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the magazine<br />
Peebles Old Parish<br />
Church of Scotland<br />
with<br />
Eddleston Parish<br />
Church of Scotland<br />
<strong>June</strong> 20<strong>18</strong>
Daily<br />
Worship<br />
in Peebles Old Parish,10am<br />
Daily Worship Leaders <strong>June</strong>/July.<br />
Mon. 4th Tom Fairbairn 1 Samuel 2:11‐17 <strong>June</strong><br />
Tues. 5th Frances Carrol 1 Samuel 2:<strong>18</strong>‐21<br />
Wed. 6th Wilma Barrett 1 Samuel 2:22‐36<br />
Thur. 7th Calum Macdougall 1 Samuel 4:1‐22<br />
Frid. 8th Lily Swinney 1 Samuel 5:1‐12<br />
Sat. 9th Pauline Copeland 1 Samuel 6:1‐<strong>18</strong><br />
Mon. 11th Geoff Goldstraw 1 Samuel 7:3‐15<br />
Tues. 12th Isabelle Coghill 1 Samuel 8:1‐22<br />
Wed. 13th Alistair Robertson 1 Samuel 9:1‐14<br />
Thur. 14th Marjorie Renton 1 Samuel 9:15‐27<br />
Frid. 15th Mary Wight 1 Samuel 10:1‐8<br />
Sat. 16th Rachel Forsyth 1 Samuel 13:1‐15a<br />
Mon. <strong>18</strong>th Haisley Moore Galations 6:11‐<strong>18</strong><br />
Tues. 19th Charles Aitchison Psalm 53<br />
Wed. 20th Wilma Barrett Luke 6:43‐45<br />
Thur. 21st Janette Cameron Psalm 9:9‐20<br />
Frid. 22nd Tom Fairbairn Acts 21:1‐16<br />
Sat. 23rd BELTANE SATURDAY<br />
Mon. 25th Frances Carrol Psalm 119:113‐128<br />
Tues. 16th Tom Fairbairn Acts 27:39‐44<br />
Wed. 27th Calum Macdougall Mark 6:45‐52<br />
Thur. 28th Geoff Goldstraw Psalm 130<br />
Frid. 29th Isabelle Coghill 2 Corinthians 8:16‐24<br />
Sat. 30th Elizabeth Parker Luke4:31‐37<br />
Mon. 2nd Alistair Robertson 2 Corinthians 8:16‐24 July<br />
Tues. 3rd Lily Swinney Psalm <strong>18</strong>:1‐6<br />
Wed. 4th Marjory Renton Mark 9:14‐29<br />
Thur. 5th Haisley Moore 1 Corinthians 4:8‐13<br />
Frid. 6th Charles Aitchison 2 Corinthians 10:7‐11<br />
Sat. 7th Janet Macdougall Psalm 48<br />
From early in their history, the church has developed forms of daily worship. At the<br />
Reformation, the people were encouraged to join in daily worship in their parish<br />
churches, and the 1564 book of Common Order made provision for daily services.
Pastoral letter<br />
<strong>June</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />
We are in the season of Pentecost and the Pastoral Letter this month<br />
consists of excerpts taken from the sermon preached on the Day of<br />
Pentecost (20th May):<br />
“I don’t know about you but I cannot read (or hear read) Luke’s account<br />
of the tumult of that Pentecost so soon after Jesus’ ascension, without<br />
fondly wishing that reverberations from the drama, the upheaval and<br />
the bewilderment experienced that day in Jerusalem might be felt in<br />
every place where people of faith, and people searching for faith, gather<br />
each Pentecost.<br />
We all have our reasons for coming to church, and as a dear friend and<br />
colleague of mine used to say, there is no bad reason for coming to<br />
church. Whatever our reasons, however, we should come in a mood of<br />
expectation, not that our personal expectations will necessarily be met,<br />
but certainly in expectation of divine activity. Who knows how God is<br />
using our time together for his purposes, even at this moment?<br />
Luke tells of how, after Jesus ascended, the disciples left the Mount of<br />
Olives and returned to Jerusalem. What was going through their minds?<br />
What did they think they were going to do when they got there? Jesus<br />
had told them, just before he vanished from their sight, that they would<br />
receive the Holy Spirit and that they were to be his witnesses in<br />
Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.<br />
What on earth did they think lay ahead?<br />
They had spent three intense years learning about the uniquely<br />
charismatic preacher and teacher who had, remarkably, persuaded<br />
them to give up everything to follow him. They had seen him received<br />
and welcomed. They had seen him rejected and ridiculed. Eventually<br />
they had witnessed his arrest on trumped up charges. They had heard<br />
of his sham trial and condemnation. They had watched as he was<br />
subjected to barbaric tortuous death and now, now they were to<br />
continue the ministry of those three intense years, not just in Galilee<br />
but across the earth.<br />
The disciples had gone to Jerusalem on Jesus’ instructions and because<br />
they had gone on Jesus’ instructions, they had gone expecting<br />
something to happen. They didn’t know what! They were fearful of<br />
what lay ahead! They were acutely aware of their own limitations!<br />
Nevertheless they had gone expecting something to happen.
