Kirkoswald Parish Church Presbytery of Ayr Church of Scotland

 


Welcome

We hope that you enjoy visiting our web site and enjoy, even more, a visit to our church. Our church is about spreading the word of God and telling the good news about Jesus Christ. It is also about what we do, particularly what we do together. We are not, in any sense, a closed fellowship, just a bunch of people who believe that the message preached by Jesus Christ is worth trying to live out, not only on Sundays, but also Monday to Saturday.

We are part of the Church of Scotland. As such, everyone who lives in the parish has the right to call on the services of the minister.

We also recognise that we are fortunate to have such a beautiful church building. This category 'A' listed building is special in many different ways, including:

We have a responsibility to pass on this heritage so we must be careful stewards of the building.

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News - March 2009

'Accompanied'

As you know, the minister's wife was the Presbyterial Council's Education Representative and is now the Project Partners Coordinator. One of her responsibilities in the Education role was to find good, interesting and informative speakers and one she invited during her term was John Sharp. John had served a period as an Ecumenical Accompanier in Israel / Palestine. He told some horrendous and moving stories, such as the Palestinian nursery demolished at 5:30 one morning; that was bad enough, but some staff and children were in the nursery at the time, and the facilities it provided were much valued in the area.

The Guild has recently announced its six new projects to be supported for 2009 - 2012 and one of them is a World Mission Council project called Interfaith Action. World Mission is the Council of the Church which looks after the relationships between the Church of Scotland and the various overseas countries. This used to involve sending missionaries out, but now is more likely to be involved in activities such as HIV/AIDS work, in poverty relief, in seeking justice for the many places that have none, or precious little, in short exercising what Liberation Theology would call the Preferential Option for the Poor throughout the world.

John Sharp is making a return to speak at the Guild Rally in Girvan South Parish Church on 4th June, and will doubtless tell us more about Interfaith Action and its two basic thrusts - to improve understanding of the Israel / Palestine situation in the Guilds throughout Scotland, and to work with organisations such as the Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAPPI) in trying to effect Reconciliation in Israel / Palestine.

The total raised for the six projects from their launch in September 2006 to May 5th 2009 is £733,965.99 split as follows:

It is remarkable that, for all our talk about a church in decline and a Guild that has ceased to be relevant, this represents an increase of over £40,000 over the sum raised in the previous three years; and the totals are not yet at their final values.