All age worship at Hilton Church was a very International affair on Sunday morning. During the Service, Kevin McPhee shared about the amazing welcome he received as a visitor to a very remote area of Papua New Guinea. Kevin and Dorcas, spent a year living in PNG and returned to Inverness in February. He encouraged us to think about the way that we welcome one another, and how we welcome Jesus into our lives.
On a day when we remembered Jesus of Nazereth entering Jerusalem, we also welcomed Fareed Shehadeh and his family to the church. Fareed is a Baptist Minister who lives in Haifa, but works in Nazareth. He is spending a week with Iain Macritchie learning about Chaplaincy at Raigmore Hospital. He brought us a word of encouragement. In Israel, at the end of the main course people are reminded “to keep the fork.” The fork is for the dessert, the sweet and tasty dish that is coming next. Palm Sunday, he told us, is about “keeping the fork”, looking forward to the great and sweet reality which Easter points to. KEEP THE FORK!
In our evening worship, we looked at the relationship between Christianity and Politics. CARE have produced an excellent dvd called Make the Cross Count, which encourages Christians to engage with the Scottish elections on 3rd May.
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