It was wonderful to have Ryan here with us a few weeks ago, sharing about the work of Open Doors. They wanted us to pass on a message of thanks to you all for your generosity. Together as a church we raised $2670 which will now contribute to the incredible work they do with persecuted Christians around the world. Thank you so much.
We will be unable to hold our services at Papakowhai School over summer, so we will instead be meeting at Paremata-Plimmerton Rugby Football Club, Pascoe Avenue, Paremata.
The dates we will be at the Football Club are:
Sunday 15th and 22nd Dec (no service on 29th Dec)
All Sundays in January
Sunday 2nd Feb
See you there!
Some of our in-person services take a break over the summer, please see the calendar below to find out which Sundays church is on at your Location! Our online services are also available to watch HERE! Head to your Location page for more detailed information on what is happening at your local gathering.
*Over summer our East gathering combines with other churches in their area.
| Date | East | Hutt | Night | Mt Vic |
Porirua | West |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29 2024 |
Gateway Baptist* |
No service | No service |
No service |
No service |
No service |
| Jan 5 2025 |
10am | No service | No service | 10am | 10am | 🡸 Joining Mt Vic service |
| Jan 12 2025 |
Salvation Army* | Meeting in homes | No service | Joining Porirua service 🡺 | 10am | No service |
| Jan 19 2025 |
St Aidans* | Meeting in homes | No service | 10am | 10am | 10am |
| Jan 26 2025 |
10am | 10am | 5pm |
10am | 10am | 10am |
Over the summer we will be joining with 3 other churches in Miramar for combined services like we have done for the last few years. This is such a wonderful opportunity to experience services at the churches we are in relationship with in our local area, as well as worshipping together with other believers. It also gives the pastors and teams from each church a bit of a break over the summer! If you are around, here's all the information you need.
29 December - Gateway Baptist
5 January - The Street East (Miramar Central School Hall)
12 January - Miramar Salvation Army
19th January - St Aidan's
All services are at 10am. Our regular gatherings will resume on January 26th.
Nelson and Rachel Carreño, our Missionaries we support from Mexico will be in Wellington for a few weeks, and if anyone would like to catch up with them, we are hosting an Afternoon Tea on 1st December from 2:30 -4:30 pm at the Life Centre in town.
As one church meeting across multiple Locations around Wellington, it is important to stop, reflect and be encouraged by all that God is doing. Four times a year we gather celebrations and prayer needs from the six Locations to share with each other.
CELEBRATE
East
Provision for a regular meeting place back on the Peninsula
Celebrating Life Groups being a safe space for people to explore faith
Hutt
Provision of a Connections Local Lead
Multiplication of Life Groups - two new groups started
Mt Vic
Appointment of Josiah Nevell into the Location Pastor role
Growing strength and effectiveness of the Mt Vic Leadership Team
Porirua
Provision of an alternative meeting place for summer services
Our children and young people inviting friends to church
West
We have seen wonderful expressions of inwards love within our community - meeting felt needs
People stepping out in faith sharing the gospel with others
TO PRAY FOR
East
Praying for the LG opportunities to bear fruit, and that more people would have the courage to invite their friends along.
Christmas services: a big push to fill the room. We are inviting people from Community Dinners
Hutt
For more leaders in children’s ministry, to help disciple the next generation
For the establishment of a regular prayer meeting, as we seek to dig into prayer as a community
Mt Vic
Christmas services: Outward focussed Christmas series, with high invite across three services
Night
Night community to grow Upwards and Inwards!!
For the continued strengthening of relationships and spiritual rhythms as many students return to their hometowns over the summer
Porirua
For Christmas invite service
For Life Group Local Lead: to help connect people into Life Groups and contribute to making the disciple-making vision a tangible
West
Clear direction for a few community outreach opportunities that have come up for us. We want to follow where God is leading!
Wellington Hills Christian College is holding a final public meeting and prayer before opening in Johnsonville on 10 Feb 2025.
Mon 2 Dec
7.30-8.45pm
The Street Church, 9 Hania St, Mt Vic
Interest in the new College is building across the whole region and enrolments are increasing. Work to transform the building is well-underway and the new Principal Tim Kuipers is shaping his staff team and preparing the curriculum, in readiness to welcome students in Feb 2025.
Four times a year a Seniors Lunch is held for those 65+ to connect together over a delicious meal. Each time they meet there is a short inspiring message and a quiz led by Murray Scott.
The last gathering for the year will be held at Silverstream Retreat on Nov 27th.
If you would like to join this festive celebration, please email Rose Harrison: rosemaryf.harrison@gmail.com. There is a small cost to help cover the lunch.
Carols in Parliament is a Christmas service in association with the Council of Wellington Churches, with music by the Salvation Army Band & the Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
When: Sunday 8 December 2024 at 7.00 pm in the Banquet Hall of Parliament
(please be seated by 6.50 pm)
RSVPs are essential for security reasons by 27 November 2024
Email - carolsparliament@gmail.com to secure a spot.
Bring you friends and family for our Christmas service this year. Kids Zone will be performing a Nativity for us, we'll sing some carols, have a short Christmas message, and have some festive treats to eat! We can't wait to see you there.
We are celebrating the appointment of Josiah Nevell as Location Pastor of our Mt Vic Location. This is an incredible answer to prayer and we are so grateful to God.
If you’re not a part of Mt Vic, you may recognise Josiah from leading worship online or at Together. He loves people and has a desire to walk alongside them through the highs and lows. He’s a gifted and humble leader who desires to see the church love Jesus more wholeheartedly. We are so looking forward to him joining the team.
