April 2013 He Has Risen PEEB LES BAPT IST CHUR CH

The message of The message of

Easter is not that Easter is not that

Jesus is alive, it is Jesus is alive, it is

so much more.so much more. The message The message

of Easter is of Easter is

that Jesus has that Jesus has

risen! risen!

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You might at first glance think that the difference

between “Jesus is alive” and “Jesus is risen” (as in

Colin Smith’s quote on the cover) is merely subtle

wordplay. Think for a minute, though, and you realise

that the difference is tremendously important. Of

course I believe that Jesus is alive - but what does that

really mean? The phrase could very easily become a

mystical, other-worldly statement (and indeed has

done exactly that for many people). Jesus lives on in

spirit, through his teaching and moral character.

Seriously? Is that it? Bleah.

But to affirm that Jesus is risen suddenly moves us to the realm of history,

of real life, of physical reality. A dead body goes missing, hardened soldiers

run away terrified, disillusioned disciples become a force to change the

world. Death, as in the end of life, the most awful thing we face, is no

longer the end, because Jesus has defeated it - and life before death is

changed forever as well!

A quick mention of prayer. As Morag reminds us in her editorial on the

next page, in March we were trying prayer with fasting. How did you get on

with that? Did you find it challenging? Good! Please don’t forget about

fasting at the end of this month - it’s an excellent discipline to get into. But

this month’s “prayer special” will be a half day of prayer, when we can all

meet together (for all or part of the time) to bring our

prayers to our Father. Details of when and where soon.

From all at the Manse, we wish you a very joyful, exciting,

hope filled Easter!

If you’d like to know more about what our friends in the other

Peebles churches are doing, you can find some of their own

magazines online:

Old Parish Church: topcopmag.wordpress.com

St Peter’s: www.stpeterspeebles.org.uk/netmagazine.php

St Joseph’s: www.stjosephschurch.org.uk/?Home%3A:Current_Newsletter

Ian

From the Editor In January, we decided to mix up our prayer practice a bit – hopefully so that the move away from the normal routine would stimulate our minds, but also so that we could develop a more meaningful approach to prayer.

Our prayer method over the past month has been through fasting. Before that, Ian spent a Sunday morning focussing on what fasting is all about. If you would like to listen to this sermon, you can find a link to the audio file on the church website (www.peeblesbaptistchurch.org). Here are three short summary points:

Fasting makes us hungry. We take this basic, primal desire for food and declare to God that we want to hunger for him as we hunger for food – turning our hunger into a meeting point with God.

Fasting helps us to hear God more clearly, to get rid of some of the things that get in the way of this.

Fasting helps us to be heard by God. It is not that God does not normally hear us, but that, when we fast, it lets God know we are serious about what we are praying for. Throughout the Bible, every time a nation prayed and fasted, God intervened.

It seems appropriate that we’ve been doing this in the month leading up to Easter, a particularly poignant time to stop and reflect, to listen to God’s voice and to think on his perfect sacrifice and on his ultimate au-thority, on his absolute forgiveness and his limitless grace. And what we’ve been looking at in our E1oo readings looks forward to this also: that God has a plan, no matter how much it may seem like he doesn’t; that our broken relationships need to be reconciled; that we need to al-low ourselves to grieve and to bring our heartache before God; and, ulti-mately, that we must forgive.

Perhaps, this Easter, as we remember God’s amazing grace and for-giveness, we may be encouraged in our particularly difficult situations, our broken relationships, to bring them before God and to start taking the steps to truly forgiving also.

