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growth has fostered frustration or perhaps even annoyance in some. Dear
friends, what God is doing in us can be hard and difficult to measure by results.
Faithful patience is required as it can take years to see the flowering, but come
it will!
As I now prepare to leave Lausanne I am thankful for what I leave behind. A
wealth of leadership in people: enabled, strengthened, permitted and most
definitely, committed to loving and serving Christ our Lord in this world.
With dedication to the Common Good and by remaining accountable to one
another, YOU are the Body of Christ, that is this community of faith.
I pray for you all and for the Love of Christ;
…
Ian
Letter from the Interim Moderator
Hi there, and greetings to you as we move into a new and exciting phase of
the life of the congregation.
New situations can be unsettling
– and a Vacancy, as some of you
may recall, can generate a
mixture of emotions… the thrill of
the unknown, and the sense of
loss of the familiar – and it’s a
situation that brings opportunity
as well as challenge. So,
patience, understanding and
loyalty are very important…
patience as we work through
the sometimes convoluted and
bureaucratic processes of finding
a new minister, understanding
as things don’t always go quite to
plan or timetable – and loyalty
as the life of the church
continues and we meet for worship, to carry out the responsibilities, and as we
support the work with our normal levels of commitment.
Things will feel different, and we will need a good spirit of generous tolerance
and flexibility as we pray, plan and work to find a new minister for this charge.
There are scores of vacancies out there - across Scotland, and in Europe at the
moment – and not a huge number of ministers available from whom to choose.
This is the reality for church life in the Church of Scotland today, so the task
entrusted to the Nominating Committee when it is formed in the early summer,