Waipukurau.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 September 1925, Page 5

Waipukurau.

The new ©hurch Building Fund is growing rapidly and there is already £1500 m sight, although comparatively few parishioners have sent m their promises. Most of them have promised donations over two or three years. If all will pray, the money required will soon he forthcoming. A social evening was held last month m aid of the furnishing of the Abbotsford Home. The proceeds amounted to nearly £11. The Sunday School gave a special collection of over £3 to the electric light for the < 'Southern Cross." After a course of instruction on the Holy Communion, those who were lately confirmed made their first communion at 8 a.m. on August 16th. Before the service most of them were admitted to the newly formed Communicants' Guild. Two faithful parishioners have lately passed through the gate of death to higher service for their Lord m Paradise. Jane Avison, after six years of sickness, was a. very sweet character, who was always cheerful, hopeful and unselfish. Elizabeth Rood had fulfilled the highest calling of a woman, m bringing up a large family, as only a truly Christian mother can. May they both be granted light and peace, and grow more and more unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.