Lossiemouth Church of Scotland

Welcome to our Harvest Thanksgiving service this morning.

And a warm welcome to any visitors with us today.

Harvest Thanksgiving Appeal

Over the next two weeks we are collecting for the Christian Aid Libya Flood Appeal. Pick up your brown envelopes at the front door and return them over the next 2 weeks if you would like to donate towards this appeal.

As an example – £25 could provide one emergency kit with vital supplies for families who have lost everything in the floods.

Congregational Board

This Thursday 5th October at 7.30pm will be our next Congregational Board meeting in the hall.

Kirk Session

And the next Kirk Session meeting will be the following Thursday 12th October at 7.30pm.

Indoor Bowling Group

The Indoor Bowling club started last week and will meet on a Friday afternoon from 2pm – 4pm in St James’ hall. They have 2 bowling carpets, fun and laughter, followed by a cup of tea and cake.

Indoor Bowling Group

The Guild will meet every second Monday at 2pm so tomorrow there will be no meeting, next week Lynne Hawcroft will talk about working with people with impaired hearing.

With a week to go, there are still a few places available. Please get in touch as soon as possible to secure your place.

Chris and Carol, from Out of the Box Scotland, will be back at St. James’ Church from 24 – 28 July 2023, as the “Full Armour” Holiday Club hits Lossiemouth. (CLANG!!!)

Here’s Chris with a bit of an intro as to what to expect.

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This year’s Club held at St. James’ Church of Scotland, Lossiemouth, will be Full Armour – 24 to 28 July 2023 – again led by Out of the Box (Scotland).

Last year’s Showstoppers Holiday Club was based on material published by Scripture Union but this time we’re going to use a theme devised by Out of the Box (“OOTB”), themselves (as for Navigate – in 2019).

Full Armour is holiday club material OOTB wrote based around their Full Armour short film.

It focuses on the Armour of God, with each day looking at a different piece of armour. Each day kids will also make armour, building it up until the end of the week when they get to take them all home.

OOTB have done this holiday club, and used the Full Armour video with a number of churches already.

They will be running this holiday club with four different churches this summer.

Apart from the craft element, the focus is really not on the weaponry but what it symbolises.

We will focus on Truth, Faith, Salvation, the Spirit and Peace.

Each day the craft will be elements of the armour. The children will leave their craftwork at the church each day as they build up their armour. After each craft, the plan is to take a photo of them as a group, then they take it all off straight away.

If you’re concerned this might be more of a “boys'” holiday club than a “girls'” holiday club, Chris Watt of OOTB’s comments are reassuring:

“My experience is the girls got into the designing of the armour as much as the boys, if not more, actually – as they create cool and creative designs etc..”

Chris Watt of Out of the Box

This seems to be borne out by the photos of previous Holiday Clubs on this theme which OOTB have kindly provided to us (see below).

These crafty activities will be in addition to the usual shenanigans involving action songs, puppets, Bible stories, games, challenges – and juice / snacks.

The club will be open to Primary school children.

At the lower age level, this means children who, by July 2023, have completed Primary 1 (it does not include children who will be starting P1 in August 2023).

The club will be open to any child (within the age range mentioned above) and free to attend.

It will run from 10:00am to 12:00 noon, Monday to Friday.

However, places may have to be limited. The room we use for the Club has a capacity of 60, including all the adult helpers. (From our previous experience with Holiday Clubs, we do not expect to be oversubscribed but you never know).

How do you register your child’s interest in attending?

If you would like to download a registration form for completion and return, here is a linked image of the form, below – i.e. click on it and it will (immediately) download the necessary Form in Word format (with the same appearance as the image below but better).

If you have any questions at all, please contact us via the website.

The Lossie Junior Singers meet in St. James; Church Hall, Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth, from 4.15pm to 5.00pm every Thursday.

All are welcome from P3 to P7.

The choir sings music in a variety of different styles.

To register for the choir, please contact Kath on 07813 144971. There is a form which must be completed by a parent/guardian.

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There will be a Songs of Praise afternoon on Sunday 19 February 2023 in the Church at 2.30pm.

We hope you can come along as you’ll be made very welcome.

This is another in our series of monthly musical events.

Monthly music at St. James’ Church started with a Songs of Praise in October 2022.

Both old and new hymns were sung by all. Some solo items were included and also prayers, readings and meditative music. This was a very special time of worship, enjoyed by all.

The Dotty Crotchets – 06 November 2022

Our next afternoon of music took place on Sunday 06 November 2022 at 2.30pm in the Fellowship Hall. The Dotty Crotchets performed a programme of light entertainment. Refreshments were served in the hall after the concert.

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