Dates for your diary

Wednesday 3 April, 10 am Deacon’s

meeting

Sunday 14 April Vicky’s

Tearoom

Monday 15 April Borders College

Ladies who

Lunch

Thursday 18 April, 7.30 pm Men’s group

Saturday 20 April, 3.30 pm Messy Church

Sunday 21 April, 11am Baptism Service

2-4pm Big Dig

6-30 pm E100 – Any

Questions

Wed 3 April From 10am: turflifting $

rotavating in the Community garden

Sun 28 April

6.30 pm

The Big Issue

Stuart Blythe:

Independence and

the Politics of Jesus

Sat 20/Sun 21 April Peebles Big Dig weekend Saturday - 1-3pm - The Secret Garden Sunday - 2-4pm - The King’s Meadow

Dates for your diary

Wednesday 3 April, 10 am Deacon’s

meeting

Sunday 14 April Vicky’s

Tearoom

Monday 15 April Borders College

Ladies who

Lunch

Thursday 18 April, 7.30 pm Men’s group

Saturday 20 April, 3.30 pm Messy Church

Sunday 21 April, 11am Baptism Service

2-4pm Big Dig

6-30 pm E100 – Any

Questions

Friday/Saturday 26/27th April

Brave: Clan Lothian event

at Gorebridge Parish Church

Monday 29th April

7.30pm

Peebles Churches

Together committee

meeting

Wed 10 April From 10am:

more turflifting $ rotavating in the

Community garden

Thurs 18th April

in Victoria Park Centre

– Peebles CAN open

meeting to show people

the plans for their

garden. Bill and

Lindsey plan to go

along, and would love

others to join them

The next Big Issue will be on Sunday 28 April, 6.30 pm at the Victoria Park Centre. This month we welcome Stuart Blythe of the Scottish Baptist College who will encourage us to consider the the-ological issues that might bear on the debate about Scottish independence.

Diversity Fresh from our pottering session we are eager to

decide what to do next– please let Lindsey Gray or Morag Bramhall know if you have any suggestions! If you have not been to one yet, don’t let that stop you joining in any future get-togethers.

Ladies who Lunch: The Ladies will be going to the Borders College this

month to be served food from local aspiring chefs.

Men’s Group: The Men’s Group’s April meeting will be at 7.30 pm on Thursday 18 April at Frank’s house, when Tony Botham will be demon-strating his hobby of re-pairing clocks and watches. Please note that this time the meeting will be on the third (not the usu-al second) Thursday of the month.

Messy Church will take place on Saturday 20th

April at 3.30. Please keep praying for this project though. Also, volunteers are always needed!

Small groups: Small groups meet every week on Tuesday

(Peebles South) and Wednesday (Peebles North and Blythe Bridge) evenings at 7.30 pm. If you are not all ready part of a group and would like to be, please speak to Ian or one of the deacons.

Sports Day: The Baptist Union of Scotland youth sports day is on June 1st, at Stirling University. It would be good to get as many under 25s as possible to take part in this – it is always a lot of fun and full of laughs!

New to PBC… Website

Our new-look website is now up and running! Don’t worry, you can access the same information as before , but there is also a lot more available. You can listen to and download sermons, check the PBC calendar, find out about our vari-ous groups and opportunities to serve, access resources, read about what’s been going on and more!

There will also soon be a password protected members’ section where you will be able to find, for example, minutes of Church meetings and Dea-cons’ meetings.

Please do check out the new website, and make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the home page to subscribe – this will allow you to receive updates via email when something new is posted.

– Any Questions?

On Sunday 17 March we had our first meeting, which went really well! The aim was to raise any

questions that we may have encountered during our E100 readings and to help each other in our understanding of the passages. It is good to meet and discuss issues, and also to share about anything these readings may have impressed upon us. Our next meeting will be on Sunday 21 April at 6.30 pm, and consecutive meetings will be on the third Sunday of every month. These meeting are arranged for the evening just now, but if the afternoon would suit the majority better, please do speak to Ian.

If you fancy visiting a garden on the Easter weekend, then the Redhall

walled garden in Edinburgh is open from 12–5 pm on 31st March. There

will be an Easter egg hunt, cream teas, plants for sale and activities for

children. This garden is run by SAMH who are a charity dedicated to

mental health in Scotland. The address is 97 Lanark Road, Edinburgh,

EH14 2LZ, 0131 443 0946. Bus no 44 (Redhall View) will get you there.