There may be no bad reason for coming to church, but at least we must<br />
come expecting something to happen, expecting God to be active in and<br />
through our time together. If we don’t expect that something is<br />
happening the days of the Church are surely numbered.<br />
We have to imagine new ways of being church … ways in which our<br />
structures – both physical and organisational - don’t get in the way of<br />
living out the Gospel, not behind closed doors but in the heart of our<br />
communities. To resist change is to betray the Gospel. The Holy Spirit<br />
calls us to constant change and to resist the call is to resign ourselves to<br />
die as the Church.<br />
I came across a wonderful quote during the last few days and I hope<br />
that it might inspire you as it did me: ‘Nothing happens, until the pain of<br />
remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.’”<br />
With all my love,<br />
Calum.<br />
News from<br />
Peebles & Eddleston<br />
What we’re up to.<br />
A Bite and a Blether<br />
A Bite and a Blether meets every Wednesday from 11.30am - 1.00pm in Eddleston<br />
Village Hall. For a donation of £2.50 come along and enjoy the camaraderie, a<br />
bacon roll or vegetarian alternative, home baking, tea or coffee. A warm welcome<br />
awaits.<br />
Music For A Summer Evening Concert<br />
This is a special concert celebrating 10 years of Eddleston<br />
Voices the local outreach choir. A lively programme of music<br />
will include 'Over the Rainbow', 'Moon River' and a medley<br />
from 'Les Miserables'. The Junior Choir will be singing 'A<br />
Midsummer Night's Dream' by Kane and Kane. Tickets will be<br />
available from choir members or at the door on the night. All<br />
proceeds from the evening will go to church funds. The concert is being kindly<br />
sponsored by The Horseshoe Inn.
All are welcome to our next<br />
FAMILY WALK<br />
To PROF VEITCH’S CAIRN,<br />
MANOR VALLEY<br />
Sunday 10 th <strong>June</strong><br />
Departs Church Steps 2pm<br />
If you have a car and are willing to drive up<br />
Manor, please park in the Swimming Pool Car<br />
Park. We will all rendez-vous at the foot of<br />
the Church Steps at 2pm and work out carsharing.<br />
Bring a drink and a snack.<br />
Distance: Just over 2 miles altogether on<br />
tarred road. No hills to climb!<br />
All welcome including well-behaved dogs on<br />
leads.<br />
Eddleston Church Clean<br />
The monthly church clean will take place on Monday 25th <strong>June</strong> at 9.30am.<br />
Dovecot Court<br />
Young musicians from Eddleston will be performing at Dovecot Court on Saturday<br />
2nd <strong>June</strong> and Eddleston Voices will be performing on Thursday 14th <strong>June</strong> at<br />
7.00pm.<br />
End of Term Service<br />
Eddleston Primary School End of Term Service will take place in Eddleston Parish<br />
Church at 1.30pm on Tuesday 26th <strong>June</strong>.<br />
Crafts Club<br />
We have just heard from Tesco that we topped the poll<br />
and will receive £4000. We’re delighted with this result<br />
and of course thank you to all our readers who have<br />
helped by dropping their tokens in the Crafts Club box.
