Notices - 12 November
Sunday 12 November Congregational Fellowship meets in the hall tonight after the evening service and everyone is welcome. Alasdair Macleod (Ali Moley) will speak on the topic ‘The Reformation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’
Monday 13 November Deacons’ Court meets at 7pm in the Session Room
Tuesday 14 November The Reason for God Study meets in Kenneth St. Church Hall at 7:30 – 9pm. Please join us to discuss Christianity as it relates to the world today.
Friday 17 November
- The 55+ Fellowship will meet in the M.A. Hall from 2.30-4pm and the speaker will be Rev David Macdonald (Back)
- All young people S2+ are invited to a Youth Bible Study on Friday evening, 7.30-9.30pm in the upstairs hall. It will be a relaxed, informal discussion about the Bible. Come along and bring a friend.
Saturday 18 November There will be a Fundraising Lunch from 12-2pm in the hall in aid of Save the Children. All welcome.
Advance Notices
- The Big YF will meet on Sunday 19th November in the MA hall at 8.30pm
- The Gideons Western Isles Branch Annual Rally will take place in the Associated Presbyterian Church, Keith Street, Stornoway at 7.30 pm on Friday 24th November 2017. Our main Speaker is Rev Iain Murdo Campbell, Kinloch Church of Scotland.
Election of Elders and Deacons: The Kirk Session has decided that an election of elders and deacons should be carried out before the end of the current year. The election of office-bearers in the Free Church is carried out by those who are communicants and is managed by the Kirk Session. Forms and information as to how to complete them will be given out in due course. Male communicants in good standing are eligible for election to office, but only such as have attained to 21 years of age may be elected to the eldership. Meantime, any male communicant who does not wish to be elected to office, or anyone of the present deacons not wishing to be considered for election as an elder, must inform the minister of this before Friday 24th November 2017, otherwise their names will be included on the form for election.
Death Notice: We were sorry to hear that Mr Alasdair Macleod, 9 Nicol Crescent, had passed away on Saturday 4th November, aged 82. We extend our sincere condolences to his widow Christine, daughters Sandra, Joyce and Isobel, Joyce’s partner Pete and Isobel’s partner Iain, along with grandchildren Sarah, Michael, Garry, Ally, and David, and great-grandchildren Lexie and Lauryn. Our prayer is that God will comfort the family in their loss.
Thanksgiving Day: The Presbytery has set Thursday 23rd November as Thanksgiving Day. A thanksgiving service will be held in the congregation that evening at 7.30pm in the Seminary. The Kirk Session has decided that we will not have a meeting on the previous evening Wednesday 22nd November.
National Day of Prayer: As intimated last week a Day of Prayer was appointed by the General Assembly to be held throughout the Church on Thursday 30th November. The Presbytery will hold a meeting for prayer at Stornoway Free Church, Kenneth Street, at 7.30pm on that evening, as a central meeting for all congregations. In order to focus as much as possible on that evening of prayer the Kirk Session has decided that we will not have a mid-week meeting on the previous evening Wednesday 29th November or a Gaelic meeting on Thursday 3oth.
Children and youth groups All as usual this week
Midweek Meetings: All at 7.30pm in the Seminary
Wednesday – English (Rev R Sinclair)
Thursday – Gaelic (Rev James Maciver) Saturday – English
Parents/Guardians of Children in Sunday School: If you have yet to complete a Registration form for your child please do so as soon as you can, thank you.
ETS Prayer Points: November
• Pray for our part time students, both on campus and by distance learning.
• Staff focus: Please pray for Bob Akroyd, Professor of Systematic Theology
• We give thanks for our ongoing partnership with the FIEC (Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) and we pray that the gospel work of the FIEC would prosper.
