Waikanae Anglican Parish

Place

Waikanae Memorial Hall

 

Time

Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

 

Since ancient times (ok, 1998), Ship of Fools has been sending Mystery Worshippers to churches worldwide. Travelling incognito, they ask those questions which go to the heart of church life: How long was the sermon? How hard the pew? How cold was the coffee? How warm the welcome? The only clue they have been there at all is the Mystery Worshipper calling card, dropped discreetly into the collection plate. See what Ship of fools had to say about St Luke’s 10:30 a.m. service before it became Connect

 

 

Description

Connect is a bright, family oriented, and contemporary worship service. It is a unique hybrid flavour of Anglicanism infused with a contemporary worship style. Check out our fantastic children and youth programmes

 

At Connect

• We value reaching out to our community and neighbours of utmost importance and we have endeavoured to design Connect to be especially friendly to those who have not been to church before. Thus people are encouraged to have take their coffee with them into the service.
• We appreciate creativity and are open to suggestions and change. We seek to be experimental, flexible, and pragmatic within the confines of the common interest.
• We appreciate our Anglican tradition as a wealth and resource to aid our mission and ministry and well seek to preserve our tradition
• We appreciate the unique contribution of all ages as reflective of our Waikanae community. In particular we encourage the involvement of children and youth in the family service
• We endorse worship through contemporary music and congregational singing and seek to promote the expression of worship through contemporary and loud music
• We endorse the use of the prophetic word and prayer within our corporate worship. We seek to promote the use of these ministries during the service.
• We endorse the sacrament of communion and therefore communion is a weekly part of the service.
• We endorse the use of liturgy as a means to include and engage the congregation. This is an integral part of the sacrament of communion.

 

 

The service has a natural rhythm and broadly consists of four phases:

1. Coming together. We enjoy being together, meeting people, greeting, having a tea or coffee upon entrance. We usually have two or three songs, and celebrate birthdays and anniversaries that have occurred during the last week. We take up the offering at this time also. At the end of this phase the children go out to an excellent and well designed programme.
2. We receive the message through scripture reading and teaching
3. We focus our hearts and minds. We focus our hearts and minds through collective worship and song. This is an opportunity for spontaneous congregational prayer and prophetic word.
4. We respond to the message and God’s leading in action. We engage in the sacrament of communion, personal prayer ministry, and further collective worship through song.

 

Contact: Tim Bustin