9-16 April, Holy Week Retreat: "Stone Rolled Away"

5 people signed up for a live-in retreat at St Gerard's during Holy Week. They received teachings, experienced various prayer forms, had a taste of community life, participated in the Holy Week's liturgy and para-liturgy, including a Sedar meal, Maundy Thursday mass and washing of feet, Stations of the Cross, Good Friday service and of course Easter Sunday Eucharist. It was a week of restoration and new hope for the participants.

The theme of the retreat was "Stone Rolled Away"....it was a special time of celebration.




Chris giving her teaching on God's covenantal love

25-28 April, New Plymouth Lifeteen Leaders :Wise Man Built His House Upon A Rock!

Lifeteen New Plymouth

6 girls from New Plymouth's Lifeteen Group came for a live-in programme with us at St Gerard's. The passage that the programme was based on was Matthew 7....about building their house on the right foundation.

The programme was based on the needs they had identified. We ran the programme in collaborated with Wellington Lifeteen and the Head of the Liturgy Office. Throughout the 4-day programme, God ministered to them in very evident ways and they left St Gerard's, each personally strengthened and recharged! It was very heartening for us to meet them again a couple of weeks later and to know they are faithfully working on the resolutions they had made at the end of the programme, and also that they've grown closer as friends. \o/

The lifeteen girls in front of the backdrop they created.