Grapevine - July / August 2010

I believe that we have so much to be grateful for at Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church. We have three services of worship each Sunday for ten months of the year. On the whole, each service is well attended. Our Sunday School is very strong, both in terms of staff commitment and the number of children on our roll. On Sunday 27th June, members who attend the early service had the most enjoyable picnic at Vogrie Country Park. The sun was shining, the children played games and ate
sponge cake while the adults bathed in the heat and relaxed with conversation. The leadership
of the church, at Kirk Session and Business Committee, is in good heart and, in particular, there has been an enormous amount of thought, time and energy put into the planning of our September Festival of Meditation and Prayer.

It is important tome thatwe continue to evolve as a congregation whose faith is rational and
rooted in reality. It is important to fight against the narrow materialism of science, the view that
the material world as we can measure it is all that there is, and, equally, it is important to interpret Holy scripture with the greatest of care acknowledging that somuch of the narrative is .....................