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