One of our shared Rythmns this year is to share kai lunch together on the first Sunday the begins each school term: a time to meet, eat, and connect! If your new - this is a great place to get to know those who call St Tom’s home.

It may be indoor at St Tom’s chapel, or at the local park with the BBQ’s, or down at the local beach on a stunner of a day. We will get these deets closer to the time. But for now - after church on a Sunday to kick of term time: all are welcome.

Please bring something to contribute.

It’s Easter Sunday!

Come join us for our Sunday Service celebrating the day that changed everything!

While our youth and youth leaders are away at the fantastic Easter Camp - our weekly tamariki programme(s) will be running including a classic choc--o-licious easter egg hunt.

Hot Cross buns will be served up after the service alongside great tasting filter coffee. Free free to stay on. And, as usual, coffee and tea will be on offer pre service also from 9:30am.

Come join us. And why not bring a friend!

We’re excited to invite St Tom’s children and families to a special Easter Sunday Dawn Walk as we celebrate the joy of the resurrection together.

Event Details
We’ll meet at 6:00am at the gravel carpark on Mt Albert Road (opposite Volga Street), and set off at 6:15am for a short walk up to the Mt Albert summit. At the top (around 6:30am), we’ll share a simple time of reflection, prayer, and song as we welcome the sunrise. There’ll also be an Easter egg hunt for the kids! Afterward, we’ll walk back down together, head home for breakfast, and then gather again at church.

What to bring

• A thermos of hot chocolate (or your favourite warm drink)

• Warm clothing

We’ll provide the Easter eggs!

RSVP: Please TEXT and let Chris (0273254382) know if you’re planning to come, so we have an idea of numbers. We’d love for you to join us for this meaningful and fun way to begin Easter Sunday together.

A quiet, contemplative vigil helping us enter into Holy Week by “reflecting on the shame of the cross.” The service weaves together Scripture readings, Taizé songs, silence, and guided responses.

Hot drinks from 7:30pm, with the vigil beginning at 8:00pm (approx. 1 hour). The service concludes in silence, inviting participants to leave quietly as we enter into the stillness of Holy Saturday.

Please note: this gathering is designed for adults and is not suitable for children.

For more info text the leaders of our Good Friday service Tamsin + Tim (0211028808)

Come grab a hot cross bun and a hot chocolate / coffee with a bunch of us at the St Tom’s Chapel courtyard this friday at 10am (until 11am).

As well as a tasty bun to fill your belly - there will some postered stations of the cross with simple guided reflections for all ages to engage with in their own time. Otherwise, its simply a gentle and fun way to connect and enter into the Easter Story.

This is a family friendly space where anyone and everyone is welcome to join! Bring a friend, bring a nieghbour.

Join our wider diocese family for a beautiful service for clergy and lay (EVERYONE!) to renew ordination and baptismal vows. This is a simple and traditional service that encourages us to ‘spur one another on in our love and dedication to Jesus’.

Service starts at 7 pm at St Peter’s on Willis, Wellington City.

Young adults from across the Wellington Diocese are coming together on Sunday 22 March — and you’re invited.

This is the first of four gatherings happening this year. Last year’s gathering hearing from out friends from Kolkata was honestly impacting — so many people stepped into fresh purpose, deeper devotion, and new ways of living out their faith in everyday life. We’re coming in expectant again.

There’ll be worship music, real stories from local neighbourhoods, space for prayer ministry, and a message from Rev. Paul Fletcher.

Come hungry for God. Come as you are. Bring a friend.

We can’t wait to gather with you.

You’re warmly invited to our Church AGM—a night where we gather as a community to hear stories, celebrate the year, look ahead, and enjoy kai (food) together. It’s always a relaxed family evening with good food, plenty of laughs, bit of formality and details, and the chance to speak into the future shape of St Tom’s. Whether you’ve been here for years or are brand new, if your part of St Tom’s - come along, eat well, and be part of the conversation as we reflect on what God’s doing among us and what’s next.

More details to follow.

Come join us for a reflective Ash Wednesday service as we begin the journey of lent; a season in the Christian calendar dedicated to reflection, repentance, and preparation for Easter. It reminds us of our frailty—“from dust you came, and to dust you shall return”—and invites us to turn our hearts back to God, seeking renewal and grace. Through prayer, confession, and the sign of ashes, Christians enter this season with humility, honesty, and a renewed desire to follow Christ more closely.

Come grab a pancake!

Shrove Tuesday is the last day before the Christian period of Lent begins, marked by confession and penance, which is why it's also known as "Pancake Day" in many countries. Traditionally, it was a day to use up rich foods like butter, eggs, and sugar before the fasting of Lent.

More deets to come for this kid focussed (but everyone welcome) event.

Looks like we have some more baptisms coming up! Lock this in your diary.

Our service will include testimony; followed by those who are being baptised, heading to the beach (Lyall Bay) following the service to embrace the water (and sacrament!).

More details to come.

One of our shared Rythmns this year is to share kai lunch together on the first Sunday the begins each school term: a time to meet, eat, and connect! If your new - this is a great place to get to know those who call St Tom’s home.

It may be indoor at St Tom’s chapel, or at the local park with the BBQ’s, or down at the local beach on a stunner of a day. We will get these deets closer to the time. But for now - after church on a Sunday to kick of term time: all are welcome.

Please bring something to contribute.

Pop down and join a bunch of us for some Christmas Eve carols!

Join us, with David Yee and his guitar, for some fun Christmas Carols - with lemonade, ginger bread, and ice cream with cones! A family friendly event that everyone is welcome to. Bring a neighbour, bring a friend - see you on Christmas Eve.

