Minister - Rev. Angus Adamson B.D. Tel: 01770 302334 Parish Assistant - Mrs Jean Hunter B.D. Tel: 01770 860380 Scottish Charity Registration No. SC009377 Session Clerk – Bill Scott Tel: 830304 Church Treasurer - Fiona Henderson Tel: 830270 Lochranza & Pirnmill Church Elders Bill Scott Tel: 830304, Chris Knox Tel: 830618 Anne Coulter Tel: 830219, Louise Minter Tel: 850263 Peter Emsley Tel: 850232, Neil Robertson Tel: 850224, Wilma Morton Tel: 850272, Elspeth MacDonald Tel: 850284, Christine Black Tel: 850263, John Adam Tel 850230 Sinclair MacLeod Tel: 830319 Church Organists Lorna Buchanan-Hollingworth Tel: 840681 Aileen Wright Tel: 830353, John Clarke 860219 Congregational Board Members Rev. Angus Adamson, Christine Black (Clerk), Richard Wright (Property Manager), Fiona Henderson, Lizzie Adam, Archie Cumming Pastoral Care Group Group Leader - Anne Coulter Tel: 830219 Aileen Wright Tel: 830353, Lizzie Adam Tel: 850230, Christine Black Tel: 850263, Robert Cumming Tel: 830302 F.O.L.K. Church & Community (Friends Of Lochranza Kirk) Chair – Shared by the Elders – Treasurer – Anne Coulter Newsletter Sunday Services AUGUST 2018 Lochranza 9.30am, Pirnmill 10.45am Tea & coffee served after the services All are welcome www.lochranzachurch.org.uk Printed @ Ornsay, Lochranza CHURCH DUTIES The Manse, Brodick DUTY DOOR READERS COFFEE ELDER FLOWERS 05-Aug Gail Scott Bill Scott Gail Scott Bill Scott Gail Scott Fiona Robert Fiona Hellen *12- Aug Henderson Cumming Henderson Chris Knox Thorburn Anne Eileen 19-Aug Chris Siddle Pip Siddle Anita Ford Coulter McAllister Janette Janette Sinclair Janette 26-Aug Isobel Kerr MacLeod MacLeod MacLeod MacLeod Over many years growing up in Corriecravie I watched the once grand imposing Richard Richard Aileen farm house that stood on the skyline at other side of the village at Kilbrannan, 02-Sep Wright Wright Aileen Wright Bill Scott Wright crumble and fall down. It always seemed to me so sad and such a waste, all that Marion Marion Marion Marion hard work and time and effort, not to mention expense come to nothing but a pile of 09-Sep Gentleman Gentleman Gentleman Chris Knox Gentleman Douglas Douglas Maureen Anne Maureen rubble. The reason apparently for its demise, the builders had used lime mortar 16-Sep Coulter Coulter Cumming Coulter Cumming instead of cement with brick. Now after only 25 years since it was built, it seems the Hazel Hazel Hazel Sinclair Hazel same shocking fate awaits the Brodick manse. 23-Sep Gardiner Gardiner Gardiner MacLeod Gardiner And the decision to demolish and rebuild the manse has of course come as a Fiona Fiona Fiona Lorna terrible shock to the congregations and to all who hear about it, but not least to me 30-Sep Henderson Henderson Henderson Bill Scott Hallyburton and my family. That decision has not come about quickly nor without consultation at Harvest P/M 07-Oct Festival 1015am length with professionals, Presbytery property representatives and with the General Marion Robert Anne Hellen Trustees in Edinburgh who are ultimately responsible for all decisions concerning 14-Oct Gentleman Cumming Gail Scott Coulter Thorburn church property. Nor has it come about due to negligence on the part of extremely Sinclair Janette diligent and hard-working property conveners and fantastically supportive 21-Oct Chris Siddle Pip Siddle Anne Coulter MacLeod MacLeod congregational boards to see it was properly maintained. Marion The severe problems with damp which first manifested themselves with an **28-Oct Gail Scott Bill Scott Gentleman Bill Scott Jt infestation of woodlice when we moved in in 2006 to the more recent infestation of Communion slugs has been a long-standing one. 04-Nov Corrie 11am Despite almost constant repairs and remedial works being carried out over the past twelve years at no insignificant cost running into tens of thousands of pounds, the Dates for your diary……………. building is now so damp and facing hugely costly solutions to overcome certain * 12th Aug – Communion Service – Lochranza 1015am design faults that it is now not deemed worth spending any more money on. 4th Oct – Board & Session Meeting Pirnmill 2pm Therefore, the most practicable solution is to cut our losses and rebuild on the same ** 28th Oct – Joint Winter Services start – Lochranza 1015am site. 4th Nov – Thanksgiving Service – Corrie 7pm The task of overseeing this enormous venture and of raising the necessary funds 11th Nov – Remembrance Service – P/M Hall 1015am has been placed in the hands of a sub-committee made up of all the treasurers, NB. At 1905 all the church bells in UK will ring for 10mins clerks and property conveners of the five congregations of Brodick, Corrie, Lochranza, Pirnmill