Worship
Sunday Services - 11.00 am followed by coffee & fellowship
We aim to be a welcoming and friendly congregation who endeavour to express and communicate God's love in our daily lives.
We seek to encourage both members and visitors by affirming a quiet, but steadfast faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
Services
Our services generally follow a traditional format, with readings from the Revised English Bible by either the minister or a member of the congregation, interspersed with hymns from CH4. Sermons can be both topical and thought provoking leading to subsequent discussion and comment. Elders still invite members to celebrate Holy Communion at least three times a year in the church’s friendly and convivial atmosphere. During our period of vacancy, short informal midweek services have been introduced every couple of weeks.
Our congregation is adaptable and quite willing to experiment having recently purchased equipment to enable the use of power point presentations during the course of a service. We have no fear of showing either laughter or applause during the course of a service and are not inclined to take ourselves too seriously.
Nevertheless in recent years a number of our members have attended Church of Scotland Enquirers Conferences with two of our members progressing from Sunday School teachers to fully ordained Ministers with their own charges.
What our Sunday school, known in recent years as ‘Sunday’s Cool’, may lack in numbers (currently between 8 and 10) it makes up for in enthusiasm, with a new curriculum based on the ‘Seasons of the Spirit’ introduced this year.
Our choir of 14 contribute to worship with both hymns and anthems accompanied by our organist on a recently acquired Makin Johannus Rembrandt organ, the music from which emanates from cunningly concealed speakers in the structure of the church’s original pipe organ.
From time to time we participate in joint services with our neighbours, Brechin Cathedral, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Brechin Baptist Church as well as our friends in the country at Farnell and Edzell. Recent years have seen us hold our traditional Christmas Eve children’s family service in conjunction with either Brechin Baptist Church or Brechin Cathedral before joining others to sing carols around the tree in the square outside with the town’s brass band.
Stewardship
Whilst recognising the crucial importance of Christian Stewardship in the every day life of the Church we would never claim our principal riches were financial. We therefore feel the need to supplement our income from time to time with fund raising / social events such as Gift Days, Coffee Mornings, Quiz Nights, Bake-Sales etc. Nevertheless we always seem to manage to break even somehow and in 2010 intend to implement a Church of Scotland stewardship campaign and promote the use of Gift Aid throughout the congregation.
Whist not responding on absolutely every occasion, the congregation are no strangers to disaster and other appeals managing to raise some £3,700 for victims of the Tsunami and £1,000 for the Church’s National Mission appeal. The same year also saw us act as coordinators and local clearinghouse for the Pakistani Earthquake Appeal completely filling at least one truck with much-needed blankets and winter woollens for victims in the mountains of Kashmir.