Prayer Diary Pray for the NHS, for all who contribute to the caring of people, also

for the carers in the community who look after family members,

Home carers and young carers

Continue to pray for the folks who have recently moved from

Dunwhinny to Dovecot

Pray for all our Borders Churches that God will be glorified in all

that they say and in all their events and activities.

Continue to pray for Messy Church and that God would send more

Leaders/helpers and meet their every need

Pray for people in our fellowship who have been unable to join us in

person for some time, in particular Bill Speirs and Margaret Mcleod.

Proverbs 3:5,6.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And do not rely on what you think you know,

Acknowledge Him in all your ways,

And He will direct your paths.

If you would like to keep up to date with the link churches we pray for,

please check the Baptist Union of Scotland Website at

www.scottishbaptist.org.uk/diary, or for a simple list at

www.scottishbaptist.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/PLINK13.pdf

Getting to Know You… Hazel Hoggan

Can we have a brief history? I grew up in Peebles and was born at Tweedgreen, the then maternity hos-pital. I went to a house church with my mum, where I became a Christian at 14 years old. When I finished school, I moved to work in a brewer’s office in Dalkeith and then a Records department at Whites of Liberton. It was while I was living there that I married my husband.

Tell us about your family. I have two daughters, Wilma and Jacquel-ine, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren, and they all live nearby.

What brought you back to Peebles? After my husband suffered an awful injury in the mines, we were on the look out for new work and found an opportunity to run Barns Youth Hostel at Manor, shortly fol-lowed by my husband starting work on the estate forest. However, I al-ways wanted to be a nurse since I was school-aged, and took the oppor-tunity to work as an auxiliary nurse in Peebles for the last 7 years before I retired.

What brought you to Peebles Baptist Church? After my husband passed away, I met Linda Bell at a lace making club. I remember thinking what a lovely person she was and noticing how she did not join in the gos-sip of the other women. I received an invitation through the door to go to a family service at the Baptist church. I assumed it must have been from Linda, and as I didn't want to refuse someone I admired so much, I went along – I didn’t realise that it had been the minister who posted it through!

What made you stay? The minute I entered the church I just thought, ‘this is me, I’m home’. I was even baptised here, the same day as Carlyn Macall. It was a difficult decision for me to make as I had already been Christened in the Church of Scotland.

Do you have any roles in the church? I led a bible study at mine for 10 years, but now I go to Jacqueline’s house group. I’m involved with ca-tering, flowers, communion duties, stewarding… a bit of everything!

They run, skip, scooter or cycle in to the Victoria Park Centre; they love to

make a loud and joyful noise with tambourines, shakers or cymbals;

they’re always ready for fun; and, they might not always be ‘little angels’,

but their presence with us on Sunday mornings is one of the delights of

being at Peebles Baptist Church!

The age-span of the group currently attending ranges from tiny tot to six

years old. With such a spread, it’s essential to have a good ratio of grown-

ups to children when they leave the service for their special time together,

to ensure that each youngster is able to get as much as possible from the

sessions, which are based on Scripture Union’s LightLive material – with

songs, games and crafts as well as Bible stories.

Currently Bill, Carlyn, Christine, Janlyn, Jenny, Kirstin, Moira, Pat, Rab

and Wilma are on the rota to go through regularly with the children.

Some folk are also waiting – and praying – for the opportunity to work

with older kids, and others are willing to assist on an occasional basis.

More helpers (willing to undergo Disclosure checks) would always be very

welcome.

It’s been a wonderful answer to prayer to see the arrival in church of

“new” people who’ve brought with them lots of experience, enthusiasm,

and talent for working with youngsters. It’s equally wonderful to see our

group of children growing and learning. Please feel welcome to invite any

young children you know to come and learn about Jesus.

