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Duror
Parish Church
Service:
9.30 am
Minister:
Rev Alison Burnside Tel 01855 811 998
St
Columba planted Kilcolumkill the first Church in Duror around 580
AD. In 1651 a new Kirk was erected - the ruins of it are still to be
seen. The present Church was built by Thomas Telford in 1829.
Coffee/Tea
is served in the Church Hall on a Sunday after worship. There is an
informal Communion for anyone wishing to stay after morning worship
on the second Sunday of each month (except Communion Sundays).
To
read a copy of "The Link" click
here.
Two
Lochs Project - click
here
Stated
Annual Meetings
The
stated annual meetings of the two churches were held in March.
Members of the congregations heard reports on the financial positions
of the churches and reports from the respective Property, Sunday
School, Guild and Presbytery elders. Duror also had a report on their
Village Lunches.
The
most exciting report was given by Rev Alison who relayed the good
news that the Two Lochs Project had more than met its targets and
that there is now enough money to guarantee Hazels job for
three years!
Rev
Alison also told us about her Return to Work programme and the plans
for the manse. Hopefully the central heating will be replaced in the
Manse and perhaps the windows at a later date.
DUROR
COMMUNITY CHOIR
After
some months during which we feared the choir might have to end due
to lack of a conductor, we have been fortunate to find Terry Goodwin,
from Ballachulish, who is willing to be our conductor/choir-master.
The choir had an introductory meeting on 20th February, from which
the feedback was enthusiastic. We hope to expand our repertoire, gradually,
to include some secular songs as well as religious music, and to
improve our singing skills without losing the great pleasure we all
take in joining together to make music. Our next venture will be a
Songs of Praise service, loosely themed around the Year of
Homecoming, and this will be held on the evening of 23rd August.
Weekly rehearsals will start in earnest on 29th June, at 7pm in
Duror
Church Hall.
If
you think you might like to join us, give it a try in an evening of
singing for fun, on 27th April, 18th May, and/or 8th June, at 7pm in
the Church Hall. All welcome, particularly altos and tenors!
DUROR
GUILD
The
theme for this year has been He restores my soul. Since
the last edition of The Link, we shared our Christmas
memories at the December meeting, and went to New Zealand with Janice
in January.
In
February, the discussion topic was Spirituality.
At
our Open Meeting in March, the speaker was Mabel Wallace who is the
Lochaber Presbyterial Council Convenor. She gave a most interesting
illustrated talk on Travelling Together.
The
AGM on 14th April will round off the 2008-9 session.
Coffee
mornings continue on the first Wednesday of each month, at
10.30am
in Duror Church Hall. The Guild members are very generous both in
the produce they provide and in their time. We owe them all a very
big thank you. The friendship and fellowship we share is invaluable
to each one of us. |