Mission
The Mwandi Mission has finally sourced a suitable lorry and trailer and organised payment. It has been a difficult process and the lorry is being delivered from South Africa.
Hoping to get picture of both onto the Presbytery Facebook, they are not the red as in the jigsaw that folk used to raise founds for the purchase but still brilliant to now have to assist in all the work in Mwandi! (see Reports page for more details)
Keith Keith and Ida as well as the other folk involved in Mwandi send their heartfelt thanks to you.
Date of next Paisley ACORN meeting:
THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST FROM 2PM TO 3PM
PAISLEY ST MARK’S OLDHALL, Church of Scotland, 334 Glasgow Rd, Paisley PA1 3DL, UK
Although this is arranged by the Paisley Churches, the meeting is open to those who want to find out more about ACORN
We shared refreshments together (thank you Sonia) and some stories of how we’ve seen God in our days, sometimes sure it was a God moment and at other times not so sure BUT always willing to we willing to share when a moment arises, a person comes across our way.
We watched the Acorn 2 video and heard of other people’s experiences and their expectations together discussing what challenged us, encouraged us and what spoke to us as we watched.
Here is the link to this (6 min) video if you want to watch it…
Next meeting will be on THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST FROM 2PM TO 3PM Venue TBC
God bless you and thank you – the late date is due to commitments that we all have during the summer –
However, let us keep on asking…
“Lord, today is there someone You want me to connect with outside the church?”
Our Lord be with you all and don’t forget He’s happy to be interrupted anytime.
His ears and eyes are open to hear and see us all.
The follow-up Zoom meeting for the Presbytery Conference ‘Working with Young People’ will be held on 18th August 7-9pm and hosted by Rev Paul Beautyman.
the link for the meeting is:
https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r02/___https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87593976157?pwd&%2361;va8JWXMOa5AO0ESoXQBhEPV2cttra7.1___.YzJlOmNodXJjaG9mc2NvdGxhbmQ6YzpvOmM1ZmVjNTA4MzYwMzUxMWVhYmQyZjBlNjY5NmUwMTQwOjc6NjZkODpjNjdmMGM0MmQ2NzljOGMyMWEyNGFmNjA2ZWVkM2M1YTViNmY1MWI1YTY1ZDk1NjRiN2JkZjE2ZWUwYzIwODA1OnQ6VDpG
Meeting chat link
https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/jc/87593976157
Meeting ID: 875 9397 6157
Passcode: 000036
NOTE: the slides from the first session are available under the ‘Miscellaneous’ section of this Mission page.
“Aimed at church leaders and volunteers, this session will explore how and why churches can work with children and young people in today’s world. There are many challenges in church and society but engaging children and young people can bring God’s life to them and the church. Drawing on existing good practice and innovative models Paul Beautyman from Youth Work Journeys will guide us. Paul has enabled mission and outreach across Scotland as a minister, youth worker and presbytery advisor and now runs his own business supporting and growing youth workers. This session in June will be followed up by two later meetings to provide practical next steps and resources for churches, workers and volunteers. The dates of these meetings will be set in discussion with those who wish to attend.”
A late and additional Good News Item but relevant came from St Mark’s Oldhall Church and café, I spoke about this at the Pres meeting but not included in the report.
(Ralston Community Cafe) have received a Cycling Friendly Communities Silver Award from Cycling Scotland, (the nation’s cycling organisation), for their commitment to make it easier for more people to cycle. To achieve the award, they ran Dr Bike maintenance sessions, set up a bike library, installed facilities (bike stands and a repair station), delivered training sessions and organised group rides. Also, as another part of their work to safeguard the integrity of creation they have just installed 50 solar panels on the hall roof, (thanks to an 80% grant from the Scottish Government CARES Community Solar Fund) and are already , even in February, almost meeting their electricity needs from solar power.