News and events: wk beg Mon 7 Oct

A busy time of year!!

Wed 9 Oct, 2pm: The Guild meets in the Church hall this week.
The guest speaker this month is Isobel Montgomery.

Thurs 10 Oct, 7pm: ‘Wordworks’ writing group meets by the fireside at the Colebrooke Arms.
All welcome to come along: bring something you’ve written/are working on,
or share a piece of from a favourite writer.

Sat 12 Oct, 2-4pm: Harvest decorating.
Just to flag up that our Harvest Festival service upon us.
The church will be open on Sat 12th between 2-4pm for window decorating
and for any Harvest display/ products to be dropped off.

Sun 13 Oct, 10.30am: HARVEST FESTIVAL

An all-age service celebrating and giving thanks for the harvest.

Once again, via an extra offering plate in the vestibule, we'll be supporting the work of
'Send a Cow' - a UK-based charity set up by farmers to help farmers in the countries of:
Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya,  Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
Over the last couple of years, we've been joined by a herd of cows, and a flock of goats...
see what the buzz will be this year from our 5 local Primary schools...!

Parish Magazine:
It’s coming up to that time of year when we begin to turn our minds to preparing the parish
Advent /Christmas magazine.
Do you have a particular Christmas memory you’d like to share, or Christmas poem, or carol?
Why not tell us what makes it special – why it’s your favourite.
There are many ways of making a contribution:
written pieces, drawings, sharing a selection of seasonal jokes.
If you have anything, Dee would be pleased to see you. Deadline: 27th of October.

Centenary Poppies Project:
thanks to all who volunteered to detach the poppies from our Centenary display from last year.
The Centenary poppies are now available for purchase via donation [min. £1]
All monies raised will be given to both Help for Heroes and Poppy Scotland.
Poppies knitted and crocheted of various sizes can be found in the vestibule along with the
donations box.

EDICT: re. ADMITTANCE TO ELDERSHIP:
By resolution of the Kirk Session, Dee Yates, member of this congregation,
has been invited to accept the office of ruling elder; Dee has accepted this invitation
of office as elder: if anyone has any objections why this member should not be ordained
to office, they may state their objection at a special meeting of the Kirk Session
in the church on 20th of October, 2019 at 11.40 – after morning worship;
if no relevant objection regarding life or doctrine is made and substantiated,
the Kirk Session will proceed to the ordination and admission on
Sunday, 27th of October during morning worship.