City Lights

Current Opportunities!

tina — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:05:07 +0000

hey peeps, we have some great current opportunities for your small group or group of friends to help out some needy families. We have some out west, central and south and would love to hear from you if you can swing a hammer, wash a wall, or move a branch… or if you have a trailer!! We specifically need groups where maybe one or two of you are handy and the rest can follow instructions… so if this is you, email us ASAP! we need to hear from you!

City Lights Spring Gathering

tina — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:09:16 +0000

We know what you’re thinking…. ‘how can you be talking about spring already?!?!’ but we are… we want you to mark these dates in your calendar. October 28th and 29th will see us usher in the new season with a weekend of rolling up our sleeves and serving everywhere and anywhere people need a helping hand. We’ll be holding events in 3 of Auckland’s regions, Southside, Central City and North Shore. Stay tuned for all the details. See you there, warmer than now….

So you want to go to Christchurch??

tina — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:58:03 +0000

Well now you can. The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers, so if that feeling of helplessness is just getting to be unbearable…. and you’ve already given up your money for our whanau in Christchurch… then here’s your opportunity!!

The Salvation Army has a team of 150 Volunteers working in Christchurch. They are door knocking in the suburbs, working at the Recovery Centres, helping with clean-up, working in the food warehouses etc. etc. They are rotating these teams in and out every 5 days and need a good list of volunteers who they can contact as needed to keep the ranks full.

Volunteer Job Description:

Provide support and team work to the Salvation Army volunteer group work in Christchurch.
Could include door knocking and listening to people still at homes
Cleaning, cooking serving food etc. at recovery centres
Listening to people and providing support and advice
Behind the scenes labouring and support
Driving – etc.
Wear the Salvation Army High Visibility Vest at all times

Ideal person specification

Must be over 21 years old
Must be the kind of honest and caring person that you would recommend working with you Mum or Dad when they are vulnerable after a major tragedy
Be fit and healthy
Be a team player – and able to take orders and work hard
Be available for a full 5 days
Experienced in listening and supporting
Driver’s licences (car and/or truck and/or wheels and rollers etc.) an advantage

Expenses

· The Salvation Army will arrange and pay for travel

· Accommodation and meals will be provided

How to apply:

Fill out the attached form and return to trevor@nzccss.org.nz (>> Form)
Phone 04 4732627 for further information

City Lights Gathering

tina — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:20:21 +0000

To be held MARCH 11th (friday evening session) AND MARCH 12th (all day including dinner).

Click here for more info and to register!

HELP FAMILIES.. HERE… NOW!

tina — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:06:48 +0000

Hey guys, we got back from Summer Holidays to find our inbox inundated with referrals from social agencies begging for volunteers to help their families! We’re not sure why this is… government funding cut backs… hard times for families during school break… post-Christmas or all of the above, but what we do know is that we need your help! If you can spare a weekend or a weeknight to help some of these solo mums and young families in need, we’d love to hear from you. Or better yet… put your name down to do regular volunteer work… some of these families could do with a visit every week and we’d love to be the ones who answer the call to help them when they’re down! Do it! Email us on info@citylights.org.nz

City Lights Summer Gathering 2011

tina — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:13:32 +0000

Hey all! We’ll be holding a City Lights gathering this year on March 11th and 12th!! More details to follow… mark your calendars and get stuck in!!

your own community…

tina — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:37:33 +0000

Our gathering in October of this year was a unique expression of who City Lights is becoming. We had lots of volunteers do lots of projects, everything from a craft group at Bethany Centre for young mums to weeding and painting for foster caregivers and renovating the Maori mission… and more! We delivered food parcels and had community fun-days. It was cool to see some churches come up with their own projects in and around their communities and serve those on the day! We really hope this happens more often!

After gathering together on the friday night and hearing a stirring and strong word from Brooke Turner about the importance of our faith becoming action and not just talk, we met up in the city and south on Saturday morning and moved into our various projects. It was such an honour to work alongside some of the teams that we did including Mark and Sarah at the United Maori Mission who gave a powerful ministry with kids in South Auckland when God called them to move into town to live-in and care for young maori students who would come to Auckland from all of the nation to study. They needed to get the place up to standard and with limited resources, City Lights was exactly what they needed. We hope to work with these awesome people again!!

Our next gathering will be 11th and 12th of March, 2011, stay tuned for more details.

City Lights Spring Gathering!

tina — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:33:36 +0000

Hey you, what are you doing for Jesus?? We’ve got the perfect opportunity for you to flesh out your faith… the time is now. October 29th and 30th. Register now for our Spring Gathering, we’ve got a brilliant speaker lined up for Friday night, Brook Turner of Zeal in Wellington and Waitakere, who will challenge you to live a life less ordinary and to see the church become agents of transforming our society for Jesus in our day! Then on Saturday we’ll hit the projects hard being little lights all around Auckland. Click here now for more info and to register. See you there.

Brothers In Arms Mentoring

tina — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:02:20 +0000

What? Did you just say “the GREATEST thing I could ever do with my life”??? Why yes, we did. These guys are our friends www.brothersinarms.org.nz, and we think they’re incredibly superbly awesome. Brothers in arms enables you to impact a young person’s life in a way that’s proven to be profound and effective! These guys get referrals from police, CYFs, and all sorts of some of the most at-risk kids, but kids they see as having incredible potential… if someone would just give them some time and let them know that someone is crazy about them. That’s all they need, ONE PERSON. Could that person be you? Sign up to attend a mentoring info evening here (http://brothersinarms.org.nz/Info_Night.aspx) and give yourself a reason to live!

What Auckland Urban Vineyard got up to last City Lights

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:55:11 +0000

After City Lights Gathering this year in March we put out the challenge to churches to take up the torch of learning to bless and serve the community and get creative with their Sunday. Urban Vineyard in Newton took up that challenge and invited men and women from all of the Lodges around Auckland CBD to come to church on Sunday for a church lunch, can you believe it, they actually came!! And they’ve been coming ever since (true story).

Have a read of our friend and City Lights Central coordinator, Wade’s blog on what he encountered the Sunday morning he picked up some of his new friends from the lodge for church.

Link to Wade’s blog: Gucci and the Poor: http://missionadventures.co.nz/blog/