WAIAPU DIOCESE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 14

WAIAPU DIOCESE

Synod in Session At Thursday night 'a sitting of the Synod of th*P Waiapu Diocesp, the daliberations of Synod in commit|ee having been completed, the following r'esprutions were " ponsidpfpd in detiuil and carried. (1) "That it be a recommendation from the'committee that the following resolution be brPught before' Synod: •That the members of the Synod, rpcognising that Ivitness fpr Ghrist is the norma! duty of all Ghristians, agree to take steps in tkeir parishgs to form teams of laymen and women to study anfi pracfice thpir privilegp of wifnpsgang for Christ., ?' " (2) "That the Bishop bp requested to "set up an evangelistie committee tq assist ahd co-ordinate these efforts.7* (3) "That the attention of mpmbgrs pf Syno^, both plerical and lay, " he drawn to the appeal made by his Grace, the Archbishop pf Canterbury, entitled 'A Recajl to Religion, ' with an urgent recommendation that ihe subject bp brought before all church people through Sermons, women'^ pd inen's organisations, Bible Glasses and In every other possible way.'* Eulogistic referpnces were mad© tq thp Rey. N. F. Benham who was thfi primfi mpyer in these matters, Thp Rev. G. F. Long, jn a. brief survpy pf thp mission field, explainpd the difljeulties and trials confronting ihe bishops-in-charge. He concluded hy cougx'atulaiing the parishes in the diocese who had completed pr excepded their missionary (quotas.