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Your monthly newsletter of what is going on
in your church
May 2017
Office Opening Hours
Monday – Friday 9.30am – 12noon
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 2.00 – 4.00pm
Ministers: Malcolm Rooney
Linda Stevens
phone: 01575 572819
01575 573724
07801 192 730
[email protected]
[email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]
web site: www.gkopc.co.uk
The Church of Scotland in Angus
Scottish Charity Number SC015123
Seasonal Foods for May
Vegetables – asparagus, broccoli,
cabbage, carrots, chicory, cauliflower,
lettuce, mushrooms & potatoes
Fruit – rhubarb, strawberries
Meat – beef, lamb, pork, chicken,
venison & farmed venison
Herbs – mint, parsley, watercress &
garlic
Other - Milk, Eggs, Oats and other
Grains
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Messy Easter Surprises!
Thank you to everyone who came
along to Messy Easter Surprises on
Sunday 23rd May. We had a lot of fun
with the Easter crafts. We also had an
Easter egg hunt in the Church during
the 11.15am service and gave out
Easter crosses to the Congregation.
Photo Exhibition
Don’t forget to visit the
Photo Exhibition in the
Old Parish Church Hall on
Friday 28th, Saturday 29th,
April 10am to 4pm
& Tuesday 2nd May
10am – 12noon
It’s your chance to see all
the entries and vote for
your favourites for the
2018 calendar.
Local Gardens Open
Dalfruin, Kirktonhill Road – Sunday 14th
May 2016 2 – 5pm.
The Herbalist’s Garden, Logie House
– Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th July 2 – 5pm.
The Saturday morning will be run in
conjunction with the Rotary Stroke
Awareness Coffee Morning.
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From the Ministers …
I have a number of points of update for
you this month.
Firstly to let you know officially that I
have told both the Kirk Session and the
Presbytery of my intention to retire at
the end of July with my last Service in
the Old Parish being on the 2nd of July.
This means that formal discussions
between the Kirk Session and the
Presbytery can now begin about what
happens next.
The Kirk Session have looked at
various options and Derrick Shearer
explains these later.
Chris and I thought long and hard
about where we should live when we
retire and we have decided to follow
the example of my predecessor plus
one, the Rev John Skinner, and stay in
Kirriemuir.
This is our home and it is where our
friends and support are. We do not
see why we should have to leave our
friends and support because of the job
I did.
It is hard enough having to leave the
house which has been our family home
for 24 years!
Doctors, School teachers and many
other professions all retire successfully
in the community they served.
However, because we are staying in
Kirriemuir, I must not be involved in the
congregation in any of the day to day
activities and so I will not take services
of any form after 2nd July.
May 2017
Please let Julia know if you wish a visit
to discuss matters of concern before I
retire.
I am pleased to say that the sale of
Memus Church has been concluded to
the value of £60,000 and also that
ownership of Prosen Church will revert
back to the Balnaboth Estate, on
whose ground the Church is built.
A list of moveables in Memus Church is
printed elsewhere in this Newsletter.
They can be viewed from 10.30am to
11.30am and 7.00pm to 8.00pm on
Thursday 4th May [Local Election Day]
and also on Sunday 7th May from
2.00pm to 3.00pm. Thereafter sealed
bids are invited to be sent to the Office
by noon on Friday 12th May.
The Fabric repairs to the Old Parish will
begin on Monday 8th May and this will
mean that access to the Church via the
main gate will not be possible. Access
will only be possible by means of the
Bank Street entrance and the rear
doors.
The last comment I wish to make
concerns Church attendance. Over the
past 12 to 18 months attendance have
dropped noticeably at 9.00am and
11.15am with only Cortachy bucking
that trend – but then the threat of
closure works wonderfully well!!!
Please do not let the 9.00am and
11.15am services go the way of the
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Please try to avoid a use them or
lose them discussion.
Malcolm
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Old Parish Duty Rota
7th May
Door
9am
M Mackie & G. Dobson
11.15am
J. Murray L. Grant
Communion
9am
G. Dobson L. Brown
Reading
J. Murray
Bell
Sound
S. Durston
Coffee
M. Morrice E. Munro
14th May
Door
9am
11.15am
Reading
Bell
Sound
Coffee
21st May
Door
9am
11.15am
Reading
Bell
Sound
Coffee
28th May
Door
9am
11.15am
Reading
Bell
Sound
Coffee
E. Thomson A. Thomson
D. Shearer G. Cable
D. Shearer
S. Durston
P. Ritchie G. Giles
M. Shephard B. Verhage
C. Horrocks E. Munro
Minister
S. Durston
M. Morrice E. Munro
J. Dunbar M. Inglis
R. Stewart B. Burness
R. Stewart
S. Durston
P. Ritchie G. Giles
Service of the Lambs
There will be a service
to celebrate this
year’s lambing
season at Clova Kirk
at 2.30pm on 28th May.
