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The Covenanter The Covenanter DECEMBER 2013 Fenwick Parish Church Community Magazine no 445 THE COVENANTER December 2013 CHURCH SERVICES – SUNDAYS 10.30am JUNIOR CHURCH and Ycam – 10.30am MINISTER: Rev Geoff Redmayne BSc. B.D., M.Phil, the Manse, 2 Kirkton Place, Fenwick KA3 6DW Telephone 01560 600217 E-mail : [email protected] Session Clerk: Mrs Nora Shanks,12Skernieland Rd, Fenwick Telephone: 01560 600202 E-mail : [email protected] Gift Aid/Freewill Offerings: Mr A.Crosbie Telephone: 01560 322229 4 Campbell Street, Darvel, KA17 0DA Email:[email protected] Church Treasurer: Mrs Tracy Geddes,1 Skernieland Rd Fenwick Telephone 01560 600374 Roll Keeper: Mrs Nora Shanks,12Skernieland Rd, Fenwick Telephone: 01560 600202 E-mail : [email protected] Organist: Alistair Peter, 37 South Hamilton St Kilmarnock, KA1 2DT Email : [email protected] The Covenanter: Production/Distribution: Jean Bowes, 2 Rysland Drive Fenwick Telephone: 01560600259 Convener/ Advertising: Bill McNab, Avrilea, Kingsford, Stewarton . KA3 5JS Telephone 01560 482468 Email:[email protected] Please note new Email address The Covenanter can now be found on the internet as part of the Church website at www.fenwickparishchurch.org.uk/covenanter. All copy for the magazine should be received at least two weeks before the first Sunday of the publication month. Fenwick Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Registered Scottish Charity No SC010062 Covenanter Page 2 When did the “t” go silent? The official publication date of this edition of The Covenanter is Sunday 1st December. It does not take a genius to work out that Christmas is just around the corner. Are you one of those organised people who has all your Christmas shopping done and perhaps even wrapped? Are your Christmas cards bought, written and waiting to post and are your plans for the festive season well under way? Or is it all going to be a little last minute? The trekking around the shops with crowds of other people still to happen? Don’t even know what you are going to get everybody? Are there parties and food, socialising and travel still all to plan? I have to confess I still have Christmas shopping to think about let alone execute and as to Christmas cards… it is more likely to be a “Turkey Digest” sent after the big day! Still all this talk of Christmas got me thinking… By the time you have sent umpteen cards, kissed a multitude of work colleagues on the cheek (well perhaps not all of them!), given presents and spoken to family and friends, how many people will you have wished a Happy or Merry Christmas? As you say those words what are you saying? Is it just that you are wishing them a happy holiday time or is it more? Happy Holidays as you hear so much of on American television just does not have the same ring to it as Merry Christmas. Neither does it have the same depth of meaning. And here is where I came in. When did the “t” go silent, you know the one I mean now, the “t” in the middle of Christmas. Think about it, the “t” might as well not be there. “Chrismas” has the same sound as “Christmas” even if my spell checker does not like it! The “t” is important though. Without the “t” we lose the whole sense as to what the day and the season is about. You see the root of our word Christmas is two words “Christ’s Mass”. Christ is obvious from Jesus Christ Son of God born on earth and whose birth we celebrate each and every Christmas. And Mass from the Latin for the celebration of the Eucharist or Holy Communion as we would call it in the Reformed Church. Christ’s Mass is the celebration of His birth on earth and retelling of the story with all the magic and awe that it encompasses and with the hope of peace and goodwill it brings. Covenanter Page 3 So Christmas is a compound word of two words and somewhere along the line the “t” was dropped in pronunciation. Does it matter? Perhaps, perhaps not! It undoubtedly allows some folk to gloss over what the season is truly about. Christ being hidden in the speaking. Yet He is there (indeed he is here!). So what do we wish folk when we say Happy or Merry Christmas? Quite simply, “Have a happy celebration of Christ’s birth”. Is that it then? Happy Birthday on behalf of someone else’s Birthday! I don’t think so. Wishing someone a Happy Christmas is surely more than that. Christ’s birth was about what God was doing on earth. Christ’s birth was about God breaking in to give his people a solution. Christ’s birth was full of promise. In fact Christ in his life