As with many emergency service providers, they as individuals go un noticed, un thanked until we personally need them. However, as with all harvests we must share what we receive. And, from the RNLI we receive a safer island, safer seas, and loved ones returned.
Our harvest is great here in Scotland, we have more than enough of everything we need, we have love, shelter and a God who journeys with us from the storms of life. Please prayerfully consider giving your harvest offering to the RNLI this year during our service. Morag’ s nephew will be our speaker.
PS we shall of course collect the usual dried food and tins for the local food bank. Our very own Yvonne has just started one up. Ask her
about her work as one of God’ s harvesters😊
The Glebe( Giovanna’ s Address)
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God bless you
Lesley-ann +
The Glebe, known as‘ Church furlong, rectory manor or parson’ s closet’ is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest.
This land could have been a donation to the church, at the time when churches did not pay the parson who had to maintain himself either by farming or by letting out the land, the word comes from French‘ glebe’, originally Latin‘ gleba or glaeba’ meaning‘ soil, clod, land’.
It could entail complete farms, houses, mills or works. In Scotland this kind of land was transferred by Act of Parliament in 1925 to the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland.
The land next door, now St Oswald’ s Mews, was given to St Oswald’ s by the firm McTaggart and Mickel before the original church was built in 1931.
Next door to it a larger brick church was built in the 1960’ s. When the congregation moved back into the 1931 church, McTaggart and Mickel bought back the land and, generously, also demolished the brick church to create the site for the houses next door, where Giovanna now lives.
The land, since it had been a donation, could have been called a Glebe, but was never used to maintain the parson’ s living. Now, of course, it is no longer church land.
Brigitte Williams