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Our Lake District Trip from Rina Robertson inside pages

Late News The Moderator of the URC General Assembly, Revd. David Grosh-Miller has issued a statement of solidarity on the crisis in Syria and Iraq. Here is an extract from it. See full statement on the URC website www.urc.org.uk ‘We call upon people of all faiths to pray for the people of Syria and Iraq, those who have been denied of their basic dignity and human rights, as they continue to witness the massacre of their communities, the murdering of loved ones and the destruction of their places of worship. Let us all pray to the God of life, peace and justice for those who have had the fullness of life denied to them, for those in all parts of the world who continue to suffer and be persecuted for their beliefs.’

Letter from Lindsey

Sadly the excitement of the Commonwealth Games is now over but for the Sanderson family as with many others in Glasgow the Games was a really wonderful experience. We had booked up for five events and enjoyed netball, table tennis, rugby 7s, badminton and athletics. We had no problems with transport or queues and the blazing sunshine on a number of days was an added bonus. I think the favourite event for all of us was the rugby 7s. We joined a crowd of 45,000 people in a packed Ibrox stadium to enjoy this fast paced version of rugby – a full sized pitch but only 7 players who impressed us with their fast pace and great tackles to score, or prevent, tries. We saw each of the 16 nations play in the rugby competition – the giants of the game New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, the home nations of Scotland, England and Wales and the emerging rugby playing nations Uganda, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. When Scotland took to the pitch the noise was deafening but the loudest cheer of the day was for Uganda as they played Australia. Somewhere in the crowd someone started shouting ‘U-gan-da, U-gan-da’ and in minutes it seemed like 45,000 people had joined in. When Uganda scored their one and only try everyone was on their feet, cheering on the players who had given their all against the mighty Australians. The crowd certainly supported the underdogs, but each team was cheered and encouraged, and the skill of the players recognised. There was a real feeling of the Commonwealth Games being the ‘friendly games’ in Ibrox that day. One of the slogans for the Games was ‘People Make Glasgow’ and there have been many comments made about the way in which Glasgow and her people have welcomed the Games, and the many thousands of athletes and visitors to the city.

People also ‘Make the Church’ and my day at Ibrox reminded me of so many positive and hopeful ways we are the church – welcoming people from many different places and backgrounds, supporting and encouraging one another especially the weaker ones, being united in a shared joy and love, not of a sport, but of God, our creator, redeemer and sustainer, the one who is with us each day of our lives not just in the excitement of great sporting events like the Commonwealth Games. With all good wishes .................Lindsey

News of the Fellowship In the last few months, Mrs Margaret Deans has moved to a new home in Livingstone Drive from Lyttleton and we wish Margaret and her daughter much happiness in their new home. Louise Herbertson began High School after the summer holidays and we hope that she enjoys 1st year and the opportunity to study new subjects and make new friends in her new class. On 6th September Karen Cooper and Stuart Downie will be married near Oban. We hope that Karen, Stuart, Margaret and their family and friends have a wonderful day and we wish Karen and Stuart every happiness in their married life together. Since our last newsletter a number of people have been in hospital for tests or have had periods of ill health at home. We wish everyone well and hope for a return to better health. Please remember that Lindsey always appreciates hearing news of folk who may appreciate her popping in, so don’t hesitate to contact her yourself or on behalf of someone else.

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Harvest Festival information This year our Harvest Festival will be held on the 14th of September. So please try to come along on that day and of course if you can bring a friend please do so, the more that we can gather the better and as usual our gifts will go direct to Womens Aid here in East Kilbride.

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Church Notice Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM Prayer and medication to follow.

Wednesdays at Righead If you have been missing your soup and bacon roll over the summer then don’t worry the lunch club will be back soon. Wednesday 3rd September at 12.30pm is when the club opens for business again. If you haven’t been for lunch before why not come down and enjoy a tasty lunch and great company. We are continuing to provide an opportunity to share in an informal service of Holy Communion on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 1.30pm in the Church Lounge. This service enables some of our members and friends who find Sunday mornings difficult to participate in worship at a more convenient time and enjoy fellowship with other members of the church. Services will be held on the following dates: Wednesday 17th September Wednesday 15th October Wednesday 19th November Wednesday 17th December We are hoping to add in a few more Wednesday afternoon events over the year to follow on from the lunch club – a film afternoon, and maybe even a concert or two. Details will be announced as things are arranged but we are looking for volunteers to help with some archiving of church records. In the church we have back copies of newsletters, church plans, minute books and all sorts of other things and we would like to create as a minimum a list of all the documents we have. If you could help to sort through the documents and help create the lists we will meet in the Church lounge at 1.30pm on the first Wednesday of each month and see how we get on.

