Notices - Sunday 10th February
Monday 11th February
Deacons’ Court will meet at 7pm in the Session Room, Kenneth St
Tuesday 12th February
Basic Christianity discussion group will meet from 7:30-9pm in the MA Hall. Please join us in a relaxed informal setting to explore what Christianity is all about.
Friday 15th Feb
The Congregational Fellowship will meet in the hall after the evening preparatory service. Kieran Turner from the Evangelical Alliance will be speaking. All welcome.
Saturday 16th Feb- Evangelical Alliance- Public Leadership Prayer Lunch.
The Evangelical Alliance will be holding a lunchtime prayer event at Lews Castle Library Room at 12pm. The theme will be Christian public leadership and will involve time praying for our local community, island and nation. The event may be of particular interest to those who are in leadership contexts in a workplace or community setting or those discipling them. There will also be the launch of a new small group resource to help with discipleship in workplace and community settings. For further information or to confirm attendance please contact Bethany Macleod at [email protected]
Subscriptions for The Record
Subscriptions for the 2019 Record are now due. If you prefer to pay annually, please put your remittance of £24.00 in an envelope clearly marked 'Record'- the envelope should also include your name and address.
The Record
The February edition is now available.
Children and youth groups
Parent & Toddler meets on Tuesday (1.00–3.00pm) and Thursday (9.45-11.45am)
Campaigners:
C Club and Crosstrax OFF this week due to school holiday
Kidz Zone OFF this week due to the Communions
Read the New Testament in 2019
For those participating in the Free Church’s Generation Bible Read Through Project, the chapters in the reading plan for this week are Mark 6 to 11.
Communion
The Lord’s Supper will be dispensed next Lord’s Day (17th February). The programme of services is set out on the back page. Anyone who desires to take communion for the first time can meet with the Kirk Session after any of the services prior to the communion. The Session will be opened after the meeting on Wednesday evening.
All who have the desire to come to the Lord’s Table for the first time are encouraged to come. As Matthew Henry wrote in The Communicant’s Companion, “Judge not amiss concerning this ordinance. It was instituted for your comfort; let it not be a terror to you…You say you are unworthy to come; so were all who ever came, not worthy to be called children, nor to eat of the children’s bread: in yourselves there is no worthiness; but is there none in Christ? Is he not worthy, and is he not yours? Have you not chosen him?...Let faith in his mediation silence all your fears. You say you dare not come, lest you should eat and drink judgment to yourselves; but ordinarily those who most fear that, are least in danger of it. That dreadful word (judgment) was not intended to drive people from the sacrament, but to drive them from their sins. Come then, and seal the covenant with God.”
Baptism
All parents requesting baptism for their children are requested to meet with the Kirk Session after the service on Monday evening in the Seminary.
