News from Dave Fraser, our Church and Outreach Worker
What a busy time we have had! Our ‘Time for Me Day’ pamper day on the 18th September was attended by 48 ladies. However, in case the gentlemen feel left out, on Thursday 6th November we’ll be aiming to redress the gender balance with a Men’s Breakfast – more information to come soon.
Our Wee Big Sing on 25th September was attended by 60 folk from a variety of churches who came together to be led by Jo and Jayne from the Wild Goose Worship Resource Group.
Our weekly OASIS time on Thursdays has hit double figures this month with 12 folk coming and finding space for themselves through art and mindfulness. OASIS continues every Thursday from 12 to 1pm until 27th November and you’ll be most welcome to join us – please click here to learn more.
And don’t forget our Arts Festival Week beginning on the 13th October – for more information please click here.
Over the year, at every event, I have handed out contact forms inviting people to complete their details if they want to be contacted by the church. So far we have 49 names and addresses of people who want to have a relationship with the church.
Some want to know what exciting event we are hosting next, and others, although expressing it in different ways and with different words, are looking perhaps for a deeper relationship with the church.
This is wonderful but it does give us a responsibility: We have to seek to welcome, encourage and embrace new folk into the life and faith of the church. We are seeking to make strangers friends - friends that share common values and principles rooted in our discipleship of Jesus. So, in the months ahead, I will talk a lot (and you know I can!) about Welcoming, Encouraging and Embracing new friends into the life of the church.
But it needs a conversation, a fun one, an exciting one, a hard one, because I am not sure how we best
Welcome
Encourage
Embrace
but I know that you will, because you have been this way before.
I suspect with the Spirit’s help and good conversations, a way will become clear.
I look forward to exciting conversations with you and an exciting year ahead.
Dave