1. Guests as Well as Hosts
This is the big idea for St Andrew Blackadder Church for the years 2025 to 2029. It, along with the Action Plan (see below) has come from the Kirk Session away day earlier in the year. Jesus BOTH sends us as Guests into the world, AND calls us to be generous hosts. We go out, leaving the safety and security of the faith community. And we welcome people in.
2. Sunday 24 August
Services at 9.30 am and 10.30 am (also live-streamed). The passage is Luke 10:1-12. The theme is Guests as well as Hosts. This week the focus is on being guests.
3. Ministries Fair Sunday 31 August.
Next Sunday is part 2 of Guests as well as Hosts. The focus will be on being hosts. One of the way we are generous hosts is through the various ministries of the congregation. All these ministries rely on the willing and regular contributions of members of the congregation. I wonder, what ministries are you part of? What is God calling you to contribute to?
To help you work that out there will be a Ministries Fair next Sunday at 11.45 am. Immediately after the 10.30 service, in the Sanctuary, 14 different ministries will have a ’stall’. I invite you to visit them next Sunday, to find out what they do, to sense which God might be calling you to participate in and to inform your praying.
4.Home Group Moving
The Home Group run by Hugh and Margaret Trevor is reformatting itself. Beginning Wednesday 3rd September, it will meet fortnightly from 10.30-12 noon in Room 1 of the church. The plan is to discuss the lives of well-known (and less well-known) Bible characters, beginning with Jonathan. All are welcome, either on the day, or if you contact Hugh (his email is in the Church Directory) he will send you the relevant Bible passages ahead of time.
5. Gather Worship. Fri 5 September, 7 pm.
Hosted by North Berwick Christian Fellowship at North Berwick High School. All welcome.
6. Blytheswood Shoe Boxes.
The Guild will be collecting and covering shoeboxes in preparation of this years annual appeal. Do you have any empty shoeboxes at home that you can donate to the cause? Boxes with removable lids are preferred and we will be accepting donations from Sunday 7th September– 14th September.
7. Prayer Gatherings
Every Sunday in Prayer Room between 10 and 10.20 am
Every Monday in Room 1 between 10 and 11 am.
Every Wednesday on Zoom between for 30 minutes starting at 7 pm.
Contact the church office for access.
Neil
Rev Dr Neil Dougall
ndougall@churchofscotland.org.uk
St Andrew Blackadder Church of Scotland, North Berwick
St Andrew Street, North Berwick, EH39 4NU
Scottish Charity SC006421
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