Thought For The Week
Thought for the week.
Grace is like water; it flows to the lowest part.
God’s canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.
Grace means unreserved kindness. It is a gift from God to man.
The moment we see we are unworthy of God’s favour,
because of the favour of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
Once! I was lost, but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see.
Guild Zoom Meeting this Thursday at 2.00pm
Rev Mairi Perkins is speaking about a visit she made to the Holy Land.
Come See, Go Tell
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9205380068
Pop in early for a chat or linger at the end.
Below is this morning’s Service conducted by Gordon Roy.
It was an excellent service and we had about 30 in the congregation.
This recording is not perfect and the sound at times is not good, however we hope it gives a flavour of what our new installation is capable of producing.
The graphics on the screen in the Church were very clear but the microphones require tweaking and along with some of the camera links. D3AV Ltd will be coming next week to finalise the installation so our next attempt should be much better. Please bear with us. Best wishes from the IT Team.
Click here to watch the Service of Thanksgiving for 240 years of witness and worship recorded on Sunday, 25th April 2021
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If you missed the live streamed service Celebration of 240 years of worship in Ardoch we have a recording posted. Try to watch in full screen.
We gratefully acknowledge the expertise of Sanctus Media in streaming this Service and thank Neil MacLennan for all his help and advice.
CELEBRATION!
What a great service of celebration we had last Sunday: there were four reasons to celebrate:
- The re-opening of the church for worship after thirteen months of the building being closed.
- Celebrating the 240th anniversary of the church being built and opened for public worship.
- Celebrating the visit from the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
- Celebrating the launching of the brand new Audio- Visual System.
This will help our church move forward into a more modern method of presenting services and a better connection with the congregation.
It was so good to see our congregation meeting face to face yesterday after thirteen months apart.
The weather was lovely and sunny and the spring flowers in the grounds looked beautiful. It is well worth a visit to the grounds if you haven’t already seen them!
More pictures to follow.
Best wishes
Charles Robertson
Two knitters have given Pat Anderson this wonderful collection of sets of jumpers, snoods and mittens, all of which will be greatly appreciated by Blythswood Care. The late Margaret Rennie will certainly be missed, as she was a great knitter and donated many, many articles over the years. Another six ladies are still actively knitting and in due course all these and more lovely woollen goods will be distributed.
On 1st April, Liz Paterson gave a most interesting talk about her experiences visiting the Seema Project in India.
More information about this project will be in the next issue of Keeping you in the Loop.
Next month’s speaker will be our own minister, Mairi.
Pamela Penman finished her EDITH’S HOPE LENT DIET CHALLENGE on Good Friday. This has been an extremely challenging diet for her (beans and rice for 40 days)
She is immensely grateful to all the sponsors here in Ardoch Church, her church in Cardiff and family and friends.
The total raised so far is £2,300. This fantastic amount along with the other UK sponsors will bring in enough to build the medical centre at EDITH’S HOPE and employ staff to run it
Pamela says a big thank you to you all.
We look forward to following the progress of the Medical Centre and wish them every success.
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