Thursday March 13 2025
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Kilbarchan Church in Renfrewshire has received a silver award from Eco-Congregation Scotland. For this award the church had to produce an action plan of eco activities and state how and by whom it would be monitored. Additionally it demanded a more precise description of energy sources and year by year energy consumption.
Mary Sweetland of Eco-Congregation is pictured presenting the award to George Grant, who chairs the church’s eco group, with minister the Rev Stephen Smith and the church congregation.
St Andrew’s Church Wallace Green Church, along with other churches in the town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, participated in an art installation project, entitled Berwick Parade. This involved over 100 Christians going along to be filmed processing across a background on a Sunday afternoon in February. Over the first weekend in March, the completed film, which involved over 800 participants from many and diverse local groups, from schools, workplaces, dance groups, animal sanctuaries, sports clubs, veterans groups and many more, were projected in gigantic scale on to three walls of the historic Berwick Barracks, the parade being accompanied by rousing live music. The film, part of the Living Barracks project, has the aim of reviving the use of the Barracks, one of the first purpose-built military barracks in England, as a cultural hub.
Glenkens Churches Guild in Galloway held a World Day of Prayer (WDP) service on Friday March 7 in Balmaclellan Church. The service is arranged with St Margaret’s Episcopal Church in New Galloway, and was attended by members of both churches along with members of the Roman Catholic church and the Church of Scotland Guild. Resources for this year’s WDP were prepared by the women of the Cook Islands and based on Psalm 139:14: ‘I Made You Wonderful’.
Members of the Church of Scotland, Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches led a World Day of Prayer Service at St Michael’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. £311 was raised for charities in and connected to the Cook Islands.
Six elders from Dollar Parish Church in Clackmannanshire were presented with long service certificates during worship on Sunday March 2. Stephen Lambert (50 years’ service), Graham Pearson (47), Neil Rodger (43), Cathy Pringle (32), Hector Brodie (43) and Boyd Houston (52) are pictured with the Rev John Ferguson, Moderator of the Presbytery of Perth, who made the presentations, and the Rev Philip Hacking, church interim moderator and locum.
The Rev Scott MacSween has been ordained as an OLM in the Scots Kirk Paris. The 52 year old Scot has lived in France on and off since 2004 with six years in Kenya and India in the meantime. He works (remotely) in the Global Human Resources team with the International Rescue Committee, a large refugee charity based in New York.
His OLM placements were with the Church of England in Aix-en-Provence/Marseille and then at St George’s Tron (Glasgow). The ordination was conducted by the Rev Betsi Thane of St Andrew’s Scots Church, Malta.
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