In Philippi, wk 4: Peace

WELCOME once again to our online service of worship. This week is the last in our 4 week series on Paul's letter to the Philippians. Our key theme for worship and reflection is on peace - both peace between neighbours, and inner peace. To access the service, our WORSHIP LINK IS HERE 

CHURCH NOTICES
Sun 29 Oct., 5pm: Evening worship will be held in Leadhills Village Hall. We'll also be focusing upon peace in what will be a more contemplative Taize-style service with prayers for peace - particularly thinking about the conflict in Israel and Gaza. All are welcome to come along.

Christmas newsletter: if you have any items that you'd like to contribute to our newsletter, the deadline is this coming Sunday by 7pm. Please get in touch with either Dee or Nikki

Thurs 2 Nov. 7pm: Kirk Session will be meeting this week via zoom. A link, plus agenda and minutes will go out shortly to members of Session.

In Philippi, wk 3: Stumbling into grace

WELCOME to worship this week, where we continue delving into Paul's Letter to the Philippians. We're on chapter three and exploring the theme of grace, with Paul, sometimes referred to as the 'Apostle of grace'. Let's see where our reflections take us.
The WORSHIP LINK IS HERE

CHURCH NOTICES 
Christmas newsletter: a reminder of our upcoming Christmas newsletter and Dee, our Editor's request that any items you wish to be included reach her by Sunday evening the 5th of November. Ideally, we'd like to get it distributed in the week before our December communion service. Thanks in advance!

Sun 29 Oct, 5pm, Evening worship: Oops, one other notice: evening worship will be held in Leadhills Village Hall this coming Sunday, 29th October at 5pm. It will be a Taize-style service and there will be prayers for peace.

Have a good week - stay safe out there in the stormy weather. 

God bless,

Nikki

In Philippi wk 2: 'Humility' - Worship for Sun 15 Oct

WELCOME - welcome to our time of worship. We’re in week two of our explorations into Paul’s letter to the Philippians and there’s more mention of joy as we move into chapter two, along with a wider theme of humility, which is our worship theme for today. To go straight across to the service on YouTube click on the link: WORSHIP LINK IS HERE

CHUCH NOTICES - Unusually rare to have so few notices! Just the one today, which is a reminder about the upcoming Christmas church newsletter. The deadline for submitting material is by the evening of Sunday the 5th of November - this, so we can prepare it and then allow time for the printing and then sending out just before our December communion. If you have any Advent or Christmas oriented items you’d like to include, please do get in touch with either Dee or myself via the 'contact us' link on the right hand side panel of this page. Many thanks.

In Philippi: wk 1 'Joy' - Worship Sun 8 October

WELCOME/ 
Today we begin a four week series on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians – looking at a chapter a week. What do Paul’s words to the Christian community at Philippi nearly 2 000 years ago have to say to us today? Let’s explore over these next few weeks. 

Due to unexpected visitors, I am late this week... the WORSHIP LINK IS HERE and is uploading even as I type this. It should be available from about 4.30 this afternoon...
Apologies once again.

Meanwhile...
CHURCH NOTICES/ 
Thank you: again, to say thank you to everyone for all your efforts last week to help make our harvest thanksgiving and breakfast such a lovely event in our worship and social calendar. I was able to drop the food bank items off to friend Ben on Sunday afternoon, who works as a volunteer at the food bank, and who kindly delivered them up the road for us. So thank you for your generosity.

Christmas Newsletter: Christmas is coming… and along with it, our Christmas newsletter!
Dee, our editor, would be delighted to hear from you, if you have items that you’d like to include.
You might like to share a favourite Christmas memory, or why a particular carol is your favourite, or, even … perhaps a family or cultural tradition that you grew up with that was very much part of your Christmas? Christmas jokes or a favourite Christmas poem are also welcome. The deadline for any items is for Sunday the 5th Nov.

Guild, 11 Oct.: a reminder that the Guild meets this week on Wednesday – and it’s an outing to Langloch. So hopefully the weather will be a little drier than we’ve been having. If you’d like to go along and need a lift, please do get in touch with Heather Watt.

Have a great week,
God bless

Nikki

Harvest Celebration Service, 1 Oct, 2023

WELCOME to our harvest worship service where we give thanks to God for his faithfulness and we celebrate the harvest. As it is Harvest, I thought it might be nice to film some of the service to get a sense of the atmosphere on site...
Given that, I'm intentionally going to be slightly later with putting the online service up, as I'll add the filming and pics of the decorations in the building into the mix to upload. I'm hoping to have this ready and uploaded by 6pm-ish Sunday evening - possibly before. So, bear with me and thanks for your patience. I'll edit this page to include the worship link when that's available.

****update - THE WORSHIP LINK IS HERE****
and the service should be available by 5pm Sunday

A separate harvest reel is in process and will be added to the Harvest playlist
so do check back on our YouTube channel for that!

By the by, the church was looking fab by the time I left there this afternoon - all the 'harvest elves' had been busy!

NOTICES...
Thank you - harvest time is very much about saying thank you... so a big thank you to everyone who helped in some way to organise the harvest service and breakfast:
to the breakfast team, the flower and decorating team, to those who've already brought items for the display (which will then be given to the food bank) - and to those who will be bringing or donating items...
a special thank you to our 5 primary schools for their lovely banners which, given time off due to the school strike, has been an amazing achievement.

Harvest Charity for 2023: Macmillan Cancer Support - Harvest is both about giving thanks and, sharing what we have, so to honour that, this year we're supporting the work of Macmillan Cancer Support - this, in recognition that our harvest service so often falls around the same time as the Macmillan coffee mornings. If you'd like to make a wee donation, you can do so by clicking HERE

Presbytery plan update - a quick mention about the meeting on Tuesday this last week of presbytery to discuss the presbytery plan.
Basically, presbytery made the decision to delay agreeing to the plan until there was more detail given of the various proposed changes. And, personally, I think it was a wise decision. Anyway, we shall see what happens, and hopefully, down the track, will perhaps end up with a way forward that is a little more rural community-friendly.

As you go through this coming week, may it be a time of thankfulness and celebration, as you remember the Lord of the Harvest.
God bless

Nikki