A Message from our Minister

Dear Friends

The day I am writing this piece is also the date on which last year we would have been celebrating Palm Sunday, it is also the day after the fifth anniversary of the first Covid lockdown; a year, five years, even a day can make a huge difference to our lives, and we even talk about pre-covid and post-covid times as it had such an impact on society.

Another demarcation of time is BCE (before common time) and CE (common time) or as we know it better BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini ‘in the year of our Lord’). That is because the birth and death of Jesus was understood to be such an important event it changed society by those who shaped our calendars both Julian and Gregorian. That change though was neither immediate for everyone nor did it happen all at once, but gradually over time as word spread of the Good News of Christ, and the conversion of the Roman Empire occurred, the word spread - sometimes not the way it perhaps should have with persecutions and force but spread it did.

We have to take part in the continuation of that spread, and in April our Sun Fun event is part of that, just as is the work of the Kirk Session and committees, the Guild, Young Church, Teen Talk, Wee Wednesday Worship and, yes, even Sundays when we gather together as a family.  As we prepare to live through the remembrance of Holy Week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, let’s think about Jesus’ journey that week, and how it has and continues to change our lives and how it has the power to change other lives to.

Yours

Ann