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Lamlash Church and Kilmory Church, Isle of Arran

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Procedures for attending worship, in accordance with Scottish Government and Church of Scotland Guidelines

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The Kirk Session met by Zoom on 25 November to discuss the opening of the church for worship. It was decided that we could meet the requirements of the church offices and the Scottish Government to create a safe environment for you to attend worship. Consequently, we aim to recommence worship from 6 December. This will be in the church hall for a few weeks until the windows in the church are replaced.

This being the case we have given careful consideration as to the arrangements for worship, the details of which are below. However anyone who is unwell or shows symptoms of COVID-19, who is in an extremely vulnerable group, who is isolating or who is living with someone who is isolating or is unwell must not attend Church.

In summary

  • You must register, giving contact details by Friday
  • Remember to bring a face covering which must be worn in church.
  • Seating layout allows a maximum of two from the same household to sit together.
  • An usher will show you to your allocated seat.

We wish you well, and hope to see you soon

— Ian Watt, Session Clerk

Before the service Wednesday to Friday

Contact Vivienne Haigh at  Tel. 600092

Please give the following details.

Name

Contact details

tel./email

Number in the household attending.

You will be informed if there are places available and if you can attend. This is necessary as we have a limited capacity of 20 which may not be exceeded. Ensure you have a face covering which must always be worn in the church.

Your arrival at church

To maintain two metres distancing, allow people in the doorway to enter the church before approaching the entrance. Put on your mask and enter the church. If your offering is in cash the offering plate will be in the vestibule as you enter. Hand sanitiser will be on the table so please use, then go into the hall where an Usher will now confirm your contact details. We must have this information for ‘Trace and Protect’ purposes.
This information is destroyed after three weeks.

As you know, parking is very limited and we can’t have folk mingling, so if at all possible, please do not bring your car up the lane.

Seating

An usher will show you to your allocated seat. People from the same household may sit together. A single person will therefore be sitting by themself. There will be no bibles or hymn books in use. Please leave nothing in the behind when you leave.

During the service

Please note masks must be kept on throughout the service. There will be no singing. There may be contemplative music.

Leaving

Those closest to the exit door (the one you came in) must leave first, with everyone leaving one row at a time, from the back. Please maintain social distancing and do not delay. Theservice leader will not be at the door to greet people Please do not congregate in the car park.

It will take a bit of getting used to, but we hope that you enjoy the service.

Donate to Lamlash Church

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FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

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The impact of the global coronavirus pandemic has forced us to close our church buildings and stop many of our usual activities, but the vital work of the Church goes on and is needed now, more than ever.

Support your local church with our new online donations system

To help support the work of our churches, the Church of Scotland is now launching an online donations system where you can choose to support us nationally or donate to one of our local churches directly.

This could be a way to give your Weekly Freewill Offering in this day and age when hard cash is being used less and less.

Anne Macintosh, the Church of Scotland’s General Treasurer, said she is “delighted” to be able to launch the new donations system.

“Anyone who wishes to make a donation either to the national funds of the Church of Scotland or to an individual congregation can do so by visiting the donations page and by clicking on the donate button,” Anne said.
“All donations made to an individual congregation will be returned to that congregation, enabling members to continue to make their regular offering – or to make a special donation – to enable the Church’s work to continue at this difficult time.”

PLEASE NOTE: If your normal way of giving to Lamlash church is by Direct Debit or by Standing Order, then these methods will continue as usual.

How you can donate

Whether you are a church member who wants to continue to give your regular offering to your own congregation or a friend to the Church who is moved to contribute for the good of your community, we want to help you support the Church in whichever way you feel led. You can choose to give a one-off donation or donate every month.

You can opt to direct your gift to a specific congregation or contribute to the general funds of the Church for use wherever the need is greatest.
By clicking the ‘donate’ button below, you will:

  1. Choose where you wish to donate to
  2. Opt in to gift aid (applicable to UK taxpayers only)
  3. Complete your donation via PayPal (automatic)
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2020 Covid-19

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The Church is closed at the moment. The coronavirus pandemic means we are unable to host church services.

Watch out for our 2020 Summer Newsletter landing soon!

Coffee Mornings Cancelled

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Unfortunately, due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions, we are unable to host our weekly Coffee Mornings until further notice.

