First Church of Otago

The Centre for Theology and Public Issues at Otago University is delighted to announce that Jim Wallis, founder and CEO of the Sojourners Community in Washington DC, will be in Dunedin on Tuesday 28 September. He will be keynote speaker at a conference on ‘Faith, Ethics and Public Life’ that afternoon, and deliver the Howard Paterson Memorial Lecture in Public Theology. The venue is First Church, Moray Place. Full information about this event can be found at www.otago.ac.nz/jimwallis, and tickets for the full  conference, priced at $20 ($15 students, beneficiaries & U-16s) can be booked online at this address.

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 A couple of Sundays ago, in one of the lectionary readings, particularly from Luke 12:54-56, Jesus spoke about interpreting the times: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘It is going to rain’; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat’; and it happens…You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” Read the rest of this entry »

 Each Tuesday & Thursday 12:15pm – 12:30pm for fifteen minutes, we will take time to be still, to listen, to pray, and to worship. We are inviting our near neighbours to share this time in the middle of the day.  Fliers are being personally delivered to all the businesses in the blocks around First Church. So, if you are in town on Tuesday or Thursday, why not come and join us? And invite others to come too. Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from the White Sunday service at First Church can be seen on line at http://www.nzdigital.org/WhiteSunday09/index.htm

Some images of the production can be seen at http://www.nzdigital.org/Son_et_Lumiere/index.htm, and here on the First Church website. Read the rest of this entry »