On Saturday 23 May (the Eve of Pentecost) I will ordain Donna Cruickshank (Parish of Central Hawke's Bay) to the vocational diaconate.  The service will take place in Waiapu Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, beginning at 2pm. Clergy should attend (alb and red stole). Please keep Donna in your prayers as she prepares for her ordination.

Water in the desert From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarrelled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our...

Journey Into the Unknown   Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”  So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years...