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  Join Auckland Youth Choir on an intrepid musical journey traversing Central Europe, Russia, the rolling hills of England and the vast plains of America.   Spanning all five continents, we sing in the native languages of Kodaly and Tchaikovsky and we feel the Latin passion of South America.   We discover new musical destinations in Africa and Brazil and unveil the choral dimensions of Japanese haiku and Indian raga. Finally, after an exotic stop in the Pacific you will find, once again, that we live in "A Slice of Heaven".   Hope to see you there!   Venue: St more...

Anglican clergy have been informed that if they officiate at a same sex marriage their bishop will be "forced" to remove their licence.  Clay noted, "The irony that politicians were able to act on their conscience, yet Anglican clergy are not given the same freedom is not lost on us."  What this means for St Matthew's is that while same sex couples can hold their wedding at St Matthew's (previous law prevents us from discriminating), Glynn and Clay cannot be the officiant without losing their licence to be priests.   As has always been true, they can conduct a more...

In light of NZ's Parliament passing the Marriage Equality Act, St Matthew's is now accepting bookings from those in the LGBTi community who wish a religious wedding. Both Glynn and Clay will be honoured to officiate at these weddings.  

St Matthew's put it's Christmas billboard up for auction on TradeMe and it sold for $860.  The proceeds will be used to continue our billboard ministry into the future.  The auction generated considerable interest with over 30,000 views.  Part of the interest was generated by the comments made by detractors of the billboard and the intentionally humourous answers.

  St Matthew-in-the-City put up their Easter billboard today.  It depicts Jesus on the cross with the question “Is resigning an option?” Pope Benedict’s decision to resign caused an international stir.  While we, from our outsider’s perspective, think his decision was a wise and even courageous one considering the history and tradition of his context, it got us thinking about things from which we can’t resign. On Good Friday we remember Jesus’ crucifixion.  It was not a role that he could resign from.  Jesus' faithfulness to loving and including society's rejects got him killed.  Such faithfulness is not something one resigns from, for more...

The national network Christians for Marriage Equality urges MPs to support the passage of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill into law. We are saddened to see some religious organisations resorting to fear mongering, misinformation and promulgating a message of exclusion that will further alienate young New Zealanders from participating in church life. People of faith are evenly divided on this issue. A May 2012 Colmar Brunton poll indicated that 46% of people who identified with a religion or spiritual group supported marriage equality while 47% did not agree that same sex couples should be eligible to marry. The difference is more...

  Holy Week at St Matthew-in-the-City begins on March 24 with Palm Sunday Services at 8:00am and 10:00am.  At the 10am service there will be a palm procession and dramatic reading of the Passion. From Monday through the Good Friday Service a stone and candle labyrinth constructed inside the church will be available for people to walk from 10:00am to 9:00pm. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 6:00pm until 7:00pm the St Matthew’s Choral Ensemble will sing special meditative music to enhance the experience of walking the labyrinth or to aid those who wish to do centring prayer. On Thursday evening at 7:00pm more...

The following attachment is an open letter from a woman in the Diocese of Nelson withdrawing from her parish due to remarks by her vicar about St Matthew's Christmas billboard. /images/UserFiles/File/Billboard%20uncovers%20hate.pdf more...

  My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Talofa lava from Apia in Samoa. Archbishops David and Brown have asked me, on behalf of the three of us, to send you our Christmas message from here. more...

  St Matthews-in-the-City has raised their new billboard outside the church. “This year we invited discussion and debate on the sexual orientation of Jesus” say St Matthew’s clergy Rev Glynn Cardy and Rev Clay Nelson. The billboard depicts the Baby Jesus in his crib with a halo of rainbow colours. For Clay Nelson it presents the challenge to think about Jesus as fully human whose growing up would have involved the same range of character possibilities, and even sexuality, as the rest of us. “Some scholars have tried to make the case that he might have been gay” says Nelson. “But it more...