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    • Vicars Letter 12th December 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsI am sitting here thinking through the year that has been; there has been a lot in there. We had our final Parish Council meeting together this Thursday (11th Dec), where we were able to pray for and send out those stepping off as we look to welcome those stepping on in the new year. I was struck by something someone said that we are a people of hope who, no matter what, have always been a people that walk through hard times, suffering, turmoil, and at times g [...]

    • Vicars Letter 5th December 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsIt has been a fantastic week following our first week of Advent as we explored the theme of being ready and prepared for God even when we don't know the time or the place, as we think about our being in the middle of two advents, the first of Gods coming in Jesus and the second when Jesus will come again to deliver and redeem the world. Part of this has been the Hope and excitement of four of our young people who are coming for baptism on Sunday. Anaiwan, Luke [...]

    • Vicars Letter 28th November 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsIf you are anything like me, you hate waiting! Like, I really mean it, I hate waiting. I remember as a kid at Christmas being unable to control the excitement and nerves of Christmas day and the thought of opening my presents. Waiting for school exam results, for which I dread, waiting for the birth of our children, waiting for my coffee order, waiting for people to write back amidst conflict, and there are many more, but suffice to say, I hate waiting. A [...]

    • Vicars Letter 21st November 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsMy heart has been sitting a little wearier than normal this week. There is a chance its that there are a bunch of things swirling in my wider family circles that feel hard, Friends who are having a hard time, The world is in a tough position, I'm in a season of personal growth which is always powerful and beautiful but brutal at the same time, I hazard a guess too that there is something in our annual calendar as we near the end of the year towards the Christm [...]

    • Vicars Letter 14th November 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsWe are heading into what is sometimes called "Ordination Season" in our diocese at this time of year. Of course, what we mean by that is it's around this time of year that those who have been discerned for ordination to either the diaconate or priesthood are ordained either in their local context or at the cathedral. You can have a look at all those who are being ordained here.One that always pops up for me as this time draws closer, as I walk with you i [...]

    • Vicars Letter 7th November 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsThis week, as part of some time spent learning and listening to a series called the Art of Teaching, I found myself in the book of Ezra, a fairly short book in the middle of the Old Testament. I was struck by this piece of scripture that describes Ezra, Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.What struck me was the simplicity yet power of this way of life. Studyin [...]

    • Vicars Letter 31st october 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsLast week has been a wild one when it comes to the weather around us. It had a little bit of everything: wind, rain, warm, cold, and even a bit of hail. As I was in the middle of a string of kids at home due to school not being open on days, I began to think about what things we have in our back pocket when the storms in our life start to rage, that keep our faith strong? When the winds of life really start to howl! When it gets cold and frosty? When we g [...]

    • Vicars Letter 24th october 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsThis is a quick note from me this week. Please make sure you have a look through our weekly newsletter, as there are a bunch of things to take note of coming up and worth putting in your diary. This week, we have our annual Light Party for our community - Sunday, 26th Oct, 3-5pm - We have no central gatherings as a parish, as it is our commitment to all lean in and help with the Light Party as a way of connecting with our local community. We are enco [...]

    • Vicars Letter 17th october 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsGuy here, it is so good to be back from India and catching up with so many of you this week. Feels like I've been in a whirlwind for two weeks, to be honest. India was action-packed the whole time! I was on the ground for around 11 days in total, which included orientation games, meeting new people, visiting different communities that are being engaged with, and spending time with others from around the world, connecting over a shared connection to the c [...]

    • DEACONS LETTER 10th OCTOBER 2025
      • Rev. Cassandra Mesa Kia Ora All Saints Greetings in the name of Lord and saviour Jesus Christ Cultivating a lifestyle of prayer means choosing to seek the Lord, day by day and moment by moment. Prayer is not just for emergencies. It is the fuel for our daily living. As we come to week 2 of this new series that has it focus on cultivating a Life of Prayer. We will examine Paul's letters to the Corinthians and Ephesians, taking another step in cultivating a deeper, more disc [...]