This coming Sunday our advent ‘Joy’ service will be geared toward (and largely led by!) our fabulous tamariki! Come and enjoy, among our advent liturgy, a fun and creative and sacred, play - and a time to celebrate and bless our younger gen.

All are welcome - as ever. Bring a friend!

Grace and peace.

Come celebrate the ordinations of our good friends Chris and Sophie Silvester to the Priesthood!

Get the date in your diary! Sunday 9th Nov 2pm at Newtown School Hall.

So good!

Come and celebrate All Saints Eve with us in the St Tom's Chapel and Courtyard!

These days more and more of our community are out and about on Halloween, and we'd love to bless our community with a warm and positive presence in our courtyard and chapel. Think less ‘spooky’, more family-friendly good vibes. Bonfire and marshmallows, sausage sizzle, hot chocolate, saintly crafts honouring various Saints, remembering loved-ones passed, and maybe even an appearance from our very own Saint Thomas! Let your friends know they can pop by for a sausage while trick-or-treating, or stay and get involved in crafts and hangs. Everyone welcome.

Get in touch with Chris Silvester or Kate Crawford if you have any questions :)

Faith-filled conversations to navigate Māori Ward Referendums.

From 9 September, here in Wellington South we have the opportunity to vote in a referendum on whether to keep Māori wards at Wellington City Council.

This can be a complex and often misunderstood issue. In our church, we have a unique opportunity to create space for curious, gracious, and informed conversations —grounded in our faith and guided by the wisdom of Māori Christian leaders.

The ‘Table Talk Conversations for Māori Wards in local government - A Christian Guide’— is a 2-hour workshop for small groups, with short videos, discussion questions, interactive activities and prayer. It’s designed to help us learn, reflect and have our questions or anxieties on this topic answered. It features contributions from church leaders and theologians like Dr Alistair Reese, Jay Ruka, Sir David Moxon and Te Aroha Rountree, and the perspectives of Māori leaders in the movement for Māori wards.

If you want to give this some thought before voting, come along!

Monday 15 September, 7:00-9:00pm at All Saints Hataitai, 90 Hamilton Rd. RSVP to kate.v.day@gmail.com. Learn more about what’s involved at: commongrace.nz/maoriwards

Wellington Anglican Dio invites you to a night of worship (led by the St Tom’s Band), prayer, and justice with young adults (18-30) from across our region.

Our setting will be the beautiful little lady chapel at Wellington Cathedral.

Our speaker is Ants Watts from Joyya in Calcutta / Kolkata, India - alongside his local friend and colleague Priyanka. Stoked to have these two with us!

Updated info can be found on Facebook here.

COACH Community Mentoring strengthens communities by empowering individuals and families through personalised one-to-mentoring.

We have another training day coming up soon (Saturday 13th Sep 8:30am - 1pm) at All Saints Anglican in Hataitai - that we would love to invite you to! Keen for more info? Contact Chrissy Cook if you are keen for more info: chrissy@bishopstrust.com or 0211540865

Our collective gatherings are for members of St Tom’s Anglican - offering a space to hear updates on some of the bigger picture peices regarding our church life.

This next meet (first for the year and first since Rev Paul took the helm!) will offer a space to hear updates on some of the changes ahead for St Tom’s as we grow and deepen in this next season. There will also be a short time to reflect on some of the social challenges we are experiencing and responding to in Newtown and also providing some headlines on the future building project that we are re-energizing currently as Vestry.

So a few good things to get stuck in among!

If your keen to hear more - get this in your diary.

It's after church on Sunday 7th from 12:30 - 2:30pm. It will be a ‘Sandwich Sunday’ so please bring appropriate food to contribute to the shared meal (bread options will be provided). Furthermore, if you need to bring tamariki / kids - we will put on a fun movie during the kōrero.

Conversation about the Treaty is happening all around us. There is an important opportunity right now to dive into our shared story so that we know our place to stand and how we can belong, wherever our ancestors came from.

'Belonging in this land: Treaty basics from a Christian perspective' is an opportunity for our faith community to explore the story of the Treaty of Waitangi over two 90-minute video sessions. Whether you know a lot, or a little, let’s be curious together. 

These will be happening at the St Tom’s Chapel Lounge on over two Saturdays - 30th August and 6 September.

Brought to us by Common Grace Aotearoa in partnership with Karuwhā Trust and Te Manu Hononga - the Sir Paul Reeves Centre, we will hear from expert presenters, including Dean of Taranaki Cathedral Jay Ruka and former Anglican Archbishop David Moxon, to help you refresh or expand your knowledge.

Please RSVP to Kate Day at kate.v.day@gmail.com or text 022 315 6499 

This resource is free but there is an optional koha of $25 that can be made when you register as a participant.

Conversation about the Treaty is happening all around us. There is an important opportunity right now to dive into our shared story so that we know our place to stand and how we can belong, wherever our ancestors came from.

'Belonging in this land: Treaty basics from a Christian perspective' is an opportunity for our faith community to explore the story of the Treaty of Waitangi over two 90-minute video sessions. Whether you know a lot, or a little, let’s be curious together. 

These will be happening at the St Tom’s Chapel Lounge on over two Saturdays - 30th August and 6 September.

Brought to us by Common Grace Aotearoa in partnership with Karuwhā Trust and Te Manu Hononga - the Sir Paul Reeves Centre, we will hear from expert presenters, including Dean of Taranaki Cathedral Jay Ruka and former Anglican Archbishop David Moxon, to help you refresh or expand your knowledge.

Please RSVP to Kate Day at kate.v.day@gmail.com or text 022 315 6499 

This resource is free but there is an optional koha of $25 that can be made when you register as a participant.