Several PBC folk have committed to continuing in prayer every day for

the children. If you’d like to share in the work, in this or any other way,

please speak to Ian or one of the helpers listed above.

KAOS

(Kids Around On Sundays)

PBC Community Garden “The King’s Meadow”

Most of you will be aware that the church family has been talking about

creating a garden on our land in the Victoria Park. This idea was dis-

cussed at the February Church Meeting, and has been growing some roots

and shoots since then! A tree of ideas has been put in the church for us to

put our written ideas on, and Bill, Rab, Ian and Lindsey met to think

about the first stages, and Ian and Lindsey made some good contacts with

Tweedgreen and Horizons who are also planning a garden in the centre of

Peebles in a plot behind the Heart Foundation shop. We met with Graeme

Lumb in the Bridge, who was helpful with ideas about funding and how to

engage with the community. We also heard that an organisation called

Peebles CAN was successful in getting funding from the Climate Chal-

lenge Fund to set up a market garden in the grounds of the Victoria Park

Centre. They will be working with young people and folk

who use the centre and Bill is in talks with Gary

about how we can share some of our re-

sources and work together – all in

all, lots of good conversations,

and it seems like

there is lots

happening in

the town.

Did you

notice the questionnaire that we sent out to local folk too? We had some

good conversations with people who live opposite the site, and in the new

building next to the site. They were keen on the idea and liked the idea of

the area being used rather than being a wilderness area. The results from

the questionnaire are being collated, and if you want to read what people

said, just ask Ian for a summary.

The planning group (Ian, Rab, Bill, Lindsey, but open to anyone who

wants to get involved – please join us!) have decided that this year we will

try out a small ‘test’ plot of around 10m x 10m which would have an area

of wildflowers, some simple seats, and 2 veg areas. Rab, who has experi-

ence with schools gardening, has drawn a plan which is easy and will look

nice! Next to this small plot will be the tattie patch – a popular idea so far!

What might the overall purpose of this garden be? Well at its most basic

level, it is a way to be stewards of our resources – God gave PBC this land,

and until he makes it clear that a building is the way forward, then it

makes sense to be seen to be using the resource practically. Secondly, an-

yone who enjoys the great outdoors knows how easy it is to make rela-

tionships and talk with folk when out doing something. How wonderful it

would be if we could have Sunday afternoon gardening sessions through-

out the summer, with folk from the community free to join in – friend-

ships could be built up on many levels. Maybe you have some concerns

about this garden – maybe you feel enthusiastic and can’t wait to get

started. Either way, please bring your thoughts to the Lord and seek his

will and his ways. We received a small financial gift from a friend in an-

other church who heard about the project. This money will be used for

hiring a turf stripper to get the patch ready. Please pray about the financ-

es – that God will bless the project with giving us what we need to go

ahead.

Dates coming up

One important date is the weekend of 20-21st April. The Tweedgreen/

Horizons project are having an open afternoon on Saturday 20th, from 1-

3pm in the Secret Garden, which is accessed down the lane from the

Heart Foundation Shop to the Sunflower restaurant. When talking to

Tweedgreen we decided to make a weekend of it, and we will have an

open afternoon on Sunday 21st 2-4pm on our plot, when we can plant

some tatties, have seed planting for kids, and serve tea and coffee and get

to know people. Please get involved in this, as it needs people to be there

to make it happen. This is the same day as a Believers’ Baptism in the

morning, and one of our E100 Bible Reading discussion meetings in the

evening, so please commit to supporting the church family this weekend!

There will be a press release about the 2 projects, so please pray for Ian as

he plans this and meets with Tweedgreen.

