Outreach


Aim - to have programmes that embody the Gospel beyond the bounds of St. David’s Church community.

These are:

- Targeted to the needs of the wider community through research and evaluation.
- Appropriate to available resources with regard to both volunteers and budget constraints.
- Welcoming and inclusive, providing pastoral care and other opportunities for participants to involve themselves in parish activities.
- Mindful of issues of social justice not only locally but also internationally

Activities -

Meeting Point -

Every Tuesday morning in the Hall, from 10am to noon, from late February through until mid November.

 

Budget Cooking -This programme includes 3 lots of four weekly sessions of free Budget Cooking classes where healthy, economical meals are demonstrated. Recipe sheets are supplied and participants have the chance to taste the dishes.

 

Sewing and Crafts - When Cooking classes are not operating, all other Tuesdays provide opportunities to learn and share basic skills in sewing (with machines and materials provided), craft, knitting, embroidery, crochet and card-making.

 

Meeting Point has become a place to feel welcome and meet new and old friends over morning tea and participating in our activities. ‘Doodlebugs’ crèche/playgroup is available for mothers to leave their young children while attending Meeting Point.

 

For information on Meeting point, please contact the church office.

Phone  358 3246

Little Groovers - Little Groovers is a music group for pre-schoolers.

Doodlebugs - Doodlebugs is a pre school play group catering for newborn children through to kindy age kids.

The Junction - youth group meets on Friday nights at 7pm.

'Surviving Loss and Grief' -   courses are run twice a year, offering a safe space to explore grief and loss.

St David’s supports Methodist Social Services Foodbank  - A basket is provided on Sunday mornings at the church for food donations.

Meals on Wheels -  members of our church are involved with the collection and distribution of meals.

Hospital Chaplaincy - an important mission that we support

Christian World Service - at Christmas our congregation supports the annual Christmas appeal.  This is a good time to raise awareness of those in need of the very basics of life.

Turakina Maori Girls College -  St David's Church has a long history supporting this school and we actively seek to continue to build on these links

There are many other activities by our committee and congregation stretching outwards to interface with the wider community, especially in times of crisis e.g. the knitting of tiny garments for premature babies. We can be confident that we are providing relevant programmes that are valued by the wider community.  Our volunteers are greatly enriched by their contribution.

Talkback On The Terrace Series


Over five weeks, usually in the first half of the year,  St David’s organises a series of public lectures and discussions at a local café in Terrace End (Coffee on the Terrace)