Features
Let God write your love story
Friday 11 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Dear Editor, It filled me with sadness to read in the paper on Wednesday about how a letter writer believes that a normal part of growing up here is being a hormone driven, sex obsessed young 20 something whose life is focused on the social scene. For me, my husband and countless others we know […]
Let's lose our fortress mentality
Friday 11 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Have we developed a “Fortress Mentality”? This mentality has a crippling influence. When you check the meaning of “Fortress” on the internet, you will find the following definition: something impossible to get into, something that is impenetrable or acts as protection, a stronghold and fortification. The mindset is, rather than taking new grounds for Christ, […]
Haves and have nots in Aotearoa
Tuesday 8 February 2011 | Published in Features
If we ever really needed a sign that there is a huge gap between the ‘haves and have nots’ in this country it came with the recent report of the government’s tax working group. Showing themselves to be in the ‘haves’ camp, with a complete lack of understanding for the plight of low or no […]
From Haiti to Raro, volunteer Connie learns to 'overcome'
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Global Volunteer Connie Xuereb has seen her share of heartache and desperation – the price of a job that leads her around the world, into devastated countries and poverty-level communities. Xuereb, who works for UNESCO as an educational consultant and foreign examiner, spent most of last year in Haiti, trying to make a difference in […]
Mauke chief marries in the tradition of Mauke weddings
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
When Kiwi teacher Ange Croft moved to Mauke in 2004 her friend said that she would fall in love with an island chief. And on Friday, January 28, Ange married her chief – Gregory Vainetutai Samuela Ariki, who was widowed 30 years ago. Ange came to Mauke in 2004 as a teacher. She recalls that […]
Vaipae tere party visits Puaikura
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Vaka Puaikura and the village of Vaipae on Aitutaki have a strong link that continues today. The two photos featured in today’s Memory Lane column feature a tere party from Aitutaki that travelled to Rarotonga in the 1960s to strengthen their links with their brothers and sisters in the Vaka Puaikura. The group were homed […]
Put a fallen kakaia back in the tree
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Georgia Short knows from experience that putting a fallen kakaia, or white tern, back into the tree it came from might give it a chance to reunite with its family. Last year she found a kakaia in her driveway lying beneath a kuru tree and set it back on the branch from which it had […]
Top up electronically
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) is now offering both an electronic mobile phone top up service – or ‘e top up’ – and a Kia Orana e-calling card service. TCI introduced ‘e top up’ in December, which allows prepaid customers to electronically load any value between $5 and $100 onto their mobile phones. It is a […]
Kokanet service on Manihiki
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Telecom Cook Islands have installed two new cell sites in on the northern group island Manihiki. The installation of the cell sites comes after the success of installing and trialling a cell site set up in Mangaia late last year. Telecom implemented the cell site in preparation for the full solar eclipse which took place […]
'Not enough of us in arts'
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islanders in New Zealand need to be far more assertive if they want to succeed in the arts and media industries there, says film school graduate and performing artist Henry Ah-Foo Taripo. Taripo, who graduated on Friday with a double diploma in film making majoring in screen directing, says many creative Cook Islanders living […]
Ask in faith and act
Friday 4 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Meaningful prayer requires both holy communication and consecrated work. I want to review three examples of asking in faith in meaningful prayer and discuss the lessons we can learn from each one of them. As we speak of prayer, I emphasise the word meaningful. Simply saying prayers is quite a different thing from engaging in […]
Teen takes out Canberra classic
Tuesday 1 February 2011 | Published in Features
Emotions ran high as teenage Queensland amateur golfer Ashley Ona, who is of Cook Islands descent, held her nerve to upstage a strong field of professionals to win the Royal Canberra Ladies Classic at the weekend. Ona, the 2009 Australian girls’ amateur champion, burst into tears after completing a brilliant and pressure-packed up and down […]
Nukutere prefects start 'discipleship'
Monday 31 January 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Nukutere College on Friday inducted 12 new school prefects who were described by Father Freddy Kaina as being like Jesus’ 12 disciples. The Catholic community gathered at St Joseph’s Cathedral for the special mass which not only saw the blessing and inauguration of the prefects but also the first mass for the new college students. […]
Nia's work recognised
Saturday 29 January 2011 | Published in Features
In November 2010 Cook Islands artist Eruera Nia celebrated a remarkable achievement when the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra acquired two of his sculptural works – Akamata and Taputu – for their permanent national collection. The two sculptures, which were formerly located at the Taputapuatea palace grounds in Avarua, came to the attention […]
Ship captain charged in death
Saturday 29 January 2011 | Published in Features
An Alaska man charged with manslaughter once captained a ship on the pilot that spawned the cable TV show “Deadliest Catch.” The Peninsula Clarion reports 59-year-old Clarence “Ole” Helgevold was the captain of the Arctic Dawn. That was the vessel featured in a 2004 three-part miniseries titled “America’s Deadliest Season.” The Clarion reports the show, […]
Eddilicious at Big Day Out
Saturday 29 January 2011 | Published in Features
Local DJ Eddie ‘Eddilicious’ Chambers returned to Rarotonga last weekend from DJing a set at the Big Day Out, one of Auckland’s biggest music festivals. Chambers was in Auckland on holiday when he got a call from a friend on the organising committee – she rang on Wednesday and asked him to DJ that Friday. […]
Tagata Pasifika TV personality inspires others
Saturday 29 January 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islander John Utanga, senior reporter and news editor at TVNZ, is fitter and healthier than ever before – but that doesn’t come as a shock to most of the Tagata Pasifika audience. Utanga, 43, recently made his debut on the other side of the camera as one of six participants on ‘Walk The Talk’, […]
Apology for error
Saturday 29 January 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Dear Editor, I would like to clarify my article in Churchtalk from yesterday. Whilst I was reading it this morning I notice a paragraph which I had forgotten to finish editing when I sent it through. It was all out of order and so looks like it was saying that I don’t buy into Jesus […]
Called for Crusaders
Friday 28 January 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islander Francis Smith is on the reserve bench for the Crusaders Super 15 pre-season match against the Reds in Cairns this weekend. He signed with the Tasman Makos for the 2010 ITM Cup rugby competition and played his club rugby for the Sumner Club in Chrischurch. Smith, the son of Ewan and Fenny Smith, […]
READER CONTRIBUTION Lessons from Letter to Smyrna
Friday 28 January 2011 | Published in Church Talk
What can we see from this letter? What can we learn about and how can it encourage us as believers? There are some key things we should notice. Firstly, perseverance. The Bible teaches that perseverance was a way for the Lord to develop character in His followers! The people in this church suffering from men […]
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