Thursday March 20 2025
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Ibrox Parish Church held a soup and sandwich lunch to raise funds for the Moderator’s Shine a Light Appeal, providing solar-powered lights for students in Malawi. Session Clerk, Morag Fleming, had given a presentation to the congregation about the appeal the previous week. £360 was raised.
The Presbytery of Perth recently held a service of Induction for the Rev Adaeze Goziem-Ibonye, the new minister at St Serf's Parish Church, Tullibody.
Among the guests were the Rev J Ebenezer Joshua, Minister-in-Charge of the Church of South India’s Cathedral Madurai, with whom Mrs Goziem-Ibonyespent three months as part of her probation placement, and his wife Mrs J Beulah Jane. As well as members of the St Serf’s congregation and the Presbytery of Perth, people had also travelled from congregations with which the Mrs Goziem-Ibonyehad been involved during her training and ministry, including Bearsden Cross, Killermont, Temple Anniesland, Glasgow and Renfrew North and Renfrew churches.
Originally from Nigeria, Mrs Goziem-Ibonye has lived in Scotland since 2008, and studied at the University of Glasgow.
Pictured from left: the Rev Scott McInnes, Interim Moderator; the Rev Adaeze Goziem-Ibonye; Edward Morton, Depute Clerk to the Presbytery of Perth; May Hamilton, joint session clerk; the Rev Alan Reid, Presbytery Moderator; the Rev Trish Archibald, who preached at the service. Photo courtesy of the Presbytery of Perth)
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