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December  25,  2025.  Christmas Day

"Welcome to the new world", this simple service for Christmas Day starts at 10:00am and features well known Christmas carols and our new friend, the Advent hymn "Bring in your new world". A free-will retiring offering will be taken for the Christmas Appeal of Christian World Service.

December  24,  2025.  Christmas Eve Service

"I have loved you for a long time", this service of candle light and carols begins at 11:15pm, finishing about fifteen minutes after midnight. A free-will retiring offering will be taken for the Christmas Appeal of Christian World Service.

December  21,  2025.  Nine Lessons and Carols Service

For this year's Nine Lessons and Carols service, Richard Oswin (former Knox Singers director) has composed a carol. Music will also be by John Rutter, Dan Forrest, Benjamin Britten; and James Burt has revised his piece from last year for strings, as we will be joined by a string quartet of players from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. It will be a wonderful service, as usual, so do invite your friends and family along – Sunday 21 December at 10am.

August  01,  2025.  Pastoral Newsletter - August 2025

In most of the months when a Knox Life magazine is not produced, Matthew writes a pastoral newsletter. Here is the August edition.

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July  11,  2025.  Knox's submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill

In June this year, Council adopted a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill, generated by the Shalom Group. You can read it here:

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July  10,  2025.  Knox's submission on the Treaty Principles Bill

In November of last year, Council adopted a submission on the Treaty Principles Bill, generated by the Knox Public Questions Group. You can read it here:

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April  20,  2025.  Easter Day Communion Service

10:00am, Freedom - there he goes! Proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus, we give thanks for the freedom his new life gives. We hear Maya Angelou's poem "Still I rise".

April  18,  2025.  Solemn Service for Good Friday

10:00am, Thirty Pieces of Silver. The central part of this service is the reading of the Passion, this year from John's Gospel. Music includes excerpts from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.

April  17,  2025.  Tenebrae Service - Service of the Shadows

7:30pm - A quiet communion service for Maundy Thursday, Slave Food. At the latter stages of the service, we extinguish seven candles, leaving the church darkened and silent.

April  02,  2025.  Pastoral Newsletter - April 2025

In most of the months when a Knox Life magazine is not produced, Matthew writes a pastoral newsletter. Here is the April edition.View Document

January  30,  2025.  February Pastoral Newsletter

In most of the months when a Knox Life magazine is not produced, Matthew writes a pastoral newsletter. Here is the February edition. View Document

December  21,  2024.  Christmas Services 2024

10:00am, Sunday 22 December - Nine Lessons and Carols.
11:15pm, Tuesday 24 December - Serivce for Christmas Eve
10:00am, Wednesday 25 December - Simple Celebration for Christmas Day