Minister’s Message for Sunday 3 November 2024
Dear Friends,
As a congregation this week we both rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who mourn. Two families in our fellowship are celebrating the gift of new life in these days and we celebrate with them and seek God's blessing on the two baby girls who have been born since I last wrote. Equally another local family are preparing to entrust their unborn daughter to God's eternal care and we ask God to enfold them in His love and comfort, as we pray also for Anne and her brother as they mourn the death of their dear father, Dave Morgan at the other end of the age spectrum. His funeral will be held in the Church on Thursday 14th November at 10am.
Joy and sorrow are part of life for each one of us, but don't let's ever underestimate the blessing we have in being able to share our joys and our sorrows with one another in the fellowship of the Church in the knowledge that God our heavenly Father is beside us and among us, behind us and before us, above us and beneath us whatever we may be going through. How truly wonderful to know that the eternal God loves each one as a unique and precious individual.
Let's commit ourselves afresh to prayer for one another that in those times when we are strong we may help to bear the burdens of those who feel their weakness and that when we are conscious of our weakness (and even sometimes overwhelmed by it) we may know that others are upholding us.
On a Sunday evening on Zoom we meet to pray together and as well as stretching our minds around the world and praying about the big things that are beyond us we also name individuals and their concerns before the throne of grace, seeking God's blessing and God's leading. It's a special thing to do and I invite others to join us more regularly.
Please pray too for the meeting that the elders will be having this Sunday afternoon with representatives of the Presbytery of Perth to vote on the Bases of Readjustment in relation to the future shape of the Church in Kinross-shire, and for the congregational meeting that will take place on the 17th.
With all prayerful good wishes,
Alan,
Rev. Alan D. Reid