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Join us at 11am Sunday mornings

(10pm UTC Saturday evening)

Our services include a talk from a different speaker every week, often followed by a discussion. Services feature Jaime Taylor or Soomin Kim on our fully restored stereophonic pipe organ, and Frank Chen on piano. We always finish with morning tea and opportunity for friendly socialising.


Join us ‘live’ in the building,
or via Zoom, link below:-
Meeting ID: 894 916 3748, Passcode: 12345

Coming up:-

Sunday 10th December

Topic:- Jesus as messiah

The second in a series of 3 talks about differing views of Jesus, explores different interpretations of Jesus as Messiah.

Speaker:- Paul Tonson
Worship Leader:- Alix Geard


Sunday 17th December

Topic:- Luke’s Christmas Story

Its historical basis. Why did the early Christians include it in the Bible? What does the story mean to Unitarians 2000 years later?

Speaker:- Jonathan Mason
Worship Leader:- Phebe Mason


Sunday 24th December

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Come and join us for a non-denominational Unitarian celebration of Christmas. No service in the morning, nor on Monday Christmas Day.


you can also

Zoom into a midweek (Wednesday 6th, 13th, etc. December) morning tea and chat, with whoever else turns up,

Read the latest ANZUUA (Australia and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association) Newsletter March 2023

Health and safety measures: We now have working air purifiers in the church, to help reduce the spread of any nasties.

Rabbi Jesus the Teacher

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Speaker:- Paul Tonson
Worship Leader:- Ted Zorn

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Paul Tonson © 26 November 2023

The path ahead of us

JESUS WITHOUT CHRIST is a possible title for a book that has been germinating in my mind recently. In preparing for today with Ted, I was delighted to find that numbers of this congregation may share the questions that give rise to such a title. This discovery has confirmed our intention over three sessions to look candidly at the ways we may usefully speak of and even emulate Jesus of Nazareth.

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The Healing Power of Self-Compassion

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Speaker & Worship Leader:- Kate Lewis

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Kate Lewis © 19 November 2023

I’m very aware that this is the first service since Clay died that we’re not using one of his talks. I’ve been on the calendar for months, and Ted and I decided that this would be an alright topic for today since we’re hurting and I hope that some of these words may be useful for all of us in dealing with grief.

I also feel the need to give a disclaimer because I’m an academic, and this isn’t my field. I am talking about self-compassion because becoming more compassionate towards myself and others is a path that I am on and something I’m striving for. I have become interested in the psychology behind it and have done some reading, and I’m convinced that most of us can benefit from an increased dose of self-kindness.

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Farewell Clay Nelson

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We mourn our just-retired Minister, Clay Nelson, who died on 2 November 2023. Clay was our Minister from September 2014 to August 2023.

Givealittle page to raise funds towards Clay’s funeral.

Nina Khouri has launched a givealittle page to support Clay’s family with funeral costs.

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/funds-for-the-funeral-of-the-beloved-clay-nelson

Clay Nelson touched so many people through his 40 years of ministry, introducing folk to the power of radical love and acting as a resource to all who desire to experience their full humanity through their chosen spiritual path. And dedicating his life to building communities committed to transforming the world to be a little more just and a little more peaceful. 

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/funds-for-the-funeral-of-the-beloved-clay-nelson

The Funeral was on Saturday 11th November, at the Auckland Unitarian Church. and was livestreamed on YouTube, follow this link Funeral Service for Clay Nelson -https://youtube.com/live/ByH9HkpcDVo, to view that.

Follow this link for the NZ Herald death notice and condolences page.

Here’s the Eulogy delivered by Rachel Mackintosh at Clay’s Funeral.

Clay was born on 31 May 1949 in Coral Gables, Florida.

His father, Calvin Clayton Nelson Sr, was a student at the time and was subsequently an academic whose career took him all around the USA — so Clay and his younger sister Cynthia, recently reunited for some happy days in Philadelphia, lived all over the place … a couple  stints in Florida, and also Sandy Oregon, Yakima Washington, Gunnison Colorado, and eventually LA California …

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Welcome to Limbo. Please leave your certainties at the door

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Speaker:- Rachel Mackintosh
Worship Leaders:- Ted Zorn, Kate Lewis

Our recently retired minister, Clay Nelson, died on Thursday (2 November 2023). Those of us who have known Clay are grieving.

So, we’ve changed this service to reflect on coming together in grief and the wonder of life.

Rachel MacIntosh, Clay’s wife, will present a talk that Clay wrote and presented to us a couple years back called “Welcome to Limbo. Please leave your certainties at the door.” Appropriately, it’s about how we respond to chaos, uncertainty, and the unexpected.

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Clay Nelson © 5 December 2021

Buddha told a parable: A man was travelling across a field when he encountered a tiger. He began to run, and the tiger chased after him. Coming to a precipice, he slipped and was able to catch hold of the root of a wild strawberry bush, hanging in the air. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down only to find that another tiger was waiting to eat him. He thought the bush could sustain him for a while, until he saw two mice gnawing away the vine. A tiger above, a tiger below. The man saw a ripe strawberry near him. Grabbing the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other, and ate it. How sweet and delicious.

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World Polio Day

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Speaker:- Mary Ellen Warren
Worship Leader:- Ruby Johnson

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No text this week

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Opening Words:- Determined Seed” by Laura Wallace

Chalice Lighting:- “Sacred Unknowing” By Amy Carol Webb

Reading:- A Recipe for Resilience” by Margaret Weis

Closing Words:- are from The Pathway to Healing” by roddy bell-shelton biggs

Flower Communion

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Speaker & Worship Leader:- Karn Cleary

Flower Communion
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The talk:- is an address from a Flower Communion service by John Midgley, an English Unitarian minister.

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Opening Words:- Flowers” a poem by Albert Laighton

Chalice Lighting:- is from a UUA service “Day of Religious Freedom – 13th January”

The talk:- is an address from a Flower Communion service by John Midgley, an English Unitarian minister.

Closing Words:- Just before he was put to death in Dachau, Dr. Capek wrote this prayer, reflecting on his own life and the state of his spirit.

No person is an island unto themselves

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Speaker:- John Maindonald
Worship Leader:- Shirin Caldwell

No person is an island unto themselves
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John Maindonald © 8 October 2023

John Donne (1572-1631), who wrote the words that I want to ponder today, lived in England in troubled times. He was born to a staunchly Roman Catholic family at a time when it was illegal to be a practicing Catholic.

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