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Mule Trading Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville , MS. and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.

The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night."Curtis & Leroy replied, Well, then just give us our money back." The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule." The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"Curtis said, "We gonna raffle him off."The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"Leroy said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!" A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked."What'd you fellers ever do with that dead mule?" They said, "We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."Leroy said, "Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $998."The farmer said ,"My Lord, didn't anyone complain?" Curtis said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back."

News from East Mains In June East Mains greeted West Mains school to the church for an Assembly with a Commonwealth Games theme and Lindsey also spent time in classes where the children learned about Samoa and enjoyed dressing up in lava-lava and shell necklaces. In July we celebrated Betty’s Neil’s 90th birthday with a lunch after the service, including cake of course.

Fiona and David Cresswell have started a new school in Lennoxtown and we hope they settle in and make new friends and Alan Cresswell is beginning a new job with Fukushima University which will see him spend three months in Japan then three months in Scotland and we wish him well with his new post. It will soon be time for the Guild to begin their new session. The Committee has been busy putting together a new programme and details of the afternoons will be available soon. All ladies are welcome to attend the Guild which meets fortnightly on Wednesdays at 2pm.

A little Story to read..........Too Busy for a Friend.??? One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers. That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual. On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. 'Really?' she heard whispered. 'I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!' and, 'I didn't know others liked me so much,' were most of the comments. No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on. Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a service man in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature. The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin. As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. 'Were you Mark's maths teacher?' he asked. She nodded: 'yes.' Then he said: 'Mark talked about you a lot.' After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher. 'We want to show you something,' his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket 'They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.' Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him. (Next Page)

There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help, sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need help? “The preacher said again,"No God will save me." Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven. The preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "Fool, I sent you two boats!"

'Thank you so much for doing that,' Mark's mother said. 'As you can see, Mark treasured it.' All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, 'I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home.' Chuck's wife said, 'Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album. ''I have mine too,' Marilyn said. 'It's in my diary' Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. 'I carry this with me at all times,' Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: 'I think we all saved our lists' That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again. The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Our Lake District Trip from Rina Robertson I would like to thank our church members at Righead and East Mains and also friends of the Church who managed to give their support by joining us for our excursion to the Lake District. As usual it was a very happy bus and it was great to have more time to chat with each other. Our weather on Sunday was pretty wet but it didn't dampen the spirits of everyone. Some of us had a sail on Windermere which kept us out of the rain! As usual we raised some money for both churches via raffle and cash left after all expenses were paid ( Not a lot but as we all know every penny counts). We were sorry Jean Wales and Jean Fraser had to cancel for health reasons they were both missed as they have supported the last three trips.

Heteronyms How hard for some people to understand English!!!!! The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. We must polish the Polish furniture.. He could lead if he would get the lead out. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

Yes Leprosy is still in the world For many years our church membership has been giving generously to the Leprosy mission and our dear member Jessie Mackay has for as long as I can remember been the prime organiser over these years. Jessie sent her first cheque for £47 back in 1995 and the total to date has amounted £3780.65 This money was at one time collected in small phials that Jessie handed out to the membership if they so desired. Currently members hand donations to Jessie in support of the leprosy Mission and for this Jessie would like me to convey her sincere thanks to everyone who has supported her over many, many years Funded in 1874, The Leprosy Mission is an international Christian develop-ment organisation. It works in around 30 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, bringing healing & justice to people affected by leprosy. Its ultimate goal is to eradicate the causes and consequences of leprosy. The Leprosy Mission is a global fellowship. Member countries are equal partners in the drive to deliver healing & justice to bring about a world without leprosy. The members work together, facilitated and supported by the International Co-ordination Office, to ensure that the programmes in each Implementing Country are appropriately targeted, to achieve maximum impact in the fight against leprosy. Supporting Countries, like Scotland, uphold their partners financially, practically and prayerfully to deliver the care that is needed. If you feel that you can support this work please see Jessie Mackay by making a small donation it is surprising how much healing can be done. Thank you for taking the time to read this little article.