How to grow a garden Plant three rows of PEAS

Peas of mind

Peas of heart

Peas of soul

Plant four rows of SQUASH

Squash gossip

Squash indifference

Squash grumbling

Squash selfishness

Plant four rows of LETTUCE

Lettuce be faithful

Lettuce be kind

Lettuce be patient

Lettuce really love one another

No garden should be without TURNIPS

Turnip for meetings

Turnip to serve

Turnip to help one another

Remember to plant some THYME

Thyme for each other

Thyme for family and friends

Thyme for God

We received the following information from the Scottish Baptist College: Note to all Scottish Churches from the Office Bearers of the Scottish Baptist College We are writing to you as the Office Bearers of the College to inform you that after 11 years as Principal of the Scottish Baptist College, the Rev. Dr Jim Gordon will be stepping down from this role at the end of Au-gust 2013, but will, of course, continue to serve our churches in other ways. The College has gone from strength to strength under Jim’s lead-ership and we are grateful to him for his hard work and dedication to the College. With best wishes The Office Bearers

Jim Gordon was at the Scottish Baptist College while Ian was training to

be a minister there. Not only was he one of Ian’s lecturers, but he was an

immensely positive and intellectual influence at the College and he is well

respected by all. If you were at Ian’s induction celebration, you may re-

member Jim Gordon speaking there. We are very grateful to him, and of

course to all those who taught and encouraged Ian while he was at the

college.

We have a Believers’ Baptism

service coming up on Sun-

day 21 April. Baptism is

one of the things that Jesus

commanded his followers to

do. It’s not a sign of having

attained some deep level of

spiritual maturity, but rather

it is first thing we’re sup-

posed to do when we start

following Jesus, as an outward sign of our commitment to him. It’s also a

really exciting time for the whole church family!

If you would like to be baptised, or if you want to know more about what

baptism is and what is involved, please speak to Ian or one of the deacons.

If you’ve already been baptised as a believer and would like to find out

about becoming a member of Peebles Baptist Church, please also ask.

13 million people – including 3.6 million children – live in pov-erty in the UK.

How concerned is the average churchgoer?

The lies we tell ourselves: ending comfortable myths about pov-erty, a report published on 1 March 2013, by the Joint Public Is-sues Team (Baptist Union of Great Britain, Methodists, the Unit-ed Reformed Church and, on this issue, the Church of Scotland) claims that most of us are wiling to tolerate the indefensible only because we have swallowed six superficially plausible myths about people living in poverty. These are: 1. ‘They’ are lazy and don’t want to work; 2. ‘They’ are addicted to drink and drugs; 3. ‘They’ are not really poor – they just don’t manage their money properly; 4. ‘They’ are on the fiddle; 5. ‘They have an easy life on benefits; and 6. ‘They’ caused the deficit.

The report systematically disproves each of these commonly held beleifs, by testing against hard facts and figures as well as the lived experience of individual people. Perhaps even more shock-ingly, it marshals clear evidence of politicians in the major UK parties manipulating statistics to back up their own policies.

A copy has been sent to every MP and MSP in the country, and the document has already made waves. The chief executive of a [secular] social enterprise company in the education sector wrote this1 about it:

This is a document that needs to be read and championed. While many have felt uncomfortable about the deepening sentiment of ‘us and them’ emerging from Government, few organisations have had the credibility or courage to produce a document that exposes the misrepresentation, the misinformation, the lies that have fed the split.

The authors of the report remind the church that “part of our calling as Christians is to seek after truth, and that means facing up to our own blindness as well as calling others to account”. It’s far from comfortable reading, but the report deserves to be read (it can be found at www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/truthandliesaboutpoverty/). If you don’t have internet access, please ask me for a hard copy.

