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April 2018 Ife April 2018 ife n etherlee irk Forthcoming Services APRIL Sunday 1st 7.00 am Easter Day Joint gathering with Stamperland in Linn Park followed by breakfast in Netherlee Church 10.30 am Easter Sunday Family Communion Service Followed by Easter Egg Hunt. Sunday 8th 10.30 am Morning worship conducted by Rev John Campbell Sunday 15th 10.30 am Morning Worship conducted by Rev Scott Blythe Sunday 22nd 10.30 am Morning Worship 90th Anniversary Service of Netherlee Church Sunday 29th 10.30 am Morning Worship 6.30 pm Parade of Uniformed Organisations MAY Sunday 6th 10.30 am Morning Worship _______________________________________ Daily Devotional Readings Copies of a booklet of thoughtful Daily Readings for the 7 week period from Easter to Pentecost Sunday are available on the welcome desk. Donation of £3.00 per copy welcome. For further information contact Sheena Wurthmann or the minister. [email protected] 2 From the Minister Dear Friends, April is turning out to be a month of celebration and thanksgiving. Thanks go firstly to our Treasurer, Ronnie Mair, who stood down from the post at our Stated Annual Meeting on 25th March. Ronnie has served the church well by keeping a close eye on our accounts with meticulous attention to detail. He has been an excellent Treasurer. Nothing seemed to be any bother to him, whether in keeping the accounts up to date or by giving advice or guidance to our organisation leaders. We are very grateful to Ronnie and express our heartfelt thanks. He handed on the baton to the very capable hands of Allan Mathieson who is also our Finance Committee Convener and we wish him well as our new Treasurer. Thanks are also due to Malcolm MacVey who stood down as the Fabric Committee Convener at the Stated Annual meeting. Malcolm took over the reins from Neil Munro two years ago and has taken his responsibilities very seriously. Hardly a week has gone by when Malcolm wasn’t in the church or halls attending to some matter or another. We thank Malcolm for the enormous amount of time and effort he has put in to keep the buildings well maintained. He passes the baton on to Iain Alexander, who was Property Convener when Catherine and I arrived in Netherlee and so we know he will be well received as our new Convener. We look forward to celebrating our 90th Anniversary of the establishment of the church on Ormonde Avenue. This we plan to do on Sunday 22nd April with a special thanksgiving service followed by lunch in the halls. We will have an exhibition to stir our memories and imaginations as we celebrate 90 years of faithful service, 3 fellowship and learning together. We are creating a time-line around the hall to give a visual trace of the church’s history and to help us find our place on that line. I trust it will be a special time for us all as we are reminded of God’s enduring faithfulness over the years together with the many faithful members and friends of our congregation past and present who make the church such an important part of our lives. Yours sincerely in Christ, Rev Tom Nelson _________________________ On 22nd April we are celebrating Netherlee Church's 90th Anniversary. After the morning service we are having lunch and would like to reflect favourite foods through the nine decades. We will be putting sheets of paper on the boards at the back of the large hall and would love you to think about what foods you enjoyed from when you were young - up to the age of around 10 years. We will then use these suggestions to use for the lunch on the 22nd. You should add your suggestion to the decade in which you were under 10 years of age. By doing this we hope to have a selection of foods we can all enjoy. Alternatively you can email either Barbara, Marjorie or Catherine to give us your suggestions. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4 KIRK SESSION—Changes are coming March as ever has been a very busy month in the church calendar. The preparation of the Annual Report & Accounts is a very busy time for the Treasurer. He reported to the Trustees on Monday 12 March with a full explanation of how 2017 had turned out. After listening to him and answering questions there were no amendments needed. The Session Clerk also commented on the Report section and was not quite so fortunate as there were a few alterations needed. Subject to making these amendments and after being advised by the independent examiner Alex Johnston, that he was happy to sign the Report and Accounts, the Session as the Trustees approved them and preparations are now in hand to finalise them for the Stated Annual Meeting on Sunday 25 March. This will be Ronnie's last report to the congregation as he retires as Treasurer at the close of the meeting after 7 years and 3 months in the post. He then hands over to Allan Mathieson. I do not want to pre-empt what Tom will say at the meeting but I am sure he will pay tribute to the commitment of Ronnie on our behalf. Let me encourage you to attend and show your support for this valuable work. The Annual Inspection of Records is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 18 April. I am fortunate that there are a number of members who have the necessary skills to prepare and provide me with the required information to present to Presbytery. The Communion services on 4th March saw the lowest ever turn out with 136 members at the morning service and 9 at the afternoon service. I am sure the atrocious weather played a large part in it and I am glad that so many members heeded the severe weather warnings from the Met office and put personal safety first. I was astonished to receive an email from the Presbytery reminding us that we had a responsibility to provide worship every Sunday and that if we were changing our arrangements or canceling them I had to let them know!! I wonder what they would have done if we couldn't hold morning worship. 5 Our sub committees met in March and reported on their work including 2018 being the Year of the Child, our Easter Services, the 90th anniversary celebrations and Tom's retirement events for the Community on Wednesday 20 June and his final preaching on 29 July. The Worship Committee discussed the arrangements for the Summer Services and as reported in last month's LINK we will hold only one service from 10 June at 10.00 am. Interestingly enough at a Joint Kirk Session meeting on Wednesday 14 March both Kirk Sessions after a good exchange of views agreed to an amended proposal from the Strategic Planning Group that following Tom's retirement and from the 5 August Netherlee and Stamperland should pilot a scheme of 2 services each Sunday with a 10.00 am service in Netherlee and an 11.30 am service in Stamperland. More details will follow as the rationale is fully explained to both Congregations. So our foresight to start the summer services at 10.00 am is quite opportune. Preparations are in hand for our holy week Easter Services and the CCT leaflet has once again been distributed throughout the Parish. There will be a Family Communion Service on Sunday 1 April and there will be the usual Good Friday evening service led by the choir at 7.30 pm and joined by our friends from Stamperland. There are services each night of Holy Week in Stamperland which you are encouraged to attend and in particular the Maundy Thursday service. For those of you who are early risers the CCT hourly services on Good Friday start in Netherlee at 7.00 am. Last year we had the biggest ever turn out at 7.00 am. I hope we can repeat it again this year – I hope to welcome you!!!! The provision of Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday proved to be very popular once again possibly helped by the schools being off. Our thanks to Barbara and her willing team of helpers who made it all possible and to you for turning up. It was a great treat. The Christian Aid Art Show was again a great success and I think had a better selection of paintings available this year. I am sure the Netherlee team were delighted with the turn out on the Saturday and with the help 6 they received to set up and dismantle the exhibits. The Beetle Drive for Poppy Scotland proved how competitive some of our members are. The Stir it Up Lunch organised by the Sunday Club saw tremendous support and an exceptional sum raised for Tear Fund. Congratulations to all the Club members for their hard work. On Fabric matters may I congratulate Malcolm MacVey and his team particularly Bruce Young, John Mann and Alan Edgar for the successful completion of the lighting project in the main sanctuary. The new lighting is a great improvement over the old system and with the lanterns refurbished they look even better than new. Using lower wattage LED bulbs should significantly reduce their running costs. The replacement of the “Bells” system with new wiring, new speakers and the re-siting of the control panel with a new CD player to be controlled from the AV desk has gone smoothly and is working well.
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