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Cross Ness Church of Scotland • August 07, 2022
11am service taken by our minister Rev John Murdo Nicolson.
Praise
Light of the World.
Hy 86. Thine arm O Lord in days of old.
Hymn 178. In the Name of Jesus.
Paraphrase 48:5-9. The Saviour died but rose again.
Reading – 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 (ESV).
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? 30 Why are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day! 32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” 34 Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Tea/coffee will be served in the church hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm Service – Our minister.
Reading: Isaiah 40:1-8; Matthew 3:1-12.
The Week Ahead
Monday 8th Aug 7:30pm – 9pm. Church Hall. Bible study. All welcome.
Wednesday 10th August 7:30pm – 8.45pm. Church Hall. Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Services next Sunday 14th August 2022
11am & 6pm – Our minister.
Advance Notices
Sunday 4th September 6pm- We will be hosting a joint communion service with Barvas.
Sunday 18th September. Mr Donnie Macleod Faith Mission.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • July 23, 2022
11am Service – Mr Chris Barrowman
N.E.P 23 - Behold the Throne of God Above
N.E.P 223 - Seek Ye First
N.E.P 229 - Take My Life and Let It Be
Reading – Proverbs 4. (ESV).
1 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, 2 for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, 4 he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. 7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever you get, get insight. 8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. 9 She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” 10Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. 11 I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. 13 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. 15 Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. 16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. 20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.24 Put away from you crooked speech and put devious talk far from you.
25 Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. 27 Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church Hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm Service – Mr John Hebditch. Reading - Luke 22:7- 46.
The Week Ahead
Monday 25th July 8pm, Church – Robert Davidson’s wake.
Tuesday 26th July 11am, Church – Robert Davidson’s funeral. Lunch in the Comunn Eachdraidh afterwards.
Wednesday 27th July 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Friday 29th July 2pm – 5pm, FOOT-FALL – Foot-fall is a Christian outdoor activities club for teenagers which will be running again this year on Friday afternoons in July and August, until the end of the summer holidays. Each session lasts about 3 hours and includes a variety of challenges, games and activities, to the moor, the machair and the coast. For an information sheet and booking form please contact Chris Barrowman at chrisbarrowman@btinternet.com
Friday 8th – Friday 29th July - Our minister is on holiday. If you need the help of a minister, please get in touch with one of the elders.
Services Sunday 31st July 2022
11am & 6pm – Rev Iain Greenshields.
There will be Fellowship after the evening service and tea and coffee will be served. Donations of baking would be greatly appreciated.
Advance Notices
Sunday 4th September - We will be hosting a joint communion service with Barvas and Carloway at 6pm.
Barvas Food Bank. - Barvas Food Bank are looking for help and would appreciate donations of the following items: Tinned Soups, Tinned Veg, Tinned Puddings, Pasta & Rice, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Cereal, Tea & Coffee, Biscuits.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • July 17, 2022
11am Service – Mr John Hebditch.
Psalm 46:1-5 & 10-11
Psalm 34: 1-10
Hymn 194
Hymn 410
Reading – The Song of Solomon 2. (ESV).
1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. 2 As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. 3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 5 Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! 7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.10 My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, 11 for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 14O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. 15 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. 17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church Hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm Service – Mr Calum Campbell. Reading - John 19:14-30.
The Week Ahead
Monday 18th July 7.30pm, Church Hall – Bible study. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Wednesday 20th July 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Friday 22nd July 2pm – 5pm, FOOT-FALL – Foot-fall is a Christian outdoor activities club for teenagers which will be running again this year on Friday afternoons in July and August, until the end of the summer holidays. Each session lasts about 3 hours and includes a variety of challenges, games and activities, to the moor, the machair and the coast. For an information sheet and booking form please contact Chris Barrowman at chrisbarrowman@btinternet.com
Saturday 23rd July 9am, Comunn Eachdraidh Nis – Men’s Breakfast. All men are welcome for fellowship, quiz, tea, coffee and breakfast rolls. The perfect way to kick off your weekend.
Friday 8th – Friday 29th July - Our minister is on holiday. If you need the help of a minister, please get in touch with one of the elders.
Services Sunday 24th July 2022
11am - Mr Chris Barrowman.
6pm - Mr John Hebditch.
Advance Notices
Sunday 31st July - We look forward to having with us, Rev Iain Greenshields, Moderator of The Church of Scotland, who will be taking both 11 & 6pm services.
Sunday 4th September - We will be hosting a joint communion service with Barvas and Carloway at 6pm.
