Taking faith onto the streets

Encouraging article here about various public acts of witness over the Easter weekend

Cafe Project

A meeting of the project team for the cafe took place last night. For me, this has been one of the most exciting times in my time at Hilton Church, as we have seen the project "take wings" over the last 5 months. We are hopefully moving into the final phase of the project prior to construction. We are aiming to start the construction work in June and we have £60,000 to raise before then. One last push to get across the starting line!

Balloons on Easter Sunday

The picture is of last years service at Dores when the weather was a little kinder to us. Easter will not be this early again for 152 years, so hopefully the weather will be a little warmer next year! Gadget Vicar has some very colourful pictures of a release of balloons at St Silas' to celebrate Easter. Is this something we could do at Hilton? It's great to go to places like Dores to celebrate our faith publicly. It would be good to do something too in the immediate vicinity of the church. Any ideas?

speed and spirituality

A post from Jim Gordon to make you smile which you can read here

EASTER SUNDAY 2008

Easter Sunday 2008 was a wonderful day at Hilton Church. It began at 8am with an early morning service at Dores Beach (above) led by our youth group. They led the service brilliantly. The bacon rolls and hot drinks which followed were very welcome on such a cold morning. The morning continued with 2 very celebratory morning services at 10am & 11.30am, and the day closed with an uplifting praise service at 6.30pm.

One of my main reflections on Sunday, is the way it which so many people pulled together to make it such a memorable day. Thank you to everyone who made Easter Sunday 2008 a special one at Hilton Church. It's great to be a part of a church where so many people share their gifts so freely.

Duncan

BROKEN OPEN

Powerful poetry for Easter which you can see and read at
here

EASTER 2008

I'm back! I haven't blogged since leaving for Uganda in January. I seemed to be the main one contributing to the blog, so I wanted to step back and see what happened when I didn't blog! It's been pretty quiet! On Thursday the blog had its 1st birthday. I've enjoyed reading other peoples contributions over the past year, and I hope that in a variety of ways we can continue to stimulate sharing through this medium. There is just so much going on around Hilton Church these days.

On Thursday, we shared in a Passover meal as we remembered Jesus sharing bread and wine with his disciples on that first Maunday Thursday. Last night, we shared in a very special Communion service to mark Good Friday. In the time of waiting between Friday and Sunday, I have been deeply moved by a blog I read this morning

http://www.freshworship.org/node/517

Duncan

Jewels of Hope

Many thanks for the support given by folk on Sunday when £130 was raised for the Jewels of Hope project.
Jewels of Hope is a project of Love In Action, a Lesotho based organisation which supports, among other things, child-headed households. The youngsters meet weekly in groups, spend time looking at the scriptures and in worship, and learn to make new pieces of jewellery. They then take home materials to make another six pieces over the week.
The money that the children earn supports them and their families, and is often the only income that the household gets. The aim of the project is to keep the children as part of the local community rather than them finding themselves and their younger siblings in an institution or orphanage. Of the money raised, half goes towards buying more materials, postage costs and the likes, and the other half goes directly to the children.

Robyn

Fancy a Drink?

In the “old days” before belt-tightening I used to be obliged to attend a conference at Crieff Hydro each year. Oh it was hard! The luxury, the food, the pool…………the shirt and tie and jacket at dinner……………now that was hard!
Other little things caught my attention. The great black sooty cloud of ravens which used to become unsettled and circle at the same time every day. You could set your watch by them. Or by the sound of horses hooves on the road every morning at 6.30am as the accountant from the town came up to take his beast out to pasture for the day before going off to the office. And I enjoyed the morning walk before the cooked breakfast.
It was on my walk that I would visit the water fountain – a natural spring flowing freely for the thirsty and beside which was a text in stone “Whoever drinks this water will thirst again but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.” John 4:13. All very nice, but beside it one year was another text from the management – This water is unfit for human consumption!
Anyway, if you want a really refreshing drink definitely fit for human consumption, can I suggest “Mark for Everyone” by Tom Wright. Having read Mark on and off for 31 years it was utterly refreshing to read it with the clear, sparkling, conversational wisdom of Tom Wright.
Indeed, he has a whole series on the New Testament books, so you if you are in the mood for huge draughts put your mouth to the pipe.
Colm