The advertising promoting the CWW National Gathering will hit the streets next Monday. The web page might not be up to date until Monday. We hope to post out over the weekend around 3000 envelopes promoting the work of CWW. The theme is " All you can't leave behind" Those of you who are keen U2 fans will I 'm sure think the title is familiar. In a sense it is and the other its not. You work out what is missing from this title. But please don't send your comments on...
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Here is a picture of one of our local heros in Bo'ness Craig Hannah. When he's not putting out fires he's firing up young people to make music. I've known Craig since he was a teenager. In fact he played the drums in the first Bogle Band line up way back in '87. Well thanks to Craig the young rock musicians in Bo'ness have a rehearsal room. It opened on Friday evening 21st September. Four bands all based in Bo'ness were headlining the night. Johnny Lapsley's...
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[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/4xdvppGJ2ZU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]We started our new Alpha this week at the Inchyra Grange Hotel, near Polmont. We're doing it as a joint venture this time with Polmont Old Parish Church. This must be at least the 30th or 40th course that I've led. I just love the idea of sitting down with people over a meal and sharing the essentials of the Christian faith. We don't use videos, I just do the...
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[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rhmgz5pxfDk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Someone was telling me recently how they went to church in one of the cities here in Scotland. The whole experience rather than being uplifting was full of the cringe factor. It was "a too good to be true church". You know the type. Before you get over the door, they've got your name and address and they've also supplied you with the nearest bible study group to...
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Just had an update from Peru. I so glad to know that the aid we in Vine Trust send gets to the places of need, thanks to our partners in Union Biblica. Paul Clark writes, "These children are being fed – 2 good meals a day – at our ‘soup kitchens'. Just an hour ago I had a phone call from Marco, our schools' worker in charge of the distribution of food. He asked permission to move one of the four feeding centres, because the bulldozers have come into the area...
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