All Saints Church is offering an educational outreach programme to help teachers to deliver the experiences and outcomes of the Christianity strand of the Religious and Moral Education Curriculum for Excellence. The curriculum calls for teachers to establish ‘close liaison with local faith representatives’. Amongst many other ‘Experiences’, pupils are expected to investigate Christian communities within the local area and explore places and investigate artefacts.

We offer classroom visits to introduce pupils to the church and to the form of worship in a Scottish Episcopal Church. This is then followed with a visit to the church to get a ‘hands on’ experience.
24 children from Lockerbie Primary School visited the church on Wednesday 29th March.
They enthusiastically explored the whole of the church and completed investigative quizzes with the assistance of members of the congregation. They explored the building, the many artefacts used in worship, the beautiful reredos and stained glass windows.
Rev Macleod then showed them the vestments, which he wears to take services, and explained the significance of the colours and the nature of the robes, the shapes of which date back to the very beginnings of the Christian Church in the Roman Empire. Each child was able to don a brightly coloured chasuble for a photo opportunity!
Rev Macleod then gathered the pupils around the altar and demonstrated how

Holy Communion was prepared and distributed. He followed this by showing a rapt audience how a baby is baptised.
The afternoon went by very quickly and we were all delighted at the enthusiasm and commitment of the pupils.              Mrs. M Macleod

Maggie Macleod

Smarties!! when you have eaten them

please fill the empty box with coins

for this wonderful charity

The Bishop’s Lent Appeal this year is for the Scottish Refugee Council.  vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome. It is a place where women, children and men are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and are able to achieve their full potential. Among their aims are to advocate for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum and for fair and just legislation and policies, and also to campaign for an end to discrimination, racism and prejudice.

Please use link http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/

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Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2017 – Scottish Refugee Council
Our Vision, Values and Strategic Aims let you know exactly the kind of place we’d like Scotland to be and how we plan to get there.
Our Vision At Scottish Refugee Council our vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome.
It is a place where women, children and men are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and are able to achieve their full potential.
Our Values Refugee Empowerment Refugee empowerment and involvement are at the heart of everything we do.
Refugee Protection We are committed to upholding refugees’ human rights. Equality Equality, diversity and human rights are at the core of everything we do.
Independence We are an independent charity. We demonstrate our integrity and our leadership, working in partnership where that will benefit refugees. Engagement
We involve and engage communities and the wider public in our work.
Excellence We aim for excellence and best quality in all we do, valuing transparency, creativity, participation and learning throughout.
Respect We respect our people. We will enable our staff and volunteers to realise their potential through support and investment. Our Strategic Aims
Over the next three years (2014-2017) Scottish Refugee Council will: Increase public empathy with refugees and campaign for an end to discrimination, racism and prejudice.
Advocate for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum and for fair and just legislation and policies.
Support refugees’ integration and inclusion.
Ensure that refugees and people seeking asylum have access to quality advice services, information and support.
Develop an efficient organisation which supports staff and volunteers and ensures quality and value for money.

Lent Course 2017
Thursday afternoons at 2pm,
Finishing by 4pm in the Rectory

Returning Home – Christian
Faith in encounter with Other Faiths.

Thursday 9th March – A Journey into the Wilderness.

(please click the link below for pdf  resources week 1)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-1.pdf

Thursday 16th March – The Remembrance of God’s name.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 2)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-2.pdf

Thursday 23rd March – Fasting.

(please click the link below for pdf resources week 3)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-3.pdf

Thursday 30th March – Greed, Non-attachment and Compassion

(please click on the link below for resources week 4)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-4.pdf

Thursday 6th April – The Crucified Jew.

