Kia ora,

My name is Sheree Fletcher and I am a trainee counsellor in my third and final year of study with Bethlehem Tertiary Institute. This year I will be on placement with Grant Conway of Te Waipuna Counselling and have connected with The Street Church to offer free counselling at their premises in Hania Street from May onwards (within certain criteria). I offer an empathetic, non-judgemental and collaborative space to explore your experiences. 

Prior to studying counselling, I worked in administrative roles in a variety of workplaces. I am a mother of three daughters and have travelled and lived overseas. When I am not studying or counselling, I like to take our dog on walks by the river, catch up with friends and sew. I look forward to connecting with you.

Sunday 5th May, 10am

Together will be a significant moment as we unite as six Locations to powerfully encounter the Living God! This is a Sunday not to be missed. Mark the date in your calendar. Registrations will open later this month. Check out this video from Mel for more information.

Today we are in our third week of learning skills that we need to study the Bible well. We learn about using Bible maps and looking at the background of the book of the Bible we are reading from.

We continue our series on the skills needed to study the Bible well. Today, we are looking at how the Old and New Testaments are distinct from one another and why each part is important in understanding God's big plan for His creation. We learn the difference between Old Testament commands and New Testament commands and how they relate to us as followers of Jesus today.

Today we dive into a nine week Bible series where we will be learning skills to help us study and read the Bible. We start with reading verses in context. We will learn that reading only one verse might trip us up and give a different meaning to the verse than God intended. We can combat this by reading the verses before and after to give more context to the verse.

With Waitangi Day this coming week, we are learning about God’s original design for unity, what we are seeing in our context and country now, and our hope for God’s perfect eternity.

Kia ora! Kids Zone is back this week and we are excited as we look forward to everything God has in store for our kids this year. This week we are recapping our Bible series from 2023, recapping some of the main time periods, along with themes, and key events through Bible history. Over term one, we will be digging deeper into our Bibles, and we don't want to leave anyone behind. It will be a fun lesson to kick the year off.

On Sunday we announced that we have appointed Daryl and Dee Collins as Location Pastors for our Porirua location, with Robert Ives as an Associate Pastor.

This is such an exciting development for us and another testimony of God's faithfulness to His church. We'll be commissioning them this Sunday at Together along with the Silvesters and Lambs.