PUKEKOHE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
PUKEKOHE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PHOTO MAGAZINE - EST 2014 - ISSUE 3 - ISSN 2382 090X
IN GOD WE TRUST
WESTPAC HELICOPTER AT PCS
RUN 4 BIBLES CROSS COUNTRY
HEART OF WORSHIP CONCERT
PCS SENIOR SOCCER TOURNAMENT
YEAR 10 VISIT T0 NZ STEEL MILL
GREEN GROUP AT KELLY TARLTON’S
news
Term 3 was a
time of moving
forward for all
of us at PCS. We
started the term
with a brand new
driveway, drastically smartening
up the overall appearance of the
school. We are
still enjoying the
smooth journey
from the gate to
the car park and
the additional space for parking. We also welcomed a
new bus service to the school. Our bus driver, Mr. Neil
Vorster, now transports large number of students to
and from Waiuku each afternoon and morning. This
has made life much easier for many of our wonderful
students and their families!
Mrs Clare Humber
Principal PCS
A NEW DRIVEWAY AND A NEW BUS SERVICE
PET DAY AT PUKEKOHE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
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news
WESTPAC HELICOPTER RIDES
Lance (helicopter pilot), Hyemin Kang, Mia van Zyl,
Maxwell Cleverly, Herb (crew) and Mrs Clare Humber
Landing on the soccer field!
On 7th of August we were treated to a
visit from the Westpac Rescue Helicopter
Trust. Mrs Clare Humber together with
3 students were flown into the school
and then Mrs Jacqui Kuik and another 3
students were flown back to base from
school. It was a great experience indeed!
Inside the helicopter
PCS students are curious to see the helicopter closer
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sports
FIRST EDITION OF THE PCS SENIOR SOCCER TOURNAMENT
In the heat of the game
Daniel Martin and Ben Simmonds
In the first ever PCS Senior Soccer Tournament, after 4 rounds of games for each team, here are the
final results: in the small final, Terminators (Y8) vs
Shrapnel (Y9), score 1-1 (2-3 pen.) and in the big final, Alpha (Y10) vs Incredible Tekkers (Y12), score
0-5. Top goal scorer of the tournament was Philip
Paul (Y12), with 9 goals.
Final states: First Place - Incredible Tekkers
(Year 12), Second Place - Alpha (Year 10), Third Place
- Shrapnel (Year 9) and Fourth Place - Terminators
(Year 8). Well done boys and a big thanks to all our
supporters! It was a great first tournament and I am
sure that you will perform even better next year! For
Term 4 we will have the same type of tournament,
but only for the Juniors! See you all then and thank
you! Mr. Dumitrache.
Kartik Kumar and Faleatua Faleatua
Incredible Tekkers (Year 12) vs Terminators (Year 8)
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In dribbling
Hamish Cossey and Ben Ewart
A group of supporters
photo competition
PCS PHOTO COMPETITION ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WEBSITE
AN AMAZING JOURNEY FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Poppy Fulton / July / 42 likes
The PCS competition started on the first day of March
and it will end on 31 October. All entries are posted
in Mr. Dumitrache’s account on National Geographic
website, according with the monthly theme. Each student has the right to enter one photo per month. The
photos should be 100% original. The purpose of the
entire competition is to enhance your photographic
vision and your passion for this activity. The jury will
decide the winners, with the help of people from all
over the world (each photo will collect likes from
the National Geographic website: http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com). The photo community on the
National Geographic website consists in 363.650 members from 196 countries, with more than 2.2
Bethany Burton / July / 28 likes
THE BIG PRIZE
A brand new photo camera
SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE
Movie vouchers
Larisa Strydom / July / 21 likes
Charlotte Bird / Aug / 10 likes
Nicola Phillips / June / 44 likes
million photos online. Please note that this is a safe
and strictly controlled web-environment, so there is
not a place for having fun at other people’s expense,
bullying or placing offensive photos or texts. Every entry is strictly controlled by the teacher in charge, Mr.
D. The students have no access to this account, only to
vote once. The contestants will receive likes and comments from all over the world. We encourage your parents/friends/relatives/colleagues to vote for your work Matthias Skelton / Aug / 14 likes
online. The photos are sent in a digital format (jpeg)
to Mr. D’s email address: environmentnz@gmail. The
final round will be in November and the winners will
be announced at the end of the year ceremony. The
New Zealand Jury will be formed from the following:
Mr. Ian Baker professional photographer and film director (1 vote); Mrs. Clare Humber – principal PCS (1
vote); Mr. D – teacher PCS (1 vote). Each member of
the jury will receive the photos of the month without
knowing the name of the photographer and they will
note the photo in a range from 1 to 5 (5 the best). Each
photo will receive points from the jury panel and from
the Internet. The monthly assignments are: March
- Landscape; April - Easter/Christianity; May Grace Yoo / June / 28 likes
Sports; June - Nature; July - Animals; August - City;
September - Abstract; October - Food. Good luck!
