News from First Church

We have just celebrated Easter – having this year studied the Easter story as told in the Gospel of Mark, the earliest narrative Gospel which circulated some 50 years after Jesus was crucified by the Romans.  On Palm Sunday a number of members read this story, written to be listened to – different voices speaking the various characters – and we all felt its impact, getting quite involved and moved as the dramatic story unfolded.  

At our time together on Good Friday we reflected on  our experience of this dramatic reading, thinking about its place in our understanding of what actually happened and its purpose as the earliest account of the life and death of the revolutionary hero Jesus of the Galilee. 

Our celebration of Easter concluded with the traditional Sunrise service at Bidwill’s Cutting and Easter morning service in First Church.

    Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain 

lying in darkness does its life retain

in Resurrection to grow green again, Hallelujah!

Saturday the 10^th of April – a very full day! The Country Fair, postponed from March, will have an Autumn feel about it – we hope to have a happy and successful day, meeting many customers for our good home baking, garden produce and seasonal preserves. 

Also this weekend, First Church Martinborough is again hosting an oppportunity for people to walk an ancient archetypal symbol called a Labyrinth :    on Saturday 10 April 4 – 8 pm, and Sunday 11 April 11am – 3.30pm.

First Church is continuing with preparations for the celebration of its history:

              On Sunday 6 June First Church will celebrate;

• • 166 years since the first Presbyterian service was held in South Wairarapa

                                           and

• • 150 years since the first Church building was opened in Martinborough

                                           and

• • 130 years since the current Church was built

             We invite all with past and current connections to join us on  

Sunday, 6 June 2021 at our 10am service

For further information please contact Margaret Griffiths Tel: 306  8102

                                                                                           Mob: 027 245 9663  

                                                                       Email: mboro.firstchurch@xtra.co.nz

  For  Anzac Day – some words from A Prayer to the Creator by Pope Francis:  

Lord, inspire in us a dream of justice and peace, to create healthier societies and a more dignified world, without hunger, poverty, violence and war.