CHURCH NEWS

The Manse
Kirkland
Kemnay
June / July 2010

Pastoral Letter

Dear friends,
                                                     TEAMWORK
‘You work so well together as a team’. This was the comment of someone who looked on at what was happening over the Pentecost in the Park weekend. They saw so many people involved and each one working with others to bring about what was an amazing weekend of activities and events and worship that provided many blessings.

Many others have commented on how well things went and how much people felt welcomed and part of something really wonderful. This is all down to so many people readily giving of their time and effort to serve the Lord and for us as congregation being open to the Holy Spirit working among us and through us and binding us together.

Teamwork is so important for the well-being and up-building of the Church here at Kemnay. It is so much in evidence in the things we do. Only a week before Pentecost in the Park, we had the Nearly New Sale for Christian Aid and here again there was an effective and hard working ‘team’ working to bring about a magnificent sum of money for the poor in the world.

Jesus gathered around himself a ‘team’ who would take the world by storm and eventually turn it upside down. We have a number of ‘teams’ here at Kemnay, all different but all important. They are our working Groups and cover areas such as Care , Education, Outreach, Children and Youth, Social, Green issues, Worship, World Church, Finance and Stewardship, Property, Publications and our Church Centre group. Each one of them has Elders appointed, but we also encourage members to be part of their work.  We have just welcomed and added some six new members to our Kirk Session team and we look forward very much to their contribution to the leadership of the Church.

Paul spoke in his letters of the Church being the Body of Christ and how important it is for each member of the Body to recognize, appreciate and work with the other parts of the Body and all of them under the headship of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit gives each one of us gifts to be used in the Body. When the people of God make use of their gifts and when they put them to the service of Jesus and are open to being empowered by the Holy Spirit we see as we saw in Pentecost in the Park great things being done for the glory of God.

‘Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen’  (Ephesians 3/20)

Your Minister,  

John Renton

 

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