All are welcome.
For the whole month of May
at 11.15am
Welcome
J. Findlay G. Giles
Offering uplift
J. Findlay G. Cable
G. Giles Derrick Shearer
Offering count
J. France L. Grant
H. Brown
Team Leader – J. Findlay
Flowers Old Parish
7th E. Whittet & C. Mills
14th M. Franchi
21st J. Dunbar
28th A. Robertson & D. Wilson
Flowers Cortachy
E. Grant & M. Henderson
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Worship Diary for May 2017
7th May
9.00am
10.00am
11.15am
OLD Communion
Cortachy Baptism
OLD
14th May
9.00am
11.15am
2.00pm
3.00pm
3.00pm
OLD
OLD
LISDEN
ABBEY HOUSE
STORYVILLE
21st May
9.00am
11.15am
2.00pm
OLD
OLD Baptism
KIRKTON COURT
28th May
9.00am
11.15am
2.30pm
OLD
OLD
Clova Service of the Lambs
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The Glens & Kirriemuir Old Parish Church Monthly Newsletter
Daily Bible Readings
May 2017
1st
Acts 2: 22 - 36
nd
2
Acts 2: 37 - 42
rd
3
Acts 2: 43 -47
th
4
Acts 3: 1 - 10
5th
Acts 3: 11 - 26
th
6
Acts 4: 1 - 22
th
7
Acts 4: 23 - 31
th
8
Philippians 2: 1 - 11
9th
Acts 5: 1 - 16
th
10
Acts 5: 17 - 42
th
11
Acts 4: 31 - 37
th
12
Leviticus 25: 8 - 22
13th Leviticus 25: 23 - 34
14th Leviticus 25: 35 - 38
15th Nehemiah 5: 1 - 19
16th Matthew 18: 21 - 35
17th Matthew 25: 31 - 46
18th Joel 2: 23 - 29
19th John 16: 5 - 15
20th Romans 8: 1 - 11
21st Romans 8: 12 - 17
22nd Romans 8: 18 - 25
23rd Romans 12: 1 - 21
24th Revelations 21: 1 - 8
25th Ephesians 1: 3 - 14
26th Exodus 13: 20 - 22
27th Numbers 9: 15 - 23
28th Nehemiah 9: 9 - 17
29th Jeremiah 23: 23 - 32
30th Acts 17: 22 - 34
31st Psalm 33
Dates for your Diary
28th29thApril & 2nd May Photo Exhibition
Old Parish 10am
th
29 April
Rotary Coffee morning
Old Parish Hall 10 am
th
20 May
Plant Sale & Coffee Morning
Old Parish Hall 9.30am
th
18 June
Messy Recycling
Old Parish Hall 11am
rd
23 June
Celebration Evening
Old Parish Church 7pm
nd
2 July
Malcolm’s last Service
Old Parish 11.15am
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We will be showing the film A Plastic
Ocean on the Monday 1st May. This
is one of the most up to date
environmental films and it deals with
the pollution of our oceans – a topic
we should all take seriously.
http://www.plasticoceans.org/a-plastic-ocean/
Please come along and see this film if
you can.
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Baptisms
“He took the children in his arms, put his hands
on them and blessed them”
Jack Rae of Lord Lyell Drive
Isabella Wilson of Glengate
Deaths
“I am the resurrection and the life”
Forbes Alexander of Kinnordy Avenue
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Retirement – Anne Pole
I want to take this opportunity to thank
everyone who was involved in my retirement
celebrations. The whole experience was
overwhelming and I still can’t quite believe
the number of cards I received and all the
gifts – I had thought I could slip out with noone noticing!!
I haven’t yet decided how to spend the
money as I am going to take some time to
consider this. I also received gardening
vouchers and I’m looking forward to using
them to improve the garden.
It’s hard to believe I worked in the office for
23 years! Time seemed to flash past. It was
a joy and a privilege to work with such
lovely people and I have enjoyed meeting so
many of you. I will miss you all but,
hopefully, I will be back now and again at
holiday times when I can catch up.