Music For A Summer<br />
Evening<br />
featuring<br />
EDDLESTON PARISH CHURCH JUNIOR CHOIR<br />
EDDLESTON VOICES & FRIENDS<br />
Guest Solo Pianist - Graham McDonald<br />
on<br />
FRIDAY 8th JUNE<br />
At 7.00pm<br />
In EDDLESTON PARISH CHURCH<br />
Tickets £5 including a glass of wine. School children<br />
admitted free. Sponsored by The Horseshoe Inn<br />
Can you find 30 books of the Bible hidden in this passage?<br />
This is a most remarkable puzzle. It was found by a gentleman in an airplane seat<br />
pocket, on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping him occupied for hours.<br />
He enjoyed it so much that he passed it on to some friends. One friend from Illinois<br />
worked on this while fishing from his John-boat. Another friend studied it while<br />
playing his banjo. Elaine Taylor, a columnist friend, was so intrigued by it, she<br />
mentioned it in her weekly newspaper column.<br />
Another friend judges the job of solving this puzzle so involving that she brews a<br />
cup of tea to help her nerves. There will be some names that are really easy to<br />
spot. That's a fact. Some people, however, will soon find themselves in a jam,<br />
especially since the books are not necessarily capitalised. Truthfully from answers<br />
we get, we are forced to admit it usually takes a minister or scholar to see some of<br />
them at the worst. Research has shown that something in our genes is responsible<br />
for the difficulty we have in seeing the books in these paragraphs. During a recent<br />
fundraising event, which features this puzzle, the Alpha Delta Phil-Lemonade booth<br />
set a new sales record.<br />
The local paper, the Chronicle, surveyed over 50 patrons who reported that this<br />
puzzle was one of the most difficult they had ever seen. As Daniel Humana humbly<br />
puts it, "the books are all right here in plain view, hidden from sight". Those able to<br />
find all of them will hear great lamentations from those who have to be shown. One<br />
revelation that may help is that books Timothy and Samuel appear without their<br />
numbers. Also, keep in mind, that punctuation and spaces in the middle are<br />
normal. A chipper attitude will help you compete really well against those who<br />
claim to know the answers. Remember, there is no need for a mass exodus, there<br />
really are 30 books of the Bible lurking somewhere in these paragraphs waiting to<br />
be found.
Mary’s Meals<br />
A simple Solution to World Hunger<br />
The Backpack Project<br />
We in the Old Parish are focusing on upcycling to fill backpacks for Mary’s Meals.<br />
This is the Backpack Project.<br />
Now you may think that backpacking is what you do in Nepal and upcycling is a<br />
version of mountain biking, but in fact it’s the new word for ‘jumble’ (as in Jumble<br />
Sale).<br />
We’re checking out all the charity shops for used backpacks, filling them with<br />
clothes for children between the ages of 4 - 12 years, adding soap and toothbrush,<br />
towel and a spoon, pencils and crayons and a notebook - and a ball - and in the<br />
process, having a lot of fun. One backpack per child, and often the first ‘gift’ this<br />
child will ever have received. And when a backpack is filled, it joins hundreds of<br />
others in Glasgow and is then shipped off in a container to Malawi.<br />
I’m upcycling<br />
with my<br />
backpack!<br />
The story of Mary’s Meals<br />
At a recent Breakfast Church we heard about the charity begun from a shed in<br />
Glasgow, by the inspirational Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow. In 2002 he visited<br />
Malawi during a famine and met a mother dying from AIDS. When he asked her<br />
eldest son Edward what his dreams were in life, Edward replied simply:<br />
“…I want to have enough food to eat and to go to school one day”<br />
That moment was key to the founding of Mary’s Meals, which reaches out to<br />
children who, instead of sitting in a classroom, are working in fields, begging on<br />
street corners, or scavenging among the garbage just to survive.<br />
From modest beginnings this charity has grown until it is now feeding 1.2 million<br />
children world-wide every day. Mary’s Meals provides daily meals in school for
hungry children in some of the world’s poorest communities across four continents.<br />
Each meal costs only 7p because the charity uses local volunteer workers, cooking<br />
nutritious local food for children in schools - children who can learn because they’re<br />
not hungry, who get to school and know there will be a meal for them.<br />
And the Backpack Project helps the children get the most out of their learning.<br />
Find out more about Mary’s Meals and the Backpack Project:<br />
www.marysmeals.org.uk It costs just £13.90 to feed a child with Mary’s<br />
Meals for an entire school year.<br />
Upcycle for the Backpack Project<br />
It’s always good to have an excuse to rummage in the charity shop - who doesn’t<br />
enjoy that? So if you enjoy finding suitable light clothing for hungry children in<br />
Africa: a skirt or t-shirt, dress or shorts - start upcycling now. We have a box in<br />
the vestibule of the Old Parish Church and are sorting out contributions every<br />
week.<br />
Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. We have already filled<br />
more than a dozen backpacks to be sent to Glasgow and on to Malawi. But the<br />
work is ongoing, so keep scouring the charity shops or check for grandchildren’s<br />
cast off backpacks. Over £200 was raised after the Breakfast Church on 22 April<br />
when visiting speaker, Deirdre O’Reilly, told us about this vital work -and inspired<br />
us to take on the Backpack Project.
