From Glasgow to Chengalpattu
posted: 27 Jul 2007 comments: 1category:
When I was a wee boy I lived in Glasgow. one day a man from the Leprosy Mission came to our church. He showed us slides of people who suffered from leprosy and asked for our help. We were all invited to take a box and fill it with coins. our family took one because we were all moved by the plight of the leperosy sufferers.
I remember the box was L shaped made of wood and coloured red. We used to go collecting for the Mission on the streets. We didn't have a...
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This evening there was a glow in the sky all over Bo'ness. There is something about this little town that gets to you, especially on an
evening like this, it's almost magical. Certainly Eva Cassidy singing Click here."Somewhere Over The Rainbow" is to my mind the definitive version and it too is quite magical. So when they come together like this on the blog I really hope you can just grab a wee bit magic
for yourself. You look out across the Forth from our garden...
Following on from the visit to the Transport Museum last Monday, it was truly a walk down memory lane for me. The sight of this Standard Vanguard car, reminded me of Summer evenings organised by our Junior Bible Class Leader Glen Laing. He used to dress like a gangster wearing suits with big wide collars and flamboyant ties. He'd load a bunch of young guys in this car and take us out to the countryside for what we used to call a ramble, the truth is it was more like...
I can't believe how quickly time flies. In a less than a week we'll have Paul and Marty Clark with us all the way from Peru.
( Paul is the gentleman standing to the left of Willie, as Willie, makes an impassioned plea to Peruvian business people to support the project.)
I'm really looking forward to having Paul and his wife Marty with us here in St Andrew's Bo'ness on Sunday 20th May, he will be with us for two services. We hope that the evening service will...