Canonbie United Parish Church

HIV

The Church of Scotland HIV Programme is very excited at the prospect of a visit to Scotland by Maria Silo,  the lady whose smiling face beams out from our poster.

Maria works for the Ekwendeni Hospital AIDS Programme in Malawi, and she will be in Scotland from 14 to 28 October. Maria will be in Annan St Andrew’s Parish Church on 18th October at 7.30pm.

Today’s sermon was a very thought-provoking offering entitled  how the rot sets in . Take a look too at File on Four which was aired on Radio 4 this afternoon.

Let’s live up to our responsibility to speak up for what is right and live accordingly.

The latest edition of the Canonbie Chronicles is now available 18 Autumn 2013

This Sunday, 29th September 2013, will be our Harvest Thanksgiving service. So please bring along with you any produce that you have grown and would like to donate to raise money to support children in Ekwendeni, Malawi, in furthering their education.

We will also be serving lunch after the service with soup provided, bring along something to share!

The offering, along with any monies raised from the sale of produce, will go to Malawi.

See also the Rice Challenge!

Canonbie Church has decided to take part in the Malawi Kitchen Rice Challenge – we have purchased 90kg of Malawian rice, which can be purchased from the Church at £2.99 per bag. If a farmer in Malawi can sell 90kg of rice at a fair price, then he would have sufficient income to send one of his children to High School.

So join us in taking this challenge. For more information on this and other fairly traded products that are available, have a look at this website.

Yesterday’s sermon by Andrew Morton was entitled “A coin like any other” and is available to read if you missed it! A Coin Like Any Other

This coming Sunday 15th September the Tour of Britain Cycle Race 2013 will be coming through Canonbie between 11.30am and 1pm, in fact during the morning service!

As the main road will be closed please make sure that you are at Church a little early (if you are arriving by car) and stay and have a cup of coffee and a chat after the service.

If you would like to see the route of this leg of the race, from Peebles to Drumlanrig, a map is available ToB_2013_St1

or you can view the route live by clicking on the link here

Andrew’s sermon yesterday was entitled Cost Of Service and the whole service is available to read now, including the hymns, readings etc.

At the moment the Bible Study group / Fellowship are looking at Saints in Service and the next study will be on the life of Timothy – stimulus for the faint-hearted.  Some of the passages to read are Acts 16, Phillipians 2, I Corinthians 16, 2 Timothy 1 and 2. The next meeting is Monday 16th September at Mozie Law.

there will be no Bible Study / Fellowship this Monday 9th September as there is a clash with the Congregational Board / Kirk Session