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Tomorrow is the Bo’ness Fair Day but first I want to finish my posts about the Carberry Festival. I came across this clip on Youtube from the first Festival way back in 1987. It centres around an Ian Whyte Concert but I find looking at the audience most interesting its just full of memories. If [...]

One thing that I will always remember about the Carberry Festival is sharing a late night fish supper with John Bell, and the outstanding contribution that Adrian and Bridget Plass made to the Festivals over the years.One other thing I want to mention yet I’m not sure why, the picture of the crown of thorns [...]

 Carberry Towers has been an influential retreat centre in the life of the church in Scotland for the past 50 years for most of these years it has been administered by the Church of Scotland. Over the past two or three years it has been administered by new Trust which is seeking to take the centre into [...]

 Do you know something I think it is about six years since we’ve played a gig in public so I’m looking forward to remembering all my words. Vagabond Shoes was the title of a song we wrote a few years ago. It was all about what it was like being a disciple of  Jesus. You [...]

  I had a great experience tonight, I was invited to go the National Praise Gathering , in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. It turned out to be an amazing event. Ian Watson the Choir Director, has an amazing talent and gift, he brings out the best in his 400 strong choir, and its obvious they [...]

 Summer is a great time to reach out to our communities and share the Gospel. This year I’m hoping that we might be able to run a tent mission in  the town. I know there is not a lot of time, but I think we could pull it off. We had a group of enthusiastic [...]

We have an internal  broadsheet in the Co f S that is printed for ministers. Its an opportunity for ministers to share among themselves ideas and issues that are troubling them. Recently at least two ministers have written about their belief that there is no real theological underpinning in the Church Without Walls Movement. In [...]

 BT are the main sponsors for this years Isle of Wight Music Festival. They have also been the sponsors of a national Battle of the Bands Competition. The  competition aims to provide a platform for the rising stars of the UK music scene  to perform in front of a massive audience of both potential fans and [...]