Hello!
Welcome to online worship with Upper Clyde Parish....
As regular blog visitors and online worshippers might know, I've been away on annual leave for a few weeks, and while holiday was lovely, it really is good to be back. It's great to gather from our many different places and join in worshipping the One who is most worthy of our praise, and who calls us from wherever we are to be his community of faith, a family joined together, not necessarily by ties of blood, but through God's Spirit.
In our time of worship, we’ll be reflecting on how that faith journey involves – for one particular follower of Jesus – getting his feet a little bit wet as Jesus’ call to follow leaves him, quite literally, all at sea...
Before we move into worship, just one major matter to flag up:
And that’s the ongoing preparations for the opening of the church for gathered – socially distanced – worship... (and ‘socially-distanced’ worship feels like such a contradictory phrase)... but these are the times we’re currently living in.
Preparations are ongoing, and we hope to be able to open the church building once again from the 1st Sunday in September. Now, this is subject to all our preparations being in place and that what we've done is not only compliant with Government regulations, but also meets with presbytery approval.
We're very nearly - hopefully - there: we just need to get all our signage in place and have a visit from the electrician to do a thorough safety check... thereafter, we should be good to go.
Once presbytery has given its approval, more concrete information will be forthcoming which we hope to get out to those in the parish by a combination of ways – both online and otherwise – so keep your eyes and ears peeled.
The only other matter to bring to your attention is the link for family-friendly, all-age resources to go along with our worship service. The ALL-AGE RESOURCE LINK IS HERE.
I hope you enjoy this time of worship and that it encourages and refreshes, and recharges you in your faith journey.
You'll find our YouTube channel WORSHIP LINK HERE
As you go into this coming week, may you know God's blessing each and every day.
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