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St Matthew's Parish - Masterton

St Matthew's;   St Alban's:  St Andrew's;   St Francis

 

Physical Location
and Street Address:

St Matthew's
35 Church St
Masterton

St Andrew's
Upper Plain Road

St Alban's
Taueru

St Francis
Bideford

Contact Phone Number(s):

06 370 8589   Parish Office 

Email:

st.matt@xtra.co.nz

Parish Website:

www.stmatthewsparish.org.nz

www.standrewsinthepaddock.org

Vicar:

Rev. Stephen Kimberley

Priest Associate:

Rev. David Cole

Priest Assistant:

Rev. Merv Jones

Priest Assistant:

Rev. Liz Greville

Deacon Assistant:

Rev. Christine Ellis

Parish Administrator:

Mrs Patti Robertson

Bishop’s Warden:

Mr Edwin O'Hara

People’s Warden:

Mr John Whitehead

Youth Leader:

Miss Fern Hamilton

Childen’s Leader (“The Ark”):

Mrs Lesley Martel

Priest Associate:

Rev Ted Dashfield

Priest Associate:

Rev Pam Mildenhall

Priest Associate:

Rev Michael Burt

 

St Matthew’s encompasses a wide range of Services from a 1662 Sung Evensong to a post-Alpha Celebration Service. 

Sunday Worship is Traditional Hymn and Prayer Book Liturgy with organ or piano at the 8am Service in St Matthew’s Chapel and at the country parishes.

The 10am Service in St Matthew’s nave is Contemporary with modern songs (Parachute, Hillsong, Vineyard etc) featuring singers, guitar and the Rodgers Digital Organ with its vast range of instrumental sounds and voices but is traditional at Eucharist etc.  Words and pictures are presented via a Data Projector. 

Midweek Service has many long-standing parishioners in attendance and leads on to St Matthew’s Seniors’ Lunch on the 2nd Thursday of the month. 

Children’s Church is in the ‘Ark’; Youth Church (SideDoor) has their service Friday evening and Discipling groups during the week. 

A variety of programmes are available during the year: Alpha, Living Faith, Journeys, EfM and Lenten Studies etc.

 

SERVICE TIMES:

Location

Time of service

Day of the week

Brief details about service

St Matthew’s

8 am

Sunday

Traditional ANZPB

St Matthew’s

10 am

2nd, 4th, 5th Sundays

Contemporary

St Alban’s, Taueru

9.30am

1st Sunday

Traditional ANZPB

St Andrew’s, Upper Plain

10am

1st & 2nd Sunday

Traditional ANZPB

St Francis’ Bideford

9am

3rd Sunday

Traditional ANZPB

St Matthew’s

5pm

3rd Sunday

Sung Evensong

St Matthew’s

10.30am

Thursday

Traditional ANZPB

St Matthew’s SideDoor Youth Congregation

7pm

Friday

Contemporary

MetLife Rest Home

10.30am

3rd Wednesday

Traditional ANZPB

Lansdowne Rest Home

10am

3rd Friday

Traditional ANZPB

Kandahar Rest Home

10 am

3rd Saturday

Traditional ANZPB

 

St Matthew's St Alban's
St Andrews St Francis




No reira waiho ko te aroha o Te Matua Kaha Rawa hei korowai mou.
May the love of Almighty God enfold you!