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COSY meetings
The dates of our next 3 COSY meetings have now been arranged. They are as follows:
Thursday 4th October - Wrangholm Kirk
Thursday 8th November - Holytown Parish Church
Thursday 6th December 6 - Wrangholm Kirk
All of these meetings will begin at 7.00 pm and a warm welcome is given to everyone.
Bereavement care
One of the ideas which has come from the COSY Caring Group is to set up a small team of people representing both congregations who will work with the Minister to form a Bereavement Care Team. The work of this group would be to visit those who have lost loved ones. The first visit would take place in the weeks after a funeral and visitors would take a card and flowers from the Church simply as a way of letting people know we are thinking of them. The second visit (unless other visits were requested) would be on the first anniversary of a bereavement, when a different card would be taken once again with some flowers. We need 2/3 people from each congregation to be part of this team. It is something that is very helpful and a positive way of reaching out into our community. If you would be willing to consider helping with this team then please have a word with lain Goring. It is something we would hope to get set up and started as soon as possible.
Pastoral care register
The Caring Group has now placed a register in the vestibule of the Church. If you know of anyone housebound, in hospital long term or in residential care, please enter their name in the register so that visits can be organised. The Caring Group would welcome volunteers to be part of small teams to take part in visits (possibly no more than once a month).
For the tots
This month in church we are saying "thank you" to God for the many good things we all enjoy eating - for fruit, vegetables, meat and so on.
If you had been brought up in the land where Jesus lived your breakfast would have been different from what you ate this morning. There the people would have had bread in the form of a bun with olives, cheese or dried fruit.
After the meal the men and the older boys would leave for work and the mother and girls stayed at home to do the housework. The young boys looked after the animals if the family had any. This is what David who was chosen by God to be King of Israel was doing when Samuel, the prophet, visited his father's house.
For the teens
We all say the Lord's Prayer in church each Sunday and in it we ask for "our daily bread". In Israel in Bible times it was impossible to store food for more than a day because it was hot. There were no fridges or freezers in those days. If anyone wished to preserve food it would have had to be salted or dried. This, of course, also happened in Scotland in the early 20th Century. People in the country would dry and salt fish to eat during the snowy weather when vans could not visit the country houses and when it would also have been impossible to go to the nearest village for food.
Because it was not possible to store food the petition "give us our daily bread" was very important.
If the family did not bake its own bread it would collect bread which had been baked in a communal oven. In the Book of Hosea we read of loaves being put into an oven to be cooked slowly overnight and taken out just before the baker stirred up the fire in the morning. Jeremiah received a loaf from the street of the bakers in Jerusalem. Look up Jeremiah 37:21 to learn about this.
It was also necessary to collect water. This was a task given to the older girls. Water came from a well or spring and was collected either at the beginning or the end of the day. The water was carried in a pitcher either on the shoulder or on the hip. Look up Genesis 24:15 to learn how Rebekah fetched water.
Thank you
Mrs Sheila Mitchell recently had a very nasty accident. We wish her a speedy and good recovery. She would like to thank those who have sent her cards and she is also very appreciative of the flowers she received.
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