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For the next nine months we are having a student. Righead and East Mains have been asked to have John Collings on placement as part of the Gateways into Worship course. John will be sharing in worship in both congregation and will contribute a reflection on his experience of worship with us as well be assessed on the services he leads. Here he introduces himself…. ‘I’ve been asked to write a little about myself so you all know who is helping with some parts of your services. I am a member of Rutherglen URC and have just finished a two year TLS course. TLS stands for Training for Learning and Serving and offers a wide range of courses. I am now doing a third year with a view to becoming an Assembly accredited lay preacher. As part of this course I have to do a placement in a URC and Lindsey has agreed to supervise me on this. I grew up in Merseyside and was a member of Oxton Road Congregational church then moved to Glasgow in 1969 to attend Bible College. After that I worked for Scripture Union for a couple of years before going to Israel and working in a school in Jerusalem for seven years. I then returned to Scotland in 1980. I retired two years ago and felt that I could offer my time and skills as a lay preacher. I realised that I needed to update my skills which is why I am now doing this TLS course. I am looking forward to getting to know some of the people in East Kilbride and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot during my placement with you.’ ................ John Collings

Surfing the Wave – South Link deployment update. The Elders of East Mains and Righead met together to receive feedback from all the churches in the South Link as part of the deployment process and to offer input into the next part of the process. The pastoral group have asked every congregation to say what they feel they are able to share with one another as we each participate in mission and ministry in our own communities. The Elders felt we have a number of things to share: 1. we are fortunate to have a number of people within both congregations who regularly lead worship. We felt that it would be possible to free up Lindsey on occasion to be with another church and others from the pastorate could lead the service instead. 2. we have experience to share with others in a wide variety of subjects from running a lunch club, or Guild to designing our own websites and leaflets. 3. we have a number of individuals who have offered to be resource people to local churches in the link, drawing on their professional experience and expertise. We have people with experience in worship, pastoral care, education, administration, mission and ecumenism.

Flower List Via the newsletter a great big thank you to those who donate towards the provi-

sion of flowers for the Chancel.

This contribution is deeply appreciated

August 3rd Morag Aitken 10th Maureen Bamford 17th Kate Bannerman 24th Nan Swan 31st Cathie Crosbie

September 7th Jim & Eileen Muir 14th Irene Robson 21st Edith Rae 28th Pat Sutherland

October 5th John & Dorothy 12th Irene Robson 19st Helen Boardman 26th Becky Macpherson

From Fund raising Group Three dates for your diary between now and Christmas (Yes did say Christmas) First date being Saturday 13th of September when we will be

having a "SingalongcuppaTea" in aid of Church Funds. Tickets are priced at Three pounds with the event starting at 2.30pm. There will be a raffle and tea and coffee. Second date for the diary will be our Quiz night on the 17th of October at 7.30pm the venue being the British Legion. Tickets are priced at £5.00. Everything going to our Church funds Third event will be our Christmas Fayre this event has really been great in the past and everyone's support would be appreciated including that of your friends. The date earmarked for this is the 15th of November starting at 2pm

Old Clothes Collection This has been a great earner for the church coffers since it was started and because of this it is going to be ongoing. So, if you can, contact family & friends knowing that we are able to continue storing the items on the stage. When we feel that we can have them uplifted we can organise this then we can kick start the whole process again. Please try your best to continue this little success story as every penny counts these days

Lectionary Readings Date Reader Text 31/08/14 Sadie Cairns Jerm.15.15-21 Rom. 12.9-2 Matt. 16.21-28 07/09/14 Jessie Mackay Ezek. 33.7-11 Rom.13.8-14 Matt. 18.15-20 14/09/14 John Arthur Gen. 50.15-21 Rom. 14.1-12 Matt. 18.21-35 21/09/14 Alan Paterson Jonah 3.10-4.11 Phil. 1.21-30 Matt.20.1-16 28/09/14 James Muir Ezek.18.1-4.25-32 Phil. 2.1-13 Matt.21.23-32 05/10/14 Jean Fraser Is 5. 1-7 Phil 3. 4b-14 Matt 21. 33– 46 12/10/14 Anne Holmes Isaiah 25. 1-9 Phil4. 1-9 Matt 22. 1-1419/10/14 Sadie Cairns Is.45.1-7 1 Thess. 1.1-10 Matt.22.15-22 26/10/14 Jessie Mackay Lev.19.1-2,15-18 1 Thess. 2.1-8 Matt.22.34-36 02/11/14 John Arthur Micah 3.5-12 1 Thess. 2.9-13 Matt.23.1-12 09/11/14 Alan Paterson Amos 5.18-24 1 Thess.4.13-18 Matt.25.1-13 16/11/14 James Muir Zeph. 1.7,12-18 1 Thess.5.1-11 Matt.25.14-30 23/11/14 Jean Fraser Ezek.34.11-16, 20-24 Eph. 1.15-23 Matt. 25.31-46 30/11/14 Anne Holmes Isaiah 64.1-9 1 Cor 1. 3-9 Mark 13:24-3 07/12/14 Sadie Cairns Isaiah 40. 1-11 2 Peter 3. 8-15a Mark 1:1-8 14/12/14 Jessie Mackay Isaiah 61:1-4,8-11 1 Thess 5.16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 21/12/14 John Arthur 2 Sam 7,1-11 16 Romans 16.25-25 Luke 1 26-38

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