Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine Summer 2023

group gathered in the Church Hall for refreshments.
An Early Easter morning service was held on Easter Sunday and a large group met and took part
in activities and prayers. Information on future Messy Church and Early morning services can be
found on the Church Facebook page.
The repairs to the Church are ongoing, with a new heating system being installed during the
Easter holidays, its hoped that all the teething problems have been solved and a new efficient
system will keep everyone warm wherever they are in the building. The hall is to be painted in the
summer holidays and for two weeks will not be in use.
Blairgowrie Evangelical Church
My wife and I moved to Blairgowrie in 2019. Not being locals we are not too particular about
the distinction but if it matters, we moved to Rattray, just in time to begin to find our way about
before we were all locked up in the reactions to COVID. Do you think pre and post COVID will catch
on like pre-war and post-war? Anyway, our custom has always been to try and find a church that
we could walk to.
Blairgowrie Evangelical Church (BEC to help the word count) was walking distance although the
climb to the then meeting place in Kirk Wynd was designed for younger folk than us. We come
from different church backgrounds and have lived overseas and been exposed to denominations
most normal people, even other Christians (some of whom may also be normal) have never heard
of so have no denominational bias. BEC is
a group of individual sinners, no worse or
no better than any others, who have found
out that God loves us and made it possible
for us to have our messed-upness sorted,
as far as is possible in this life. And since
this life is not the only one there is, we also
try to work on preparing for the next one.
True fulfilment, in both this life and the
next, centres around Jesus from Nazareth
who was born, lived, died and was brought
back to life all with the express purpose of
saving us from our own weakness, stupidity
and innate badness, not to mention that of
our ancestors. (Funny how it is fashionable
these days to take responsibility for
the wickedness of our relatively recent
ancestors - reparations here we come – and
ignore the effects of the wickedness of our
ultimate ancestors!)
Happily BEC no longer meets in its premises
on Kirk Wynd but now meets each Sunday at
11.00am in Rattray Hall on Balmoral Road,
(shorter distance to walk) and in various
homes midweek. Feel free to visit. The sign
outside on Sundays says All Welcome.
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