Barvas Food Bank. - Barvas Food Bank are looking for help for the following items: Tinned Soups, Tinned Veg, Tinned Puddings, Pasta & Rice, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Cereal, Tea & Coffee, Biscuits.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • July 09, 2022
11am & 6pm Service – Mr Malcolm Gillies.
Psalm 8
Psalm 19: 9-14 Psalm 63 Psalm 145 (1stversion): 15 - 21
Reading – Isaiah 44. (ESV)
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church Hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
The Week Ahead
Wednesday 13th July - No women’s Bible study until after the summer holidays.
Wednesday 13th July 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Friday 29th July - Our minister is on holiday. If you need the help of a minister, please get in touch with one of the elders.
Advance Notices
Thursday 14th - 16th July - REVIVE Events coming to Barvas Football pitch. Services are from 6:30pm – 9pm.
Saturday 23rd July 9am - Comunn Eachdraidh Nis - Mens breakfast. All men welcome for fellowship, quiz, tea, coffee and breakfast rolls. The perfect way to kick off your weekend!
Sunday 31st July - We look forward to having with us, Rev Iain Greenshields, Moderator of The Church of Scotland, who will be taking both 11 & 6pm services.
Sunday 4th September - We will be hosting a joint communion service with Barvas and Carloway at 6pm.
Barvas Food Bank. - With the school holidays approaching, Barvas Food Bank are looking for help for the following items: Tinned Soups, Tinned Veg, Tinned Puddings, Pasta & Rice, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Cereal, Tea & Coffee, Biscuits.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • June 18, 2022
11am & 6pm Service – Our Minister.
Sunday school / Bible class after children’s service.
Psalm – 63:1-6. Lord Thee my God
Praise – O Praise the Name. Hymn – 109. We sing the praise. Praise – Before the throne of God above.
Reading – Philippians 2:1-11. (ESV).
1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church Hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm Evening Service – Jonah 3:1-10. - “Real Repentance”.
The Week Ahead
Monday 20th June 7.30pm. Church Hall – Bible study. Everyone invited to attend.
Wednesday 22nd June 10.45am. Church Hall - Ladies Bible study. All women welcome.
Wednesday 22nd June 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Services Sunday 26th June 2022
11am & 6pm Services – Our Minister.
Sunday school & Prize Giving - Family service on Faith & Nature.
Advance Notices
Saturday 2nd July. - Sunday school outing on Cross Beach.
Thursday 14th - 16th July - REVIVE Events coming to Barvas Football pitch. Services are from 6:30pm – 9pm.
Sunday 31st July - We look forward to having with us, Rev
Iain Greenshields, Moderator of The Church of
Scotland, who will be taking both 11 & 6pm services.
Barvas Food Bank. - With the school holidays approaching, Barvas Food Bank are looking for help for the following items: Tinned Soups, Tinned Veg, Tinned Puddings, Pasta & Rice, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Cereal, Tea & Coffee, Biscuits.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • June 12, 2022
Reading – Matthew 1:18-25. (ESV).
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for He will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church Hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm Evening Service – Jeremiah 18:1-23. - “The Potter’s hand.”
The Week Ahead
12th – 19th June 7:30pm, South Lochs – Faith Mission tent meetings each night except Saturday.
Monday 13th June 7.30pm. Church Hall – Cross church Annual General Meeting.
Tuesday 14thJune 7.30pm. Church Hall – Bible study. Everyone invited to attend.
Wednesday 15th June 10.45am. Church Hall - Ladies Bible study. All women welcome.
Wednesday 15th June 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Services Sunday 19th June 2022
11am & 6pm Services – Our Minister.
Sunday school / Bible class after children’s service.
Advance Notices
Sunday 26th June. 11am - Sunday school family service on Faith & Nature.
Sunday 31st July - We look forward to having with us, Rev
Iain Greenshields, Moderator of The Church of
Scotland, who will be taking both 11 & 6pm services.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • May 15, 2022
The Week Ahead
Wednesday 18th May 10.45am. Church Hall - Ladies Bible study. All women welcome.
Wednesday 18th May 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
CHIT-CHAT
MEETING
A GROUP RUN BY
WOMEN, FOR WOMEN
ALL WELCOME, PLEASE COME AND JOIN US,
Speaker – Shona Morrison – R.S.P.B
Chatting about Corncrakes and other species
Cross Ness Church of Scotland Hall
Thurs 19th May 7.30pm
Services Sunday 22nd May 2022
11am Service – Mr Donnie Macdonald.
Sunday school / Bible class after children’s service.
6pm Service – Mr David Graham.
Date For Your Diary
Tuesday 24th May 7.30pm. Comunn Eachdraidh Nis – Rita Nkemba. The founder of Dwelling Places will be sharing about their work in Uganda. All ladies welcome.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • May 08, 2022
11am Service – taken by Mr Malcolm Gillies.
