The Ways of Prayer
To help us grow and learn from one another’s spiritual practices, we asked two members of the Venn team to write short reflections on the...
18
Sep
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21
Aug
Staff Note – Lucy Collingwood: Remembrance
Lucy Collingwood has recently been appointed as Venn's Hospitality and Events Coordinator. She is an alumna of the Residential Fellowship (2018/19) and has worked in...
19
Jun
Monthly Practice: The Grace of Sunday Morning
I grew up in a pentecostal church in Palmerston North. This was both similar and dissimilar to what people might imagine when they hear the...
01
May
Weekly Practice: Standing Before God for the Sake of the World
It is the gift of God’s Spirit in us, that he awakens us to the pain of the world—our pain, but also the pain of...
24
Apr
Weekly Practice: Service in the Spirit of Manaakitanga
A lifetime ago I used to run an after-school programme for 40+ kids in our neighbourhood in Otara. It was a crazy, hilarious, chaotic, at...
17
Apr
Weekly Practice: Daily Examen
We have now entered Easter, that beautiful season of grace and joy in the church calendar. We have seen Jesus triumph, we have been rescued...
27
Mar
Weekly Practice: Handover Prayer
One of the very challenging things about anxiety is the way it can shut us inside ourselves: preoccupied with one or other matter over which...
10
Jul
Shaping a Life of Service
Grace Bucknell participated in the Venn Residential Fellowship 2017-18 and currently works as a Creative Producer for Christian Broadcasting Association (CBA). She is also studying...