Dear Friends in the Northwest
This Sunday is the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. This weekend, there will be a service in Kinlochbervie on Saturday which we will keep as Harvest Festival, and services in Ullapool and Lochinver on Sunday. Next Sunday, there will be a service in Ullapool which we will keep as the Feast of All Saints.
Also next Sunday, 2nd November, St Mary’s is planning an event to ‘Come and Sing Your Favourite Hymns’ from 2-3pm – an opportunity to invite your friends along. A list is available in church to request your personal favourite, or you can email it to me. For those coming to the service in the morning, you are welcome to stay on at the church where soup and rolls will be available at lunchtime.
The Feast of All Souls, the day on which the church remembers the vast company of the faithful departed, and especially family and friends, will be kept on Monday 3rd November. There will be a service at 11.00a.m. in St Mary’s Ullapool. If you would like a relative or friend remembered at this service, there is a sheet at the back of the church which I am also bringing round to the other congregations, or you can also email names to me. You do not have to be attending the service to have a loved one included.
Bryn Higgs from Achiltibuie/Ullapool is organising a Quaker-inspired ‘Meeting for Stillness’ which is going to be held in St Mary’s Ullapool. The first meeting is on Wednesday 29th October, from 8.30am-9.00am.All are welcome to come and sit in silence with us for half an hour. Quakers are prompted, ’Take heed, dear Friends, to the prompting of love and truth in your hearts’. It is a time to sit with one another in that spirit. If people wish to, the intention is to start meeting regularly on the second and fourth weeks of each month after that. Everyone is welcome, including the cautiously curious or the occasional passer-by. It is not an official ‘Quaker Meeting’. If you are interested, please just come along, or contact Bryn or send a message through the contact option on this website.
We have received a letter of thanks from the Highland Foodbank for the harvest donations from Achiltibuie, Lochinver and Ullapool. Apparently, between us, we donated 84 kg of goods! Thank you everyone for your generosity.
With love and prayers
Rev’d Clare
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