WelCom October 2020
The Palmerston North Diocese launched a new online pastoral initiative in July called: Tūmanako or I te Tūmanako o te Kotahitanga – United in Hope.
Through tūmanako – hope – the website aims to look back to where the diocesan community has come from, marking its 40th year as a diocese and exploring where to from now among local and global challenges.
The new web initiative aims to provide articles, videos and resources for people across the Diocese to be ‘United in Hope’ and to celebrate unity as people of God with hope – in Christ, in faith, in love and in gifts that are given.
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