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    • Vicars Letter 2nd May 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsThis week, I was fortunate enough to have a Zoom lunch with a friend who lives in another town; we asked each other what was inspiring one another at the present moment. As part of his answer, my friend went on to reveal this beautiful image of being abandoned to Christ; we are a blank canvas for God to paint on, as he is painting, not observing the painting but feeling the brushstrokes. I found myself sitting there wondering what that might be like. I started [...]

    • Vicars Letter 25th April 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsI love Easter! I love that Easter isn't just one day but 50. I love that we celebrate Christ's power and miracle for several weeks. I love that following Easter, we celebrate with the ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, of course for us, that looks like joining with the global church and praying for our friends and family, our community, and the globe to know Christ, as well as our 48 hour Prayer Vigil.This weekend I have th [...]

    • Vicars Letter 17th April 2025 - Easter
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsHoly week is well and truly upon us as we arrive at Maundy Thursday (the day this letter is written). We often throw around the saying that you "can't get to Easter Sunday," the day we celebrate Jesus' resurrection, "without going through Good Friday," the day we mourn the death of Jesus. It's in this posture that I come to the beginning of the climax of the Easter story.There is a very real truth that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus are nothin [...]

    • Vicars Letter 11th April 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsRecently, the kids and I have been using Lectio for Families for our daily rhythm of prayer together, which has been fantastic. It is a compelling way to engage kids in prayer and scripture. Something that has caught my attention in this new rhythm is the powerful impact of scripture memorization, not only for the kids but for myself;I think of Joshua 1:8a "Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be car [...]

    • Vicars Letter 4th April 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsPreperation, Proclamation, Prayer! Three things that I have been thinking about over the last few weeks. Lent is a season of preparation for what? As we walk towards Easter, we prepare our hearts through prayer and repentance, and we often slow down our lives as we prepare to celebrate Jesus' death on the Cross. Easter can be a time of proclamation; why? Jesus has risen from the grave and defeated death! Oh death, where is your sting?! What a joyful thing [...]

    • Vicars Letter 28th March 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsGuy here this week. Last weekend, we had the joy of joining 500+ other ministry leaders and their families from around the Wellington Diocese for our annual Diocesan ministry leaders family camp. We have included an article in our newsletter giving a rundown of how it all went, as well as Bishop Justin's message around communion.The camp's theme was rebuilding the ruins, drawing from Isaiah 58. Aside from being incredibly busy Mc'ing the event in the main [...]

    • Vicars Letter 21st March 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsMany of us have been digesting the Lent study together, Restoring the Story: The Good News of Atonement, which has been a rich time of discipleship for many of us. We noticed the other day that the Lent study lacked any reference to the New Testament scripture in Romans 3 about Jesus as the Atoning sacrifice, which is so rich and beautiful and full of goodness. Pull it up and take a look here.This is such a beautiful portrait of just how far God went for us, an [...]

    • Vicars Letter 14th March 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsGuy here this week. We are now well and truly into our season of Lent here at All Saints for 2025. I love what Kath from Silverstream brought on Sunday about using this time as preparation and training as we walk towards the cross.It's timely. We are in this season as I have been feeling a prompting to look at preparing some resources and ways to participate and develop spiritual formation, particularly spiritual disciplines. Funnily enough, the world has morph [...]

    • Vicars Letter 7th March 2025
      • Rev. Summer Benton Kia ora All Saints Whānau,I don’t know about you, but a highlight of my week this week was our Shrove Tuesday “Pancake Party” at All Saints. We have done this several years in a row now and it always brings such joy to my heart to see all the people that turn up. This year there were several faces that I have seen join us for other events, like the parish picnic. There were also so many people from our local community; our neighbours, school fam [...]

    • Vicars Letter 28th February 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsGuy here this week. I have been reflecting on a few things this week in light of our recent conversations and journey into scripture as a parish. It struck me that on several occasions, across the parish, people haven't been afraid to raise tricky and, at times, confronting topics and conversations with me (some would even say conflict). The result of every occasion (unless I have completely misread the situation, I am, of course, only human), I have walked awa [...]

