Contact Us
Church of the Saviour [of the
Diocese of Auckland CC31449]
2 Heaphy St,
Blockhouse Bay
Auckland 0600
Ph 6278779
Email: [email protected]
www.cots.org.nz
Vicar
Sarah Patten
[email protected]
Ministry with the Elderly
Lesley [email protected]
4 Seniors @ the Bay
[email protected]
Seniors Advocate
[email protected]
Pastoral Care and Counselling
[email protected]
Youth
[email protected], 021950530
Children
[email protected], 021921552
Playgroup
[email protected], 6273455
0272206650
Reception/ Administration
[email protected]
After School Care
Stephanie - [email protected]
Friday 22nd May
7-9pm
Famine Night
Come along for a night of activities, video and conversation about what life is like for those whom World Vision
supports through the 40 hour famine.
Don’t forget to bring a donation towards our Sponsor
Child Fatima, to help with her schooling and daily needs.
Elevate Sunday is on during the 9am service, downstairs
in the youth room. Today we are looking at what Jesus
meant when he said "I AM the Good Shepherd".
Come along and enjoy a great time of interactive
discussion about what it means to follow and develop
our relationship with “I AM”
WHAT IS J TEAM? J team is for ages 3 years to Yr 6 at
9am & 11am services during term time.
We have two age groups at J team at both our
services 9am-10.15am and 11am- 12.20pm
This term we have been looking at New Testament
stories from The Jesus Storybook Bible. Today is the
story of a Treasure Hunt.
We are talking about the parable of the hidden treasure. A man is digging in a field
and finds treasure. He hides it, runs home, sells all he has so he can buy the field,
then returns to dig up his treasure. Jesus told this parable to show that the
Kingdom of God is as good as finding that hidden treasure.
The Kingdom of God is worth
giving up all we have, to be a
part of it. Because Jesus is our
real treasure
With man this is impossible,
but with God all things are
possible. Matthew 19:26
Message from Vicar Sarah Patten
Dear church family,
It is with both sorrow and joy that I tell you
that Rev John Mynett was promoted to glory
in the evening of Monday 11 May.
In the last day or so his breathing had
become interrupted and he wasn’t responding much. Although the illness had
progressed very quickly everyone is grateful
that he didn’t have to suffer long. We will
miss him terribly. He was good man and
faithful servant of God but John is now with
his Lord and Saviour and the one he spent
his life following. He could say as Paul did
‘for me to live is Christ and to die is gain’ and
so we know He has gone home to Jesus.
Losing someone we love is never easy, even
though we know one day we will be reunited
in heaven. In this last week I read several
times from 2 Corinthians 4 : ‘For God, who
said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made
His light shine in our hearts to give us the
light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this
treasure in jars of clay to show that this allsurpassing power is from God and not from
us. We are hard pressed on every side, but
not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck
down, but not destroyed.”
We always carry around in our body the
death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may
also be revealed in our body. For we who are
alive are always being given over to death
for Jesus’ sake, so that His life may also be
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revealed in our mortal body. So then,
death is at work in us, but life is at work in
you.
It is written: “I believed; therefore I have
spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of
faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
because we know that the one who raised
the Lord Jesus from the dead will also
raise us with Jesus and present us with
you to Himself’…Therefore we do not lose
heart. Though outwardly we are wasting
away, yet inwardly we are being renewed
day by day. For our light and momentary
troubles are achieving for us an eternal
glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix
our eyes not on what is seen, but on what
is unseen, since what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal.’
Our troubles may not feel light, but they
are not permanent in the great scheme of
an eternity with Jesus and on that hope
our faith depends.
With love and blessings,
Sarah
Sunday Services this week
9am - Worship Service with Communion.
Youth at 9am, Crèche, J team at both 9am
and 11am.
11am - Service - café style
1.30pm - Chinese Church (in Mandarin)
7pm –Worship Service with a prayer focus
Wed: 9.30am Worship Service with
Communion and morning tea.
Everyone is welcome
On this week
Funeral for Rev John Mynett
The funeral of the Rev John Mynett will be
held at Church of the Saviour on Thursday
21 May at 9.30am. All are welcome to
attend.
We will need some assistance and if you
can help out:

with baking and with help in the
kitchen. There is a sign up sheet in
the foyer, or contact Jacqui
O’Rourke for information