Sunday school / Bible class after children’s service.
Praise
Psalm – 95:1-7.
Hymn – 582. Rock of Ages. Psalm – 71: 14 -19 Psalm – 145:15 - 21
Reading – Genesis 49. (ESV)
1 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come 2 “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father. 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.4Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it he went up to my couch! 5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. 6 Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. 8 “Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. 11 Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes 12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.13“Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. 14 “Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. 15 He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor. 16 “Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.18 I wait for your salvation, O Lord. 19 “Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels. 20 “Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies. 21 “Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns. 22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. 23 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely, 24 yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),25 by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. 26 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers. 27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.” 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. 29 Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah 32 the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.” 33 When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm service – Rev Duncan Macaskill.
The Week Ahead
Monday 9th May 7:30pm Church Hall – Bible study open to all to attend.
Wednesday 11th May 10.45am. Church Hall - Ladies Bible study. All women welcome.
Wednesday 11th May 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Services Sunday 15th May 2022
11am & 6pm Services – Our Minister.
Sunday school / Bible class after children’s service.
CHIT-CHAT
MEETING
A GROUP RUN BY
WOMEN, FOR WOMEN
ALL WELCOME, PLEASE COME AND JOIN US,
Speaker – Shona Morrison – R.S.P.B
Chatting about Corncrakes and other species
Cross Ness Church of Scotland Hall
Thurs 19th May 7.30pm
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • April 30, 2022
11am & 6pm Service – taken by our Minister.
Praise
Psalm – 63:1-8. Lord Thee my God.
Praise – O Praise the Name.
Hymn – 166. O for a thousand tongues to sing.
Praise - Jesus, all for Jesus.
Reading – 1 John 1:1-10. (ESV)
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life 2 The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us. 3 That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Tea/coffee will be served in the Church hall after the morning service to which everyone is warmly invited.
6pm. Evening Service Message – Matthew 24:6. “Here is the bridegroom.”
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 3rd May 7:30pm Church Hall – Slavic Gospel Association meeting. Everyone welcome.
Wednesday 4th May 10.45am. Church Hall - Ladies Bible study. All women welcome.
Wednesday 4th May 7:30pm. Church Hall - Midweek Prayer meeting. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
Saturday 7th May 9.30 for 10am – 4pm. - Comunn Eachdraidh NisFlourish Women’s Conference.
Services Sunday 8th May 2022
11am – Mr Malcolm Gillies.
Sunday school / Bible class after the children’s service.
6pm – Rev Duncan Macaskill.
Please continue to pray for our Minister, his family and for our congregation that we would know the Lord’s blessing at this time. We continue to pray for all in our congregation and community who are in hospital or Care Homes and those being cared for in their own homes or are ill in any way. If you know of someone who needs prayer at this time, please let the minister or one of the elders know.
Flourish
Women’s Conference
Saturday 7th May 2022
Comunn Eachdraidh Nis
9.30 for 10am – 4pm
Sharon Dickens (Women’s Ministry Director, 20 Schemes, Edinburgh) will speak on 1 Peter 1 & 2:
Our Hope, Our Call & Our response!
Come & be encouraged & revitalized!
A day of praise & worship.
A day to flourish as women and
consider Jesus!
If interested, please speak to Rachel Barrowman or Christina Macleod to find out more or to pick up a booking form. Booking forms must be completed to ensure a place on the day.
Cross Ness Church of Scotland • May 05, 2021
Dear Church Family and Friends.
I hope that this short letter finds you well and in good heart. I am reminded of a question that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” His answer was: “That neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This last year we have been separated from our families, children, grandchildren, separated from meeting together. It has been a tough year for us. But we have never been separated from God and His love for us. In an ever-changing world, changing restrictions, we have one constant: God’s love for us. What a blessing it is, to know that in our soul, how He has kept us, loved us, cared for us, spoken to us, and met with us along our pathway in life.
We are thankful to have the church open again, to meet in fellowship, to be able to see each other face to face, albeit behind a mask. I remember the first Sunday back in church, it was so good to see people again. For those who are still not attending, I would encourage you to come back, your church family miss you. We find strength and encouragement when we are together.
This last year, we could not hold our AGM, because of restrictions placed upon us, we could not even hand out copies of our Financial Statement. But we will be holding our AGM on the 10th May at 7:30pm on a Zoom meeting. If you wish to attend, please get in touch with Chris Barrowman, so that he can get your email address and send you the link to watch. Thank you for your continuing support and generosity to the work of The Lord here in Ness and in other parts of the world.
Yours in sincerely
John M Nicolson
