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Marist City Ministry Peter Roe and Peter Head are the team that run the Marist City Ministry in Wellington. There are two aspects their ministry, Workplace Support and Conversation in the Pub. Their workplace is partly in Credit Consultants House with the JC Colin Ministry, Tim Duckworth's Consultancy Ministry and the Marist Internet Project. They also work out in the office and meet their people in their workplace. Workplace Support The approach the City Ministry team takes is to its work is alongside people – basically bringing the gospel into the workplace by their presence and willingness to be there for the people we meet and work with. This work is not hard-sell religion and is not evangelical. In the course of their ministry both are engaged in some counselling, but that is not their primary focus. Their primary focus is to say that that in every way and in everything they do, they actually care about the people they minister to and will be there when you need us. A myriad of different reasons brings people to see them; things going wrong at home, at work, in relationships, trouble with kids, trouble with the boss, harassment, workplace bullying, bereavement, tragedy. There are positive things too, and when people work out that Pete Roe and Pete Head are priests they sometimes connect again with their faith background – for some of course that is Catholicism but they also help people of other faiths too. It is there experience that people haven’t given up the faith, rather they have just stopped going to church. Both Peters have their own “client bases” – Pete Head works with the Police, Ministry for the Enviroment, Opus International, Land Transport NZ. Pete Roe works with the Ambulance, NZ Fire Service, Life Flight Trust, International Cold Stores – but they have a whole list of other clients and workplaces too. Both have training in Critical Incidence – that means they are qualified to deal with a crisis of some larger proportion and that impacts a particular workplace such as a suicide, to something that affects a whole community – such as a Train Crash/ Earthquake. As well as this Critical work, both Pete’s are qualified in Grief and Loss and often are called on to present these seminars within the emergency services. Other seminars they present are in the areas of Spirituality in the Work Place, Resilience and Stress, Managing Change in Times of Uncertainty, Communication Skills, Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace and Cultural and Religious Diversity. Pete Head, a former Parish Priest, says, “It’s not like walking into a parish where you start ahead of the game with your “Father” title and a front door where people come knocking. In this ministry – either you make the grade or no one comes to see you." Pete Head gets inspiration from contemplating the Road to Emmaus story – where Jesus basically walks alongside the pair who are stone kicking along their journey – trying to understand life, the meaning of the events that have happened recently and their part in the whole thing. “For me,” says Pete Roe, “I see it as being more like the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the Well - Jesus accepts her for who she is and even asks her for some water – later down the track Jesus shares with her who he is and what he has to offer.” Conversation in the Pub Conversation in the Pub is an initiative based on the Australian Marist Province’s “Spirituality in the Pub.” Conversation in the Pub takes place one evening a month at Molly Malones – an Irish Pub in downtown Wellington. People gather in the “upper room” and listen to a speaker for about 20 minutes. The speaker is selected in order to stimulate conversation on issues that are important within contemporary life and then a lively discussion/conversation develops among those there and the speaker. Some of those that come are from the varying workplaces that Peter and Pete visit – it’s all over in about an hour and a half and the whole thing gets washed down with a little of what makes conversation better, a sausage roll and a handful of peanuts or two.
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