posted:
3 May 2007 comments:
0category:
Things have been pretty busy since I wrote my last post. Being busy has included my visit to London to talk to the joint army navy and air force Chaplains about a proposed CWW Tattoo. Now how brilliant would that be? Anyway its under discussion.
Moving on, we had a great evening last Friday at the Ceilidh here in Bo'ness. I think we raised over £900.00 for our church partners in India. Saturday was a chance to catch up with Ian Ferguson who has just completed his...
Continue Reading
posted:
24 Apr 2007 comments:
1category:
Things are beginning to hot up this week in the church office. We're planning quite a lot of activities over the next few weeks. And of course once again its my favourite week. You've guessed it "On the Street" has to be organised for Sunday. The theme this month is 'Dancing on the Street" it seemed good at the time some six month's ago, when planning out the themes. Well, no doubt we'll come up with something. I'll spare you the details on the blog.
May...
Continue Reading
posted:
19 Apr 2007 comments:
0category:
This is a crucial time for the Church Without Walls idea, or movement as some are calling it. We need to keep our focus as we continue to plan the national CWW Event in 2008. Let's remember keep it simple, our core business is worship. We as the Church of Scotland are in the business of creating sustaining and developing worshipping communities. This is the whole essence of Article 3 of our Articles Declaratory with reference to "matters spiritual".
To do this...
Continue Reading
posted:
16 Apr 2007 comments:
0category:
This picture illustrates for me how Christmas and Easter are all part of the same wonderful redemption plan. The above cross started out as our Christmon tree. It's a great way of teaching the whole congregation about the links between Christmas and Easter, using a symbol that becomes alive with meaning. Easter is such a dynamic time of the year that when Easter Monday is over I'm ready to sleep for a week.
I've been away from my desk for a few days, trying to...
Continue Reading
posted:
10 Apr 2007 comments:
0category:
Despite the rain and the fact that I was shattered. It was up and on the road this morning to walk part of the West Highland Way. Inglston on Easter Sunday evening was still ringing in my ears as we made our way up to Crianlaroch and took a view of Glen Bogle.
When I say, Inglston, I'm talking about the Praise Evening entitled "Resurrection" that took place in Edinburgh last night. It was a remarkably good event. Very well attended. I would imagine there must have...
Continue Reading