From the L&B Mission Officer – 20th January 2025
Dear Friends Today is a national holiday in the USA. It’s Martin Luther King Day. The day that country celebrates the significant contribution he made to the civil rights movement. Dr King insisted that the church exist as the “conscience of the state” speaking prophetically to those in power. Today we also await the noisy […]
From the L&B Mission Officer 13th January 2025
Happy New Year! As we pack away our Christmas decorations and emerge into the bracing challenge of January so we find a new year opening out before us. I’m not convinced that given the weariness & cynicism so prevalent these days that too many folks in 2025 make New Year resolutions. It is however a […]
From the L&B Mission Officer
Dear Friends I find the making of lists is something hard to avoid especially at this time of year. Food / services / cards / gifts… Occasionally I spot a present for a family member in the summer but then you have the challenge of trying to remember where you put the box in order […]
Holiday at Home
(9th – 13th July 2024) Selkirk and Ashkirk Parish Church Engaging seniors in mission -If you can’t get to the seaside why not take the seaside to you! Invitations were distributed to people 70 years plus to come and have a fun time together with food, laughter and faith in equal measure. […]
An evening with the TYBG (Tuesday Youth Bible Group)
Get a flavour of what happens on a Tuesday evening at TYBG
Christmas Blessings
‘The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighbourhood’ (John 1.14, The Message) Dear Friends We are into that crazy season of mad white van drivers, Die Hard discussions, Brussel sprout persecution and credit card overload. ‘Down to such a world as this’ He came. The Son of God enters this mess and […]
Stage & Slam Gorebridge Oct24
The Youth Minister at Gorebridge Parish Church, Joel Nicholas, explains what happened this summer at their big youth gathering called ‘Stage ‘n’ Slam’
Sleeping Giant: A Call to the Church to Awake and Arise – A review
Sleeping Giant: A Call to the Church to Awake and Arise – A review Author: Tommy MacNeil River Publishing 2021 A peek at the properties for sale on the Church of Scotland website is a depressing experience. The number of church buildings and former manses listed vividly illustrates the decline of faith in Scotland. […]
Book review: “Finding our voice -searching for renewal in the mainline church”
How do you make sense of what has happened to the Church of Scotland in the past fifty years? Why have we gone from being a major force in Scottish society to an emaciated rump now seen as largely irrelevant by the majority of the population? Where are you in this story? What episodes have […]
Missed the helpful seminar on fundraising?
Watch again on the presbytery Youtube channel. This zoominar was delivered by Dan and Karen Docwra to members of the Church of Scotland Lothian and Borders Presbytery on Thursday 17th August. More information is available from meetings section of the Lothian and Borders Presbytery web site (www.labp.org.uk).