His appointment is as an Associate Location Pastor which acknowledges he has the character and commitment to lead but needs time and investment to develop the experience. It means he has the same job description but will carry this out under the supervision of Simon for the first 12-18 months.
Please pray for Josiah as he steps into this new season. You can send encouragement and congratulations to him at josiah.nevell@thestreet.org.nz
Check out this video to meet Josiah
We start November carrying on in the Pillars series looking at Church Leadership and Baptism.
On the 17th and 24th we look at the Christmas story!
To finish the year, on the 1st of December Kids Zone takes a look back over 2024 and all the wonderful truths we have learnt about God. This is a week not to be missed.
Kia ora e te whānau, Simon and I are so excited to be back serving at East as Location Pastors, and as we step back into the role we just wanted to write a short note to you all about practically what it will look like in the near future. In case you weren't at the service last Sunday, we thanked and prayed for Dan and Hannah, and Simon and I were commissioned into the role. We shared that we will be doing it on a part time basis (6 hours/week each) and so we are continuing to lean into the great team culture Dan and Hannah have built. That means we lead alongside a growing Leadership Team, where every person plays the part that they have the capacity and the gifting to play.
Simon will continue to be involved in supporting at Mt Vic and will be at East 2 out of 4 Sundays until the end of the year, with a view to that being 3 out of 4 from the start of next year. I (Jenny) will continue to be at East 3 out of 4 Sundays and will use the other Sunday to visit and support other Locations across the city.
We are so expectant and hopeful for this next season of East's journey and we know that as we continue to press into prayer, our God will do more than we can ask or imagine. So happy to be on this journey with you all.
Much love, Simon and Jenny
The Street Church partners with Christians Against Poverty to help people in Wellington get out of unmanageable debt while at the same time sharing the life-changing message of Jesus with them! Each year, we as a church congregation donate vouchers and treats to make up Christmas hampers that get given to CAP clients around the Wellington region.
To participate, please collect a box from your local service or the church office. Fill it with some goodies and special treats and return by 24th Nov.
We provide you with a box to fill (please don’t wrap anything). Fill each box with:
Handwritten Card
Treats to the value of $50
A $50 Warehouse voucher
Points to note:
No alcohol, although other beverages are fine eg. sparkling grape juice
No money
Nothing perishable.
IMPORTANT DATES:
3 and 10 November- Empty boxes available for collection
17 and 24 November - boxes to be returned to your location.
We hope you have fun putting this together, and we value the prayers that you offer up for the client you are blessing.
To make a donation towards a hamper, use the reference ‘‘CAPHAMP'' (no tax receipt issued for this donation):
E Street Association 02-1269-0016157-25
Simon and Jenny have had on their hearts a desire to run a prayer gathering overlooking parliament. This area seems to be the epicentre of the darkness in our city and we want to contend for God to move right in the middle of it.
You are invited to join a weekly prayer gathering from 12-1pm on Thursdays (from 24th Oct) in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. This will take place in the Flag Tower over looking parliament. If you work, study, play or live in the city - come for any or all of it, as your schedule allows. It’ll also be open to other churches with a focus on praying for the city, nation and world
If you want to grow in leadership ability, deepen your faith, and explore ministry, our 2025 Internship Programme might be for you! The programme runs part-time from January to December, offering hands-on experience in ministry while you develop your knowledge of God’s Word. Whatever your age or stage of life, if you're looking for an opportunity to grow and serve, we encourage you to prayerfully consider applying. For more information or to apply, email internships@thestreet.org.nz. Applications close Monday, November 11, so get in quick!
We are sending a team on a short-term missions experience trip to Thailand in November 2025! The trip is for anyone who senses a call to missions, or is curious and simply wants to experience what it could be like. The trip will spend a week in Bangkok and a week in the far north of Thailand. Expressions of interest are now open until November 17 - simply email missions@thestreet.org.nz and say you are keen to find out more. A formal application process will follow.
We are thrilled to share some exciting news for our Youth and Intermediate age ministry!
God has certainly gone before us and provided abundantly as we welcome Peter Crosson as our new Youth Pastor. Pete has a strong sense of calling to this role and is passionate about discipling and leading young people. He brings valuable experience, currently serving as a Youth Pastor in Island Bay and in wider Youth Ministry over a number of years. We are excited to see how God will work through him alongside both the Squad and Massive teams, and also as he works alongside our Locations to see our young people becoming multiplying disciple-makers.
Pete is currently finishing up his university studies and wrapping up a part-time youth role at another church, which he will continue until the end of the year. In the meantime, Jenny, Piper, and the rest of the team have a great plan in place to keep things running smoothly until Pete can join us full time.
We look forward to the future of our youth ministry and are confident that it is in good hands. If you have any questions or would like more information, please don't hesitate to reach out.
If you want to grow in leadership ability, deepen your faith, and explore ministry, our 2025 Internship Programme might be for you!
The programme runs part-time from January to December, offering hands-on experience in ministry while you develop your knowledge of God’s Word. Whatever your age or stage of life, if you're looking for an opportunity to grow and serve, we encourage you to prayerfully consider applying.
For more information or to apply, email internships@thestreet.org.nz. Applications close Monday, November 11, so get in quick!
We are sending a team on a short-term missions experience trip to Thailand in November 2025! The trip is for anyone who is exploring a call to missions, or is curious and simply wants to experience what cross-cultural missions could look like and see what God is doing in an overseas context. The trip will spend a week in Bangkok and a week in the far north of Thailand. Expressions of interest are now open until November 17 - simply email missions@thestreet.org.nz and say you are keen to find out more. A formal application process will follow.