    • Deacons Letter 3rd October 2025
      • Rev. Cassandra Samuel Kia Ora All Saints I am still buzzing from all the amazing energy of the Parish Camp. It was such a beautiful weekend of lots of friendships, laughter, connections, God filled moments and silent reflection time.Some of the highlights from Camp Our pizza night on Friday – we had some amazing, customised Pizzas – all the kids made their own pizzas with their favourite toppings. Once this was done, we all settled into our rooms. We gathered [...]

    • Vicars Letter 26th September 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsThis is a quick update for this week as we head towards Parish Camp this weekend, and then I head away for 13 days. We are super excited about gathering for the weekend at El Rancho to worship, pray, read, and delve into Scripture together, and have a great time over the weekend. For those of you who are unable to come and are still in town, please feel free to head along to St Aiden's for a 10 am service in Mirimar, or check out another church you have b [...]

    • Vicars Letter 19th September 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsI have spent much of the week in conversation about the next season here at All Saints, many of you will know that we several years ago committed to a Mission Action Plan together, we have developed rhythms around gathering together as a parish in corporate worship, gathering in homes for deeper discipleship, groups that are going on mission together, groups studying the bible together, and groups praying together, these are incredible things that are happenin [...]

    • Vicars Letter 12th September 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsWriting hasn't always been a thing I have loved to do, Talking and chatting another thing all together, or have ever been good at at, arguably i'm still not, but over the last several years it has always been a treat to sit down each week and think of you all, ponder and pray over writing to you all, or those of you who read this letter, and what to share. This week, I sat down to plan the next few weeks at All Saints, leading up to the end of the year. After [...]

    • Vicars Letter 5th September 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsWelcome to Spring! What a treat to have some beautiful days at the beginning of the week to enjoy; the same can't be said for the last day or so, and we can really appreciate them. How good is our creator?This week I have been reading a bit about human desires, how they control and don't control us, and where they come from. Looking at will power, influences on our lives, upbringing, truth and lies we are told, and then the original origins of what we desire a [...]

    • Vicars Letter 29th august 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsIt's great to be back in Hataitai and amongst you all again. Our family had a wonderful time away with friends. We spent time amongst the mountains skiing, we fellowshipped together, and we had the privilege of spending time with a young person we had spent some time with many years ago, which was such a gift. The bit we love the most is the stories of adventure we all come back with, which usually start with "Do you remember when ...... happened". [...]

    • Vicars Letter 15th august 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsThis week, my family and I are on holiday together in the South Island, adventuring and skiing. Each year during this time, we make a conscious effort to take time together to do things we love together and create moments of adventure and wonder. Summer grew up skiing and I grew up by the beach. I never knew a person was a mountain person or a beach person until I met Summer, I just assumed people were both because when you grow up in New Zealand, you ar [...]

    • Vicars Letter 8th august 2025
      • Kia ora, All SaintsI am writing to you from Australia. I have been here for the last 3 days attending the 2025 Exponential church planting conference with others from around the Wellington Diocese. It has been a fruitful time together, listening to the different speakers and workshop presenters, as well as time spent connecting with one another and asking what God is saying to us and what we are going to do about it.Something that has really stood out to me, and there have been many, has been th [...]

    • Vicars Letter 1st august 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsI have been reflecting over the history of All Saints this week, due to a number of factors, and it never ceases to amaze me the power of a faithful group of people, whose lives were completely sold out for Christ, one another, and their local community. There have been many patches throughout our history as a faith community where times have felt hard, oppressive, or wobbly, as well as times of real fruitfulness or "Glory days". Time after time, as we re [...]

    • Vicars Letter 25th july 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsThis week I started watched the TV series The Chosen, a TV series depicting Jesus in the gospels, episode two introduces Simon to us, the reason I mention this is that with creative license they depict Simon as a fisherman who is in a spot of bother struggling to pay back the Romans for taxes due, he goes about desperately to try and catch fish at times when he isn't allowed due to law at night and on particular days, in this desperation his wife is susp [...]

