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A Remarkable Year
As I write this article for the Christmas
Contact, I do so one year on from the opening
of our new extension and with the final
snagging items being tidied up. As I look back
on this past year I think it has been one of the Furthermore, the past year has seen us
most remarkable I can remember in my time hosting a very successful Alpha Course
in High Kirk. The new extension has fulfilled a with new people coming to faith and into
lot of what I had hoped it would and more – it membership as a result. God has been good.
has given us a fresh face lift, re-oriented us We have also pushed the boat out in risk-taking
out to the community, encouraged people to faith by beginning a third service on a
come through the doors for real practical help Sunday morning called Café Explore under
in everything from assistance with English to the leadership of Willis McDowell. This has
emergency food and clothing supplies to simply been a great success and as I write it is already,
receiving a cup of coffee and a friendly chat after just three months, in danger of outgrowing
to requests for prayer. It has encouraged and the Oasis room in which it meets!
improved our fellowship times and it has
provided a welcoming and caring space for We are seeing new people join us each month
people who have been bereaved and troubled and we have just had a very successful Word
by life’s burdens as well as providing a cosy & Spirit Conference with the excellent Tim
Hub on Thursday for people to drop in and Matthews speaking. Once again God’s Spirit
have a chat. We could probably fill this whole touched us in a mighty way over that weekend
magazine with stories of people who have been and I was particularly blessed and challenged
helped and encouraged over the past year. by what Tim shared. We want to be a church
Thank you to all who have helped us to get the “famous for love” and famous for the presence
building work finished and it’s good to know of God.
that we are over half way to getting the debt
cleared.
Tim Matthews - our speaker at the successful Word & Spirit Conference.
