To Coincide with the St Duthac Book and Arts Festival

Songs of Praise

Celebrating the Bible – the number 1 best seller

Sunday 8th September at 3pm

Tain Parish Church

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labour pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit … For in hope we were saved.” Romans 8:22-24

Our Study Group for the Season of Creation (the month of September) this year will be based around a selection of poetry and prose such as St Francis “Canticle of the Sun“, William Cowper’s “The Nightingale and the Glow Worm“, the Anglo-Saxon “Dream of the Rood” and extracts from Annie Proulx’s novel “Barskins“, Alexander Von Humbolt’s “Cosmos“, Helen Macdonald’s “H is for Hawk” and Jurgen Moltmann’s “God in Creation“.

There will be four sessions each lasting a little over an hour, to be held at James and Ann’a house at 11 Ferry Road Golspie on Wednesday afternoons starting at 1:30pm on:

• 4^th Sept – The Goodness of Creation 

• 11^th Sept – The Worship of all Creation

• 18^st Sept – Nature and Humanity 

• 25^th Sept – Renewal of Creation

The sessions will be semi-independent, so you are welcome even if you can’t manage all of them.  If you wish any more information, speak to or contact Canon James. Anyone who would like a copy of the materials ahead of time (probably a good idea for potential attendees but also those who would like to study the material on their own) also speak to Canon James to arrange it. It would be helpful (though not essential) to have some idea of numbers ahead of time. You can download the material from the Study Groups page.

KYIV ACCORDION DUO are back

on Monday 19th August 7.30pm

St Finnbarr’s Church 

Schoolhill, Dornoch

(Scottish Charity No 009639)

Donations at the venue on the day in aid of
the victims of the war in Ukraine

About the Kyiv Classical Accordion Duo:

In 2006 Igor and Oleksiy finished studying in the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev. However they began to perform professionally from 2002. Oleksiy 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 does not 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 big church organ, a string quartet and even an orchestra. Here is a sample of the Duo in action playing: Dance of the Furies by Gluck.

About their charity – HIPPOKRAT:

One of the main purposes of the Kyiv Classic Accordion Duo’s 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.

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”.

They have been back on tour now every year since 2009 (except the COVID years) and now of course there is the war in Ukraine and the victims of that tragedy, the beneficiaries of this year’s tour:

Lord of all the earth,

be present with the people of Ukraine
at this time of danger, fear, and conflict.
Grant that wise and peaceable counsels may yet prevail,
and give to all suffering nations
the freedom they desire and deserve.
We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Calling all Singers!

_{GOLSPIE GALA WEEK – SONGS OF PRAISE}

Sunday 28th July – 7pm
in the Gala Week Marquee

James and Simon are involved in leading Songs of Praise tomorrow evening. It would be great if you could come and support Golspie Gala week by raising your beautiful voices in song! We are singing good old favourites like ‘How Great Thou Art’ and ‘Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer’ – all the tunes will be familiar to you! How fantastic it would be to let Golspie hear that the message of the gospel is very much alive in our area!

You are invited to a

Daffodil Day

at

The Duthac Centre, Tain

on Saturday 13th April 2pm-4pm

Beautiful Daffodils,
Refreshments with Home Baking,
Homemade cakes to buy,
Guess the Sweeties in the Tin,
Craft Stalls,
Daffodils for Sale,
Raffle,
Lucky Squares,
Preserves Stall,
Plant Stall,
Book Stall.

Fun for all the family

Donations Welcome

Organised by the Tain and Dornoch Firth Fundraising Group
in aid of Marie Curie which provides care and support through terminal illness.

For more information contact Pat on 01862 894020