Wednesday 29/10 at 10.30am in the hall next to Holy Innocents, Church Street, Amberley. Bring your preschoolers along for music, movement and play. Relax with a cuppa and some morning tea.
Toddler Tunes fun this week
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Church Garage Sale 27th September
At Holy Innocents – Saturday 27/9/25, from 9.00am-2.00pm
Household effects, books, collectables, plants, sausage sizzle & more. Funds raised will go towards earthquake strengthening of Holy Innocents Church and repairs to the bell tower. Goods will be accepted at the Church Hall on Friday 26th September, 1pm-4pm. Enquiries: phone Pat 314-8272.
Background to this fundraiser
Holy Innocents Anglican Church in Amberley is a category 2 historic building. Originally built in 1877, in 1889 it blew down in a storm. The iconic bell tower, which can be seen from afar, survived the strong winds and remained upright while the rest of the church building “leaned at an acute angle”. The church was rebuilt in 1891, which is when the large external timber buttresses were added for strengthening. Those same buttresses are now in need of some repair, as is the bell tower; furthermore, the building needs modifications to bring it up to a higher percentage of the current building code, for earthquake strengthening purposes. This all has to be done in a manner appropriate for a heritage building.
Family Movie Night – The Polar Express
Join us this Friday (29 November) at 5.30pm for a family night out. Bring your takeaway dinner – we’ll provide the drinks and snacks for the movie, which will start at about 6.00pm. Where? The Anglican Church hall on Church Street, Amberley. See you there!
Family Move Night – “WALL-E”
Join us Friday 14th June at 5.30 pm for a night of family entertainment. Bring your takeaway dinner and we’ll provide the movie snacks – chips and popcorn. We’re watching “WALL-E”– a funny and moving story about a sweet and clever little garbage-disposal robot who helps to save the human race (and find love at the same time)! It’s a great movie to enjoy together. It would be awesome for you to join us – in the (well-heated) Anglican hall on Church Street, Amberley. See you there!
Family Fun Movie Night!
Join us this Friday 10 November at 6pm in the Church Hall on Church Street, Amberley for a fun night of family entertainment. You bring your takeaways and we’ll provide the movie snacks. We are watching The Greatest Showman – a fun musical story about the circus and acceptance with a little love story thrown in! It would be awesome for you to join us.
We are excited to announce the launch of Toddler Tunes, starting on Wednesday 15th March, 10.30am in the parish hall. For more info, including dates for 2023, see the dedicated Toddler Tunes page on our website.
Living Wage visits Hurunui
Can you spare an hour of your time to support Anglican Advocacy and the Living Wage movement as they try to make a difference to people in our very own Hurunui district?
Living Wage Canterbury is taking deputation to the Hurunui District Council at 1pm on the 27th August, 66 Carters Road, Amberley. As ratepayers of the district, we are able to attend this meeting and it would be wonderful to see the chambers packed for a change.
Did you know that of the 285,000 children that live in poverty in New Zealand, 40% of them live in families where at least one parent is working full-time or self-employed? Continue reading
Don’t stop giving – the need is still great!
It was heartening to read in The Press newspaper earlier this month that the Christchurch City Mission has received a rapid and generous response to its annual ‘Brown Paper Bag Appeal’. The groceries donated will help to keep the Mission’s food bank well-stocked through the most high-demand winter period.
But in our worship service this morning at St Paul’s, Gray Crawford, Manager of Social Services at the Christchurch City Mission, highlighted the biggest problem affecting the most poor and marginalised people of Christchurch: Continue reading
Winter newsletter is out
The Winter quarter newsletter of the Amberley Anglican parish is now available to read here by clicking on this link to download:
WHAM Winter 2015 – online
Many thanks to the large number of people who hand-deliver the printed version to people in our local communities, often taking the opportunity to say hello and have a brief catch-up. Continue reading
Messy Church is back!
From the Messy Church noticeboard February 2015
Messy Church is a fresh expression of what church is and can be. It’s open to the whole community, not only regular church-goers and Anglicans, and it’s not on a Sunday morning. PLEASE NOTE: it’s also not a requirement to be accompanied by children. So, adults and children, come and join us in Amberley — and bring a friend or neighbour.
The next Messy Church event will be on Sunday 22nd February, from 4.15pm, in the hall next to Holy Innocents Church in Amberley. Continue reading
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