Many churches in Cambridge and around the world set up a nativity set at Christmas time. A typical nativity set includes the main characters of the nativity narrative: baby Jesus lying in a manger, Mary…
Many churches in Cambridge and around the world set up a nativity set at Christmas time. A typical nativity set includes the main characters of the nativity narrative: baby Jesus lying in a manger, Mary…
Emily Dickenson wrote “hope is the thing with feathers which perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all”.’ In our back yard, over the past month, a songbird…
Mandatory is the word we may all not want to hear anymore. And for the last three years we have been stuck with all the rules and what to do wherever we go. This year…
Hope, peace, joy and love are words we hear often at this time of the year. They are the stuff of Christmas cards, written in elegant writing on wrapping paper, emblazoned on Christmas advertising. In…
The 65-year-old Piarere Hall was still smoldering this morning after being “extensively damaged” by fire last night. Police at the SH29 scene just before 10am today told The News fire crews were called to the…
On behalf of Bridges Church, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas. There is a real ‘Christmassy’ feeling around the shops of Cambridge, with window displays enticing us to come and purchase…
Similar to Cambridge, Bethlehem was, and still is, a small town with a population of around 25,000 today. It’s not uncommon for farmers to be out working with their animals on the outskirts of Cambridge,…
On behalf of the Raleigh St Christian Centre community, we would like to wish everyone a peaceful Christmas. The year has again been challenging for many in our beautiful town of Cambridge. In our various…
About 1600 children – including 187 aged between six to 15 from Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Pirongia – participated in the annual Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon. The event began in 1992 at St Heliers…
Public response to the inaugural ‘Santa to a Senior’ initiative launched last month has knocked the Christmas stockings off its organisers, the Cambridge Altrusa Club. The project is intended to brighten the lives of seniors…
