Notices - Sunday 13th February
Creche: 11.00am in upper hall for children up to age 2.
Volunteers today: Christine Anne, Maighread, Donna Mackinnon.
Volunteers 20th February: Fiona, Catherine, Ruby.
Tweenies: 11.00 in the main hall for children aged 3-5.
Volunteers today: Liz, Donna, Joanne.
Volunteers 20th February: ChrissAnne, Karen, Aileen, Kirsty.
Sunday School: 11.00 in main hall for children in P1-S2.
Holiday - Sunday 20th February
No Sunday School next week due to school holiday.
Holiday Tweenies will be on for children aged 3-7.
Monday 14th February 7.00pm
Deacons’ Court meet via Zoom.
Wednesday 16th February 7.30pm
English Prayer Meeting in the Seminary and on Zoom led by Rev Kenneth I. Macleod.
Kirk Session will meet in Seminary immediately after the prayer meeting.
Thursday 17th February 7.30pm
Gaelic Prayer Meeting in the Seminary led by Rev Donald A. Macdonald.
Kirk Session will meet in Seminary immediately after the prayer meeting.
Friday 18th February 7.30pm
Kirk Session will meet in M.A. Upper Hall.
There will be no service on Friday evening, but the Session agreed to meet in order to give every opportunity to those wishing to meet them in relation to the communion.
Saturday 19th February 7.00pm – English Pre-communion Service in the Church conducted by Rev James Maciver and live on YouTube
(Channel name - Stornoway Free Church).
Kirk Session will meet in M.A. Upper Hall immediately after the service.
Services next Sunday – 20th February
11.00am English Communion Service (Church): Rev James Maciver
6.30pm English Service (Church): Rev Calum Murdo Smith
Women for Mission
Following the most recent meeting of WfM on 25th January, there are copies of a Govan Free Church newsletter available at the doors for everyone (not just women) who is interested in the work that is going on in that part of Glasgow. It shows how the work of the Lord is being blessed to many vulnerable and needy people in that community. Please take a copy and share it with others.
Death - Mrs Angusina Macleod. We were deeply sorry to hear of the passing of Mrs Angusina Macleod, Seaforth Road, who passed away on 7th February 2022. We extend our condolences to her family, sons John Alex and Calum, and Calum’s wife Margaret; daughter Maryanne and her partner Duncan; granddaughter Mhairi Zena; and Angusina’s sister Shonnag. We pray that God will strengthen and comfort them all.
Communion Details
We are greatly looking forward, God willing, to the communion next Lord’s Day, when the sacrament will be dispensed at the morning service.
The Kirk Session will be delighted to meet with anyone wishing to take communion for the first time at any of these meetings of Session. Those who wish to join the communicant membership and have a certificate or letter from their previous congregations, are also encouraged to meet the Session at any of the meetings so as to be welcomed by them.
As a result of the Covid situation we have had to introduce a number of changes relating to the communion, as set out in the points below.
- To reduce personal contact to a minimum we will not be using communion tokens, so there will be no need for communicants to wait behind after the service on Saturday evening.
- As at present in our services, we will leave an empty pew at the communion table between those occupied and, except for family groups, we will ensure adequate space between communicants in each occupied pew.
- The bread and the wine will be on the communion table from the beginning of the service, rather than after a “fencing” of the table as previously.
- We will be using individual cups for the communion wine and the bread will be distributed to communicants in a way that ensures each individual communicant alone will have hand contact with the piece of bread they will use.
- Immediately before the bread and wine are dispensed, the minister will specify how these will be distributed by the elders and received by communicants, and how the empty cups will be collected.
We rejoice in this renewed opportunity to remember the Lord’s death in the Supper, thanks be to God! Its absence from our practice over the past two years has convinced us, more than ever before, of how much we need it as a channel of grace to our souls, along with the preached word. Our earnest prayer is that the Lord will be with us to bless us by word and sacrament to the praise of his glorious Name.