Thanks for reading,

Christine

1 theschoolandfamilyworks.co.uk/marksblog/

Phone chargers and the sunshine gospel

Does your church struggle to reach out to its community? You can take inspiration from Kahokya Baptist Church, in western Uganda, which has found a practical way to meet the needs of its neighbours. Study after sunset, funds raised for local development and lives won for Christ are just three of the positive impacts of a BMS-supported pilot solar project at Ka-hokya Baptist Church, Uganda. Seeking to have a positive impact in Kahokya, the church has identified a gift it can give – the gift of light. A lack of electricity makes the daily struggle for those who live in Kahokya – a remote village in the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains in Kasese District – far more challenging. “Children return from school after sun-set and struggle to do their homework with kerosene lamps which are expen-sive, dim, unhealthy and dangerous – or don’t do their homework at all for lack of lighting,” says BMS World Mission worker in Uganda, Gareth Shrubsole. But now things are different. Utilising solar power, the church is providing two lit rooms six evenings a week, enabling students to study after dark, through a

project led by Gareth. The church is also using the solar-powered electricity to run a phone-charging business, generating funds to keep the project running and to prac-tically benefit the communi-ty in other ways. Kamalhe, Kahokya Baptist Church’s youth leader, says: “This project is helping the youth for evening Bible study and revision, and the community for charging phones.

“Before this project we would walk to Kahokya Trading Centre to charge our phones which took 45 minutes each way. Then we would go back again a few hours later to collect it. Now we have more time.”

After months of extensive research and preparation, the team in Kahokya got the solar project up-and-running at the church in December. “It was a real privilege to be able to physically bring light to a community that lacked it,” Gareth says. Two months later, Kahokya Baptist Church have: * Provided 391 individual sessions of evening study for primary and sec-ondary students, and lesson preparation for teachers. * Run Bible study sessions six times a week with an average of five to eight attendees a night. As well as practically serving the community, the phone charging busi-ness has given the church opportunities to build relationships with local people. As these relationships have deepened people have been drawn into the church. Kahokya Baptist Church’s Pastor, Baluku Mbalizwa, says that six adult members have joined the church through the project al-ready, two of whom are new believers.

With the money raised as the phone-charging business continues, Kahokya Baptist Church also hopes to fund a much-needed rainwater collection tank, enabling villagers to get clean water without making a two-hour round-trip.

Electrician Amisi does some maintenance on the system wiring as Pas-

tor Mbalizwa looks on This pilot project, though small in scale, is a great example of the impact the local church can have on its community. As such, the team would like to roll it out in 11 other remote Baptist churches serving communities without electricity in Kasese District. You can read other inspiring articles like this one on the BMS World Mission website (www.bmsworldmission.org), or in Engage magazine. If you would like to find out more about the BMS World Mission, please visit the website’s About us page (www.bmsworldmission.org/about-us). If you do not have access to the internet, please speak to Lindsey Gray.

Christian Aid week 12–18 May 2013 Christian Aid has its roots in the after-math of World War II, when British and Irish church leaders met, determined to do all that was possible to help European refugees who had lost everything. Their purpose was not to evangelize, but to al-

leviate suffering for ordinary people, no matter what their faith. In the years since, the organization has fought poverty, strengthened the poor, and turned hope into action.

The core belief of Christian Aid is that poverty is an outrage against hu-

manity. Poverty robs people of dignity, freedom and hope, and of power

over their own lives. Christian Aid thus exists to help those in need – re-

gardless of religion, ethnicity or nationality.

Christian Aid recognizes that it cannot eradicate poverty by itself, howev-

er. It therefore works with and through partners overseas: churches, ecu-

menical bodies, local NGOs and movements who have common values

and competence in poverty eradication. It tackles poverty on many levels

– working on humanitarian relief, long-term development, specific advo-

cacy issues and campaigns for change and influence. Information on many projects around the world can be found on the Christian Aid website (www.christianaid.org.uk). Christian Aid week in Peebles aims to raise money through various events, including a market stall, coffee morning and plant stall, and an art auction (18 May). We need home-baking for the coffee morning and mar-ket stall, seedlings/plants for the plant stall, and donations of art for the auction. If you are able to help in any way, please contact Helen Holt (01721 723735; helenholt.peebles@gmail.com;). A full programme of events will be released in May. We also need volunteers to deliver and collect envelopes door-to-door. New collectors are needed for, among other areas, The Loanings, Provost Melrose Place, Provost Walker Court, Eshiels, The Bridges and Venlaw Bank. If you don’t like the thought of collecting money, why not soften the blow by offering everyone you collect from a chocolate? The money raised in this way accounts for well over half of the total, so it is a vital part of the fund-raising effort. (Contact Sue Isherwood on 01721 721252.)

