Events

Running Home

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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.

Tain CoS Film Club – 12th April

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Film Club Evening:

Friday 12th April 7:30pm

Entrance free.

Tain Church of Scotland Hall

“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.

Lent Study Groups 2019

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This Lent the Study Groups will focus on the Sacraments: what are they, what do they do, why are they so important in our tradition and even how many are there?  The five sessions will provide the opportunity to explore these questions, and is always the case other questions that arise out of the discussion in a friendly, supportive environment.

This year there will be two groups, both will be held on Wednesdays on 13th, 20th & 27th March and 3rd & 10th April:

  • 2:00pm at James and Anna’s house in Spinningdale
    (if you want to come and don’t know where that is, just ask)
  • 7:00pm in St Andrew’s Hall

Come to whichever is most convenient and if that varies from week to week, you can mix and match.  If you can’t manage to all five sessions, just come to those you can – they will each be largely self-contained.

Sessions will be a little over an hour long and will be followed by refreshments and fellowship.  All are welcome, you don’t need to be a fully paid-up member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, or indeed any church.

Climate Crisis Talk – 13th March – 7:30pm – Dingwall

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The Climate Crisis

Must we Can we Will we Change

a talk by Dr Jean Davis

7.30pm Wednesday 13th March

St James Church, Castle St, Dingwall

All welcome

Free but donations to church funds appreciated.

Celebration and Thanksgiving

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The Tain Youth Cafe YMCA has been celebrating its 25th Anniversary year.

The final event in the year of celebration will be:

A Thanksgiving service

at the Tain Parish Church

on Saturday 2nd March 2019

starting at 2 pm

There will be refreshments and fellowship afterwards in the small hall.

The Lord Lieutenant Mrs Janet Bowen will be in attendance and the address will be given by Rev Roddy Macrae the Church of Scotland Minister from Brora who was the first part time youth worker for the Tain Youth Cafe YMCA.

Official invitations are to be posted to any volunteers who were with the Tain Youth Cafe YMCA at the start and they would be grateful if you could e-mail or drop in any names and addresses to Graham Nutt as he is keen to not miss anyone out.

It would also help us out if people could The Youth Cafe know that they plan to attend, for catering purposes.

Graham’s contact details are:

Graham Nutt
Senior Youth and Community Worker

Tain & District Youth Cafe YMCA
17, Stafford Street
Tain, Ross-shire
IV19 1AZ

01862 – 894252
graham@tainyouthcafe.co.uk

The Life of the Beloved: an Advent Study

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Henri Nouwen was a gifted spiritual teacher who was born in the Netherlands in 1932 and early on became a priest. Throughout his life he studied philosophy, theology and psychology and spent much time traveling, living in community and speaking publicly. He writes lovely prose and his work is full of his own personal and intimate experiences of God’s love.

Henri devoted much of his later ministry to emphasizing the idea that our identity is as the Beloved Children of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the central moment in Jesus’s public ministry was his baptism in the River Jordan, when as he came out of the water he heard the voice of God saying, “You are my beloved son on whom my favour rests.” Nouwen writes: “That is the core experience of Jesus. . . . He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is. . . . I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the midst of everything.”

In 1992 Nouwen travelled to Garden Grove, California where he delivered three sermons extolling the fact that we are all beloved daughters and sons of God. The sermons were delivered and televised at the famous Crystal Cathedral.

This Advent study is based on this series of sermons which are entitled:

  • Being the Beloved

  • Becoming the Beloved

  • Disciples of the Beloved

The sessions will start at 2pm on Wednesdays: 5th, 12th and 19th December, at James and Anna’s house in Spinningdale.

Sessions will last a little over an hour and there will be refreshments afterwards for those who can stay. Everyone is most welcome to join us.

The Joy of Christmas

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Tuesday 18th December 2018 at 7pm

St Finnbarr’s Episcopal Church, Dornoch

An evening of Carols and Poetry for Christmas

Refreshments will be served

A collection will be taken in aid of the homelessness charity Emmaus.

Diocesan News – December 2018

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Bishop Mark writes…

DECEMBER 2018

My Dear Friends,

I am delighted that for the first time in a while we have a Diocesan What’s on Leaflet. lt is always so easy for the Charges and Congregations of the Diocese to lose track of what is going on and to miss opportunities to support each other by sharing and visiting each other’s events.

I am always surprised by just how busy you all are and it is good to be able to hold each event in my prayers, no matter how far from home I might be.

May I thank you all for the hard work and dedication you reveal in your service of God, it makes me proud to be Bishop of this Diocese. May I wish you all a joyous Christmas when it arrives. I hope to catch up with many of you in the year ahead.

Blessings

+Mark

Advent with the our friends across Easter Ross

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Together with our friends in the

Easter Ross Inter-Church Group (ERICG)

we will be celebrating the start of Advent with

a Service of Word and Song

at 3pm on Sunday 2nd December 

in St Andrews Episcopal Church

There will be refreshments and fellowship afterwards

All are very welcome to join us