Jamie Bartlett / July / 32 likes
Liam Jacobs / July / 19 likes
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THE PRIMARY CLASSES IN THE IT LABORATORY
Each class from the Primary School at PCS is coming into Room 10 (the IT Laboratory) to learn more
about computers, to create documents and to learn
how to save them. Also, they have the option to print
their work, so they can keep their special projects in
their own accounts. Each student at PCS, including
the youngest ones, have an account and a personal
password, so they can keep all the documents safe,
in the school’s folders.
intermediate
VARIOUS SUCCESSES FOR OUR INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS
Kate Wicks represented Pukekohe
Christian School
at the Gymsports
New Zealand Secondary Schools
competition, held
last month, where
she won the
Women’s Artistic
Gymnastics, level
5 section of the
Karanveer, Elliott and Milyo (green)
competition. She
was very proud of Year 8 soccer team won the first game of the competition with a
her achievement, convincing 3-0, against their rivals from Year 9.
her first win for
the year. And she
made the news!
Congratulations
Kate!
Elliott Jacobs attacked by Alex Cousins
It was the biggest surprise of the tournament but a very well
deserved win for Terminators.
Logan and Lachlan to start the game
The goals were scored by Lachland Cummings and Elliott
Jacobs. Well done boys!
Congratulations to our wonderful Year 7 and 8 students who
competed in the Franklin Cross Country, held Wednesday 3rd of
September. Lachlan Cummings (Year 8) came 4th, Libby Morton
(Year 7) came 8th, Johlida van Schalkwyk (Year 8) came 6th and
Karanveer Singh (Year 8) came 11th.
Congratulations to you all on a fantastic effort! Lachlan,
Libby and Johlida represented our school at the Interzone Cross
Country Championships, on Thursday, 18 September.
Benjamin passing the ball
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secondary
YEAR 10 STUDENTS WON BRIDGE BUILDING COMPETITION
On Thursday, 14 August a small group of students
went and represented our school at the Aurecon
Bridge Building competition in Greenlane. Kieran
Martin, Andrew Feldmann and Joo Gang Yoo won
the Innovation Award for their bridge, winning our
school $500 and $50 vouchers each! Congratulations to all three, an extremely awesome effort! A
big thank to Bruce and Luke Feldmann and also to
the parents who helped support and transport our
students to this event.
Here are some photos
from the Year 10 trip to
New Zealand Steel Mill.
This was a very interesting and beneficial trip
and our students were
very lucky to learn so
many new things!
MATHEX CHALLENGE
On Wednesday night, 6 August, our Year 9 & 10 Mathex teams competed in the Mathex Challenge, held at
Rosehill College. They did an outstanding job! Our Year 9 team placed 3rd and the Year 10 team came 2nd.
Well done, awesome effort! Year 10 Mathex team (below): Harrison Fulton, Michelle Phillips, Jessica Bruce,
Rebekah Manning. Year 9 Mathex team (above): Jack Wicks, Justin Marais, Momo Verity, Jason Kelsey.
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green group
GREEN GROUP VISIT KELLY TARLTON’S
As part of their reward for excellent results in the
Wearable Arts Competition, our Green Group was
invited to visit Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium, on 8th of
August 2014. The visit fee was covered by the Green
Group budget. The group of 21 students took a
lesson of 1 hour about the sustainability of our
oceans, then we were invited to watch the stingray’s
feeding program and we visited the entire Aquarium, including the Penguin’s area. It was an amazing
and well deserved trip!
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our christian beliefs
CHRISTIAN BELIEFS ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION
PRAYER FOR
FORGIVENESS
AND STRENGHT
Lord God,
I trust in you today.
I thank you that
you keep turning
the pages of my life.
Everyday you give me
a new beginning.
Help me to ride each
new wave of temptation,
and to overcome the
things that can drag
my life down. As I look
to you I declare your
promise of freedom
over my life.
Amen.
Matthew 22:37-40, “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.” Anything that violates
those two key commandments is a sin.
The Need for Forgiveness
When we commit sin, we put up a wall between ourselves
and God. God loves us deeply, but He hates sin so much
that it causes separation between man and God. Our sins
are so great, that we cannot possibly repay them. The
good news is that His love for us is so great, that He sent
His only begotten Son to die on the cross as payment for
our sins. The only way our sins can be forgiven, is when
we receive the gift that His Son has given us on the cross.