with stewarding/parking, we need
volunteers to oversee the carparks.
See Claire

and also potentially to lay out more
chairs in the overflow areas, and
pack up quickly afterwards, if needed, please contact Claire for information.
Parking. As you are aware there isn’t a lot
of parking around the church during the
day, everyone who is able to, please park
further out and walk. We need to leave
space around the church for the friends and
family who are unfamiliar with the area,
and the back car park will be for family and
disabled only.
4 Seniors @ the Bay— Monday and Friday
9.30am
Playgroup Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
(cancelled) and Friday at 9am
Learning about Jesus ESOL Monday 9.30am
Parish Prayer Night Monday 7.30pm
Play and Learn Tuesday 9.30am
Mainly Music Tuesday 10am
Pre-Intermediate
ESOL, Tuesday at
10.00am
COTS Care, after school care, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday 3pm
Wednesday Service 9.30am
Chinese Church Meeting Wednesday
9.30am
Bible in Schools BHB Thursday 8.50am
Funeral for John Mynett Thursday 9.30am
Intermediate/Advanced ESOL Thursday
9.30am (postponed to Friday)
Beginners ESOL Thursday (cancelled)
Basic ESOL Thursday (cancelled)
Elevate Youth Friday 7pm
Blockhouse Bay Chinese Church of the
Saviour Service Sunday 1.30pm
Rest home service at Powley, Tuesday
10.45am
Coming up
Parish Prayer Night
Monday 18 May. 7.30pm. All welcome to
come and join in praying for ourselves, our
church family, our community and others. A
time to hear what God is saying.
You can contribute to the work here at COTS: Deposit donation directly to the church bank account:
12 3049 0264019 52 with your name or donor number as reference, contact the office for a donor number.
This can be an ongoing automatic payment or a one-off donation.
Notices
The Church of the Saviour Trust is having its
AGM on Monday 25 May at Church of the
Saviour at 7:30pm. If you would like to observe and meet the Trustees then you are
most welcome to come along. Many
blessings, Chris Bunce, Murray Patten, Katy
Walker, Ross Porter, David Crookenden.
Trustees - Church of the Saviour Trust.
Writers’ Retreat. The Church of the Saviour
writers’ group is having a retreat at the
Hillsborough Retreat Centre on Saturday 13
June. The day-long retreat will include short
workshops on gaining inspiration and
writing poetry as well as plenty of opportunity to practise in the inspirational surroundings of the building and grounds. The
retreat will run from 9.00 to 3.30 and the
cost is $40, including lunch. If you are interested please contact Bronwyn Calder
(8282612).
Prayer available. If you would like an
appointment for one on one prayer please
contact Peter and Frances Goulter on 626
4234
Walking Group Winter update. Winter is
here or coming at least and to help ease us
into the winter season we are now meeting
at 9:00 am for our walks. There will be
some days when we will be walking outside
of the Blockhouse Bay area, if you want to
join the walking group text Katy on 021 168
7202 or phone 09 849 5910 by 8:15 a.m. on
Saturday mornings and Katy will give you
details on where to meet. We look forward
to having you join us.
Way2Go Children’s Ministry Conference.
Saturday 6 June. For more information go to
www.sunz.org.nz. Is for all people involved
in ministry with children and highly recommended. We will be taking a group, and if
you would like to carpool with us contact
Claire on [email protected]
30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World.
18 June – 17 July 2015. Praying for the Muslim World during Ramadan. We hope you
will be encouraged as you read about the
global impact of over 20 years of faithful
prayer for the Muslim world. We trust you
will be inspired and motivated to intercede
for Muslims. The different books available to
help you pray are.
 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World.
$7.00 each
 30 Days “Just for Kids” are $5.00 each.
 A Wind in the House of Islam - $30.00 per
copy.
 The Story of Islam DVD (12 mins) $15.00
each.
 More than Dreams DVD (5 dramatised
testimonies of former Muslims) $4.00 per
DVD.
NB Postage within NZ is included in above
prices. Send all orders to: MARN, PO Box
20063, Glen Eden, Waitakere 0641. Email:
[email protected]. Mobile: 021 185 3334. For
payment via internet banking - invoices are
available upon request
Day of Thanksgiving update. So far we have
received $7395 from the special offering.
There has been no spending as yet.
Book launch of Bishop Richard Randerson’s
book, Slipping the Moorings. Bishop Ross
Bay, Peter Lineham and Rod Oram will also
speak. All welcome. Books will be available
for sale. Sunday 24 May at 3pm – Holy
Trinity Cathedral, Parnell.
Are you able to help people
who are sick (or their families)
and need meals provided or
you can offer transport to
appointments. If you are able
to help, contact the office