Our Whare, ‘Te Whare Manaaki ō Pihopa Kereti’ was blessed yesterday. We would like to acknowledge our Bishop Steve Lowe for the beautiful reopening and blessing that was done by him for all of us and our Katorika whanau from our chapel.
It was an amazing and spiritually uplifting inspiring opening for all of us that attended. The day was amazing and the food and refreshments were enjoyed by us all.
Ngā mihi nui to all who were present, including representatives of our kaumātua council, the directors of HPL, members of our Interim Governance Group and our trustees of Te Kāmaka Marae Committee, our supporters from the Catholic Church, families, friends and our communities present to support the reopening and blessing of our facility,thank you all so much for being there and supporting our wonderful day. This marks an important opportunity for us to provide better quality manaakitanga services to all our people that book our marae into the future.
This will allow us to provide better depth and a more extensive range of services to our people. This includes our marae,our meeting house Te Kāmaka, our marae ātea, our hall in joint MŌU relationship with the Transformation Academy and also included is our new hospitality services through Te Whare Manaaki ō Pihopa Kereti, that we now can provide to all those who will book our services better hospitality services to them.
To all those that helped in the back to prepare our opening and food for the day,thank you all very much.