Sunday coming is "Discipleship Sunday" just hope that the icy weather doesn't prevent people from coming to church on Sunday morning. The Kirk Session are encouraging everyone in the congregation to "Get Connected" The idea is members of the congregation be encouraged to join a group that has a special interest for them. For example young mothers and fathers might get together to form a groups to look at how we nurture faith in the young. There might be an interest for...
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[caption id="attachment_1836" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Two young woman with a passion to serve the People of God"][/caption] Meet Jenn Ewing and Laura Taylor our latest Soultouch team. have a listen to Laura as she asks for your prayers and support. Laura It was great to see another two of our young people in their mid twenties moving out to take risks in the service of the gospel. Yes Soultouch is on the road again. ( I can hear Erica squeal with...
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[gallery]Not that I was actually on holiday all of the time over the festive season, but I sort of got back to work today. It was strange going back into the church this morning seeing the tree without decorations and the church looking a little bit bare. So many people have worked so hard over the past few weeks to make Christmas 2009 a memorable one at St Andrew's Bo'ness so I'd like to thank them all for their hard work. Thank you to all who planned and helped out...
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I felt a touch of history repeating itself today as I read in the news about the world's tallest building being opened today. It stands at 828 metres and has cost 1.5 billion dollars to build. So what makes us wish to build higher and higher. I guess there is a human desire to stretch the boundries of technology and to go one better than our neighbours. The sad thing is that the whole Dubai economy has collapsed and one wonders if this building should be hailed as a...
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[gallery] When the snow falls even familiar things in the landscape look entirely different. I've taken to photographing a few objects at different times during the year, just to remind myself how different they can look. If a bench can change with the difference in climate surely a human being can find their perspective changing because of the circumstances and climate change that we find ourselves in. Taking time to reflect is often more difficult that we night want...
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