Notices - Sunday 25th June
Creche: 11.00am in the upper hall for children up to age 3.
Volunteers Today: Elaine, Christine Smith, Chris and Annmarie.
Volunteers 2nd July: Christine Ann, Maighread and Donna Mackinnon.
Tweenies: 11.00am in the main hall for children aged 3-5.
Volunteers today: Liz, Anna and Lydia.
Volunteers 2nd July: Elizabeth, Kay, Aileen and Kirsty.
Sunday School and Bible Class arrive in church at 11.00 with family, then leave through the side door nearest the M.A. Hall after children’s address.
Everyone is welcome to the Sunday School Prizegiving in the M. A. Hall after the morning service.
Tea and coffee will be served by Christine Smith, Anne and Chris.
Craft Group are on holiday for two months.
Wednesday 28th June 7.30pm – English Prayer Meeting in the Seminary and on Zoom, led by Rev Calum M. Smith.
Thursday 29th June 7.30pm – Gaelic Prayer Meeting in the Seminary led by Mr Murdo Martin.
Saturday 1st July – Ladies Walking Group.
Meet at the Castle museum car park.
Saturday 1st July 7.30pm – English Prayer Meeting in Seminary.
Services next Sunday 2nd July
11.00am – English Service (Church) Rev Calum M. Smith.
11.00am – Gaelic Service (Seminary) Rev James Maciver.
6.30pm – English Service (Church) Mr Scott Macleod.
Volunteers Needed to Greet Cruise Visitors.
The Session has given permission again for the Church to be open this summer to visitors on a number of selected days when Stornoway will have many extra visitors due to cruise liners visiting and the HebCelt Festival.
If you would like to volunteer to be on duty for a few hours on an open day, on a rota basis, to meet and greet visitors to the Church building, then please contact Marten Walker on 704586. This opportunity is open to anyone associated with the congregation. The only qualification you need is the ability to give visitors a warm welcome!
Holiday Club – Epic Explorers (31st July-4th August)
This year we hope to have 80 children join us as we Explore the life of Jesus in the gospel of Mark using the 'Epic Explorers' resource from the Christianity Explored series.
If anyone would like to make a financial donation towards the cost of running Holiday Club you are welcome to put this in an envelope marked 'Holiday Club' and place it in the collection plate at either the church or the Seminary.
We would also welcome donations of baking during the week of Holiday Club. If you are able to provide baking, please contact Fiona Macleod. Above all and most importantly we ask that you please continue to PRAY for Holiday Club and for the team as we plan and prepare. To God to be all the glory!
Free Church Youth Camps
Free Church Youth Camps would value assistance from anyone that can help with being a chaperone to and from Stornoway, or baking. There is a sign-up sheet at the front of the church with details if you are able to help.
This year our congregation has been linked up with Kincraig Juniors which takes place from 8th to 15th July.
Please pray for the leaders as they organise and plan their camps. Pray also for the campers that the Lord will prepare the soil of their hearts for the sowing of His seed.
Women for Mission - Fundraising Projects 2023/24 ̶ Breaking Barriers
The four charities being supported this year are:
Christian Values for Education (CVE) Scotland
International Mission to Jewish People (formerly CWI)
International Justice Mission
Release International.
You can find out more about each of the four charities by picking up a leaflet in the M.A. Hall or online at Breaking Barriers - Women for Mission.
If you would like to support these charities in any way, or would like more information about them, please speak to Donna Maciver or Johan Smith.
G.I.G.A. God Is Good Africa Update.
It is so sad to be starting this update informing of the terrible events of last Friday evening 16th June, when rebels entered Mpondwe Secondary school in the Kassee district of Uganda near the Congo Border and murdered 17 boys and 20 girls. I am lost for words with man’s inhumanity to man.
The work of GIGA has continued over the past year, where we support students at African Bible University through the Ishbel Mackenzie Memorial Scholarship fund. Also, the ongoing work Supporting Rev Upokie in Bunia Eastern Congo at Trinity Primary school.
At Lighthill Christian Primary school we are building a Primary 7 classroom, library, and computer room. We have taken the building to wall plate level and are now fundraising for roofing and iron sheets.
This year saw us opening Ishbel Amari Clinic in Phadibe Northern Uganda near the South Sudan border. The clinic is in its early stage but is proving in the providence of God to be a wonderful ministry to the sick in this troubled area where medical provision is very hard to reach.
God willing, we will be doing G.I.G.A. Heb Celt Lunches at the M.A. Macleod Hall on the 13th and 14th July 12.00 till 2.00pm. (Volunteers Required).
It’s now 20 years since Ishbel and I were called to Mission in Uganda, and the needs of mission are still so needful in a world riddled with sin.
But we come thanking God for the only plan of salvation through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Amazing Grace.
Kenny John Mackenzie. Chairman.
Psalm 126. Blessings and Thanksgiving.
