{"id":57,"date":"2008-06-28T17:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T04:54:40","slug":"service-celebrating-matariki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/2008\/06\/28\/service-celebrating-matariki\/","title":{"rendered":"Service celebrating Matariki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/021-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matariki &#8211; a time to reflect &#8211; a time to harvest &#8211; a time to give thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Matariki is the Maori recognition of New beginnings or a New Year. At Christ Church we celebrate this festival each year. This year, on Sunday 22 June, we invited the children from a local Maori school to join in the service.<\/p>\n<p>What a treat!  The children sang a waiata and again during Communion. The Old Testament Lesson was read by an 11 year old in both Maori and English. A tangible sign of our bi-cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61 aligncenter\" title=\"011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldchurch.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/011-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were also treated to a most colourful but inspirational address by the Principal from the Waikare School. In essence -&#8216;children of today are the future of tomorrow &#8211; cherish and nuture them all as they are all our responsibility&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This uplifting service was conducted by our Maori Sacramental Minister who is also a senior teacher at the Waikare Total Immersion school. Following the service a luncheon was enjoyed by all present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matariki &#8211; a time to reflect &#8211; a time to harvest &#8211; a time to give thanks. Matariki is the Maori recognition of New beginnings or a New Year. At Christ Church we celebrate this festival each year. This year, on Sunday 22 June, we invited the children from a local Maori school to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,21,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-church.lndo.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}