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Church Services suspended
The Scottish Government announced on Monday 4th January 2021 that increased restrictions, including the closure of places of worship would come into effect.
Please be advised that all church services at the North Church are cancelled until further notice.
Please note that, until further notice, all other Church activities are cancelled, all Church halls are closed, and the Church Office is closed.
South Mission Focus Group:
For planning purposes the Presbytery of Ayr is divided into four Mission
Focus Groups
(MFGs) (North, Central, East and South). We are in the South MFG and it, in
turn, is
divided into North Carrick based on Maybole and South Carrick based on
Girvan.
We in South Carrick have been allotted two full time ministers. There
already is a
minister in post at Ballantrae linked with St Colmon, so Girvan has one
post.
This means that Girvan South and Girvan North must unite and look after
Dailly and
Barr, leaving Ballantrae and St Colmon as they are. The Presbytery has
decided to
suspend any new ‘permission to call’ until May 2021. But this does not mean
that
nothing happens until then.
With the aid of Brian Duncan, Convener of the South MFG, we, together
with the five
other churches in South Carrick, are working through ‘Information for
Mission Focus
Groups’, which will result in a plan for South Carrick that will be ready
for the Mission
Committee in May 21.
It would be great if we could return to the days in which we had two
ministers in Girvan
but there is currently a great shortage of ministers, and even if we had
many it is
doubtful if the church nationally could afford to pay them.
However the changes we need to make should be faced positively and
enthusiastically. We all know that church-going has declined in recent
decades; this is
an opportunity to consolidate our resources and demonstrate more strongly
whose we
are and whom we serve.
With every blessing.
Jim Anderson.
