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Cramond Grapevine 100_Grapevine 27/08/2018 12:12 Page 1 CRAMOND KIRK MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2018 ISSUE No. 100 IT’S OUR CENTENARY ISSUE! When the first edition of a then-unnamed Kirk newsletter edited The Grapevine for the past 50 issues; Grahame Boyne dropped through the letterboxes of the people of Cramond in (and previously Brenda Wilson) collate the adverts; Irene November 1993, giving details of the Christmas Fair and Dunn (and previously Willie Prest) plan and commission Services, I doubt anyone anticipated we’d still be perusing content; Parish Committee conveners have mobilised a vast that very same magazine some 25 years later. distribution network to ensure the magazine reaches The second issue, published in March 1994, contained Easter everyone in the Cramond and Barnton area. Louise Madeley, Eating recipes from Masterchef Sue Lawrence. our Church Secretary, quietly ensures all the components come together smoothly. By the third issue, following a competition, the magazine had a name. Eschewing suggestions like Cramond Eggs and And now, following this landmark edition, The Grapevine is Cramond Cantorial, the shortlist included Cramond Eagle, changing again. Our next issue will appear in full colour, with Pew Review and the Cramond Kirk Beacon, but the winner - more photos, fewer pages, and shorter articles. Longer announced by Russell Barr in his sermon of 5 June 1994 - was features will be published online: you can read them in full on The Grapevine. our website www.cramondkirk.org. “... through the grapevine of the magazine an important This reflects the way more of us get our news nowadays, and ministry takes place,” said Dr Barr. “If there is a message of an increasing move towards digital channels. It is also community, if people sense that the holy gift of sanctuary is responds to the need for The Grapevine to remain financially being offered them, and that whatever need they bring will be sustainable. Hopefully too, it will mean lighter loads for the delivery team! met with compassion and healing care, then not just the magazine but the Church itself will be the grapevine. Thank you, our loyal readers and contributors, for your continuing support; we hope you will enjoy the refreshed A local artist designed the viticultural artwork that still colour format in coming issues. Here’s to the next 100! features in our masthead. And by the seventh issue, The Grapevine had expanded to an A4 format, and started to Fay Wilson carry adverts, helping to offset printing costs. Issue 10 contained photos for the first time. Gradually the number of pages expanded, as more articles flooded in. In 2001 The Grapevine went online too, giving readers all over the world the opportunity to find out what was happening in Cramond. Over the years The Grapevine has carried articles on cycling, concerts and Christian Aid, sculpture, stamps and scouting; poetry and prayer; history and harvest festivals .... We’ve followed (with more than a little pride) the progress of Fresh Start; tracked the routes of the Cramond Walkers; been provoked and entertained by A View from the Choir Gallery. Children whose baptisms were recorded in early Parish Registers have married and become parents themselves. A huge sustained volunteer effort has been critical to the magazine’s longevity. David and Christine Fairweather have SERVICES AT CRAMOND KIRK Every Sunday: Morning Prayers : 8.45am Morning Worship : 10.00am Harvest Festival – 7 October 10.00am Remembrance – 11 November 10.00am Communion Services: 7 October (8.45am) 4 November (8.45am & 10.00am) 11 November (following 10.0am Service) Cramond Grapevine 100_Grapevine 27/08/2018 12:12 Page 2 2 THE GRAPEVINE A NURTURING CONGREGATION PLUS THE POWER OF PRAYER As many of you will know in April I underwent Despite my mental wanderings these heartfelt good major surgery to remove a benign brain tumour. wishes made a big impression on my fragile state. I The operation went well, but after two days I am absolutely convinced that these inputs were progressively became more and more seriously fundamental in securing my recovery and are a very unwell. An emergency operation was undertaken to real and relevant example of the power of prayer remove a blood clot from my brain. At this point I and demonstration of a nurturing congregation at was exhibiting all the symptoms of a stroke with work. paralysis down my left side, but following this second operation I came back from the brink and All this is further