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Another Pen from Ken!

28/11/2016

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Usually the older you get the worse your memory becomes! You can remember very clearly some of the important things that happened way back in the distant past but have forgotten what you had for dinner yesterday!
We have recently experienced a particular time of remembrance revealed on our TVs screens and at our war memorials and in our churches.
It is good for us at times to remember and not take all that we have for granted.
Don't you think it's good to  remember and be thankful for parents who nurtured us ?
A new born baby needs lots of love, care and attention if it is to grow into a healthy adult.
So thank God for parents who did what they could to supply us with all we needed at that vulnerable stage of life and who continued to supply what they believed we needed later on.
Is it not also good to remember people, mostly people we  have never even met or seen, who sacrificed  their lives in two world wars and in conflicts since, so that we are able to enjoy all the freedoms we have today ?
But what about the one who many completely forget about today ?
What about  the one without whom no parent or defender of freedom could even exist ? What about God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, for he is both Creator and Redeemer.
Don't worry if you have forgotten what you had for dinner yesterday! Does that really matter? Of course not ! Just  try to remember the  things that are really important !
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Christmas Concert

24/11/2016

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Christmas Card Delivery

23/11/2016

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The Annual Christmas Card Delivery to the parish will take place this year during week commencing 11th. December. As always volunteers are needed to carry this out in both Dalmilling and Auchincruive, so if you feel you can help, please add your name and phone number or email address to the sheet in each church. The cards can be delivered at a time and day to suit each volunteer.

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Another Pen from Ken

6/11/2016

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Rev-ving home for the Roast Beef!!


What do you mean? How often have we asked that when someone has said something to us that we don't quite understand! Words can be so easily misunderstood. Text messages come to mind ! It is so easy for people to take the wrong meaning from what you say in a text!
That's not how it is with Jesus. I know he didn't have a mobile phone but he was a master story teller. His teaching stories were parables. They were easy to understand.
One such parable is the story of a farmer who sowed seed. Some seed fell on the path and was shrivelled up in the sun. Some fell on a shallow bed of earth which lay on rock. That seed had the same fate! Other seed fell among weeds which grew up and choked the young plant which had started to grow.
But some seed fell on good ground and gave the farmer a rich harvest.
I think Jesus was trying to encourage his followers.
Sometimes we can believe that doing good or being kind is a waste of time as often it seems to be taken for granted.
But the truth is that some of our kindness is appreciated and can bring great happiness to one in need.
So don't give up loving people.
It isn't always useless!
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Dumfries HouseĀ Estate and the 'A' Frame

4/11/2016

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​CHURCH WALKING GROUP
For our final walk of the year, 7 of us including Rev. Rona, drove down to Cumnock and parked at the Visions Leisure Centre.  We walked alongside the Lugar Water into the Dumfries House Estate. We walked through the Estate including the Lord Bute’s walk which includes a large  impressive crucifix erected in memory of the Marchioness of Bute. The path took us round to a magnificent view of the front of the House.  We stopped  in the grounds for our picnic lunch before continuing along paths among beech and birch with lovely views of the countryside and on to paths which were obviously very successfully reclaimed land above a coal mine.
Shortly the Barony A-Frame towered above us. This was the last pit-head winding gear of its kind in the UK and is now a “B listed” monument. It forms a memorial to four men, Henry Green, George Wade, Thomas Fyvie and John MacNeil whose bodies were never recovered following a collapse of the cage in 1962 but their names are engraved on the ground beneath the A Frame and a memorial stone stands inside the entrance.  There are numerous displays around showing the working lives that the miners endured.
We joined the main road to Auchinleck passing by the Egger chipboard plant before re-entering the Estate and passing by the Home Farm where Morrisons ran research on farming efficiency, sustainability , genetics and estimated breeding values. The farm has since been reincorporated back into the day-today management of the Estate.  We retraced the path back out of the Estate meandering back to the cars by the Lugar Water. 
The Autumn colours of the fauna and foliage were magnificent and it proved a most educational, enjoyable and interesting walk.
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