Edinburgh 2010 to Glasgow Praise Gathering 2010

posted: 7 Jun 2010 comments: 0category:

Looking through the photograohs on my iphone this weekend just reminded me of all the excellent experiences that I was able to enjoy over the past few days. It was a real privelege to be able to attend the 2010 Edinburgh Missionary Conference and begin to write about some of the important issues that still face the World Church today one hundred years after the first memorable Conference in 1910. I certainly have a lot of material that could fill up a few posts on the...
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The Best Flyers or Fryers in Town ?

posted: 7 Jun 2010 comments: 0category:

Dispite the weather yesterday, we had a brilliant church barbecue at Beecraigs Country Park Linlithgow. I'm glad that so manyof the congregation put on their wellies and headed out for the park. its true what they say the best barbecues and the most memorable ones are always those that can survive the rain. We had some rain but for most of the time everyone enjoyed the opportunity to be out in the fresh air getting to know each other and eating some fantatstic...
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Happy 100th Birthday! Wearing the Right Clothes?

posted: 5 May 2010 comments: 2category:

After all the years I've spent in ministry I've never been invited to a 100th birthday party. However all that will change today as I hope to attend the birthay of Mary Keel who is our oldest member of the congregation. Mary is a wonderful Christian lady. When she left school she went to work in the Bo'ness hosiery, she worked there for many years, then she started working in the local newsagents as a shop assistant.It was there that she met her husband. I believe he was...
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BBC Children in Need - Bounce Higher

posted: 18 Mar 2010 comments: 0category:

[gallery]Life is never too boring when your a minister of the Gospel, especially serving here in Bo'ness St Andrew's. We are truly blessed in this congregation by having a number of quite outstanding people on the staff who are working to deliver our Social Outreach Programme with a heart that truly seeks to serve Christ. Yesterday I was working with Dianne Collins who heads up our Bounce Higher Programme. Our task was to make a start on our next grant...
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The Christmon Tree

posted: 10 Dec 2009 comments: 0category:

img_15902 Church was busy tonight. We had a quick curry cookery demonstration going on in the kitchen while in the church itself people were putting the finishing touches to the Christmas decorations. The tree went up last Sunday but we left it empty so that we could use it as a prayer tree. Tonight we put our Christmon decortion on it and I must confess it looks absolutely fantastic. While we're talking about trees. I got the big holly tree that stands outside our made door...
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