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Healing Horticulture

31/5/2022

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Our next Healing Horticulture course is coming soon - please contact Don if you would like to know more about becoming a "gardening angel" or participating on the course.
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Pentecost lunch

30/5/2022

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Just a reminder to sign up for our Pentecost lunch after the 8&10am services this Sunday. 
Please contact the office or fill out the form at nativityblenheim.breezechms.com/form/pentecost to register before Wednesday the 1st of June for catering purposes!   If you have forgotten to register please just come along on the day as there will be plenty to go around. 
​Gluten Free options provided. 
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Pew News

27/5/2022

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Repair Cafe is Calling for Volunteers

26/5/2022

 
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Nativity News - May 2022

23/5/2022

 
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Moving forward together - Facilitated Forum

20/5/2022

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Please remember the first of our facilitated forums on moving forward together will be held tomorrow, Saturday the 21st of May in Barnies from 9am.   
They will be led by Alex Smith, who has professional expertise in facilitation and dialogue and are open to all parishioners of Nativity.  Prayerfully consider attending this as an opportunity to be a part of Nativity moving forward as a church.  Further information on the principles and values of these meetings is in the file attached (see below). 

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Pew News

20/5/2022

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Moving Together -Facilitated Forums

18/5/2022

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Moving Forward Together - Reflection Questions

18/5/2022

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Introduction

This reflection questionnaire is a tool to help people reflect on a difficult relationship, challenging situation or traumatic event.
As an adaptable template, it can be used in a variety of circumstances. It is designed to help someone acknowledge the effect a situation has had on them, including physically, emotionally, relationally and spiritually.
An individual can use their answers to then talk about how they have been affected and what moving forward looks like for them.
It can be used by an individual for personal reflection.
It can also be used as part of a community reflection or debrief process.
By hearing multiple reflections, an organisation can gain an overview of the impact of a big event, look for trends or discover common themes.
How to use these questions:
First, identify the difficult situation. This can be a person (my father), a single word (pandemic), a phrase (my parent’s divorce), or a few sentences describing an event (the time the youth group got lost on a tramp in a storm).
Questions 1-9 involve looking at how the event/situation has affected you.
Questions 10 - 15 ask you to consider what moving forward looks like to you.

Questions

  1. Name the relationship / issue / event / season?
  2. Have you felt any physical side-effects of this situation?
  3. How much sleep or headspace have you lost because of it?
  4. Describe any health advice or counselling sought over this.
  5. How were special events in your life affected by this?
  6. In what ways have your family relationships been affected?
  7. How have your friends responded to this?
  8. Name how your faith / spirituality has it been affected
  9. What other effects have you felt?
  10. Name the two deepest or longest-lasting feelings.
  11. What would it feel like to see this situation like a small spec behind you in the rear-view mirror?
  12. What would moving forward look like? What change are you wanting right now that will help you move forward? Why that specific change?
  13. Describe why you feel that outcome would be fair.
  14. Who do you feel holds the power to make that change happen?
  15. What role do you have in bringing about this change or to contribute to moving forward in some other way?
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Moving Forward Together - Devotion 10

17/5/2022

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Devotion 10

1 John 4: 16-21
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because he first loved us. Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

Today's thought from Walter Brueggemann

It is the vocation of the baptized, the known and named and unafraid, to make the world whole:
  • The unafraid are open to the neighbour, while the frightened are defending themselves from the neighbour.
  • The unafraid are generous in the community, while the frightened, in their anxiety, must keep and store and accumulate, to make themselves safe.
  • The unafraid commit acts of compassion and mercy, while the frightened do not notice those in need.
  • The unafraid are committed to justice for the weak and the poor, while the frightened see them only as threats.
  • The unafraid pray in the morning, care through the day, and rejoice at night in thanks and praise, while the frightened are endlessly restless and dissatisfied.
Lord Jesus, may I be a vessel of God’s grace given by the work of your power.
To you be glory in my life, in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations,
forever and ever. Amen.” (adapted from Ephesians 3: 7, 20)

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