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The Education & Communication 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?
Magazine
The printer problem has been resolved. The Finance Committee has decided to go with 'Balgownie' in Culross. There the pages are collated, folded, stapled, and the edges trimmed (!!!) to make them look neat! So no more stapling, folks, but many thanks for all your work over the years.
Eileen encouraged us to pass on any feedback about the magazine; she actively encourages constructive criticism.
Lent Groups
Great response! Around 40 people took part in Limekilns and Cairneyhill.
P. O. Window
We chose six posters for the Notice Board outside church.
A.S.M. Written Reports
A significant number of these reports from groups and organizations were missing, although they should have been completed ready for printing well before the date of the meeting. We will continue to encourage groups to have their reports ready three weeks before next year's A.S.M.
Welcome Pack
We think there should be some acknowledgment (eg a welcome letter or card) of those folk who join our church by Transfer of Lines. Perhaps a Welcome Pack of some kind would fit the bill nicely and we all wondered why we hadn't thought of this before!
Maundy Supper
Good fellowship, praise, food and wine.
Training Courses
We aim to have a full discussion at our next meeting on types of training courses available in the Presbytery.
Next meeting TBA.
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