A Message from our Minister

Dear Friends,

Well, that was a quick August! With a young woman’s baptism that highlighted our connection in the world-wide church family, favourite hymn Sunday, our summer activities and several of us took part in the Erskine Churches Together Holiday Club. But, now as schools are back and all our organisations that took a break are beginning to return it seems as if ‘normal’ and more familiar service is returning. However, it is never a case of going back, back always moving forward. Our groups may be similar, but there might be a new friend (or even better - friends) join, new discussions, new fun, they will not be the same as last year. We change constantly, and so does our church, it always has since the very first followers (who wouldn’t even have called themselves ‘Christians’). Sometimes the change is so gradual we might not even notice it, sometimes it is too quick and unsettling, sometimes it comes from within and sometimes it is from outside but change always happens - and how we handle it is what is important.

Thankfully there is a ‘constant’ in our life - God, the unseen Father is the unchanging ‘I AM’, and Jesus spoke words of I am when he promised he would be with us always, through every change we go through, for the Spirit is with us.

‘And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  Matt 28:20b

Yours, Ann