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A message from our Interim Moderator Rev Dr Anne Logan:
Last Monday, we took a trip to Oban to join the Paddle Steamer ‘Waverley’ on a trip to the island of Coll. For those of you who don’t know her, ‘Waverley’ is the last sea going paddle steamer in the world.
When I was growing up, our family spent every summer holiday in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae in the Clyde. The paddle steamers were a daily sight and the usual way to travel on the Clyde at the time. Millport was served by the paddle steamers ‘Talisman’ and the ‘Caledonia’ as well as by two small ferries.
As the years rolled by, cars became more important, and car-ferries became the requirement on the Clyde. Gradually the paddle steamers disappeared until now, only ‘Waverley’ remains, owned and operated by a charity. Now in her fiftieth year of operation by the charity, ‘Waverley’ is for my generation a nostalgic trip down memory lane. For younger folks, she is a museum piece and they stand enthralled in the open engine room watching massive pistons thudding round, or peer entranced through the portlights into the paddle boxes to watch the paddles thumping round.
For many people, church has become something of a museum piece too. For older people it may stir feelings of nostalgia as they remember visits to Church when they were younger. For all too many of a younger generation, churches are museums telling them of life in times gone bye.
St Paul wrote ‘So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.’ (2 Corinthians 4; 16 – 18)
It may seem to us, at times, that the Church is ‘wasting away,’ yet we know that, through the Holy Spirit, the life of the Church is constantly being renewed. We know and need to be open in saying and living that truth – that the Church is no museum, but a vibrant and loving community of Christ’s followers.
Blessings! Anne
Worship This Sunday
Sunday 2nd June - Rev Dr Anne Logan - Currie Kirk at 10.30am
Intimations
Audio & Visual (AV for short)
Are you interested in technology? Would you like to advance your skills? Come and join our AV team. Full training given. Contact either Louise Lamont or the Church Office
If you want any information or need to speak to someone please call the Kirk office (451 5141) or contact one of the Session Clerks - Louise Lamont (07910 594188) Isobel Webber (07702784156)
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