April Services Sunday 7 April

Children: Christine Drummond and Janlyn Townley

Communion Servers: Liz Donald and Fergus Brown

Flowers: Margaret McLennan

Stewards: Jenny Jacobs and Liz Donald

Teas: Kenny Hamilton

‘Transport’ and ‘Setting up’: Team 1

Sunday 14 April

Children: Bill Jacobs, Carlyn McCall and Kirstin Gray

Flowers: Linda Bell

Stewards: Stan Henderson and Pat Hamilton

Teas: Hazel Hoggan

‘Transport’ and ‘Setting up’: Team 2

Transport

Team 1 – Margaret Cowan, Jackie Tidder, Frank Drummond

Team 2 – Lindsey Gray, Douglas McCall, Margaret Cowan

Setting up

Team 1 – Callum Gray, David Tidder, Frank Drummond, Janet Smith,

Team 2 – Janet Smith, Bill Jacobs, Jacqueline Wilson

Services in Victoria Park Centre, unless otherwise indicated

Pastor: Ian Gray

07881 518854

pastor@peeblesbaptistchurch.org

Secretary: Christine Drummond

01721 722062

Treasurer: Liz Keiro

01721 730217

Website: http://peeblesbaptistchurch.org

Sunday 21 April (Believers’ Baptism and Church Lunch)

Children: Jenny Jacobs, Pat Hamilton and Wilma Wintour

Communion Servers: Christine Drummond and Carlyn McCall

Flowers: Vi Brown

Stewards: Kirstin Gray and Hazel Hoggan

Teas: Stan Henderson

‘Transport’ and ‘Setting up’: Team 1

Sunday 28 April

Children: Rab Bramhall, Janlyn Townley and Christine Drummond

Flowers: Helen Henderson

Stewards: Frank Drummond and Wilma and Willie Wintour

Teas: Janlyn Townley

‘Transport’ and ‘Setting up’: Team 2

Laying Communion Table in April

Carlyn McCall

Services in Victoria Park Centre, unless otherwise indicated

Pastor: Ian Gray

07881 518854

pastor@peeblesbaptistchurch.org

Secretary: Christine Drummond

01721 722062

Treasurer: Liz Keiro

01721 730217

Website: http://peeblesbaptistchurch.org

Articles for the magazine

We would like the magazine to be as informative and relevant as possible. We

aim to provide news about Peebles Baptist Church, it’s wider concerns and in-

volvement, and Peebles Churches Together. If you have anything you feel you

could provide a regular report about, or something you feel should be included

in the magazine one month, a Christian book review, a report on an event etc.,

please do get in touch with us at magazine@peeblesbaptistchurch.org. All arti-

cles should be sent to this email address by the 12th of every month. If you do

not have internet access or if you think you might have a problem meeting the

deadline one month, please don’t let that put you off. Speak to Morag Bramhall

to see how best you can supply something. We would love to have you involved

in this project and enhance our church community.

Eco Tip

Storing fruit with a bit of care can make it last longer

and reduce waste. For example, bananas emit eth-

ylene, which encourages fruit to ripen. So store

them separately if you don't want your other fruit to

soften, but put them next to an unripe avocado if

you plan to make guacamole soon.

Pat’s Corner

Stevie opened the big bible that had been in the family for years. He was

astonished by all the underlinings and notes written between the lines and in

the margins. Suddenly something fell out from the pages. He picked up the

object and noticed it was a dry leaf that had been pressed between the pages.

“Mum” look what I have just found" called Stevie.

“What is it my son” she said.

“Mum, Mum”, he yelled very excited, “I think I have found Adam's

underwear!"