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The Guild
The Guild continues to meet every Wednesday in the Senior Citizens' Centre, Main Street, Holytown at 7.15 pm. You will be made most welcome. The programme for the next few weeks is as follows:
November 5 - Cake and Candy
November 12 - Bejewelled
November 19 - Guild Week
November 26 - Salvation Army: Ms Betty Moncrieff
Maori battalion veteran
This poem was written by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell of New Zealand and serves to remind us of the part played by the Commonwealth.
I have fought throughout the war
from Greece to Crete, from Crete
to North Africa, and from there
to Italy, I am battle-scarred.
I have been wounded in a dozen
places. My mind doesn't work
properly anymore. I have nightmares.
Night and day I see pictures
of my closest mates falling
beside me in so many battles
I have forgotten when and where
it was they died. I have shed
so many tears. I have no tears
left to shed. Where my mind
used to be there is nothing
but darkness, the sound of roaring,
and emptiness. I have become
An empty street in a town
that has been blown to pieces.
No one lives there any more,
no one who loves sunlight -
and yet at the special church
service at Maadi at the end of
the war when the battalion
sang the sacred hymn 'Ae thu'
my dead mates came alive, and for
the first time in years I wept
and so did the strong men singing
beside me. That night at base camp
I dreamt of rain in the desert.
Visit of Moderator
The Right Reverend David Lunan, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, will be visiting the joint charge of Holytown linked with New Stevenston: Wrangholm Kirk on Sunday 9th November 2008.
He will be conducting a Joint Service in New Stevenston: Wrangholm Kirk at 11.00 am. This will be followed by lunch in Holytown Parish Church Hall.
The Moderator is a very friendly, approachable man whom you will enjoy meeting. While in Renfield St Stephen's Church in Glasgow he was ready and willing to talk to everyone who visited the Oasis Restaurant or attended an activity in the church premises.
A word of thanks
Mrs Netta McCartney would like to say a big "thank you" to all those who sent her cards and flowers. We are glad that she is making such good progress.
New audio system
It's been brought to the notice of Session recently that some folks have had difficulty hearing parts of services. Hopefully by the time you receive this magazine, we will be well on the way to having a completely new system installed. The existing system has served us reasonably well for the last 20 years or so but the Board supported the decision to invest in some new microphones and speakers and hopefully we will all benefit from this significant investment. It is also hoped to have an option to record services so those who can't manage along on a Sunday morning will be able to hear services in the comfort of their own homes.
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