Praying for Derryvolgie

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”

This quote is attributed to Martin Luther and strikes at the heart of what it means to be a busy church. Not so actively busy with activities and programmes that we neglect the very reason we exist – a relationship with our Creator. Prayer is a simple two-way conversation between you and God. It can be helpful when others ask us to pray for something specific. It focuses the mind and the conversation with God. We want to help you pray more specifically for our community, parish, and ourselves enabling us to build a strong wall and fortress ensuring our light shines brightly in the darkness. If you would like to receive regular updates with pointers for prayer, then please sign up to our prayer group.

You can sign up here: https://forms.gle/qSuZuQWr3DjFRCzg6

Life groups

We’d love you to join us for LIFE GROUPS in a 5 week series connecting our Sunday service to our Monday-Saturday lives.

Each week we will be looking at how our Sunday gathering can help our us live our Monday-Saturdays differently as we worship the creator and sustainer of the universe in all that we do.

It isn’t another thing to add to your to-do list. It is a passionate call to allow God to expand our view of worship.

We’ll be running different groups one within the church building meeting weekly in a socially distant manner and others online.

If you’re interested and would like to join please follow the link

https://forms.gle/aLst5wrrqT1c4Y6g8

Appointments from the Annual Vestry Meeting

At our recent Annual Vestry Meeting which was held on Sunday 4th October the following where appointed to the various position within the parish of Derryvolgie.

Wardens

Rector’s Church Warden: Jonathon McMurray
Rector’s Glebe Warden: Lynn Perry
People’s Church Warden: Andrew Sproule
People’s Glebe Warden: Stewart Gavin

Select Vestry

Rhona Gavin (Secretary)
Colin McDonald (Treasurer)
Maureen Atcheson
Mark Hassard
Rodney Ingram
Noreen Kavanagh
Mark McDowell
Frank Bailie
David Pedlow
Derek Shuter
Laura Coburn
Jim Hamilton

Diocesan Synod Persons

Stewart Gavin
Derek Shuter
Jonathon McMurray

Parochial Nominators

Stewart Gavin
Noreen Kavanagh
David Pedlow
Andrew Sproule

The big clean this Saturday @ 10am

A big thank you to everyone who has signed up to help out this Saturday with cleaning the church, and if you haven’t there’s still plenty of time to sign up here:
https://forms.gle/kzLNqLFPQHozwm7Q8

We are planning on starting the cleaning around 10am, if you can, please bring your own brush and shovel along with you.

Derryvolgie Big Clean and Sunday cleaning rota

With the church buildings reopening we need to do a full clean of the building on Saturday 29th August and there will also be additional cleaning needed every Sunday, both before and after services.
We are looking for volunteers to sign up put their names on a rota, just like the tea rota.

The Sunday cleaning would be wiping down all touch surfaces which we anticipate should take around 10 mins or so.
Your help is greatly appreciated!

You can sign up here: https://forms.gle/3AS3LFu1y82mKK5u6