Thank you, thank you. Keep up the contributions and we’ll keep filling those<br />
backpacks!<br />
Backpacks are filled with:<br />
Notepads, pencils, pens, crayons, eraser, sharpener, ruler, pencil case, towel,<br />
shorts or skirt, t-shirt or dress, flip-flops or sandals small ball (eg tennis ball) soap,<br />
toothbrush, toothpaste, spoon.<br />
Please, no books or toys or sweets as this can cause problems during delivery.<br />
ANY QUERIES: Janette Cameron (01721 722528)<br />
Pamela Strachan (0<strong>18</strong>99 830 423)<br />
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REWARDING, UPCYCLING, FULFILLING, ONGOING, BACKPACKING, LIFE-<br />
CHANGING, RE-THINKING, RECYCLING, INSPIRING, TRANSFORMING,<br />
EXPANDING, DELIGHTING RUMMAGING, TRANSPORTING, SORTING & STORING,<br />
SIFTING & CHOOSING…..<br />
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Words of Wisdom<br />
A Small Change can make a Big Difference<br />
‘Does anyone dare despise this day of small beginnings?’ Zechariah 4:10 MSG<br />
Imagine the temple lying in ruins, and having to be rebuilt from<br />
the ground up. That’s what things were like when Zechariah<br />
shared his vision with the people of Israel. Some thought it<br />
couldn’t be done, and others thought that their particular<br />
contribution would make no difference. So Zechariah challenged<br />
them in these words: ‘Does anyone dare despise this day of small<br />
beginnings?’ They’ll change their tune when they see Zerubbabel<br />
setting the last stone in place!<br />
In 1963, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz<br />
presented they hypothesis that became<br />
known as the butterfly effect. He theorised<br />
that a minor event, like the flapping of a<br />
butterfly’s wings in Brazil, could conceivably<br />
alter wind currents sufficiently to cause a<br />
tornado in Texas. Lorenz came to the simple<br />
yet profound conclusion: ‘Miniscule changes<br />
in input can make macroscopic differences in<br />
output’. That simple discovery has the power<br />
to change your life. It can radically alter your<br />
spiritual, emotional, relational, or financial forecast. It can change<br />
the atmosphere of your organisation or your marriage.<br />
One decision. One change. One risk. One idea. That’s all it takes.<br />
You don’t have to make one hundred changes. All that does is<br />
divide your energy by one hundred, and results in a 1 per cent<br />
chance of success. You have to be 100 per cent committed to one<br />
change. It will take an all-out effort. It will probably be the<br />
hardest thing you’ve ever done. But that one change has the<br />
potential to make a 100 per cent difference in your life.<br />
This is reproduced with kind permission from United Christian Broadcasters (UCB)<br />
Word for Today. Copies can be obtained from them at<br />
UCB Operations Centre, Westport Road, Stoke on<br />
Trent, ST6 4JF They can be reached on 0845 6040401<br />
or at www.ucb.co.uk
Bell-tower Craik<br />
More tea Vicar?<br />
A golfer, now into his<br />
golden years, had a<br />
lifelong ambition to play<br />
the 17th hole at TPC<br />
Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra,<br />
Florida, exactly the way<br />
the pros do it.<br />
The pros drive the ball out<br />
over the water onto the<br />
small green that is on a<br />
small spit of land. It was<br />
something the golfer had tried hundreds of times without success. His ball had<br />