I’m now looking forward to more time to do
the things I said I didn’t have time to do
when I was working but I’m told I will now
be busier than ever!
Thank you all and I wish Julia ‘all the best’
and I have no doubt that the office is in good
hands and I hope she enjoys it as much as I
did.
Anne
What happens when Malcolm retires...What
happens to Linda? The Kirk Session have
discussed three possible options following
Malcolm’s retiral. They are…
1. Full Vacancy but this means that
Linda’s funding will end in August
2017 and we will lose her ministry
2. Union with another WAAM Charge to
be served by the existing minister and
Linda as Associate.
3. The Glens and Kirriemuir Old
following the path of Glamis
Inverarity Kinnettles and entering into
the Guardianship of Angus Presbytery
with an Interim Moderator [most
likely to be John Orr];
Locum
support
[appointed
by
the
Congregation] for a Sunday and
2 days pastoral support; and Linda
appointed as Hub Minister on a
permanent basis. Essentially Hub is
Team by another name but is the
phrase currently in use in the Church
at large.
Presbytery will arrange for a Congregation
Vote about entering into Guardianship to be
held at a date to be decided. The Kirk
Session, unanimously, wish to ask the
Congregation to approve the Hub option for
a trial period because….
 it means that Linda stays with us
 it gives time and space to see how the
future of the Church in Kirriemuir and
District evolves
 it means that GKOPC stays a Charge
in its own right and can decide to
move to Call a minister in the future
Please get in touch with myself or Julia if
you have any questions about this.
Derrick Shearer
Session Clerk
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Messy
Recycling
Kirriemuir & District
Gardening Association
Plant Sale &
Coffee Morning
Saturday 20th May
9.30am – 11.30am
in the Old Parish Hall
£1.50 Admission
(includes tea/coffee)
All Welcome
Join us for more Messy Fun
with food, crafts & songs
11am on Sunday 18th June
2017
Kirriemuir Old Parish Church
All are welcome!!
Children must be accompanied by an
adult
684 mile walk!
Our members, Peter and Berthy Verhage
undertook a walk this time last year from
Seville to Santiago de Compostela raising
funds for the Old Parish. They walked
around 1100km or 684 miles! Peter and
Berthy will tell us about their walk during
the 11.15am Service on Sunday 28th May.
We hope you will come along and hear about
their journey.
For info contact Linda:m: 07801192730
e: [email protected]
Facebook:
Messy Church GKOPC group
May 2017
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Membership and Commitment
Reflection
VESTRY
How many services have you attended in
2017?
Are you supporting
Financially in 2017?
Are you really
Congregation?
a
the
member
Church
of
the
Memus Church Moveables
SANCTUARY
 Oak Communion Chair
 White linen Communion cloth
 Oak and pitch pine font with bowl
(no hallmark, probably EPNS)
 Upholstered armchair presented to
the Reverend Peter Edgar by
congregation dated February 1868
 Pulpit fall and cushion
 16 pew cushions in poor repair
 2 felt covered kneeling stools
 Leather bound King James version
of Bible dated 1849.
Spine
broken. In poor condition
 Freestanding pitch pine two door
cupboard 84”x 54”x 24”
Doors
panelled, moulded surround on
top, left hand side fitted with
hanging hooks and full length
mirror inside door. Right hand
side fitted with three shelves.
 8 Day presentation clock [not
working]
 Pitch pine table 45”x 21” with
square legs and stretcher
 Pitch pine commode 24”x 24”
Shelf for vase and vase
 Oak organ stool 21” x 12” x 26”
 Four legged metal high stool
 Hartington portable electric heater
 2 x 16” circular pewter serving
dishes
 Panasonic
Vacuum
Cleaner
supplied by Colin M. Smith in
February 2005 and extension
cable.
 Velvet and oak collection pouch.
 Leather bound King James version
of Bible dated 1901
 Miscellaneous cleaning
equipment.
VESTIBULE
To be viewed
 Pitch pine collection stand with
box intus
 Softwood table 28” x 14” with
turned legs.
SESSION ROOM
 Softwood table 46” x 18” with
square legs
 Freestanding wood and plastic
food storage cupboard 32”x 34”x
36” with drawer and hardwood top.
 Portable
thermostatically
controlled electric heater
 Plastic waste bin.
Thursday 4th May
11.00am – 12 noon
7.00pm – 8.00pm
Sunday 7th May
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Sealed bids to Church office by noon
12th May.
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