PAPANUI-BELFAST PRESBYTERIAN CHARGE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 163, 15 August 1914, Page 13

PAPANUI-BELFAST PRESBYTERIAN CHARGE.

The annual meetings of the above charge have been held during the past, week. The reports of the various activities connected with the charge indicated progress and hopefulness, and called for thankfulness to God. The Minister has officiated at twenty baptisms, fifteen marriages, and nine funerals during the year. There are 99 members on the Communion Roll. A branch of the P.W.M.U., numbering 22 members has done good work in collecting for Home and Foreign Missions, and rendering assistance in, mending and darning at the Children's Home, Bligh's Road. There are two mixed Bible Classes that meet during the week and a Y.M.B.C. and a Y.W.B.C. that meet on Sunday mornings. There are three Sunday Schools with a roll number of 254 scholars and a staff of 24 teachers. The Sunday School balancesheets showed an income for the year of nearly £6O. From all sources a sum of £6O was raised for Home and Foreign Missions (including £35 to Ko Tong Hospital). The ordinary income of the charge has been well maintained. The Sabbath collections have increased. The charge is now entirety free of debt. Belfast paid off a debt of £3O, and renovated the church at a cost of £2O, and Papanui paid off the balance of the debt remaining on the Sunday School Hall, amounting to £IOO.