Key things you need to know for 2026 🌻

Our Leadership team is made up of Leaders and Coordinators.

From 2026, we are pleased to announce that:

Life Groups: Loloma steps into the leadership role and supported by Ps. Tua. We thank you Loloma for your “Send Me” this year

Worship Team: Pule will return to his Worship Leader role at the end of January. Lisa will start her SZN of rest in February and return in May as a team member. Mira will join Pule as the new Team Coordinator and supporting him in leading our Worship Team this year.

Experience Team: The team name is now changed from Events team to Experience team.

This name change is an accurate reflection of the heart of service for this team. Numa will then become the Team Coordinator.

FIT Team and Local Creative: Our Pastors have decided to put these efforts on hold to allow time to pray, re-evaluate and seek new direction from God.

We thank Tolo and Epi for their time leading FIT and to all those who have contributed to the Local Creative.

For Sundays, our Sunday Hospitality team is currently: Limah (Coordinator), Uila, Margaret and Liz Nanai

Sunday Hospitality Roster: Led by our Sunday Hospitality team and our Life Groups

This roster ensures our House is ready to welcome visitors, set up drinks station and morning tea and reset afterwards. Instructions are on the noticeboard in the church storeroom for everyone.

Drinks Station: available every Sunday except for January, December and Sundays where there is a Family Shared Lunch.

Morning Teas: will only be provided on the 5th Sunday of March, May and August

For Events, our Event Hospitality team is our church family [Check calendar for event dates.]

Regional Pastors Meeting: Our church family will be hosting the July meeting for our Wellington Pastors.

Good News Weekend: There will be a Saturday night light supper and Sunday morning tea.

More info about these events and how you can contribute will be posted to Local Notices.

Checking our supplies: Throughout the year our coordinator will do a stock take and reset their spaces and supplies with our Sunday Hospitality Team.

Communion Roster: There is a roster for servers available from Jan ‘2026. The roster will be posted in Local Notices.

Communion is prepared by Experience Team.

If you would like to join this team and prepare communion, please chat to Ivy.

Here are some dates for opportunities to look after our facilities together. Information will be posted in Local Notices on how you can participate.

Event Cleaning:

• 24 February (for a private booking)

• 14 July (to host a regional Pastors meeting)

Working Bees:

• 18 April

• 8 Aug

• Meals will be prepared by Ps. Tua’s sisters life group.

Spring Cleaning:

• 19 Sep

Cleaning Roster:

• A full year roster is posted in Local Notices (not the Sisters FB group) with monthly reminders (not weekly).

Our Health & Safety Policies and Procedures are due for review so we will make time to work on this, this year.

THRIVE is the name for the team that our Pastors lead and supported by Esther as our Team Coordinator.

THRIVE started in 2019 as a leadership programme that was provided to all leaders. THRIVE returns with the focus on developing everyone who serves or interesting in serving.

Our THRIVE activities for 2026 will be:

• organising 1st Aid training

• continued safer churches training for all in leadership

• growing as a leader

• learning to preach

• creative sessions

• “Ready to Serve” sessions for all who serve

We have enjoyed the change to our Life Group sessions with every group making time to pray together and bringing all life groups together for a big group session.

With feedback we have received, we will introduce more big group sessions for more time to fellowship as a wider group and to hear the move of God in each other’s lives.

• SZN 1 from Feb - Mar:

  • Week 1 - Prayer Meeting

  • Week 2 - 3 - Study session

  • Week 4 - Big group Session

• SZN 2 from May - Jul:

  • Week 1 - Big Group Session

  • Week 2, 3, 4, 5 - Study session

  • Week 6 - Big group session

• SZN 3 from Sep - Nov:

  • Week 1 - Prayer Meeting

  • Week 2, 3 - Study session

  • Week 4 - Big group session

  • Nov will be an open month where life groups can decide what they would like to do.

Save the date Sunday 14 June, 5pm to join our church family.

The AGM gives every planted member an important opportunity to ask questions and agree on the next steps. It is our yearly commitment to be fully transparent and move forward together.

We will continue with the support group.  Weekly messages “From our Hub to your Home” are shared on our PAFT Support group whatsapp chat.

New 2026 Journey Hub packs will be prepared this year for all children: sermon note books; activity sheets sermon based

Our Family Shared Lunches are for our church family making time share a meal together, hear stories of God’s goodness and sharing the upcoming season’s activities.

Everyone in our church family is invited to bring some food/drink to share and enjoy lunch together.

This is a great opportunity to look back at what God has done and realign ourselves to the vision and focus for the remaining time of the year.

We have two Family Shared Lunches for 2026:

• Feb 1 - this one is important to join because you will hear the plans/programmes for the year.

• Dec 6 - Our final shared lunch for the year will be on Vision Sunday.

There’ll be no shared family lunch in October as Wellington is hosting the National Conference, so we have moved it to Vision Sunday instead.

We believe that part of the journey to reaching others is to create an experience where one can encounter God. There is no experience too small or too big for our God and His people.

We aim to be intentional with the experiences that we plan, prepare and organise. We hope for these gatherings this year:

• In April, a Sisters gathering (girls and women) led by Ivy and supported by Sisters life group leaders

• In August, a Brothers gathering (boys and men) led by Ps. Dan and supported by our Brothers life group leaders

• a Family gathering led by PAFT team and supported by our Parents support group

Information about these events and inviting your friends/family will be posted to Local Notices.

Will be available every Sunday during the SZN with sermon notes & activity sheets

In the SZN breaks and communion Sundays, only sermon notes (no activity sheets) and games cart may also be available for children

During Easter, we will hold the following services:

• 2 April - Holy Thursday (communion)

• 5 April - Risen Sunday (communion - 1st Sunday of month)

You are welcome to invite family and friends to join us at this time.

In line with our focus for this year “Send Me”, we are encouraged in Romans 10 to share the good news with others who are far from God.

Here are the dates for this opportunity:

• 21 - 22 March

• 29 - 30 August

Our Good News Weekend will look like this:

• Friday - We will fast & pray together as a church. More information to come

• Saturday AM - We start with an early morning prayer meeting

• Saturday PM service with a light supper.

• Sunday AM service

The messages throughout this weekend will have a primary focus on introducing Jesus to those who do not know and believe in Him.

Celebrating our loved ones this year at:

• 10 May - Mothers Day

• 6 Sep - Fathers Day

• 4 Oct - Children’s Day

All Information about these services will be posted to Local Notices for our church family and a Facebook event will be created on our church’s Facebook page so you can invite your friends and family to come along.

A Thanksgiving Picnic will be held on Sat 21 Nov 2026 and led by our Young Adults.

Instead of a Thanksgiving Shared Lunch, we will make time during our services throughout November, to acknowledge others who serve with us.

Christmas Eve will be a family night enjoying Christmas expressions shared by our church family with a light supper together.

Each year, during the Christmas and New Year holiday, we will not gather in-person. This will also mean that our teams who serve each Sunday can also enjoy rest with their loved ones.

Our last Sunday gathering for 2026: 27 Decemeber.

Online encouragement only (no in-person gathering) will be: 3 and 10 January 2027.

Our first Sunday together for 2027: 17 January.