Anglican Care South Canterbury

10/06/2026

Our next workshop this Friday looks at how we can empower a sense of belonging, connection and openness to reduce isolation and loneliness. Come along and join in the conversation and spread the sense of connection with others.

The Anglican Advocacy workshops are returning this year. Come and join the conversation to explore about the challenges that we all live with.

Bring a friend and come along to these workshops to be hosted over the next six months. Starting with Grief and Change and how to adapt to them.

02/06/2026

A great reflection as to why Grief is never what we anticipate it to be. It always includes so much more.

To better understand why your grief feels so overwhelming when someone dies, let's consider all the types of things a person might grieve.

04/05/2026

Happening this Friday. Free workshops to explore with others in a safe, confidential environment. Acknowledging you aren't alone offers strength to live with and through the change or grief we live in.

The Anglican Advocacy workshops are returning this year. Come and join the conversation to explore about the challenges that we all live with.

Bring a friend and come along to these workshops to be hosted over the next six months. Starting with Grief and Change and how to adapt to them.

25/04/2026

Christchurch-born comedian David Correos is flying the flag for us in the new season of Celebrity Treasure Island on TVNZ which starts on Monday next week. He’s picked us as the charity to get the winning cash prize if he wins.

David’s pretty extroverted so we have no idea what he’ll get up to, but we know his heart is in a good place. When he chose us, he said if he won the first prize he would be "making an impact to somewhere that means a lot to me”.
We respect that. All the best David!

24/04/2026

The Anglican Advocacy workshops are returning this year. Come and join the conversation to explore about the challenges that we all live with.

Bring a friend and come along to these workshops to be hosted over the next six months. Starting with Grief and Change and how to adapt to them.

14/04/2026

Grief cafe's as a title for a conversation that we have in a private, confidential space over a cuppa and some bikkies can seem odd. In life we are surrounded by different types of grief. Some big, some small, some accumulating and some from long ago that have come back into our thoughts. These times together in a supportive environment offer a place to talk, to connect and to know that you are not alone.

Come along and see what we do. We don't ask too much - just what hot drink that you would like.

From next month we are offering an evening session for Grief cafe. The second Wednesday of the month.

Let me know if you have any questions.

14/04/2026

Community Law continues to support our community. They offer advice for your legal questions or concerns. Book an appointment and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 21st April for our next sessions.

Held fortnightly via zoom within Timaru central. Ring them on their phone number to book an appointment.
https://www.canlaw.org.nz/before-you-come-and-see-us

07/04/2026

Our Grief cafes are expanding and developing. Come and join the conversation and be encouraged through this most difficult time of our lives. Know that you are not alone, and others also understand what it is like to go through such a life changing experience.

02/03/2026

One of the lines from,
‘The Year of Magical Thinking’,
that’s always stayed with me is this:

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”

When I first read that,
I remember thinking,
‘Yes…that’s it!

We think we understand grief.
We’ve seen it.
We’ve stood beside others in it.
We’ve sent sympathy cards and gone to services.

But when it becomes ours,
when it’s the person who shared our bed,
our history,
our ordinary days,
we realize we had no map at all.

Because grief isn’t just sadness.

It’s disorientation.
It’s the strange logic of magical thinking.
It’s expecting to hear their key in the door.
It’s saving their voicemail.
It’s not wanting to give away their shoes.
(That was me!)

Joan Didion wrote about that invisible landscape so honestly,
the way the mind tries to bargain with reality,
the way the heart refuses to accept what the facts already know.

If you’ve ever thought...

“Why am I acting like this?”
“Why can’t I just accept it?”

You’re not crazy...you’re grieving.

Because none of us know this place...until we arrive in it.

-Gary