Dear friends,
In every sphere of life people come and go and we have the upsetting experience of losing spouses, family members, colleagues, neighbours and acquaintances. It is no different in the sphere of church life. Particularly sad of course loss by death but other losses are also painful. We have lost two young families from the congregation recently - the Walsh's who have moved to Strathaven and the McManus's who have moved to Seattle USA. This is a blow to us because we were getting used to seeing the two couples with their cute wee boys sitting in the area to the right of the pulpit and young families in church are at a premium being conspicuous by their absence these days. We are however getting a trickle of new folk into the congregation helping to compensate for those we inevitably lose by relocation and death and expect to be having an admission of new communicants later in May.
One recent development in the congregation is a church library. The books are located in a bookcase in Hamilton Hall. Joan Pollok and Ann Brown are the librarians. There seems to be little interest so far but hopefully as the idea catches on and the stock of books increases more members will avail themselves of this facility. At some point, perhaps a list of the books could be compiled and circulated to the congregation. We live in an age when reading has been overtaken by watching, be it TV, DVD's or computer screens. However there is much value in reading which has huge advantages over watching in terms of assimilation of the material.
Christian literature tends to be written by people who have a genuine concern for the welfare of others and are not just writing to show off their skills or to make money. There is much spiritual help to be received from reading such books please avail yourselves of them. If you have Christian books which perhaps you have benefited from yourself you may feel that they could be of benefit to others and be willing to donate them to the library and of course if you decide later you want to read them again you can always borrow them back! Having said this about books I have to say that there has been really no request for DVD's of the services. I would remind you that with few exceptions the services are videoed and put on to DVD discs. At present 2 housebound members receive these almost every week. A library of DVD's is being built up. If any member would like to borrow one or more then please let me know. While it is not the same as being at church, any member housebound or not who is not able to attend worship may find it of some value to watch the service at a time convenient to them.
Yours sincerely,
D. Cameron McPherson
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