always fallen short, into the water.<br />
Because of this, he never used a new ball on this particular hole. He always picked<br />
out one that had a cut or a nick, as did many other "average" golfers when<br />
negotiating very challenging holes. Recently he went to Sawgrass to try again.<br />
When he came to the fateful hole, he teed up an old, cut ball as usual, and said a<br />
silent prayer. However, before he could hit the ball, a powerful voice from above<br />
seemed to be booming out from the clouds, saying, "Wait! Replace that old ball<br />
with a brand new one, a Titleist ProV1 if you have it."<br />
The golfer complied, with some slight misgivings, despite the fact that this same<br />
force seemed to be implying that he was going to finally achieve his lifelong<br />
ambition.<br />
As he stepped up to the tee once more, the voice came down again, "Wait. Step<br />
back. Take a practice swing." So he stepped back and took a practice swing,<br />
certain now that this heavenly force was going to make his dream come true.<br />
The voice boomed out again, "Take another practice<br />
swing." Dutifully, he did. He stopped expectantly and<br />
waited; a long silence followed.<br />
Then, the voice again, "Use the old ball."<br />
Apples. Up at the head table in the cafeteria, one of<br />
the nuns had placed a big bowl of bright red, fresh,<br />
juicy apples. Beside the bowl, she placed a note<br />
which read, ‘Take only one. Remember, God is<br />
watching.’<br />
At the other end of the table was a bowl full of freshly<br />
baked chocolate chip cookies,<br />
still warm from the oven. Beside the bowl lay a little<br />
note scrawled in a child’s handwriting which read,<br />
‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’
World Cup Fever<br />
Paul Hardingham<br />
The former Liverpool Manager Bill Shankly famously said, ‘Some people believe<br />
football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I<br />
can assure you it is much, much more important than that!’<br />
This month sees the start of the World Cup in Russia; a truly global event watched<br />
by billions on television. Yet this competition illustrates some key points about the<br />
Christian life. As Paul writes: ‘But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and<br />
straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for<br />
which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.’ (Philippians 3:13b,14).<br />
A prize to be won: The dream of every player in the competition is to be able to<br />
hold up the World Cup themselves. For us the prize is the eternal life, God’s gift of<br />
relationship with him for now and eternity through Jesus. But there’s an important<br />
difference between football and the Christian faith. To win the World Cup you have<br />
to be good enough, while Christ’s love for us is underserved and is not dependent<br />
on how well we’ve done.<br />
Training to be undertaken: If a team is going to win the World Cup, they have to<br />
train hard beforehand. Our training, as Christians, starts the moment we accept<br />
the gift of God’s life. On a daily basis, we train ourselves to say no to the wrong<br />
things in our lives. As we build up our godly muscles we are better able to choose<br />
to do what is right in God’s eyes. To enable us to do all this we need to engage in<br />
the spiritual disciplines of prayer, studying the Bible and being part of a church and<br />
small group. How is your training going?