and Shiskine, who will of course report back to all the relevant NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER! Congregational Boards and Deacons’ Court before any action is taken. Please could I have articles for this by 22nd OCTOBER at the latest! So far, all this has raised some questions and led to a few misconceptions, [email protected] therefore it seemed a good idea to put the answers in writing to clear up any Many thanks. Ed. misunderstanding about the situation we find ourselves in. The first most frequently asked question is, where am I going to live in the meantime? Fortunately come the end of September I hope to be able to return to Corriecravie and live in my own home. The alternative was to have the congregations rent suitable accommodation for me and my family elsewhere in Brodick. The cost of that, at a time when the congregations are faced with raising monies in excess of £100 000, would not be good stewardship of resources and at least we have the good fortune that I have somewhere else to live in and from which Featuring – ARCO with guests Angus Anderson, Peter I can work, as I did when previously I was probationer minister at Brodick and Corrie from 2004 to 2006. Alexander Wilson & others Why then do we need to build a new manse at all? For the simple reason that I will not always be minister of North Arran and in order for the congregations to be ENTRY BY DONATION allowed to call my successor a manse must be provided for whoever that might be. ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS CHURCH FUNDS If a manse must be built, why such a large sum of money? The reason being that the legislation states that a manse must be of a certain size with four bedrooms, three public rooms and a garage. Not so that ministers can live in style, but so that Community Council Information there is a bedroom for the minister and his or her spouse, one bedroom for a male The Community Council meet the last Tues of the month at the Ormidale Pavillion @ and one for a female child (the nuclear family) and one guest bedroom for visitors, 6pm with the exception of December. The public can attend. which are frequent in any manse. Downstairs the extra room is the room from which The minutes of the meetings are available to read in the Lochranza and Catacol the minister is expected to work, the study acting also as a room where it is possible Village Hall, the Lochranza Hotel, the Catacol Hotel and the Pirnmill Shop. If you have to meet people in private away from the other members of the manse family. any concerns you would like taken forward, could you contact me (Lochranza and Where is this money to come from? The answer: it must be provided by the Catacol) or Liz Evans (Pirnmill). Thank you. congregations, although financial assistance has already been offered by the Contact Addresses:- Presbytery. This would if accepted, be in the form of a low-interest loan repaid over Julie Graham - The Old Exchange, Lochranza, KA27 8HL. Tel 01770 830 247 Email:- time. [email protected] How long will the process take? The answer – as long as it takes to raise sufficient Liz Evans - Shore Cottage, Pirnmill, KA27 8HP. Tel 01770 850 267 monies, gain relevant statutory permissions to demolish and rebuild, not to mention Email:- [email protected] go through all the stages of seeking the blessing of the church courts. All this coming at a time when the congregation at Shiskine are embarking on an TAKE NOTE OF DEFIBRILLATOR LOCATIONS AUG 14,28 ambitious project to demolish their current church hall and build a new one fit for Distillery - on front wall of the visitor centre SEPT 11,25 purpose for the next century and more, I have also been asked if having to build a Cal Mac building - on the outside wall OCT 9,23 new manse in Brodick will affect this decision. The answer in a word, no. Both Catacol Bay Hotel - on front wall below the NOV 6,20 projects are essential and will hopefully happen. kitchen window Why am I so confident of this? Because I believe both are undertaken in a great act Pirnmill Shop - in red telephone box of faith that the mission of the Church of Scotland on this island is important for the All cabinets are unlocked and open to anyone who requires AUG 7,21 foreseeable future. If that is so and it is God’s will then it will happen. If not, still my to take the defib. No prior experience of using one is SEPT 4,18 trust is in Him who will provide, not for what we want but for what we need. As the required make sure you've called 999 to get an Ambulance OCT 2,16,30 psalmist says: ‘Unless the Lord build the house they labour in vain that build it’ & the First Responders on the way NOV 13,27 (Psalm 127:1).