WHAKAWHETAI NUI: (Conference day4)Te Pihopatanga delegates navigate their way from Collaroy to Redfern to join with the whanau at Te Wairua Tapu church for Sunday morning Eucharist. Archdeacon Malcolm Karipa led the morning’s service while Revs Lybia Heke-Huata and Jackie Te Amo read the mornings scriptures. Rev Canon Robert Kereopa looked after prayers and intercessions, Bishop Robert Forsyth preached, and Bishop John Gray celebrated. Free time in the afternoon gave the delegates a bit of time to get to know their hosting city before returning to Collary for the evening’s gift giving session. A special session providing an opportunity for gift exchanges between delegations.
INDIGENOUS EDUCATION: (Conference day3) Torres Strait Theological Islands Educator, Mrs Lala Leftwich, and Aboriginal delegate, Rev Gloria Shipp, facilitate the mornings sessions. Each of them reporting on the current state of the institutions dedicated to providing indigenous theological training. The conference also took time to begin discussions and thinking of ways they might help or contribute to aiding the under resourced ministers and unpaid clergy.
PLAYING TOURIST: day two, Sydney. Pihopatanga delegates took the opportunity to check out the rest of the city. After calling in to Te Wairua Tapu church to pick up Sydney Maori Missioner and local tour guide, Ven Malcolm Karipa they were off. Traversing the streets of Redfern and negotiating the crypt of St James Anglican Parish.
