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Reflections from the Pew 98
As it's St Fillan's 900th anniversary I'm looking at Rev. Rutherford's children's address, where he talks about the history of the church, this one is for 11th June 1967, and he is talking about the Communion Table.Next Sunday you won't be here as it's Communion...
General Assembly 2023
Life & Work have produced a four page summary of the 2023 General Assembly. The following subjects were covered: • Pain of past year acknowledged, but Church urged to imagine an excitingfuture• ‘No quota’ for church closures• Kirk to ‘initiate a conversation’ with...
Summary of 2022 accounts and charity donations
Below is a summary of the 2022 finance. Not included are the charity donations these are: 2021 Advent Appeal – Christian Aid Borehole Appeal £3352021 Gift Aid reclaimed – Dunfermline Foodbank £67March Retiring Offering – Ukraine DEC £540Lenten Appeal –Afghan Refugee...
Reflections from the Pew 97
As it's St Fillan's 900th anniversary I'm looking at Rev. Rutherford's children's address, where he talks about the history of the church. There was none for this week, instead I'm looking at the 1627 bible which is mentioned in the January 1951 newsletter.Through the...
Electoral Register
The following notice was read out on Sunday 21st May. This is because there will probably be a vote to decide if St Fillan's Church should join the cluster with Dalgety, Inverkeithing, North Queensferry and Rosyth churches. This vote will take place one Sunday morning...
Reflections from the Pew 96
As it's St Fillan's 900th anniversary I'm looking at Rev. Rutherford's children's address, where he talks about the history of the church, this one is for 28th May 1967, and he is talking about a light bracket.Every now and again I discover something in this old...
Church magazines 1997- 2005
These magazines cover the period of Rev Peter Park, and the start the start of Peter Gerbrandy-Baird being minister at St Fillan's. It also covered the millennium celebrations. Looking back you can see some things have changed and some have stayed the same. For...
Reflections from the Pew 95
As it's St Fillan's 900th anniversary I'm looking at Rev. Rutherford's children's address, where he talks about the history of the church, this one is for 21st May 1967, and he is talking about the font (and the Trinity!).Last week we talked about the Crosses on the...
Church magazines 1975-1996
These magazines cover the period of Rev John Scott being minister at St Fillan's. Many magazines from this period are missing, only 11 out of 42 have been found. They appear to be 'home made' with the cover drawn by Captain Thompson and created by an enthusiastic...