The Diocese have approved our submission for a £25k grant from the Provincial M&D Fund towards the cost of the new hall. Whether we get it or not is up for grabs. There is only a medium sized cake, and depending on how many applications are submitted, one can end up with what has been asked for, or perhaps a smaller slice of the cake.
Either way, it would give us leverage to go on to apply for funding from other bodies! Hip Hip!
In Matthew’s Gospel we can have problems with who begat who! Step forward this link, then click on Matthew Begats. We’ll sing it on Christmas Eve methinks!
There’s one in every congregation!
My colleague RevRuth has taken the plunge and will include a Caganer in her Nativity Set this Christmas. She doesn’t mention whether any of her faithful yet know this and we await a paragraph in some future Bishop’s Letter about Achieving Consensus in the Local Congregation.
The Caganer is of course a little pooping fellow who you place in the straw somewhere to the left of the Pious Donkey or the Praying Sheep in your Nativity Scene. It’s a Catalan tradition unknown in Scotland until Christmas 2008 “….when it’s inclusion in a local Nativity Scene provoked the first recurrence of ecclesiastical chair-throwing in Portobello since the Reformation.”
Rylee, Jack Parke was baptised on Sunday. Here is a pic with mum, Leeanne.
December 24, 2008 11:00 pm to December 25, 2008 10:00 am
Sung Eucharist of the Nativity: Christmas Eve at 11pm
Said Eucharist with Carols: Christmas Day 10am.
We’ve been holding back this photo for maximum effect! Seen at a recent party, warming up for the Christmas Season!
Presided over by Barbara as ever, the Draw raised well over £600 for Parish Funds!
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Photos of Colleen’s Party, yesterday’s baptism and The Prize Draw 2008 are now in the Photos Section of Multimedia.
