Imagine Cramond Can You Imagine Community Particularly After the Change in the Life of the Community Challenges of a Global Pandemic? Over the Coming Months
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CRAMOND KIRK MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2021 Issue 117 www.cramondkirk.org.uk VIRTUAL CHURCH www.facebook.com/cramondkirk2 Every Sunday Morning Worship 10am And available thereafter to watch anytime Daily Devotions Monday – Saturday on Facebook And on “video” page of www.cramondkirk.org.uk Imagine Cramond Can you Imagine community particularly after the change in the life of the community challenges of a global pandemic? over the coming months. Cramond? If the ‘great and the good’ can make We are really keen to have your Close your eyes and shut out any helpful contributions on all aspects ideas for a better Cramond in 300 other thoughts for a minute. of life, then every resident old or words or less. You can contribute Now take a slow deep breath young who can find pen and paper, as an individual or as a group and and imagine the community in iPad or PC can share their views on can use prose or poetry and your which you want to live, a stronger our local neck of the woods. ideas could be illustrated as long as community where you and yours I hope to be able to connect with they focus on improving life in this can really flourish... as many community groups as community. possible seeking a contribution from The task is to imagine the Imagine a Country, Ideas for a their particular perspective. As an community as it could be with more better future is a book published incentive there will be a prize of a of this and less of that and even a in 2020. The editors Val McDermid £30 gift voucher for the three best big dollop of whatever is currently and Jo Sharp invited Scots writers, entries. missing completely. poets and thinkers to produce Cramond Primary and Cargilfield All submissions marked Imagine short essays on creating a ‘better’ School have both shown an interest Cramond should be sent to the Kirk Scotland. They collected a good in participating so why not join Office, 16 Cramond Glebe Road, cross-section of contributions them. Edinburgh, EH4 6NS by 3 April from the likes of Aly Bain, Carol The ideas will be collated and 2021 or e-mailed to cramond.kirk@ Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and James displayed in Cramond Kirk Halls blueyonder.co.uk. Robertson. I offer a few words from once we are allowed to gather “The future is never predictable, Ian Rankin’s contribution as a taster, again, hopefully in the summer. a straight line or a projection “Imagine: great education of present trends. The future available to all; no violence or Imagine Cramond is always being created and greed; safe streets; ... prisons that Competition recreated.” Gerry Hassan work; clean air and clean seas and Would you help build an even This is your chance to shape a clean rivers.” better community in Cramond post better future for our community. pandemic? Thanking you in anticipation. These ideas have found traction We are well aware that things across our nation, so why not have changed and will continue to Ian Gilmour, something similar for the Cramond Locum Minister. Social icon Social icon Rounded square Rounded square Only use blue and/or white. Only use blue and/or white. For more details check out our BrandFor Guidelines. more details check out our www.cramondkirk.org.ukRead more: www.cramondkirk.org uk . Deadline for next issue 7th May 2021 T: 0131 T: 0131 336 3362036 2036 Brand Guidelines. Published by Cramond Kirk, Cramond Glebe Road, Edinburgh EH4 6NS Fresh Start Interview Biddy Kelly, managing director of Fresh Start took part in Sunday’s worship in January in an interview with Rev Ian Gilmour – telling us how the charity had made creative progress during lockdown. fresh start cookery classes “In March 2020, the world So what does the future hold? stopped,” said Biddy. “At Fresh “Our community hub renovations were underway and Start we knew we couldn’t.” we still hope to open sometime in the spring with a “We had to close our doors to our volunteers and our staff community kitchen and a shop for household goods. It’s had to step up to the mark.” all about community connection and help and to try to stop people becoming homeless.” “ On day 1, we set up a dedicated phone line offering help, and providing emergency food packs. Over lockdown “ Donations from Cramond Kirk have been vital we provided 8,609 of these - some weeks we were throughout and from the retirement collection for Rev supporting 500 households. We couldn’t have done this Russell and Margaret Barr. None of this would have without the very generous donations we received in cash happened without this support and your money has made to keep our valuable work going.” it happen. I wish to thank each and every one of you. “We were also able to continue to deliver 5,000 starter Biddy Kelly packs, but in a very different way to comply with all the guidelines for everyone’s health and safety.” Fresh Start is currently closed again under “Our staff team had to get really creative to continue our lockdown guidelines but you can make financial hit squads’ work, and we had quite a few. What we did donation online at: https://www.justgiving.com/ was to provide families with paint, the equipment and freshstartedinburgh instructions how to do it for themselves and help just a telephone call away.” “We discovered something really important was lacking THREE LETTERSWORD PUZZLE – Three Letters for many – green spaces. So we got to work tidying up gardens -33 in all. You wouldn’t believe how many hidden Which three letter words complete the following longer words? patios we uncovered! Our cookery classes went online After completion, use the nine letters from your answers to work -as Zoom classes – and through a closed Facebook group out a two-word type of shopping. people could share their results with each other. We gave out the ingredients and instructions for a “dish of the day”. What we have learned in the past that the cooking classes 1. LEA _ _ _ , _ _ _ ORA, UNDER _ _ _ are not just about learning new skills but also about socialising.” 2. S _ _ _ K, _ _ _ GET, S _ _ _ T “We were the first in Scotland to open a “Local pantry” – offering 10 food items for £3.50 plus fresh goods. In four weeks, we had 200 people sign up for this help.” 3. D_ _ _ Y, REP_ _ _ , C_ _ _N Caring, Complete & Conscientious ......... B ARCLAYS FUNERAL SERVICES Helping you do the best for your pet, with equal emphasis on both prevention and People Serving People treatment. We at Barclays wish to introduce you to our new Funeral Homes, We are a cat friendly practice. serving the people of Davidson’s Mains, Corstorphine and the We have a spacious, modern and fully equipped centre, surrounding communities. The people within Barclays are here with private parking and most importantly, we make time to listen. to help your family at your time of need. 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May the Lord protect and strengthen through his love all whose hope is in him. Let us pray for one another, And all who are absent from us just now; Dear Friends, that through grace the Lord may In churches everywhere we are studying Mark’s gospel. Chapter one summarises this book with each keep us from falling, sentence carefully considered. One of the aspects rather may we persevere to the end it brings to our attention is healing. Jesus heals on no less than forty-one occasions in the four gospels, with fortitude and joy. the earliest of these are noted in Mark, chapter one Amen which contains four healings. At verse 32 it says Parish Register “That evening, after the sun was down, they brought sick and evil-afflicted people to him, New Member joining by Certificate the whole city lined up at his door! He cured 4 Nov Gillian MacPherson their sick bodies and tormented spirits.” Wedding Although we cannot heal in the exact manner of 19 Dec Rupert Forsyth Jesus the church remains committed to healing & Lucy Barrack in many ways. This might be by supporting Deaths the homeless, those who are ill, the lonely, the 26 Oct David Gracie unemployed or the dying and bereaved. It also 27 Oct Betty Hagart means trying to strengthen our community especially 9 Nov Margaret Main in times of pain, doubt and genuine fear, as many are 14 Nov Paul Williamson experiencing now during the Covid pandemic. 30 Nov Tony Petrie 4 Dec Doreen Smith In the popular hymn, ‘We cannot measure how you 24 Dec Alison Graham heal’, John Bell and Graham Maule invite us to ask 3 Jan Robert Russell God to be with us in times of trouble: “Lord, let your Spirit meet us here to mend the body, mind, and soul, to disentangle peace from pain and make your broken people whole.” Most of us will come through this horrible virus, but let us not just survive, let us learn in Cramond to be even better at compassion, empathy and healing.