Celebrate Christmas with the Island Bay Churches
Thursday 14th December
10.15 am St Hilda’s: Traditional Communion Service with Carols. Refreshments and a chat afterwards.
Sunday 17 December
10 am St Hilda’s Anglican: Pop-up Nativity - A special retelling of the Christmas Story involving total audience participation. There’s going to be a lot of BOOM! in this service. Come dressed up as one of the Christmas characters!
10am Presbyterian Church: The children lead our 10am service
7.00pm Presbyterian Church: Ukulele Christmas - Play and sing favourite Christmas songs. Music provided; bring voices, instruments and friends.
Christmas Eve - Sunday 24 December
10 am - St Hilda’s: A short carols and testimony service on Christmas Eve, followed by a shared lunch.
5 pm Presbyterian Church: Service of carols, readings and candles.
6.00 pm Presbyterian Church: Carol singing at Village at the Park: Meet at Village at the Park rest home on Adelaide Rd at 6pm. Song sheets provided.
6.00 pm St Francis de Sales Catholic Church: Family Mass
6.45 pm Wellington Churches: Carol Singing at Hospital. Meet up in the hospital foyer and go around the wards singing carols. This is arranged by the hospital chaplains and the hospital staff, and is a blessing to everyone who participates as well as to the staff and patients.
9.00pm St Francis de Sales Catholic Church: Night Mass with Choir
Christmas Day
9.30 am Baptist Church: Christmas Day Celebration with sparkling grape juice and Christmas nibbles!
9.30 am Presbyterian Church: Celebrating Christmas Day at 9.30 with a short relaxed family service.
9.30 am St Hilda’s: Short Christmas Service with Communion
10.30am: Korean Presbyterian Church: Service.
After Christmas
Sunday 31 December 10 am - Combined Service at St Hilda's
Sunday 7 January 10 am - Combined Service at Baptists
Sunday 14 January 10 am - Combined Service at Presbyterians
Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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57.1% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.3% Critical thinking
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24.8% Resilience and adaptability
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3.8% Other - I will share below!
Brain Teaser of the Day 🧠✨ Can You Solve It? 🤔💬
Make a hearty dish. Take just half a minute. Add four parts of kestrel. Then just add one. What have you made?
(Trev from Silverdale kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Trev!)
Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!
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Poll: Should the government levy industries that contribute to financial hardship?
As reported in the Post, there’s a $30 million funding gap in financial mentoring. This has led to services closing and mentors stepping in unpaid just to keep helping people in need 🪙💰🪙
One proposed solution? Small levies on industries that profit from financial hardship — like banks, casinos, and similar companies.
So we want to hear what you think:
Should the government ask these industries to contribute?
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59.7% Yes, supporting people is important!
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26.2% No, individuals should take responsibility
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14.1% ... It is complicated
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