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    • 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! [...]

    • Vicars Letter 8th May 2025
      • Rev Guy Benton Kia ora All SaintsEvery time I prepare for and preach the word of God to the parish, that and this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, my heart is profoundly impacted and transformed. This series we have started and are journeying through on the Lords Prayer has been incredibly powerful. The pace of going slow and unpacking what it means to pray and how to pray and why we should pray is so rich. On Sunday, when Martha and I were leading our children at house church, there was a s [...]

    • 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 [...]

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