PC(USA) - Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study


	Saturday, April 19, 2008				<previous \| next>

	Australia

	Eighty-five percent of the population lives on 15 percent of the land area of Australia. Deep in the interior, the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA), through its twenty-three patrol ministers, celebrates the presence of Christ. “The ministry of Frontier Services is only possible because we know numbers do not matter to the God who knows each of us by name,” writes the Rev. Terry Corkin, UCA Assembly general secretary. “Our experience through the provision of pastoral and community services is that when two or more are gathered, Christ is in their midst. Lives are enriched, changed, and enabled through these communities of grace.” Prayer Thank you, God, for your love for all people. Thank you for those who demonstrate that love especially to those who would be easy to overlook. In the name of Christ. Amen. New Zealand In New Zealand’s 2006 census Presbyterians ranked the third highest in religious affiliation, with 385,347 members. The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) has 430 parishes, and more than 40,000 attend worship each week. Having been in Aotearoa for more than 160 years, the PCANZ is now a Kiwi church, with major groupings of Pacific Islanders and other immigrant groups. The church has a Maori Synod, Te Aka Puaho, whose strength is greatest among the tribes of the Bay of Plenty and Urewera.


	Let us pray for
	Partners/Ministries Uniting Church in Australia: Rev. Terrence Corkin, general secretary • Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ): Rev. Kerry Enright, General Assembly clerk, Rev. Andrew Bell, global mission secretary • Overseas Mission and Partnership [New Zealand]: Rev. Stuart Vogel, convener, Rt. Rev. Gary Marquand, moderator, Very Rev. Tame Takao, acting moderator, Te Aka • Synod Partnership: Synod of Alaska-Northwest with the Presbyterian Church of Aoteraroa New Zealand PC(USA) General Assembly Staff Dorothea Gordon, BOP Laura Gordon, FDN Lewis Gordon, BOP


	Prayer
	Loving God, we pray for those who are working to ensure that their parishes are welcoming and safe places. In the name of the great Shepherd. Amen.


	Lectionary
	Ps. 92, 149 Ps. 23, 114 Exod. 40:18–38 1 Thess. 4:1–12; Matt. 5:38–48



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