Today we were delighted to welcome Bishop Bruce Myers and The Venerable Edward Simonton from the Anglican Diocese of Quebec. +Bruce preached in Tain and Ven Edward in Dornoch. In his address +Bruce told us about the scattered small congregations in his Diocese (nothing familiar there then:-)
He told us that when he first became Bishop, he put up a map of his Diocese and inserted a pin for each congregation. He had without thinking about it used yellow pins and the 68 pins looked like mustard seeds scattered across the map. How fitting was today’s Gospel – “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” (Luke 17:6)