    • Vicars Letter 21st February 2025
      • Rev. Summer Benton Kia ora All Saints Whānau,I don’t know about you, but I still feel like I’m finding my rhythm for the year. I have different clinic hours this year, the kids have different after school activities, and Quinn (alongside many of our other year 6s here at All Saints) has now joined Junior Youth group which makes for a late Thursday night! It can be busy - and somewhat overwhelming as we try and find our rhythm. The rhythm we are trying to find [...]

    • Vicars Letter 14th February 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Guy here this week; I'm super excited to gather for our Central Gatherings at 9am and 10:30am. It feels as though it has been a slow entry to the year with all the public holidays and where they have been placed. I initially felt a bit stressed by where they landed and what that meant for the calendar here at All Saints, but after some time with the Lord, I found myself leaning into the slower rhythm of it all, turning up on Sunday of Waitangi weekend pre [...]

    • Vicars Letter 7th February 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Guy here this week; this week is our final summer series together at 10 am it has been a joy to see our community continue to gather over the summer for regular services of liturgy, worship, prayer, and teaching. I love that our parish has enough energy, leadership, and passion to make this happen. I look forward to bringing the final message for our summer in the sand series; we will be unpacking the text from Acts 9:1-9 focusing on how the road that lea [...]

    • Vicars Letter 31st January 2025
      • Rev. Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Welcome to our first newsletter of the new year. What a joy to email you all this week. It surprised me over the summer, but I missed our weekly connection. I have spent the summer with some of our family from America here; what a time to connect with distant family and explore our beautiful patch of God's kingdom, Summer and I hope that you were able to find some goodness amongst the weather, life trials, and strains and our own ability to calm dow [...]

    • Vicars Letter 19th December 2024
      • Rev. Summer Benton Kia ora All Saints Whānau, It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of 2024! I was talking with somebody the other day and mentioned that I couldn’t believe we had already been at All Saints for 3 years and then I realised we are coming to the end of our 4th year with you! In some ways it feels like there’s no way it could be that long since we arrived and in other ways it feels like we have been with you forever. You are truly famil [...]

    • Vicars letter - 13th December 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints. Guy here this week. We are walking into week three of Advent this year. I don't know about you, but I have been personally impacted by the journey we have been on together so far this Advent season. Unpacking the hope of God's second coming amidst the carnage of the world in week one set a place for us to acknowledge our shortfalls that keep us from God in week two. I was incredibly proud of how Trisha led us into a place of repentance before God last we [...]

    • Vicars letter - 6th December 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints. Guy here this week. What a fantastic start to our Advent season. Nothing like an apocalyptic reading from Luke, but as we spoke of on Sunday, the power of Hope in God during chaotic times is what sets us apart, the looking and longing for the second coming of God to redeem the world and the power of seeing the kingdom breakthrough amidst turmoil. Come, Lord Jesus. Let us come to the second week of Advent with a heart full of hope and expectancy to m [...]

    • Vicars letter - 29th November 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Whanau. Guy here this week. This Sunday marks the start of a new church year. One that begins with a daunting reading from Luke but offers us a phenomenal perspective of Hope. Every Advent, we typically look at four themes: Hope, Joy, Love, and Peace; these are all major pieces in the story and the power of God coming in Jesus to earth. Summer and I have been talking, praying, and hoping that as a community this Advent, we would find ourselves i [...]

    • Vicars letter - 22nd November 2024
      • Rev Summer Benton Kia ora All Saints Whānau, I have felt so proud of All Saints this past week. Led by Ian, Ginny, and Diana we put our hands up to respond to a need for love and hospitality for people coming into Wellington for the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti. We didn’t know how many people we might need to accommodate, who they would be, or even if they would come. Nonetheless, we gathered mattresses, prepared our space, discussed how to be loving hosts, and we wa [...]

    • Vicars letter - 15th November 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints whānauGuy here this week. I have been asked a lot recently about how All Saints is going. It's a strange question to answer because, on the one hand, I know I have an innate response to overinflate the positive so that it comes across really well, but also, God is good, and All Saints is wonderful, but it means I have to also look at and ask the question of what's not going well. I have recently, for the first time in 4 years, written a Co-Vicars rep [...]

