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Come and enjoy a day’s retreat exploring how to pray with God through Creative Expression – led by:
Curiosity is all that’s needed. No prior artistic skills are required; just enthusiasm and a willingness to explore more of who you are in God.
10.30am – 3.30pm
£20 (Lunch Included)
Our friends from the Ukraine, the Kyiv Classic Accordion Duo are making their annual visit (their twelfth) to play in St Finnbarr’s on 25th July 2019. The concert starts at 7:30pm and they will be playing music by: Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Greig, Saint-Saëns, Borodin, Piazzolla and Anderson. If you’ve not heard them before, here’s a sample: Dance of the Furies by Gluck.
Be sure to put the date in your diaries so that you don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear these two professional musicians conjure up a whole orchestra with just two accordions!! As entry is free but there is a retiring collection and there will be CDs available to purchase. All proceeds, as always will go to the charity Hippokrat, which supports survivors of the Chenobyl Nuclear Disaster.
About the Kyiv Classical Accordion Duo:
In 2006 Igor and Oleksii finished studying in the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev. However they had begun performing professionally in 2002. Oleksii now plays in the Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine; Igor works in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. They decided to give the name Kyiv Duo Classic to the duo, however this doesn’t mean that Igor and Oleksiy perform only classical music; programmes of their concerts include music of Bach, Grieg, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov as well as traditional Ukrainian and Russian music. Two contemporary button accordions make it possible to produce a sound like a small squeezebox and at the same time, like a big church organ, a string quartet and even an orchestra.
About their charity – HIPPOKRAT:
One of the main purposes of the Kyiv Classic Accordion Duo 2009 UK tour was to raise money for the HIPPOKRAT Society of Mothers of Disabled Children who suffered as a result of the explosion in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Energy Plant. This has remained the focus of fund-raising on each subsequent tour, as the need continues. The Chernigiv region suffered most from the radiation fall out and since 1986 a large number of children have been born with mental and physical problems. Many of these children are now young adults and in need of support that the state is unable to provide.
As Oleksiy explains:
“There are at least 1000 invalid children in Chernigiv which has a total population of around 320,000 and unfortunately, these children get no real support from the state. The mother of a disabled child usually needs to be with the child all the time, so she cannot earn money. That is why the Society of Mothers of Disabled Children, HIPPOKRAT, was founded more than 15 years ago”.
“The task of HIPPOKRAT is to provide families with invalid children with food, medicine and money. HIPPOKRAT also organises different events and parties with presents for children. It is not a commercial organisation. It is run by 10 women led by Valentina Frol. They do not receive any money for their job and all of them have disabled children”.
It will soon be Summer Holiday Club time again in Lairg.
If you are aged 4-11 or know anyone who is
You can book by emailing Emma at: 
You can also find us on Facebook at: LCTKIDSCLUBS
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A guided day retreat including music and prayers inspired by the work of the Taizé Community – led by:
10.30am – 3.30pm
£20 (Lunch Included)
Women’s conference – a day of worship, prayer, testimony & fellowship focusing on
our Identity with Christ.
Meet Mark Calder (seen here with James outside Lairg Church at 7:30am today, Good Friday).
For most people just finishing a single marathon would be a challenge. But marathons aren’t enough for Mark, who lives in Aberdeenshire with his wife and two young daughters. No Mark runs ultra-marathons (which is like several run one after another). But ultra-marathons aren’t enough either for this intrepid hero, he’s running 14 in one year … That’s superhuman!!
Mark is a Regional Manager for charity called Embrace the Middle East. Embrace the Middle East is a Christian charity with over 160 years’ experience helping people of all faiths and none to free themselves from a life of poverty and injustice. Together with local Christian communities they’re bringing lasting change to the Middle East through healthcare, education and community development projects.
Under the name Running Home, Mark is running pilgrimage routes across Scotland and the North of England to raise money and awareness about the challenge that Iraq’s Christians face as they try to rebuild their country after war.
As Embrace starts supporting Christian-led projects in Iraq for the very first time Mark hopes as many people as possible will get behind him in this epic challenge.
From Maundy Thursday until Holy Saturday (18-20 April) Mark is running from Bettyhill to Poolewe along St Maelrubha’s Pilgrimage route, calling at the Crask Inn and the Christian Communities dedicated to St Maelrubha in Lairg and Poolewe along the way.
… that’s just 113.5 miles, which isn’t far is it:-) Sadly James had another engagement and wasn’t able to join Mark on his Good Friday run from Lairg to Dundonnell, but was in Lairg at 7:30am to pray with him and see him on his way.
If you wish to help Mark’s fundraising efforts, you can do so via this page.
If you want to hear more, Mark will be speaking during the Service at Dornoch Cathedral on Easter Day at 6:30pm.
“Although he found faith at a young age, life wasn’t easy for young Bart. After failing at a college football career in an attempt to please his abusive father (Dennis Quaid), Bart leans into his active imagination and his love of music. Eventually Bart writes one of the most inspiring and beautiful songs, ‘I Can only imagine’. This is a moving true story of how abuse and broken-ness, are transformed into something powerful and restorative.”
Following the film, there will be refreshments.
Further info. 01862 892296.
Scottish Episcopal Church - Dornoch, Lairg, Brora, Tain & Tongue 