How<br />
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CHURCH ORDERS (PEEBLES)<br />
READERS<br />
<strong>June</strong> 3 Marjorie Renton 1 Samuel 3:1-10<br />
St Mark 2:23-3:6<br />
13 John Fairless 1 Samuel 8:4-11 and 16-20<br />
St Mark 3:20-35<br />
20 Monica Aikman 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13<br />
St Mark 4:26-34<br />
27 Tom Fairbairn 1 Samuel 17:32-49<br />
St Mark 4:35-41<br />
July 1 Janette Cameron 2 Samuel 1:1 and 17-27<br />
St Mark 5:21-43<br />
DUTIES<br />
8 Elizabeth Parker 2 Samuel 5:1-5 and 9-10<br />
St Mark 6:1-13<br />
15 Ronald Ireland 2 Samuel 6 :1-5 and 12b-19<br />
St Mark 6:14-29<br />
22 Margaret Ireland 2 Samuel 7:1-14a<br />
St Mark 6:30-34 and 53–56<br />
29 Frances Carrol 2 Samuel 11:1-15<br />
St John 6:1-21<br />
<strong>June</strong> Fiona Fleming Marjorie Renton<br />
July Pauline Copeland Douglas Cunningham<br />
Please note: Elders unable to undertake any of the above duties are asked to<br />
arrange for a substitute and let the Session Clerk or Ruth Kerr know. Duty<br />
elders should be in place by 9.30am. On the first Sunday of the month, when<br />
there is an evening service, one of the duty elders should be in place for<br />
5.30pm.<br />
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION<br />
<strong>June</strong> 27 Iain McLeod Janette Cameron<br />
THE BELL RINGERS<br />
<strong>June</strong> 3 Mary Hudson (am)<br />
Malc olm Lumsden (pm)<br />
10 Jeanette Mackison<br />
17 Fiona Taylor<br />
24 Anne Derrick
FORTHCOMING SERVICES EDDLESTON<br />
<strong>June</strong><br />
Sunday 3rd 11.45am Worship4All – Second after Pentecost<br />
Sunday 10th 11.45am Morning Service – Third after Pentecost<br />
Sunday 17th 11.45am Morning Service – Fourth after Pentecost<br />
Sunday 24th 11.45am UNITED MORNING SERVICE with Eddleston Parish<br />
Church in Peebles Old.<br />
Service conducted by The Rev Bruce B Lawrie –<br />
Local Church Review. Service followed by Short<br />
Order of Holy Communion<br />
July<br />
Sunday 1st 11.45am Worship4All – Sixth after Pentecost<br />
<strong>June</strong><br />
Sunday 3rd<br />
FORTHCOMING SERVICES PEEBLES<br />
10am<br />
Morning Service – Second after Pentecost<br />
with the Sacrament of Holy Baptism<br />
Monthly Evening Service<br />
Morning Service – Third after Pentecost<br />
SHARE in the MacFarlane Hall<br />
6pm<br />
Sunday 10th 10am<br />
2pm<br />
Sunday 17th 10am Morning Service – Fourth after Pentecost<br />
Sunday 24th 10am UNITED MORNING SERVICE with Eddleston Parish<br />
Church in Peebles Old.<br />
Service conducted by The Rev Bruce B Lawrie –<br />
Local Church Review. Service followed by Short<br />
Order of Holy Communion<br />
July<br />
Sunday 1st 10am Morning Service – Sixth after Pentecost<br />
No Monthly Evening Services in July and August<br />
OFFERINGS<br />
Eddleston<br />
Total Offerings for May 20<strong>18</strong> £1,021.40<br />
Total Offerings for May 2017 £1,024.02<br />
Total offerings for the first 5 months of 20<strong>18</strong> £3,316.40<br />
Total offerings for the first 5 months of 2017 £3,247.93<br />
Increase in giving over 2017 £69.47
CONGREGATIONAL REGISTERS<br />
PEEBLES<br />
DEATH<br />
Saturday 26 th May<br />
Mrs Anita Confrey, 38 Glensax Road, Peebles<br />
Flower Calendar<br />
Convenor: Janet Macdougall 720568<br />
<strong>June</strong><br />
3 Donor<br />
Arranger<br />
10 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
17 Donor<br />
Arranger<br />
24 Donor<br />
Arranger<br />
Miss N Rait<br />
Caroline Lazenby<br />
Mrs K Davidson<br />
Dr & Mrs A Russel<br />
Ruth Forsyth<br />
Mrs M McFarlane<br />
Janet Macdougall<br />
Capt. And Mrs J Edgar<br />
Stephanie Porter<br />
Distributors required<br />
If you can help distribute flowers, please let one of the flower<br />
committee know or phone Janet Macdougall on 720568<br />
July<br />
1 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
8 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
15 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
