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The Education & Mission Workgroup
Who are the ED/COMM?
The ED/COMM group currently consists of:
- Margaret Hagart
- Eileen Kirkpatrick - Co-Convenor
- Deirdre Lamont
- Pat Mcintyre - Co-Convenor
- Christine Taylor
- Linda Wilson
N.B. All females; male input would be welcome.
ED/COMM meet together once a month to discuss the various aspects of our responsibility which is concerned with Education and Communication. (Mission is now a separate workgroup)
what's new with ED/COMM?
Sunday, 21st February marks the beginning of Lent and the material for the Lent Study has been chosen. It's very user-friendly and hope that lots and lots of folk will be part of it.
Going to a study for the first time may seem an intimidating experience but it's not at all! Certainly the group who've met in the past for Lent and Advent studies at Pat and David McIntyre's house - 15 Red Row, 872282 - would testify that it sometimes seems more like a pub discussion, - minus the beer! Hopefully, there will be more than one group running but those who normally come to the Barry and Marcia's House-group should note that the Lent studies will be on Thursday evenings, 7.30pm, not Mondays as before; Barry and Marcia are postponing their meetings while the Lent studies are on. The study book will be available this Sunday for anyone to have a look at. There is no need to purchase one but if you want to have your own copy, just let Pat or Eileen know.
We have to thank Meg Ritchie for supplying the stamps for the Post Office window display over Christmas and huge thanks to our Christine for setting it all up.
The magazine continues to be edited by Eileen and she'll soon be announcing the deadline for the next edition. Problems with the printing have arisen and we really hope they'll be resolved in time to allow us to circulate the next one. It's great to hear praise for the magazine from non-church members: it obviously has become a well-read publication. Articles from all sources are welcome. Anyone in Crombie have something they would like included?
Date for the diary! The annual Maundy supper will be held in the church hall on Thursday, 1st April at 7.00pm. (No Honestly! It really is on April fool's day - The Webmaster) On offer are at least 6 varieties of homemade soup with homemade bread, cheese and wine, - and it's all free!! Please come - you might even beat the current record-holder of the most helpings of soup! (Edcomm, probably wisely, didn't tell me who holds the soup record - The Webmaster)
Eileen encouraged us to pass on any feedback about the magazine; she actively encourages constructive criticism.
Next meeting 29th April at Eileen's.
EDUCATION
"I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning.
But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, "Now Faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God." I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible,
and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since."
D L Moody
We organise the various Lent and Advent Study Groups which meet to look at what the Bible is saying to us today, and to discuss the implications for us in our own lives, in the life of the Church and within our community. Some of us know the Bible well, some of us don't, and it makes no difference. We learn from each other and from God; interesting and fun.
Bible Study/House Groups:
Apart from Lent and Advent Study Groups there are several other Bible Study Groups on-going throughout the year.
- At Barry and Marcia's home - every two weeks More info...
- Precepts Study (Anna Bartholomew) weekly, in Church hall
- A Women's Group - various venues
- Teenagers' Group (daughters of above women!) - various venues
- Lighthouse Leaders Group
COMMUNCATION
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Communication is BIG Because it is of the utmost importance in all areas of Church and Community life, it is all-encompassing, and overlaps with concerns regarding Mission, Education, Worship and Pastoral.
One of the ways in which we have, we hope, successfully provided a channel of communication between Church activities and the wider community in which we live is literally through a window in the local Post office/Shop. Thank you Jimmy
We are responsible too, for choosing suitable posters for the Church Notice-board, and for the setting-up of the Nativity Scene outside church at Christmas.
Our quarterly magazine, Village Link, is edited and its collation organized and carried out by members of Edcom. It is then delivered to each home in the Parish, and includes news of what's happening in the Church and in the Community. For more information about, and downloadable (Is that a word? - The Webmaster) copies of the Magazine, go to the Village Link Page.
ED/COMM do try to remember (tongue -in-cheek perhaps!) that:
The problem with communication... is the illusion that it has been accomplished. George Bernard Shaw