A Message from our Minister

Dear Friends,

I am writing this piece very early as I look forward to taking a summer break, and I still can’t decide if we have had enough dry days to make it a good summer! Yes, we have had a few very hot ones (although thankfully not as hot as down south), and a few days of monsoon like rain.  A bit like life really, good and bad. There is a Fischy Music Song ‘We’re on this Road’ which starts:

‘it’s a long road, it’s a windy road, it’s a beautiful road, it’s a rocky road’

and that is so true of our life’s journey, however the song’s chorus line is:

‘We’re on this road, we’re on this road, you, me, everybody together’ ©FishcyMusic

and in the church, we are a family of faith that journeys together. Sometimes it’s not easy, we do not always agree 100% with decisions made, or even what might be said from the pulpit on a Sunday (polite questions and comments are always in order on that aspect!), sometimes it is because what needs done to the building is costly and we need to think about money for mission as well as the practical. But no matter what is happening we are on this road because we all believe that Jesus is The Way forward, and as such we are fellow travellers, weary at times, cheerful at times, all of us doing our best, and we are travelling together and when we do that in harmony, as we do so most of the time, it becomes that much more beautiful road rather than the rocky one. And of course, not withstanding we have the companionship of the Spirit at all times as well.

Yours Ann

Home Communion

I have been delighted to celebrate a Home Communion both in a family home and a care home with folk from the congregation. This is a short service available to anyone but especially those who cannot come to church when we share the Sacrament of Communion. If you would like to consider this act of remembrance, then please contact me. Usually myself and an Elder or another member of the congregation would come along, and we would share the Communion meal together - when two or three are gathered I am there’. Ann