22 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
29 Donors<br />
Arranger<br />
Mrs M Coltman<br />
Mrs E van Dijk<br />
Elizabeth Douglas<br />
Mrs & Mrs Mackison<br />
Rachel Forsyth<br />
Mr & Mrs McGrath<br />
Gill Arnott<br />
Mrs Baird<br />
Ruth Forsyth<br />
Donor required<br />
Stephanie Porter
A very warm welcome to<br />
Our Organisations<br />
You’ll receive a warm welcome at any of our groups, whose details are given<br />
below. For further information about each organisation, please see our website<br />
www.topcop.org.uk<br />
Group Where and when we meet Contact<br />
All children welcome.<br />
Monica Aikman<br />
MacFarlane Hall Sundays in term time 01721 729041<br />
at 10.00am<br />
The Ten o’<br />
Clock Club<br />
Choir<br />
SHARE<br />
Girls’<br />
Brigade<br />
Flower<br />
Committee<br />
Bellringers’<br />
Group<br />
Guild of<br />
Friendship<br />
Traidcraft<br />
Song School<br />
Thursdays 7.30-9.00pm (not July and<br />
August)<br />
We meet in the MacFarlane Hall, once a<br />
month at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon.<br />
Dates will be announced.<br />
MacFarlane Hall<br />
Wednesdays in school terms<br />
Explorers (P1 – P3) 6.00-7.00pm<br />
Juniors and Brigaders 7.00-8.15pm<br />
Meets once a year as a whole group,<br />
Members take their turn at arranging the<br />
flowers in church each week and at major<br />
religious festivals.<br />
Members take their turn on the Sunday<br />
Bell ringing rota and ring on other<br />
community occasions if they wish.<br />
Members meet together twice a year. The<br />
Guild visits housebound members of the<br />
congregation. The number of homes and<br />
frequency of visits is flexible and can<br />
easily be arranged to suit the availability<br />
of the Visitor<br />
Members take turns at the purpose-built<br />
cupboard selling Fairtrade goods after<br />
morning worship each Sunday<br />
‘Green Team’ Help to provide ideas for each of us to<br />
better care for God’s creation.<br />
Toddlers’ MacFarlane Hall<br />
Group Tuesdays in school terms. 9.30-11.00am<br />
Bacon Rolls<br />
TEA LADIES REQUIRED<br />
Friday mornings. Join a team taking your<br />
turn preparing and serving Bacon Rolls.<br />
Each team is ‘on’ once every 6 weeks.<br />
Great fun!<br />
Sarah Brown<br />
(Director of Music)<br />
07597 394059<br />
Cathy Davidson<br />
0<strong>18</strong>96 830419<br />
Catriona Steven<br />
01721 723669<br />
Janet Macdougall<br />
01721 720568<br />
Anne Derrick<br />
01721 721075<br />
Elizabeth Fairless<br />
01721 720344<br />
Dorothy Russel<br />
01721 720583<br />
Please speak to the<br />
Minister or Session<br />
Clerk<br />
Janette Cameron<br />
01721 722528
Who’s Who at Peebles & Eddleston<br />
Minister:<br />
Rev. Calum Macdougall<br />
The Manse, 7 Clement Gunn Square<br />
Peebles EH45 8LW<br />
01721 720568<br />
calum@topcop.org.uk<br />
Ordained Local Minister:<br />
Rev. Pamela Strachan<br />
Glenhighton, Broughton<br />
ML12 6JF<br />
0<strong>18</strong>99 830423<br />
pamelastrachan@btinternet.com<br />
Session Clerk:<br />
Vivien Aitchison<br />
sessionclerk@topcop.org.uk<br />
Organist & Choir<br />
Leader:<br />
Sarah Brown<br />
16a Cross Street, Peebles<br />
07597 394059<br />
music@topcop.org.uk<br />
Church Administrator:<br />
Ruth Kerr<br />
07845 122356<br />
Office: 01721 723986<br />
admin@topcop.org.uk<br />
Roll Keeper Data Officer:<br />
Alison Duncan<br />
House: 721033<br />
Mobile: 07707 001795<br />
Beadle:<br />
Edward Knowles<br />
56 Eliot’s Park, Peebles.<br />
01721 722860<br />
Eco Church Co-ordinator<br />
Peebles:<br />
Could this be you?<br />
Eddleston Treasurer:<br />
Archie Smellie<br />
Hattonknowe, Eddleston.<br />
01721 730282<br />
Bellringers’ Team<br />
Leader:<br />
Anne Derrick<br />
Edderston Road, Peebles<br />
01721 721075<br />
Eddleston Session Clerk,<br />
Organist & Choir<br />
Director: Lorraine<br />
Mulholland<br />
Millbank, Eddleston.<br />
01721 730332<br />
Lorajazz@aol.com<br />
Registered charities (Peebles) SC013316 (Eddleston) SC010081