Tain Parish Church is delighted to be re-starting their Winter Film Club evenings.

This Armistice they will be screening

‘BONHOEFFER Agent of Grace’,

which dramatises aspects of the life of Dietrich Bonhoffer, the German Theologian who was executed by the Nazis.

The details are:

Friday 7:30 pm,

Tain Parish Church Hall.

Cert PG. 

Refreshments will be served.

Murdo Macleod – a Christian filmmaker originally from the Isle of Skye. has just completed a film called “Morningstar” exploring the life and legacy of Christian reformer John Wycliffe. You can see the trailer and further information on their website – www.morningstarfilm.co.uk

Starting a week on Monday (31st October), the film is going on a UK Premiere tour, showing in towns and cities across the country. The first of these showings will be in Dingwall on Monday 31st October. You are invited to join them for this screening.

Details of this and all other screenings can be found on their website – www.morningstarfilm.co.uk/screening-tour – but in essence the film begins at 7.30 and will be in The Hub (Dingwall Evangelical Church) on Hill Street.

The venue is not the largest, so they are recommending people who are interested to get tickets through Eventbrite (the link is on their website). The tickets are free, but it will mean you have a seat on the night.

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)