Criech Parish Church Bonar Bridge

🎵 Come and Sing 🎵

Always wanted to sing?

Already sing?

Come and join the Sunday Singers

from 4-5pm 

in Creich Church 

from Oct 9th until Dec 18th 

and sing towards Christmas.

Everyone welcome

🎼. 🎹. 🎼. 🎼

The Black Mambas are the first all-female anti-poaching organisation in the world and comprised solely of women. They are a nonprofit anti-poaching unit in South Africa, who won the Eco-Warrior Silver Award for their work combating poaching. Not only is this organization making impressive strides to reduce poaching, it is also helping to address South Africa’s unequal social climate.

The Black Mambas are a project that has not only given women a source of employment, but also a voice in their communities. They present a unique employment opportunity for South African women, many of whom are the sole earner in their families, to afford housing and schooling for their children. The women also teach the importance of their anti-poaching efforts in schools through the Bush Babies Environmental Education Program and through that have become role models for young South African girls.

You have a chance to hear about their work and meet some of them in person on:

Monday 10th October 2022

At 7pm in Dornoch Social Club

When a group from the Black Mambas will be giving a presentation, showing a video and taking questions from the audience. This event is child-friendly, so all ages are welcome.

This formal part will last roughly an hour and afterwards there will be a Coffee and Shortbread and a chance to have an informal “chat” with the girls. 

There will also be a small raffle and a “silver collection” to raise funds for their work. 

There will be additional parking available in the grounds of St Finnbarr’s if the Social Club car park is full. 

All are welcome to come along and meet some of these ground-breaking women in person.

You can register for this event at: https://www.empowering-success.co.uk/meet-the-mambas

The Episcopal Churches in Tain, Dornoch and Brora will be open today between 10am and 5pm for anyone who wishes to have a quiet place to pray and reflect on the life and death of Queen Elizabeth II or just a quiet place to be.

At Noon, the bells in St Finnbarr’s Dornoch and St Andrew’s Tain will be tolled 96 times to mark this sad day in the life of our nation as we remember a remarkable woman who dedicated herself to a life of service for over 60 years as Queen and was carrying out her duty until two days before her death.

Eternal Lord God, you hold all souls in life:
Shed forth upon your faithful servant, Queen Elizabeth,
the bright beams of your light and heavenly comfort;
And grant that she, and we with her,
may at length enter into the joys of your eternal kingdom;
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.
Amen.

Our Study Groups for the Wednesdays and Thursdays of the Season of Creation (the month of September) this year will be based on material produced in South Africa by members of Green Anglicans

There will be five pairs of sessions, one after each of the midweek services in:

• St Finnbarr’s Dornoch (Wednesdays starting at about 11am) and

• St Andrew’s Tain Hall (Thursdays starting at 7pm)

on:

• 31st Aug/1st Sept – The Earth is the Lord’s

• 7th/8th Sept – Water: the Source of Life

• 14th/15th Sept – Climate Change

• 21st/22nd Sept – Need not Greed

• 28th/29th Sept – Stewardship: Caring for God’s Creation

The sessions will be largely independent of each other, so you are welcome even if you can’t manage all of them. Also the sessions will be similar in each of the venues, so you can mix and match to suit your diary.

If you wish any more information, speak to or contact Canon James.

Because
the Divine could not
express itself in any single being,
the Divine created the great multiplicity
of beings so that the perfection lacking to one
would be supplied by the others. Thus the whole
universe together participates in and manifests
the divine more than any single being
whatever.
St Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274)

Creich Church in Bonar Bridge is holding its annual Flower Festival this coming week.

The Church will be open on the following days and times:

• Friday 12th Aug 10am – 4pm ( pancakes and tea) 

• Saturday 13th Aug  10am – 4pm

• Sunday 14th Aug 10 – 11am and 2 – 4pm

On. Sunday 14th there will also be a celebratory Songs of Praise at 6pm.

All are very welcome.

It is now over a century since the Great War, came to an end in 1918. In the period shortly after the war, war memorials were established in most communities to commemorate those who had lost their lives in the war. After the Second World War, additional names were added to those memorials and some have had names added in relation to subsequent conflicts.

Most of the memorials were built and dedicated in the period 1921-1922 although one or two were a little later, so several of the war memorials in the Creich & Kincardine area are marking their centenaries shortly.  

The centenary commemorations are:

• Kincardine (Ardgay) – Monday 15th August, 2.45 for 3pm

• Rogart – Saturday 24th September, 10.30am

• Lairg – Friday 30th September, 10.45 for 11am 

All local residents are welcome, and the organisers would particularly like to hear from anybody with family connections to those named on the memorials, or to people who died in the many subsequent conflicts. If you have any information speak to James who can put you in touch with the appropriate organisers.