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Thursday August 24 2017

Our regular round-up of news received from churches.

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Mid Deeside Church, Torphins, held a party on Sunday August 20 celebrating the 100th birthday of John Murdoch.

At the church's morning Praise in the Park service (an annual outdoor Service with Granite City Brass Band) John was presented with a Long Service Award and a personal letter from the Moderator of the General Assembly congratulating him on reaching 100.

John, who had reached the milestone the day before, has been active in the church since joining the Sunday School of Trinity Parish Church, Uddingston, aged 6. A lay preacher, last year he led a service in church at short notice after the minister lost his voice; and he still regularly conducts services in the two local nursing homes, and plays the organ and piano at evening services.

Other than during World War 2, when he served in signals and air defence units, John worked in Post Office Telephones in various places throughout England and Scotland. He became elder and session clerk at a Presbyterian Church in Harrogate, Yorkshire; and first took services around 1960.

In 1980 John and his wife Margaret moved back to Scotland, where he became choirmaster and organist at Coupar Angus Abbey Church, before moving to Torphins in Aberdeenshire in 1994, and was soon in demand as a preacher and organist in churches around the area.

John is pictured with Mid Deeside minister, the Rev Alec Wark.


 

Ian White has retired as treasurer of Greenlaw Parish Church after 40 years. He is pictured receiving a Long Service Certificate from the Rev Bruce Neil, Moderator of Duns Presbytery, in April this year.


 


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