memories
The Carbon Fast – Tearfund Lent Campaign
For Lent this year Tearfund are running a Carbon Fast Campaign. It’s a suggestion from them to try and make an impact, however small it may be, to use this time of Lent to affect a tangible change on the lives of those around the world who are worst affected by climate change. Each day … Continue reading
A contrasting evening
Last night was an incredibly hard night. It was moving, challenging, heart-breaking, blessed, it’s hard to describe. To read more about it though you can go to www.cofswmc.wordpress.com and I thouroughly encourage you to! Tonight was such a contrast to last night (we’ll blog about today’s experiences on the World Mission Council blog later). … Continue reading
Touchdown in Karachi!
Well, we’ve landed safely in Karachi! We met at Glasgow Airport at 11am yesterday (UK time) and landed here this morning at 11am (7am UK time!) Flights over were fine, the 8 hour wait at Dubai provided time for some uncomfortable sleeping and the security staff at Karachi Airport seemed to be very interested in … Continue reading
9/11 – Looking back…
You’d have to be living under a rock to not realise that today is the 10th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks that caused so much devestation at the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. Every year people all around the World commemorate this tragedy in different ways, but this year … Continue reading
A visit to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly
So last Monday I went to visit the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly, I mentioned a wee bit of ehat thr event means to me in my last Blog post and will delve a bit deep into that in another post, this post is going to be just about last Monday! The theme of … Continue reading
Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly 2011
Tomorrow I’m headjing to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly for the day. I have 2 reasons for going, I’m leading a Worship session in the morning based around the idea of exploring worship through photography. Thr second reason is that I’ll be spending the remainder of the day wandering around taking photos of … Continue reading
Writers block?
so, I’ve been very, very inactive on here over the last wee while, something I”m not happy at all about! I’m not sure why I have been inactive, I’m certainly not short of things to write about – CLAN Gathering, Tearfund, World Mission Council, Canada, Cyprus, Hoskins Gallery, Starting a business, Pakistan…..if these things … Continue reading
World Mission Council
This afternoon see’s one of the reports that I’ve been most looking forward too this week. The Report of the World Mission Council. I’ve been interested in the work of this council since I first became aware of its existence in 2000. I suppose it all boils down to the fact that, when I was … Continue reading
Youth Reps voting?
Today, during the Church and society debate, there was a significant debate surrounding the idea of Youth Reps being allowed to vote at the assembly. I attended the General Assembly 6 times as a youth rep: 2001, 2002, 2o03, 2005, 2008, 2009 and this issue came up every year! It was rarely brought up … Continue reading
Church of Scotland General Assembly
This week sees the Church of Scotland General Assembly meeting in Edinburgh. Usually I blog a fair bit about this, I won’t be this year for a two reasons: 1) I’m not there, so can’t offer the insider view I have in the past. 2) I won’t have the time to watch a lot of … Continue reading