Forgiveness and reconciliation is the most important part
of the gospel. Without forgiveness of our sins, we face
eternal separation from God. Anybody who dies who is
separated from God, goes to a place of eternal punishment called hell; a place where there is no relief from
the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:15). When a person sins
against us, the enemy loves to place within us a wall
against that person; a roadblock in our way of loving
that person as Christ loved us. Forgiveness is basically a
choice that we make to destroy that roadblock that is in
our way of loving them as Christ loved us. Jesus died to
tear down the roadblocks caused by our sin between us
and God, and we are required to do the same to those
who wrong us (Matthew 6:15).
Seeking to Restore a Relationship
ANGLICAN PRAYER
FOR FORGIVENESS
Almighty God,
our heavenly Father:
We have sinned
against you,
through our own fault,
in thought, and word,
and deed, and in what
we have left undone.
For the sake of your Son
our Lord Jesus Christ,
forgive us all our
offenses; and grant that
we may serve you
in newness of life,
to the glory of your
Name. Amen.
(“An order for
Compline”, 1979 Book
of Common Prayer,
Protestant Episcopal
Church in the USA)
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There may be times when we need to attempt to restore
a broken relationship with another person. Jesus told us
to love one another as Christ has loved us, and sometimes this may involve going to the person and telling
them that you regret what you’ve done, and attempt to
restore the relationship. Matthew 5:23-24, “Therefore if
thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest
that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy
gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled
to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” If you
have wronged somebody and it has caused them to have
something against you, then doesn’t it seem right to go to
that person and try make things right? Remember, your
goal isn’t to rush into the room, yell, “I’m sorry!” and run
away... your goal is to be reconciled with that person.
Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this
is the law and the prophets.”
It’s a lot easier to forgive somebody when
they come to us and confess their sin. When you go to
somebody and ask for their forgiveness, what you are
doing is helping them to break down the roadblock that
the enemy may have put in their way of loving you as
Christ loved them. You are aiding them in removing an
obstacle in their life that may be preventing them from
living the life that Jesus wants them to live. What your
doing is helping to break down a wall that the enemy has
tried to setup between you and them. I’m NOT saying
that we must go back to everybody we’ve wronged and
apologize for everything we’ve ever done wrong. That is
legalism, and puts an impossible burden on many of us!
What I am saying is that there may be times when you
may have damaged a relationship with somebody, and it
is important to restore it. Please use common sense and
direction of the Holy Spirit, as sometimes it can worse
to go to somebody than to just leave it alone. It is often
harder to forgive ourselves then to forgive others. But
what we must focus on, is that when God has forgiven
us, we are CLEAN (Psalms 103:12). We need to stop blaming ourselves for not being good enough, and accept the
fact that our sins have been forgiven (1 John 1:9). God
Himself doesn’t even want to remember our sins (Isaiah
43:25), so why should we? Are we smarter then God to
remember something He chooses to forget?
1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.” In order to receive forgiveness, we
must first recognize that we have sinned, confess our
sins, and then believe upon Jesus for the forgiveness of
our sins and that what He did on the cross, He did it
so that we might be forgiven (Matthew 26:28). Without
the blood which Jesus shed on the cross, there is no forgiveness for our sins (Hebrews 9:22). True repentance
includes turning from our sins, and not continuing to
walk in them. If you seem to struggle with compulsive
sinful habits, you may need to be set free from a demonic
influence. It may be necessary to renounce your sins out
loud, and command them to leave.
Freedom from Guilt
Guilt can serve two purposes, it can show us the problem
so that we might repent and receive forgiveness, or it can
rub our mistake in our faces and make us feel hopeless.
The Devil is known for putting guilt on people, and is
known as the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10).
How can you tell the difference between condemnation
(bad for us) and conviction (good for us)? First, I’d like
you to ask yourself, “Why am I feeling guilty? What is the
purpose of this guilt?” Of course your feeling guilty because you’ve probably done something wrong, but there
is a reason why your feeling guilty.
There is a source or sponsor of your guilt; it
could be God or it could be the enemy. God uses guilt to
convict us (conviction) of our sins so that we might change
and make things better (receive forgiveness), whereas the
enemy uses guilt to burden us down and make us feel
hopeless about what we have done. When God convicts
us, it’s so that we might recognize the problem, and work
on fixing it. When the enemy condemns us, it’s to make
us feel like there’s nothing we can do about it, and give
us a rotten feeling with no hope. Therefore, ask yourself,
“Is this guilt trying to bring me to repentance, or is it trying to tell me what a loser I am?” God doesn’t tell us what
a loser we are, His desire is rather that we may be reconciled with Him and receive forgiveness from our sins.
