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Welcome to 'Conversations' ... Inspiration from Aotearoa New Zealand |
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Brought to you by Silvia Purdie 
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Place Sustainability Consultancy and training
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Christmas is coming!!
Here are a couple of fabulous songs that I think would be rather fun in an Advent service:
Here are a couple of fabulous songs that I think would be rather fun in an Advent service:
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We light the candle of Hope
In hope we are born, and sustained by hope this light shines despite everything. A candle seems such a fragile thing, a flickering in the dark. May hope splutter into life in us again and again. God of new beginnings and new possibilities, be born in us, we pray. Amen. |
Advent Blessing
Be alert, be awake, be ready, for the Lord is coming! Be watchful, take note; open your eyes for the Lord is here! Listen carefully for his voice in the crowd and in the stillness. Be on the lookout for his hand at work, for God is alive! Look and you will see his love in action. Be ready to notice God’s grace making space for hope, and his peace shimmering on the water. |
'Awhi Mai Awhi Atu: Women in Creation Care' is here!!
Read all about it HERE
Order your copy by emailing me: silvia.purdie@gmail.com. Send me $40 and your address (includes postage).
Or get your e-book HERE
Read all about it HERE
Order your copy by emailing me: silvia.purdie@gmail.com. Send me $40 and your address (includes postage).
Or get your e-book HERE
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Book newly published!~
'Moving On: Grief in Ministry Transition' Over the last couple of years I have been working away at a 'passion project' reflecting on the challenges of ending ministries. This has become a book, as I have been hugely honoured that many fabulous people, from a diversity of cultures, have shared with me their own experience of ministry transitions, both personally and helping others through endings. Read more HERE |
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Video:
half hour talk on climate change and theology |
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A new page on anxiety from a Christian perspective. Understand your own and other people's stress reactions ... and tools for non-anxious living.
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What is it actually like doing direct protest action on climate change? Read a therapist's reflections in my new Climate Action page.
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Wellbeing and Climate Change
Recording and notes from a recent A Rocha event in Christchurch. |
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Photo and painting by Jessica Ramage
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Ministry Supervision:
now available online to where ever you are! Contact me to book in a FREE 15-min conversation to explore supervision with Silvia HERE |
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"Relationship Repair Kit"
offering eight practical and profoundly important tools for strengthening your marriage. - in the Counselling section. |
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Life, the Universe, and God
Six Big Ideas about Creation DOWNLOAD HERE A six-part study on God’s Creation in Christian Theology: • an overview of leading writers in eco-theology • a range of perspectives • questions and suggestions for discussion and prayer • issues raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. |
"Letters about plastic"
I'm writing to businesses that I personally use to challenge them on their plastic packaging. Many companies in NZ are actively working hard to reduce plastic, and as consumers we need to be congratulating them on achievements and pushing them to do more.
Look me up on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/lettersaboutplastic
I'm posting on the Facebook page the letters I write and the responses I receive.
Join me - post your own letters there.
I'm writing to businesses that I personally use to challenge them on their plastic packaging. Many companies in NZ are actively working hard to reduce plastic, and as consumers we need to be congratulating them on achievements and pushing them to do more.
Look me up on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/lettersaboutplastic
I'm posting on the Facebook page the letters I write and the responses I receive.
Join me - post your own letters there.
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Resources for faith and worship:
GOD ... resources for worship, especially 'Calls to worship' and confession - prayers and home-grown 'psalms' - sermons - Communion liturgies - all-age worship ideas & reflections for children's ministry PSALMS ... reflections on Biblical Psalms interpreted and reworked for prayer and for use in worship LOVE ... poetry, discussions on marriage & intimacy and dramatic explorations of Biblical love stories ... reflections on grief and death SONG ... original music, for worship and for kids ... and lots of lovely photos! 
Because I believe ... that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true! that growing to maturity in Christ takes work that courageous honesty of heart and soul is required that worship is wonderful that each person is a taonga, a treasure, no matter the age, assets or abilities that the local church is the hope of the world. |
In conversation ...
... chatting with friends over coffee ... skilled professional support ... finding words for the moments and movements of mind & body, my spirit alive with God-Spirit ... getting to know Jesus Christ, ever curious as to what he would say and do ... bringing every fibre and phrase into the eternal conversation of Father Spirit Son ... with my people in my place and offered to everyplace ... with pain and with celebration, with beauty and with scars, with the sacred and the ordinary, with scripture, song and silence. All material here is copy-right free; you are free to copy and paste to your heart's content. I just ask that you acknowledge the source and help promote my website.
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