    • Vicars Letter 18th july 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora, All SaintsYesterday, we lost our dear friend Betty to this earth. We are thankful for the time we had with her (which was a lot), but we grieve the time we are separated until we are reunited again in heaven.I have been thinking about the power of the resurrection and our life in Christ. One of the most powerful images and promises we find in scripture is that when we come for Baptism, we are dying to our old self and rising alive again in Christ, born anew in the Spiri [...]

    • Vicars Letter 10th july 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsYesterday it was a privilege to host a diocesan event with Bishop Oscar from Nairobi Chapel as the keynote speaker for several sessions. Two things stood out to me: one, the hospitality shown by All Saints to our wider diocesan family was amazing! Such a gift to have special people in the room who ooze hospitality and welcome. The second was the encouragement, it was to hear from someone with lived experience of forming disciples and planting churche [...]

    • Vicars Letter 4th july 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsThis week, we begin our giving month here at All Saints. Each year, we choose to take a month to dive into how giving is core to our discipleship from all the angles of our lives, gifts, skills, talents, times, and financial resources. This year, we are going to base our four-week series on Haggai Chapter One, it's only 15 verses, which looks at what happens when a people group tries to do things on their own and how God shows up, what God says, and [...]

    • Vicars Letter 27th June 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsThe last couple of weeks since Easter, we have had a focus on the Holy Spirit through Pentecost and then, of course, on Trinity Sunday, and then last week, we had our friends Julia and James Coleman preaching on prayer. During the sermon on Trinity Sunday, we explored how the world is in decay and that the Spirit breaking through is the first fruit of what is to come when Christ redeems the world. Today (Friday, 27th June), the lectionary reading is [...]

    • Vicars Letter 20th June 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsWe have just made our way through our season of Lent, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, making our way to Trinity Sunday last week. I think this has been a powerful season to see how our God has continued to make way for us to have relationships and connections, make way for us to have liberation and freedom from the bondage of sin, and created a way for us to have life and continued restoration and healing in him through Jesus and the power of the Spirit. [...]

    • Vicars Letter 13th June 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsI have found myself thinking back to our time together at Pentecost last Sunday and being reminded of the energy in the room, the worship, prayer, and gathering together to praise God. I'm reminded of the 48 hours of prayer Friday - Sunday last week, those moments of being part of a chain of people praying continuously, and the tangible experience of the Kingdom breaking through in that place. This Sunday is Trinity Sunday in our church calendar. A S [...]

    • Vicars Letter 6th June 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsToday starts our launch into Pentecost for 2025; we have our 48 hours of continuous prayer starting at 10 am (Friday, 6th June) and running through until Sunday at 10 am, when we will all gather for a combined Pentecost gathering.I often wonder if Pentecost has become for us a little bit like Glad Wrap. Glad Wrap is a brand name, not a product; it's actually cling Wrap, but We know it as Glad Wrap; in America, it's called Saran Wrap, the same thing known [...]

    • Vicars Letter 30th May 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsThis week, we shift from our season of Eastertide to Ascension and towards the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. During this time, we join with the global church by participating in the 'Thy Kingdom Come' movement, a global prayer movement with a focus on praying for our world and for five people we know who we want to see come to know Christ.So, who are the five people you are praying for? Friends? Family? Neighbor? Foe? Come, Lord Jesus!This week, Rebek [...]

    • Vicars Letter 23rd May 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsI was struck this week at the depth of several conversations I have been having with people about the hunger and thirst for deep, lasting discipleship. Deconstruction has been a buzzword for the last several years; with the rise of influencers on the internet and big-name personalities that have documented their "Deconstruction" journey, there have been a sleuth of books about what is "deconstruction", and how it's been around since the dawn of time, thin [...]

    • Vicars Letter 16th May 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsI have been pondering the phrase "Practice what you preach." We have all heard, thought, said, cussed, and muttered it. I was profoundly struck this week when I felt like it was put well and truly into action by Summer (a heroine of the faith in my eyes). God has called her and pressed upon her life a call to leadership, no doubt! And yet here she was saying, "For a season, I am going to take a break from vicaring and leadership to get myself and my family set! [...]

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