Family Service at The Round Church

It was "Happy Birthday to the church" this morning at the Round Church Family Service as we shared the lovely chocolate cake shown here above with our tea and coffee after the service. Since we were away at the General Assembly last week, we celebrated Pentecost this week instead and will do the same next week at St John's!

Our Family Services have a relaxed, contemporary atmosphere and worship and teaching is aided by the use of multimedia technology. In fact a fruit juicer even made an appearance this morning to help with making a special fruit brew to illustrate the meaning of "Fruits of the Spirit". Could this be "Messy Church???"!!

... and here's Rob in his PERFECT MAN  (under construction) Hebrews 10: 12-14 t-shirt. I must add that WAS part of his talk....!!

It is so good to get together in fellowship to worship God!

Sunset on Islay

I couldn't resist putting up these photos taken from in front of the manse as the sun went down yesterday evening. What a wonderful privilege to be surrounded by God's amazingly beautiful creation.

Round Church Monthly Coffee Morning

During the summer period, on the last Saturday of the month, the Round Church hold a coffee morning with home baking and 'bring and buy' in the Bowmore Buffet Hall from 10.30am to 12.30pm. We were there this morning to a wonderfully warm welcome and fellowship and excellent coffee and cakes! It was good to meet friends old and new. A great big "thank you" to everyone involved.

2010 General Assembly

Last Saturday we attended the 2010 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh where Rob was presented to the assembly as a newly ordained minister. This year's moderator is the Rev John Cairns Christie and he had very encouraging and inspiring words for those being presented both as newly appointed and as retiring from service in the Church of Scotland. What a great privilege and sense of history to be at such an event. For more details of what went on at this year's assembly click here

Birthday Party

Last Sunday saw a very momentous event at St John's: the special birthday celebrations of Jim and Alec. It was just great to be able to spend the time together after the service honouring these 2 gentlemen and the cake was just amazing!! Jean carefully chose some of their favourite hymns to sing during the service before the party.. I wonder if they noticed since the party was a surprise!!!

St John's Spring Bazaar

What a way to start the blog with news of St John's Annual Spring Bazaar last Saturday afternoon at the St Columba Hall. Angela officially opened the event which was was really well attended with lots of fun and fellowship and the usual superb hospitality... in fact a fantastic afternoon and a great big "thank you" to all involved!