Dear Friends, Today we welcome members and friends to our services of Harvest Thanksgiving. It is always difficult to predict when the harvest will be gathered in, and I was once told that we could not give thanks for it until it was! However...
Read More21 July 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,A young woman was waiting for a bus in dangerous slum area of a big city one dark evening when a young policeman approached her. ‘Do you want me to wait with you?’ he asked. She thanked him but told him she was not necessary because...
Read More29 September 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As we look at our world, we see much for which we should be grateful. But we also see much that causes worry and distress to so many people. The cost-of-living crisis is plunging so many people into debt and despair as the rich seem...
Read More22 September 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Have you ever played Chinese Whispers? That is the game where someone whispers a message in your ear that you pass on. As the message is passed on from one to another it changes, so that by the time it reaches the end of the line it...
Read More8 September 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,We extend a very warm welcome to all who have come to worship with us today. We are particularly pleased to welcome our visitors, and also those who have come to see what church is like. We hope you enjoy your time with us and feel...
Read More25 August 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As most of you know, this summer since the beginning of July has not been easy for me. However, I am glad to report that the broken bone is mended, although my muscles are taking longer to recover. I hope to be back to long walks...
Read More7th July 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As I write, it is the morning of the General Election and I am also thinking about how I should exercise my democratic right to vote. How I vote is of course between me and the ballot box, so please don’t ask! But I am also thinking...
Read More26 May 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Every morning Zoomy and I go for a walk up the hill beside the hospital before breakfast. For Zoomy it seems to be an opportunity to sniff out which of her doggy friends have been there before her and for me it is an opportunity for...
Read More19 May 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,It has been an interesting week! Many years ago, I used to have a beadle who was very fond of saying ‘You can’t please everyone so you might as well please yourself!’ And he did! And the results were often quite catastrophic, and the...
Read More12th May 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,This Sunday marks the beginning of Christian Aid Week for 2024 and you will see that there are envelopes available for you to make donations to the charity this week. Christian Aid believes that all people of every race and religion...
Read More5th May 2024: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Today we have to say goodbye to our choir and probably most of our students in the congregation until the next academic session And of course some of our choir and students will not be returning next session as they will have moved...
Read More24th July 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,What does the future hold? There is a question to which we would all like to know the answer. And of course, none of us do. But what we do know is that we must plan for it, for there will be a future, and if we want the future to be...
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