A Message from our Minister

Dear Friends,

As many of you will be aware I took two weeks of my annual leave in July, and I have now spent the first ninety minutes back catching up on emails that were sent, invitations to attend seminars and courses and so on. I am extremely thankful to both Rev Mhairi Breingan and the Worship Group for conducting the Sunday worship during my break as I attended worship at Houston and Killellan Parish Church on both Sundays.

During my break I visited a very hot London - where I enjoyed visits to the Tower, Greenwich, and

the Churchill War Rooms; Lindisfarne the Holy Isle; caught up with some housework (exciting I

know!), and attended a family funeral as well as visiting my brother who was very ill in a hospital in

London.

The two weeks were a pattern for life - the new and exciting, the mundane and the more difficult - the

ups and downs we all experience, but I was grateful for the personal and shared worship that grounds me through my daily living.

As a church family in Inchinnan it is our worship, our love of God, that binds us together. When we

keep that as the central core of all we do it helps us through the difficult times, the mundane and the exciting. Helps us with the decisions we make, the many groups we run over the year for folk of all ages, and even the sad times when we say a goodbye to someone we know and love.

Life is a journey and a wise philosopher once noted the many different types of time we go through,

but let’s go through them together, supporting and sharing and most importantly worshipping together.

‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:’ Ecclesiastes 3: 1

Yours, Ann