    • Vicars letter - 8th November 2024
      • Rev. Summer Benton Kia ora All Saints, Mindfulness is a concept that is talked about quite a lot at the moment, and rightfully so. The practice of mindfulness has been linked to improved mental health outcomes for a large variety of issues. The best definition of mindfulness I have is the practice of noticing what is happening while it’s happening; the art of staying in the moment. Mindfulness is critical to our physical and mental wellbeing because without it we miss what Go [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 1st November 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints family. What a phenomenal weekend we had with our Annual Light Party on Sunday. See the Light Party article here.I am always so encouraged that, as a community, we have a DNA of being able to understand and acknowledge that as much as we love and value gathering together either in the room or in homes to worship, we are ok to shut down those spaces to create room for our community to gather in a place that is fun, warm and welcoming and affords us [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 25th October 2024
      • Rev Summer Benton Kia Ora All Saints Whānau, We missed being with you all last Sunday. Guy, Adam DeJong (our amazing synod rep), and I spent the weekend with many others from our diocese at St. Mary’s Karori where we all gathered for our 2024 Diocesan Synod. There was a fair amount of meeting time filled with business and governance matters that may not always thrill most of us. But it was also a beautiful time of fellowship and connection with our greater diocesan whānau. [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 18th October 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Guy here this week. I have spent the week in awe of how God moved on Sunday. The palpable sense of God's presence amongst was energizing. As I continue to revisit the prophecy from Ezekial, where God calls Ezekial to call out to the dry bones, and they turn into corpses, God then calls Ezekial to call on the spirit of God to come, and the bodies come alive. May we be people who are crying out for the spirit of God to come! May we see people come al [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 11th October 2024
      • Rev Summer Benton Kia Ora All Saints Whānau, Guy and I just returned from Auckland where we spent three days with church leaders from our Diocese and churches of all denominations throughout New Zealand at the Abide conference. (Special shout out to Jess Hedge for bravely watching our kids for two nights! What a legend.) Being in a place of input alongside so many others who are seeking to share Jesus in neighbourhoods throughout Aotearoa was inspiring and encouraging. Being t [...]

    • Vicars Letter - 4th October
      • Kia ora, All Saints whānau. Guy here! This week, Summer and I are in the throes of the school holidays with the kids, for the first time in our new season at All Saints. So far, so good! It’s a mixture of going slow and keeping active with the kids amidst the “I’m bored” moments. This isn’t too different from our conversation about breathing in and breathing out last week during our first week of Revelation. Feel free to check that out in our sermons secti [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 27th September 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Guy here this week. What a fantastic weekend we all had at El Rancho for our first Parish camp in a long time!! There was time worshipping together, praying together, receiving input together, having lots of fun together, and overall going slow together. There were lots of special moments; see the camp article to find out more and see pictures. As we weaved our way through camp, we experienced beautiful moments of God's Kingdom coming, and heart [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 19th September 2024
      • Rev Summer Benton Kia Ora All Saints Whānau, There is great excitement in our household for our upcoming Parish Weekend Away. Our girls have been counting down and we are so excited to be with many of you on the weekend. This weekend is a perfect opportunity to mark the journey that we have been on towards creating authentic community at All Saints. Spending time together outside of the walls of the church allows us to go deeper with one another, share unique experiences and g [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 13th September 2024
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All Saints Whānau, Guy here this week. I have felt for a while now that God was highlighting to me the promise he declared in Hebrews 22: I will never leave you nor forsake you. This is a promise I have been holding so firm to in this season of transition and as we look towards the future here at All Saints. The world is a choppy place; its pull is strong in all directions. As the saying goes, Kingdoms will rise and fall, but the word of the Lord will remain fo [...]

    • Vicar's Letter - 6th September 2024
      • Rev. Summer Benton Kia Ora All Saints Whānau, Over the last week Guy and I have been reflecting what a beautiful day of celebration Sunday was. Andy and Emily were deeply touched at the outpouring of love and support they received from so many of you. There was one thing in particular that Andy said when he spoke during the lunch at All Saints that has stuck with me all week. He was reflecting on the journey that the 4 of us have been on over the past nearly 7 years and summarized hi [...]

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