CAREY WEEKLY 25-08-14 COMMUNITY FORMATION TUESDAY: CHAPEL: Lyndon Twemlow leads us in chapel this week, with Elliot Rice preaching. We look forward to spending this time gathered together in praise and worship. INTERVIEW: LYN CAMPBELL Lyn Campbell knows about real life in New Zealand. Come along and hear her talk about Social Welfare policy, Whanau Ora, and family violence in New Zealand. Lyn has worked as Commissioner for the NZ Families Commission, has been Children’s Advocate for Christchurch City Council, and has met with mayors and policy leaders around the world. Lyn was also the coordinator of the Baptist Union’s community ministries. [sem.2 wk.6] FINAL LIBRARY SESSION TODAY - 1:00PM • 25/08/2014 Using the Internet for academic study STUDENT ASSOCIATION ACADEMIC HELP SESSIONS: Got a question? Want to talk over an assignment? Come to the Glass Room in the library Mondays 5.00-6.30pm and SASS Academic Rep Lindy Jacomb will be available to help. Please let the librarians know if you want to access this help but can’t do this time. CAREY vs LAIDLAW CUP This Saturday! 10:00am kickoff NZBMS in Kolkata...Freedom Encounter Facilitator: Peter Hart When you hear Siong running around with her bell on Wednesdays come to the Chapel and join with Carey Staff as we pray together. We would love to have you join us! Cornwall park (One Tree Hill) below the big stairs that lead up to the Ice Cream shop - at the other end of the field are the ‘underground’ toilets. The plan is to have a sausage sizzle afterwards. We will play even if it rains, but if it rains heavily we might not have the barbecue. The basic rules are here We will play with 10 players (with at least 3 women on at all times). Shoes with sprigs or moulds are prohibited, and only sports shoes or bare feet are allowed. MID-SEMESTER BREAK UPDATE OF KEZAH WEDNESDAY PRAYER – 12:40pm in the Chapel Monday 1st - Friday 19th September We are now in week six which means that the three week study break is coming up. Please remember that this is a good time to get on top of assignments and readings! Enjoy! :) On August 4th, people in many parts of the world commemorated 100 years since the start of the First World War – the ‘Great War’. In the United Kingdom lights went out, echoing the words Liz Tisdall of the Foreign Secretary on the eve of WW1: “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”. Indeed, many of that generation who went away to war did not return to see the light of peace in their lifetimes. What was the impact of WW1 on Baptists in New Zealand? How did they respond? How did they feel? Here in the library we put together a display of items relating to that time, drawing on the holdings of the NZ Baptist Archive and the book stock. The contents of the display case cast more shadowy glimpses than answers. There is a book of hymns written by Arthur Carbines for the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Sunday School Anniversary, proceeds of the reprint going to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. Arthur’s youthful face gazes out calmly from the tribute page, under which is inscribed, “Killed in action at Gallipoli on Sunday the 18th August, 1915”. A handwritten list of Mt Eden Baptist Church members who “paid the supreme price” was found tucked in the back of a deacon’s minute book. One died “in Camp”. Another was “Buried in Jerusalem”. Money was raised, letters and parcels were sent to “our brave soldiers” at the front. While the anniversary of the Great War was marked in the August 2014 issue of the Baptist magazine, back in 1914 the onset of war first Please continue to pray for Kezah espeically in regards to good, wise, and quick advice regarding treatment and recovery. Also, please feel free to write in the card for Kezah in the library. featured in the September issue, under the banner headline, “All who know how to pray are requested to lift their hearts to God at twelve o’clock (noon), day by day, in silent supplication that the War may be brought to a speedy end”. Rev J J North (later first Baptist College principal) was the editor of the Baptist at this time. In his editorials and beyond, North was an active commentator on the War. His writings are consistent with his stance as an open thinker who promoted a brand of Baptist life which preserved freedom of conscience. As John Tucker’s book, A braided river, records, North submitted to the idea of conscription as a means of defending freedom rather than for the purpose of waging war. He upheld, to a degree, the rights of conscientious objectors, although he felt they should be willing to undertake noncombatant duties towards the war effort. Views change over time, but history does tend to repeat itself.Despite social media enabling usto shrink the world to the size of ourtelecommunication devices, there is adisconnect – the staccato of the worldis still ‘out there’, beyond ourselves. Themost any of us can do, as individuals and incommunity, is learn moment by momenthow to ‘be’ in this life. This is not to say weare waiting passively in the transit lounge -we are on the journey itself. At Carey you arefollowing a clear path while still needing tostep out each rough, earthly contour. As I am writing this onNational Poetry Day, I will end with a versefrom a poem in the Penguin book of First World War poetry: The blackbird sings to him, ‘Brother, brother, If this be the last song you shall sing, Sing well, for you may not sing another; Brother, sing’. (from Into Battle, by Julian Grenfell, 18881915)