Church notices wk beg. Mon 25 July - Tues 9 Aug

CHURCH NOTICES/ 

The minister will be on annual leave from
Monday the 25th of July and back at work on Wednesday the 10th of August.

Worship -
During this time, onsite, worship will be provided by the Rev Bill Buchan, while online, you might like to explore the following:

Biggar Parish Church - LINK

Dunfermline Abbey - LINK           

Kirkton Parish Church - LINK        

Parishes of Upper Tweed - LINK 

Pastoral cover -
Urgent pastoral care will be covered by the Rev Mike Fucella of Biggar Kirk - .01899 229291.

General queries... well this gets a little complicated, as a few folk are away :-) 
Heather Watt will be the contact person from the 25th of July to the 3rd of August. 01899 850211
Thereafter, Willie White will be contact from the 4th to the 7th. 01899 229227
Dee Yates will cover for the 8th and 9th. 01864 504093

Other notices -
Community work -
Angela our community outreach work is also on annual leave until the 1st of August – should you need to catch up with her on any given project, hold off until she’s back.

Sun 14 Aug, online and onsite: Songs of Praise service -
Don’t forget, we’re gathering up hymns for our songs of praise service on the 14th of August, so get your hymn nominations in and I’ll get them prepared when I’m back from leave. Either email, or use the 'contact us' feature on the r-hand side of the blog, or, if in the building - pop a wee note in the offering plate on your way in.

Looking ahead - 
There'll also be an evening Songs of Praise service at Leadhills Village Hall on Sun 28 Aug - and again, let me know your hymn choices for that service.

Worship Sun 24 July: 'Teach us to pray'

WELCOME/ 

Hello – and welcome to worship. 

Last week, we spent some time in the home of Mary and Martha, along with Jesus and some of the disciples, and listened as Martha got somewhat hot and bothered and distracted. Always a difficult thing to balance responsibilities with trying to make time to spend with God.

Today, we pick up on the theme of spending time with God, as we think about the prayer we say each week as a community: the Lord’s Prayer. 

Church notices are below for reference, and the WORSHIP LINK IS HERE

CHURCH NOTICES/

I’ll be on annual leave from Monday the 25th of July and back at work on Wednesday the 10th of August. During that time, onsite, worship will be provided by the Rev Bill Buchan, while any urgent pastoral care will be covered by the Rev Mike Fucella of Biggar Kirk - .

For any general queries... well this gets a little complicated, as a few folk are away...

Heather Watt will be the contact person from the 25th of July to the 3rd of August. 01899 850211

Thereafter, Willie White will be contact from the 4th to the 7th. 01899 229227
Dee Yates will cover for the 8th and 9th. 01864 504093

Angela our community outreach work is also on annual leave until the 1st of August – should you need to catch up with her on any given project, hold off until she’s back.

In the meantime, don’t forget, we’re gathering up hymns for our songs of praise service on the 14th of August, so get your hymn nominations in and I’ll get them prepared when I’m back from leave.

And finally, just to note that evening worship in Leadhills Village Hall has been cancelled – but, we’ll be back to normal again in August when we’ll have a songs of praise from the hills as well as in the glen! 

May you know God's blessing this week,
take care
Nikki

Worship Sun 17 July: 'M and M'

WELCOME/

Hello - welcome to our time of worship. 

Today, our gospel reading finds us peeking into the home of some friends of Jesus, who welcome him in, but where the offering of hospitality doesn’t quite go to plan...

If you want to go straight across to our service the WORSHIP LINK IS HERE 

CHURCH NOTICES/ 

Evening worship Sunday, 24 July  
Leadhills Village Hall, at 5pm. Come along and join us, if you’re able, and after the service, there’ll be a chance to catch up with folk over tea, coffee, and juice.
Songs of Praise 'choose your favourite hymn' nominations: nominations are currently open to choose your favourite hymn – or hymns – for possible inclusion in our Songs of Praise service which will be held on the 14th of August. Just let me know via email, phone, or drop a note into the collection plate if you're in the building, so we can gather your choices up. 8 hymn slots are available and feel free to nominate more than one hymn.
Caring hearts school project

If you’ve not yet managed to knit or crochet any hearts for our schools project, there’s only a few weeks left, and we need about 50, if possible. So, if you do have any spare time, it would be great if you could rustle up some wee hearts for our schoolkids.

Let's get growing project
I have a couple of sacks of seed potatoes at the manse - they are suitable for growing in colder areas such as ours, and there's still just enough time to plant a crop. If you'd like to take some potatoes away, please help yourself, they're just by the front door of the manse!!

As you you move into another week, know that God goes with you.
Until next time, 
God bless,
Nikki

Church notices for wk beginning Sun 10 July

Hi folks,
Huge apologies for not putting up a post yesterday with links to worship. In my mind, I thought I'd actually done it... sorry about that!!
Meantime, just a couple of notices for this week...

Thanks:
Many thanks to Alan Grant for conducting worship onsite while I was across at Cairngryffe Church for a double baptism. Thanks, as well, to Heather Watt and Ursula Baillie for providing the welcome and notices, plus music.

Let's get growing:
A reminder that on Sat 16th from 10am -2pm, at the manse in Crawford, there'll be the opportunity to collect onion sets, shallots, garlic, and potatoes for a late planting - this is part of the 'Let's get growing' project and we received a grant for them, so they're free to good homes and do take as many as you want, as they're perishable.

Songs of Praise - choose your favourite hymn:
It's coming up to that time of year when you get to choose your favourite hymns for a Songs of Praise style service on Sun 14th August. Let me (Nikki) know by email, phone, or by popping a note in the collection plate on your way in. You can nominate as many of your favourites as you like, which will be whittled down to 8 hymns for that Sunday.

Worship Sun 3 July

WELCOME/ 
Welcome to worship!
Over the last few weeks, we’ve travelled along with Jesus and his disciples as they’ve ventured out of their comfort zones both geographically and culturally. This week, we continue our travels, but with a twist: Jesus sends his followers off on an adventure of their own, putting theory into practice. And so we’ll see what happens when the disciples are let loose upon the world.
Our WORSHIP LINK IS HERE
While below are our church notices... 

CHURCH NOTICES/
On Sunday, the 10^th, I’ll be across at Cairngryffe church, where we’ll be celebrating a double baptism. While I’m over there, Allan Grant will be covering worship onsite. Meantime, online, I’ll have some worship links available for you to choose from.

Let's get growing project: unfortunately, we've had a delayed start this year. While our order had been submitted, due to unforeseen circumstances, we weren't able to access the gardening items until this week. Most of it can be stored for this coming year for a February / March start, however there are some perishables that are needing homes. There is just enough time to get these growing and harvested.
So, on Sat 16 July 10am-2pm, come along and help yourselves to some potatoes (Charlotte - so okay for late planting), onion sets, shallots, and garlic.
As this is a community growing project, we received a grant for this, so all of these are free.
You’re very welcome to take what you want - and, if you're so minded, perhaps a share of these might be given to the foodbank to supplement the tinned and packaged food.

In the meantime, have a good week, 
God bless
Nikki