Newsletter
The Autumn 2009 Newsletter is now being circulated along with our Annual Appeal. The articles are copied below but if you would like a hard copy please contact any of the office bearers or pick up a copy at the Church, or emal us at info@canisbaychurch.org.
Newsletter and Autumn Appeal 2009
Letter from Locum Minister Lyall Rennie
Dear Friends,
My wife Isabel and I are delighted to have at last sold our house in Aberdeenshire and moved here to Caithness. The welcome and hospitality we have received from everyone we meet is very much appreciated and has been a great uplift during the stressful time of moving house. Although we are still emptying boxes and getting the manse in order we are gradually getting there.
I want to thank everyone who prayed for the sale of our house in Aberdeenshire to enable us to move here to Caithness. It has been a long wait but I am sure our life here in Caithness will be well worth the wait.
The first few months will be a time of getting to know faces and names, so if I don’t recognise you in the street or forget your name, please forgive me.
I hope that in the coming months and years we can develop a vision for our church here in Canisbay. A vision of a church with Christ at the centre. A vision of a church meeting the needs of the community it serves and that working together we can make that vision a reality.
If you have any thoughts as to what the church could do for the community that it is not currently doing, then please get in touch with me.
If I have not already met you, I look forward to meeting you.
Meanwhile I wish you God’s blessing and best wishes.
Lyall Rennie
Sunday Club News
For our SC trip we had an excellent time in the forest. We split into different groups and built dens. Then we went back to the church hall to have our picnic because it poured with rain. After lunch we played brilliant parachute games.
We enjoyed our barbecue with the church and had a quiz. This week we are going to sing a song to the visiting churches at our joint service. We are trying to raise enough money to sponsor a child in Africa.
Liam and Katie Dunnet
Prayer Breakfast
The first Saturday of every month
From 9 – 10am
Come and join us in prayer for the community
and for the nation.
Finance
We have managed to meet all our
requirements but as there are so
few in our congregation some Sundays, it is increasingly difficult to collect enough to maintain the Church and to have money for outreach to people in need, which is our Christian duty.
Your help would be appreciated.
Thursday Lunches
A soup and sweet lunch is
Available from 12:30 – 2pm
All welcome - payment by donation.
Come and bring your friends.
Guild News
To start our new session we had a most delicious meal at the St. Clair Arms in Castletown. Our theme for this session is
“Justice: what we can do”, and comes from
Micah 6 where we are called to act justly.
We have quite a varied programme and would welcome anyone (man or woman) who wishes to come and join us.
Programmes available from Jeanne.
Special Services
Harvest Thanksgiving: 11th October
Joint Service with the Moderator at Bower: 25th October at 11am
Guild Rally with the Moderator at St Peter and St Andrews in Thurso: 31st October at 2 p.m.
Communion: 1st November
Service of Remembrance: 8th November
Songs of Praise at Dunnet: 15th November at 6:30pm
 Combined Advent Service at Canisbay: 29th November at 6:30pm
Feel Good Coffee Morning
Which was arranged by Isabel Rennie
in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support.
This raised the sum of £300 and a big THANK YOU to all those involved.
Thank you to all who so willingly opened and closed the Church throughout the Summer Season
Office Bearers
Locum Minister: Lyall Rennie 611 756
Session Clerk: Jeanne Sutherland 611 282
Reader: Esme Duncan 611 455
Elder: Hugh Simpson 611 388
Treasurer: Keith Muir 611 268
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