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.
TALKING CIRCLES: (Conference day2) delegates spend day two of the conference discussing and delving into their indigenous struggles. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island participants launched the days sessions with morning dreamtime. Reverends Wayne Connolly and Elemo Tapim shared some of the toils and achievements of their life journeys before retired Aboriginal Bishop, Arthur Malcolm, gave his reflections on the past 20 years of his ministry. The rest of the day was spent in deliberation as dedicated focus groups of elders, youth, women, theologians, clergy, and staff met.
