Canonbie United Parish Church

Rev Danny Gibb’s ministry in Canonbie today was based on the reading from Luke’s Gospel Chapter 10 Verses 1-11, and focused on the call to Mission. I’m sure he did write it with Canonbie in mind, but if he didn’t it couldn’t have been more appropriate as we received an update from the Youth Group in Ekwendeni – they’ve had a very busy, tiring day. Worship at 8, some socialising, a tour of the Mission Station, Girls Brigade, and learning more and more about everything that goes on at Ekwendeni. They’ve spent the evening planning their Mission work – a bible club with a group from Northern Ireland, in a village called Chissangano. 

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Alice, Emma, Hannah, Lois, Lizzie, Lucy, Niamh and Ruth have arrived safe and sound in Ekwendeni.

They have reportedly had a great journey, and have already met a lot of people. They have enjoyed dinner with Robin and Helen Quinn of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and Helen Scott of the Church of Scotland.

Let’s pray they have a good night’s sleep as they are planning on being at Church for worship at 8am, and after that are hoping to have a tour of the Mission Station.

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All is well. We are in the departure lounge at Heathrow. Journey so far great and the girls are very excited!!

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Here are two teddies knitted by a member of the congregation, who are bound for Malawi, Africa, this Friday. They are travelling with over 70 other teddies and the Youth Group to Ekwendeni in the North of Malawi, and will be finding new homes with children there. Bon Voyage to them! and God Speed.

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We had the last Cool Club before the Summer Holidays on Friday, which was on the theme of Moses taking the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt and into the promised land.

Here is Moses and the Israelites are following on behind, with the Red Sea parting in front of them.  The children had great fun, played games and sang songs, and had lovely cakes for snacks.

The next Cool Club is on the last Friday of September.

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It’s not long now until some of the Youth Group along with Ruth and Lois are off to Malawi, a week in fact. Last weekend they traveled down to the tip of the Kintyre peninsula, Southend, to visit Steve and Chris Fulcher at their new parish. As you can see the weather was not great, however that did not detract in the slightest from the enjoyment of the weekend.

They had a good long walk on Saturday afternoon with Steve and Alfie, visiting St Columba’s footprints, where Columba supposedly first landed in Scotland on his way to Iona. In the evening they went to a ceilidh in Campbeltown which was a fundraiser for the Congo.

Sunday was a Christening service at Southend Parish Church, and the young people did a drama about belonging, and Ruth and Chris played the guitar.

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Last weekend some of the members of the Youth Group, Sunday School and Cool Club attended Spree in the Borders up at Whitaugh Park in Newcastleton.

We camped on the field in two large tents. The weather was variable, we put the tents up in good weather, then on Friday evening we had showers which continued throughout Saturday, but Sunday the sun came out and we all dried out nicely.

Lucy, Lizzie and Alice, Youth Group members, were volunteering as Event Crew and were very busy, mostly down at the lake launching boats!

Here are some of the younger members of our group, at the top of the zip wire waiting their turn to go down.

and then going down

it’s a long way down, over the lake and through the trees to the bottom.

We tried out all sorts of other activities too;

zorbing

high and low ropes

canoeing, the climbing wall and abseiling, swimming, sumo wrestling, giant games, gyroscope, the list goes on and on …..

We also attended the meetings and worship, split into two groups, older and younger, and learnt more about what God can do in our lives and what difference God can make to our lives.

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This weekend the Youth Group and Sunday School will be attending Spree in the Borders up at Whitaugh Park in Newcastleton. We are praying that the sunshine will come back and that all the youngsters will have a great time!

To see what it’s all about click here

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Thank you to everyone who contributed in one way or another to the Annual Plant Sale last Saturday, 8th June, especially to Elaine and Alec Pryde and Sandi Farrer for organising all the plants, and to Marilyn Muir for facilitating the tea/coffee and cakes, it was all amazing!

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