(please click on the link below for resources week 5)

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lent-2017-Week-5.pdf

The 2017 Len resource explores how Christian faith has been deepened and enriched by encounters with people of different religions. This is not a resource that necessarily emphasises common ground or that is about dialogue, but how Christian faith has burned brightly following an encounter with the religious other. You will find familiar Lenten themes in this material but with, what we hope, is a different approach.
The theologian John Cobb described his deep encounter with Buddhism in terms of a journey to another land and culture: the newness, sometimes strangeness of the other, can be an enriching experience. However when we return to the familiar, home is viewed with different eyes and a deeper, perhaps more profound, appreciation. This is why we have called this resource “Returning Home”
Christians who have lived alongside, and worked with, people of other faiths, often express their surprise and appreciation that their own Christian faith has been enriched by these encounters. How is this the case? Sometimes a practice such as fasting by Muslims in Ramadan has let Christians to think again about the ancient Christian practice of fasting, or the understanding of a concept such as suffering in an Indic faith has prompted Christians to interrogate Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.

Course provided by Churches Together in Britain & Ireland.

World Day of Prayer

   Flag of the Philippines

Friday 3rd March 2017

Picture and text taken from  World Day or Prayer website http://www.wdpscotland.org.uk

Rowena “Apol” Laxamana-Sta.Rosa is 32 years old, a full time mother and housewife, and a freelance illustrator. The title of her art piece is A Glimpse of the Philippine Situation. God gave the Philippines abundant resources, both human and material. God is the great provider and provision is for all of creation. This is God’s display of economic justice in contrast to the economy where the strong and powerful take God’s resources for themselves and their families. The kingdom of God provides for all, even for those who do not acknowledge it. The church continues to remind people that all are welcome in the kingdom, as the open long table with food symbolises access to God’s provisions. Jesus said ‘I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.’ (John 10:10)
WDP Scottish Committee – Scottish Charity No: SC 020446

World Day of Prayer is an international, ecumenical, prayer movement initiated and carried out by Christian women in more than 180 countries and over 1000 languages. Every year Christians of many traditions and all ages, celebrate a common day of prayer on the first Friday in March.
World Day of Prayer services are held all around the world, beginning in Tonga and New Zealand in the east and continuing throughout the day to Samoa and Alaska in the west. We bring the needs of the world, and of the writing country in particular, before Almighty God knowing that He will hear and answer us, as we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
God invites us to have a prayer relationship with Himself, but He also expects us to have concerned relationships with our neighbours, throughout the world. Prayer must be accompanied by action, as God moves our hearts and directs our thoughts.
Friday, 3rd March 2017

The service comes from The Philippines and the theme is:
“Am I being unfair to you?”

Saturday the 17th December saw the decorating of the All Saints for Christmas and what a wonderful job too. Many, Many thanks to all for their help, I wasn’t there but Ronald Ritchie was kind enough to take some wonderful photo.

Advent Candles, one candle is lite each Sunday before Christmas Day when the centre candle is lite.

Beautiful stained glass window

The flowers on the font were a gift to All Saints

The back cloth on front of the High Alter was put in place by John and Kath sets the church lovely and put one in the mood for Christmas

Ronald Ritchie and Kath Leadbeater

‘The turning on of the Christmas lights.’

Lockerbie main street was closed from 1pm to 6pm. There were stalls selling all kinds of Christmas fayre lining the street. All Saint’s had a stall selling Christmas decorated logs, Christmas Cards, Knitted Hats, and of course our very own ‘Marmalade’, Warm Mulled Apple Juice was served, and very nice it was too. We also had a ‘treasure hunt’ game based on a map of Lockerbie, which was very popular.

Maggie and I spent a couple of afternoons decorating log been . I have to say there was a lot of giggling, and coffee drinking, and maybe far too much fun!  The end product was great and the logs sold well.

It was a cold day but dry, again we had a lot of fun and raised over a £150 which was great.

And then on came the LIGHTS

Kath Leadbeater & Maggie Macleod 19/11/2016

Sunday 13^th November Remembrance Sunday. All over the country people gather together to honour all those who have died in conflict. Our service was led by Rev. John Macleod,  Malcolm Bell MacDonald laid a wreath at the alter. The last post echoed in the church as we all stood in silence. The most moving moment was the reading out of the names of the fallen from Lockerbie, just hearing the names made these men real in a way reading the names on the plaque above the lectern never had for me.