demonstrated by the 60 odd get progressively got better. After another 4 weeks in well cards I was able to appreciate more fully on my hospital I was discharged. The skill of the surgeons? return from hospital and the flood of welcomes I The care of the nursing staff? Yes to both of these, have had on my return to church. This wave of but I am convinced that there was a very important concern and affection has been most moving and, as additional factor. For much of the period over the I said to Russell, could almost convert me to a two operations I was in another place and subject to religious person. His response – Don’t do that, I am horrific hallucinations, but I have a clear memory of only trained to deal with sinners. Maybe I will just Russell and Tom visiting and bringing the good continue being me, but for the very important part wishes of the congregation. I also remember my you all made in making that possible my most poor wife visiting, sometimes twice per day, and grateful thanks. reeling off the names of dozens, it seemed, of friends from church who sent their best wishes. Andrew Mather Cramond Grapevine 100_Grapevine 27/08/2018 12:12 Page 3 THE GRAPEVINE 3 FROM THE MANSE The Manse stonemason, Mark Ritchie, was commissioned to create the headstone. September 2018 The dedication ceremony was held on Wednesday morning prior to the start of the Senior Open Dear friends, Championship and was attended by Sandy Lyle, the Open Although it could have been mistaken at times for Champion in 1985, who spoke on behalf of the former somewhere in the Mediterranean, our summer holiday champions and paid tribute to Jamie Anderson’s career. was spent no further than St Andrews. As well as being home to Scotland’s oldest university, St Andrews enjoys a worldwide reputation as the home of golf. Whether it was playing, attending the Open Championship at Carnoustie or volunteering at the Seniors Open played over the Old Course, much of our holiday was spent on the golf course. However my summer’s golfing highlight came in the grounds of the ancient St Andrews cathedral where I led a short service to dedicate a memorial stone. The memorial stone had been erected to mark the grave of the late Jamie Anderson. Jamie Anderson was Open Champion golfer in 1877, 1878 and 1879 winning the title at Musselburgh, l – r : Mark Ritchie, Russell Barr, Roger McStravick, Prestwick and the Old Course at St Andrews. Sandy Lyle, Sandra Allan, David Allan Born in St Andrews in 1842, Jamie Anderson died in a poor house in 1905 and was buried in a paupers’ grave The ceremony was also attended by Sandra and David with no headstone to mark his grave. Allan, Anderson’s great, great, great granddaughter and great, great, great, great grandson. Having researched the history of St Andrews and the Open Championship, author and historian, Roger As you can imagine it was a privilege to dedicate the McStravick, was able to identify Anderson’s grave in the headstone and celebrate Jamie Anderson’s golfing achievements. Very few golfers have won the Open Championship and to win it three years running suggests that Jamie Anderson was the outstanding golfer of his era. Several of Anderson’s hickory shafted golf clubs are displayed in the R&A clubhouse, so very different from today’s clubs, and it was remarkable to look at them and realise these were the clubs he used to win the Open Championship. As well as enjoying a good holiday with lots of sunshine, I hope your summer has been filled with interest and activity to set you up for the autumn and winter months. Russell Barr & Sandy Lyle And as you will read in this 100th edition of the Grapevine, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grounds of the ruined St Andrew’s Cathedral and set engage with the life and worship of Cramond Kirk. about raising funds to erect a headstone. With best wishes, With monies raised from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and all the local golf clubs in St Andrews, a local Russell Barr Cramond Grapevine 100_Grapevine 27/08/2018 12:12 Page 4 4 THE GRAPEVINE ELECTRICIANS K.ELECTRICS is a small family run business which has been trading for 32 years and specialises in house and flat re-wiring. We HOME HELP ME CARE are only too happy to quote for additional • Companionship Services sockets, extra lights, outside security lights, • Personal Care Services attic, cupboard and basement lighting and instant electric showers or any of your • Hospital to Home Care Package electrical requirements. 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