and death was the fulfilment of the promise and He was and is the promise. That promise? That God is there for you in life and death. In Jesus we can know God, we can walk with him and talk with him, we can know the love he pours out and the grace he gives. In Jesus we know the mercy of God and the power of God. In Jesus we know the peace God gives, peace that prevails in the midst of turmoil. All of this and more is wrapped in a tiny bundle of human flesh and laid amongst the straw of a stable. All this is wrapped up in Christmas. As you wish your friends, family and colleagues a Happy Christmas you are wishing them all that is wrapped up in the word and in the Word made flesh. Perhaps you haven’t been aware of that before but perhaps this year you will think about it with each Christmas greeting you send and with each Christmas greeting you receive. So just to get you started let me wish you a “Happy Christmas”, may you know God’s peace and love this Christmas-tide, even in the midst of being rushed off your feet getting ready. Geoff Redmayne Covenanter Page 4 TINA EDGAR School of Motoring Fenwick Patient and friendly female instructor Block Booking Discount! MOBILE: 07590 017560 ALLAN ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD Family Business Est. 1969 All Domestic, Industrial & Commercial Work . Energy Efficient Lighting Advice . Inspections & Safety Checks/Reports . Landlord Certification & PAT Testing Free Estimates Telephone 01560 322161 Fax : 01560 323178 Or Call Stephen 07762 765609 Ian 07971 432088 Email: [email protected] Covenanter Page 5 Christmas Appeal: This year we will be supporting East Ayrshire Churches Homelessness Action (EACHa). Based at The New Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock, EACHa provides well-being packs and children's activity packs to homeless households presenting as homeless to East Ayrshire Council. What we are looking for are toiletries. Basically anything needed or used in the bathroom. Toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorants, hair brushes, soaps, razors, toilet paper etc. The only exception is no aerosols. A box will be available in the front pew of the church from this Sunday Junior Church Rehearsals for this years nativity play are starting on Sunday 24th November. Junior Church members and friends of Primary School age are most welcome. This year it is called “The Landlords Cat” Hearts of Advent Our Hearts of Advent Service will be held in Fenwick Parish Church on Sunday 8th December at 7pm. This is a special Service for all who grieve: a time of peace to remember a family member or a friend who was treasured, and a time to give thanks for their precious life. Please bring yourself, your family and your friends. Sri Lanka News As many of you know, some of the money people from Fenwick have sent out to Sri Lanka has been to help Sampath build a new pre-school for the children of Rosythe. It is near completion and it will be called "Fenwick pre-school" Shona Robison, MSP, recently visited Sri Lanka as part of the Commonwealth Meeting. She spent some time at St. Andrew's Scots Kirk and at Netherlee Cottage, and was very impressed with the work being done, and the support given to Netherlee Cottage by Fenwick Parish Church and Netherlee Parish Church in Glasgow Covenanter Page 6 Jokes only understood in Scotland A Glasgow woman goes to the dentist and settles down in the chair. 'Comfy?'asks the dentist. 'Govan,' she replies. A guy walks into an antiques shop and says: 'How much for the set of antlers?' 'Two hundred quid,' says the bloke behind the counter' 'That's affa dear,' says the guy. 'Aye yer right!' replies the bloke Did you hear about the fella who liked eating bricks and cement? He's awa' noo. After announcing he's getting married, a boy tells his pal he'll be wearing the kilt. 'And what's the tartan?' asks his mate. 'Oh, she'll be wearing a white dress,' A Scotsman in London is having trouble phoning his sister from a telephone box. So he calls the operator who asks in a plummy voice: 'Is there money in the box? 'Naw, it's just me,' he replies. While getting ready to go out, a wee wifie says to her husband: 'Do you think I'm getting a wee bit pigeon chested?' And he says: 'Aye, but that's why I love you like a doo.' What do you call a pigeon that goes to Aviemore for its holidays? A skean dhu. Did you hear about the BBC Scotland series that features the queue for the toilets at Waverley Station? It's called The Aw' Needin' Line.
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