The enemy likes to show you the mess, while God wants
to show you the solution. If you have sins that you haven’t
repented from, then by all means, repent and turn from
your wicked ways!! Don’t try to blame your guilt on the
enemy if you know your guilty and you haven’t repented
of your sins! (www.greatbiblestudy.com)
jules verne book club
‘20.000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA‘ BY JULES VERNE
‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (in French:
‘Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sousmarin’) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer
Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the
perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land wash up
on their ship. On the Nautilus, the three embark on a
journey which has them going all around the world. The
novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through
June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel’s periodical, the Magasin
d’Éducation et de Récréation. The book was highly acclaimed when released and still is now; it is regarded as
one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne’s
greatest works, along with ‘Around the World in Eighty
Days’ and ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’. The description of Nemo’s ship, the Nautilus, was considered
ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on
submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. Thus, the book has been able to age well because of
its scientific theories, unlike some other of Verne’s works,
like ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’, which are not
scientifically accurate and serve more simply as adventure novels.
In the year 1866, ships of several nations spot
a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a
giant narwhal. The United States government assembles
an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the
monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in
New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to
join the expedition which he accepts. Canadian whaler
and master harpoonist Ned Land and Aronnax’s faithful
servant Conseil are also brought aboard. The expedition
departs Brooklyn aboard the United States Navy frigate
Abraham Lincoln and travels south around Cape Horn
into the Pacific Ocean. The ship finds the monster after
a long search and then attacks the beast, which damages
the ship’s rudder. The three protagonists are then hurled
A submarine adventure from the book
into the water and grasp hold of the “hide” of the creature, which they find, to their surprise, to be a submarine
very far ahead of its era. They are quickly captured and
brought inside the vessel, where they meet its enigmatic
creator and commander, Captain Nemo. The rest of the
story follows the adventures of the protagonists aboard
the creature—the submarine, the Nautilus—which was
built in secrecy and now roams the seas free from any
land-based government. Captain Nemo’s motivation is
implied to be both a scientific thirst for knowledge and a
desire for revenge on (and self-imposed exile from) civilization. Nemo explains that his submarine is electrically
powered and can perform advanced marine biology research; he also tells his new passengers that although he
appreciates conversing with such an expert as Aronnax,
maintaining the secrecy of his existence requires never
letting them leave. Aronnax is enthralled by the undersea vistas, but Land constantly plans to escape. They visit
many places in the world’s oceans, some known to Jules
Verne from real travelers’ descriptions and speculation,
while others are completely fictional.
Thus, the travelers witness the real corals of the
Red Sea, the wrecks of the battle of Vigo Bay, the Antarctic ice shelves, the Transatlantic telegraph cable and
the fictional submerged land of Atlantis. The travelers
also use diving suits to hunt sharks and other marine life
with air-guns and have an underwater funeral for a crew
member who died when an accident occurred under mysterious—and unknown to the reader—conditions inside
the Nautilus. When the Nautilus returns to the Atlantic
Ocean, a pack of “poulpes” (usually translated as a giant
squid, although in French “poulpe” means “octopus”) attacks the vessel and kills a crew member. Throughout the
story Captain Nemo is suggested to have exiled himself
from the world after an encounter with the forces that
occupied his country that had devastating effects on his
family. Near the end of the book, the Nautilus is attacked
by a warship of that nation. Nemo ignores Aronnax’s
pleas for mercy. Nemo—nicknamed angel of hatred by
Aronnax—attacks the ship, ramming it just below the waterline, sending it to the bottom of the ocean, much to the
horror of Aronnax who watches in awe from the saloon
glass as the ship plunges to the depths. Nemo bows before the pictures of his wife and children and is plunged
into deep depression after this encounter, and “voluntarily or involuntarily” allows the submarine to wander
into an encounter with the “Maelstrom”, a whirlpool off
the coast of Norway. The three prisoners seize this opportunity to escape. They manage to escape the danger and
find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway, but
the fate of Nautilus is unknown.
Captain
Nemo
On the Nautilus
RECURRING THEMES
IN LATER BOOKS
Jules Verne wrote a sequel
to this book: L’Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious
Island, 1874), which concludes the stories begun by
‘Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea’ and ‘In
Search of the Castaways’.
Verne returned to the
theme of an outlaw submarine captain in his much
later ‘Facing the Flag’. That
book’s main villain, Ker
Karraje, is a completely
unscrupulous pirate acting
purely and simply for gain,
completely devoid of all the
saving graces which gave
Nemo—for all that he, too,
was capable of ruthless
killings—some nobility of
character.
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netball and basketball
THE NETBALL AWARDS AT PUKEKOHE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
PCS BASKETBALL TEAM AFTER THE FIRST LEAGUE SEASON
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