St James' Church of Scotland, Lossiemouth
For Christ, For You
The Lossiemouth Northern Lights Community Film Project is now at an exciting stage and is on course for being shown to the public at 7pm on 31 October 2015 at St James’ and at a matinee on 07 November at St Gerardine’s.
We have had wonderful support and interest from the people of Lossiemouth. The team have had great fun and we have made many new friends. [Read more…]
Here’s an update from Yvonne Findlay regarding the Lossiemouth Community Film Project:
The film project is well underway.
We have had wonderful support and interest from the people of Lossiemouth.
Our young film crew have now trained in film-making techniques and have been filming on location in the town. They have also carried out some of the first interviews of Lossiemouth local people. We can now reveal that the title of the film is “Lossiemouth Northern Lights”. [Read more…]
Yvonne Findlay of Creative Visions Moray and Tim Flood of EMP Video are spearheading an exciting project for Lossiemouth in the Summer of 2015, as Yvonne explains via the video below:
This summer, we are celebrating the lives and times of the people of Lossiemouth, past and present.
We are running a filmmaking project with a story exhibition of your stories and photos, which we’ll show at the end of October.
We’ve a great young team working with us as they themselves learn filmmaking and animation techniques – and they are going to be interviewing some people around the town with lots of fascinating stories to tell. [Read more…]
This is Rev. Graham Crawford’s sermon for Sunday, 21 June 2015:
If you want a frozen pizza to have in your freezer for emergencies, in the USA, one of the options is Tombstone Pizza.
Originally it was the product of a small bar or pub in Wisconsin, but it grew and grew until it attracted the attention of one of the big multinationals and it is now part of the Nestle empire. Part of its success has to be its marketing. After all, who would forget the phrase, “What do you want on your tombstone?” The inference being, of course, that you can choose all sorts of toppings.
However, it is also something which we all think about from time to time. Some people get very creative with their tombstones or gravestones, as we more usually call them here. I have a book in my library, “A small book of grave humour,” which contains many fabulous epitaphs, although one of my favourites came after the book was published, which is on Spike Milligan’s Gravestone. “I told you I was ill!”
However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese. I plan to be cremated, so I will not have a gravestone or even a tombstone, but if I did I know what I would want on it: [Read more…]
This is Rev. Graham Crawford’s Sermon for 14 June 2015:
Have you ever wondered why you are still here?
After all, Jesus said that our lives would be full of trials and temptations; that people would curse us for our faith and persecute us for believing in his name.
So why are we still here?
Would it not make sense, once we have committed our lives to Christ, for God to just lift us to heaven so that we could enjoy him forever and be away from all that would do us harm?
There are some who say that we remain in order to be witnesses: in order to draw others to Christ. But, I would imagine that, if I was to ask for a show of hands here this morning of the people who have actually led someone to Christ, very few hands would be raised. None of us, sincere and faithful Christians though we might be, are Billy Grahams or Luis Palaus! We might know a few people who we have influenced along the way but certainly there has been no revival here in the last 12 years.
So why are we here? Is it simply because God wants us to make this world a better place by our presence? [Read more…]