Mary’s Meals Knitting

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Preparations for our Mary’s Meal Coffee Morning started long before the event itself on 30 July. The Knit & Natter group formed at the beginning of July and involved friends, family as well as church members. Great response girls – thank you! Our Coffee Morning was a very happy event with all the knitters, growers, bakers, refreshment stall makers and servers mixed together with more than a sprinkle of visitors and locals from across our island responding generously in support of Mary’s Meals. Donations banked totalled £1087.02! Thank you Arran

Donate a £ and Lose a lb

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Dyson and Samuel

Dyson and Samuel are among 923,572 children across the globe receiving Mary’s Meals

 

Hoping to lose those unwanted pounds you’ve gained over the Festive Season? You are invited to come along to a weekly weigh in to help you stay on track and remain focused.

£12.20 feeds and educates a child for a year!

An Initial Registration Fee of £2 plus a minimum weekly donation of £1.

All proceeds are going to Mary’s Meals.

Weigh in day is Thursday

Lamlash Church Hall
16:00 –16:30

Brodick Church Hall
17:15 –17:45

imagining Scotland’s Future

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It’s an exciting time to be in Scotland with the independence referendum just a few weeks away. Here’s a document outlining the Church of Scotland’s position:

Our Vision

And here is a short video posted to YouTube by the Church of Scotland on that very topic.

A message from our Interim Moderator

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Dear Friends

I said in the last Newsletter that I had been appointed by Ardrossan Presbytery as Interim Moderator for Kilmory and Lamlash and I have now been in position since the beginning of February. Your previous Interim Moderator was Mr Alan Saunderson, Clerk to Ardrossan Presbytery and he was with you for just over one year. However, in talking to folk in the congregations and communities, some are still unsure what an Interim Moderator is. Having a minister in charge he or she is Moderator of the Kirk Session and folk understand that but not the position of Interim Moderator.

I have been asked to explain and hopefully this will help partly to clear up the matter. (I will quote now from the guidelines to explain).

“An Interim Moderator is invited by the Presbytery to serve in a vacancy. Although the work maybe time-consuming, it should be found as a worthwhile experience. An Interim Moderator has a dual role to discharge. On the one hand, being the Presbytery’s appointee, the Interim Moderator is expected to help in representing the views of Presbytery to the congregation.

On the other hand, as the congregation’s minister for the time being, the Interim Moderator may be called on to help in representing the congregation’s views to the Presbytery. It shall be the duty of the Interim Moderator to preside at all the meetings of the Kirk Session and to preside at all congregational meetings in connection with the vacancy, or at which the minister would have presided had the charge been full.”

Although I have only been with you a few times in taking the service on a Sunday, I am responsible for the ‘Pulpit Supply’ making sure you have someone to lead you in worship each week. I am also responsible for, not just presiding at meetings but ensuring that all the business and affairs of the church run as smoothly as possible and according to the Laws of the Church.

However, in saying this I do not do that on my own. Your Office Bearers are well experienced in their own areas of service and all carry out their duties efficiently and of course your Session Clerk, Ian Watt has a heavy workload as well. Everyone in the congregation has a part to play though.

I am with all of you to help in this time of vacancy and as you seek the minister of God’s choosing for your congregation. This time should be seen as a time of challenge and of renewed commitment and vigour.
Unless there is some ‘vision’ of what the congregation is, where it is going and what it hopes to do, then the task of finding the ‘right’ minister can be much more difficult.

Some of you may feel that you have been in a vacancy for a long time but we have to be patient. I can assure you the Nominating Committee are working tirelessly on everyone’s behalf even if sometimes it may feel to you that the wheels are turning slowly. There are procedures that have to be followed, and at each stage you will be informed by intimation through your Session Clerk.

This is a time more than ever that you are encouraged to meet regularly for worship on a Sunday. First and foremost you come to worship God and to seek His guidance, secondly in support of one another in the fellowship and thirdly to know what is going on through the intimations and how you can play your part as the people of God of Lamlash Parish Church.

In the Letter to the Hebrews we read these words

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

As well as your Interim Moderator, I am also serving as your Locum for one day’s pastoral work per week (seven hours).

My contact details are below if you need to get in touch with me or if you would like to.

Yours in His service

Jean Hunter
Tel No. 01770 860380
Email j.hunter744@btinternet.com

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