St Andrew’s Tain was very busy on 5th January for a joint service for the Feast of the Epiphany, with folk from St Finnbarr’s Dornoch and St Columba’s Brora joining those from St Andrew’s.

In the sanctuary Canon James and Janet were joined by Fr Simon and Jamie, all getting on with their allotted tasks.

The singing was superb with some very talented singers leading the large congregation in a joyful celebration of the coming of the magi, the revelation to the gentiles and the presentation of gifts. In the sermon the three youngest members of the congregation brought up the gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh accompanied by the appropriate verse of ‘We Three Kings‘.

It was also Canon James’s last service as Priest-in-Charge of St Andrew’s and the Mission Congregations and representative of St Andrew’s and St Finnbarr’s brought up gifts for James and Anna after which the congregations prayed for them in their retirement.

That was all followed by splendid refreshments and noisy fellowship in the hall – a fitting celebration of one of the key feasts in the Christian calendar.