki and Onehunga presented a short drama. The finale item was a combined song.
 Watch and listen to the combined song by our Tupulaga from Aukilani Sasa'e.   Malo lava Tupulaga!

Which way? God's Way!

The cool Kindy kids conducted their family service in June.  Their theme was called, Which way? God's Way!  
Please leave a comment for the cutest kids in Sunday School.
God loves you Kindy kids!

Tug of Life

Here are some highlights of the uplifting and inspiring Family Service by the talented Grades 11 & 12.

Great work team!

May God continue to shine brightly in your lives as you continue to strive to serve and uplift His holy name.