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17th of August 2pm , outside the Crichton Chapel. We will gather this August to meet with each other and God. To bathe in the green, and look for signs of harvest. As is our custom we will gather outside the Crichton chapel at 2pm on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome […]
If you haven’t heard of A-Rocha before then please visit their website! We went to a presentation by them in Dumfries Baptist Church a few years ago, and have recently been sent a link to some resources for Autumn 2025
We will gather on the 17th at 2pm in the Crichton estate as usual We will meet in peace We will read from the book We will walk around the estate and re-acquaint ourselves with old friends after the summer holidays – reading from creation. We will pray Will will share fellowship with each other.
I’ve been working on something for the holiday club at St Johns this week. While I was searching my files I found this clip I made for a school assembly. Carry on making the world a better place!
Have you been to visit the high cross at Ruthwell yet? It is one of several crosses which were raised in the area between Whithorn and Bamburgh at the hight of Anglian power. This cross is particularly famous because it has words from a poem called “The Dream of the Rood” engraved on it. The […]
I used to publish “online pilgrimages” rather than digital way to access physical locations, these were journeys through cyberspace. They are a bit like “mixtapes” from the cassette tape era. People would spend ages recording songs from the radio, or compiling selections of tunes that represented a mood or communicated with each other. So here […]
We will meet as Forest Church on the 3rd Sunday in August (the 17th) at 2pm outside the Crichton Chapel Raspberries are already ripe. The time for collecting brambles is drawing near! You may have already noticed the first fruits. For those further west than Dumfries here is some news from Asheiri During August the […]
The Rev Oliver Brewer-Lennon, Rector of St Michael and All Saints, Edinburgh took to the airwaves this Sunday morning as a guest panellist on BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning programme with Tony Kearney. The programme, which is available to listen to here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002g2v covered a variety of topics. Rev Oliver joined Ravi Ladva, a member […]
In 2018 St Johns held a festival of talents. Not a competition! But an opportunity to recognise all the wonderful talents congregation members had.
What do the letters stand for? If you root around the website you will find an explanation of what the abreviation means. However, those three letters also stand for years of meeting together to study scripture, praying together, sharing cake and coffee. We each bring something with us from the varied backgrounds we have, and […]