Ardoch Parish Church – Braco, Perthshire

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

RL Stevenson

Throughout the summer we meet for worship in Ardoch Parish Church at 10.00am. Everyone is very welcome

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The Sanctuary was beautifully decorated for the Harvest Service, thanks to Pat Anderson and her helpers. The red squirrel on the Communion Table looked remarkably like our welcome visitor this summer to the feeder in the Church grounds! The excellent harvest offering of £317 will go to Edith’s Hope which Irene Robertson updated us on and the short video gave us more insight into how our donations help make a better future and bring hope for these young orphan children.

BLYTHSWOOD SHOE BOX APPEAL

Update and request for boxes

“It is easy to choose gifts for people who have so little, shampoo, a pair of socks, a notepad, a small toy, a bag of sweets – things we take for granted will seem like luxuries to people living in poverty.”

As we were unable to source covered shoe boxes this year, we would appreciate if anyone had spare boxes doing nothing, we can make good use of them as we have received a number of gifts to make up boxes. They can either be given to Pat or Ann or left inside the church vestibule, where the Blythswood boxes are. Any empty boxes will be made up in the Church Hall on 23rd October between 10 and 12pm and delivered to Crieff the following Tuesday.

If you require any more information, please contact Pat or Ann 880494 & 880300

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

Rev Mairi Perkins conducted the Harvest Service on Sunday, 10th October 2021

Heather McDonald, President of Ardoch Guild conducted the Service on Sunday, 3rd October 2021

Rev Mairi Perkins conducted the Rededication of all of those Guild members present.

Order of Service 3rd October 2021

At the morning Service Lyndsey Thomas thanked everyone on behalf of the Ardoch Hot Chocolate Club for their generous donations which resulted in 20 bags of essential start up goods being packed up ready for Lyndsey and Eleanor to take to Glasgow refuweegees HQ.

The Loop Autumn 2021

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Thought For The Week

Thought for the week

Anyone living in a rural area will know that this is the harvest season. The combine harvesters have been busy, the bales are piled up in the fields, potatoes are being lifted. In the wilder parts, the rowan berries are ready for the birds and the nuts have matured to provide feeding for the squirrels.
Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted. This is the way life works; be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest. The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come, and then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.
You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today’s world some folk want to go directly from plant to harvest.
Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.
Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will bring. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. This is the season for enjoying the fullness of life-partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

The Ardoch Hot Chocolate Club and Pins and Needles have been very busy lately designing and making two banners in support of Climate Change Awareness. These will be sewn together with others and hung as two long banners from the New College Towers in Edinburgh. Hope someone from the congregation might be in Edinburgh next month and take some photographs. Congratulations to everyone involved in producing these two super banners. They look great.