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Services and Events

All Sunday Services normally start at 10am.
Joint Parish Services in Yester Church and Humbie Church also now start at 10am

Date Place Minister
Sunday School & Fish People Notes

Oct. 23rd 2011 Saltoun Rev.M.Lyon Yes(?)

Oct.30th 2011 Yester Rev.M.Lyon No Joint parishes service.

Nov. 6th 2011 Bolton Rev.John Cameron Yes

Nov.13th 2011 Saltoun Rev.M.Lyon Yes Remembrance Service

Nov. 20th 2011 Bolton Rev.M.Lyon No Communion Service.

Nov. 27th 2011 Saltoun Rev. Ian Bird Yes

Dec. 4th 2011 Bolton Rev.M.Lyon Yes

Dec. 11th 2011 Saltoun Mr.Jim Black Yes

Dec.18th 2011 Bolton Mr.John Buchan Yes

Dec. 24th 2011 Saltoun Rev. M. Lyon No Watchnight service starts at 11.30pm.

Dec.25th 2011 Yester Rev.M.Lyon No Joint Parishes service.

Jan 1st 2012 Yester Rev.M.Lyon No Joint Parishes Service

Jan 8th 2012 Saltoun Rev.M.Lyon Yes(?)

Jan 15th 2012 Bolton Mr.Jim Black Yes

Jan 22nd 2012 Saltoun Congregation Yes

Jan 29th Humbie Rev.M.Lyon Yes Joint Parishes Service

Feb 5th 2012 Saltoun Rev.M.Lyon Yes

Feb 12th 2012 Bolton Mr.Jim Black Yes

Feb 19th 2012 Saltoun Rev.M.Lyon No Communion Service

Dec. 4th 2011 Bolton Rev.M.Lyon Yes

Thereafter the usual pattern until the February 2012 Communion Service in Saltoun.

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Events and Occurrences: 2010/2011.

Text of the Session Clerk/Beadle's Letter of Resignation/Retiral in September 2010

From the Outgoing Clerk to the congregation. “Tempus Fugit”.

A short History Lesson for you .... On one day in 1979 Miss Nan Wallace was ordained an Elder in Bolton and Saltoun churches, and that same day was appointed to the role of Session Clerk. For fifteen years thereafter Nan served in that post, until she retired in 1994. Our then minister, Rev.John Wilson, asked if I would take on her mantle, and also the job of Beadle to the two churches, posts which had been vacant for a good number of years. I said that - Yes, I would, and if God were willing I would serve the same length of time that Nan had done, and would then step down in my turn. Well, that was sixteen years ago. I did, and now I have.

At the August Session Meeting in 2010, I started the process of handing over the various tasks of Session Clerk and Beadle. In the complex Church of the 21st Century this is not the simple matter it was a generation ago, and involves the transferring of much hardware, historic and current papers, software files, CD-ROMs and passing on familiarity with protocols, procedures and processes that our forefathers could never have dreamed of. Also quite a lot of work. [I once heard an Elder (of another Kirk) say “I don’t know why we bother with Session Meetings and things like that. Churches just run themselves”. My unspoken response was some very hollow laughter indeed!]

Can I do better than quote Tennyson and Mort D‘Arthur.... “The old order changeth , yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world”. And if that sounds a bit pompous in the circumstances, then remember that other saying – “the graveyards of the world are filled with indispensable people”.

Like King Arthur, I do not disappear totally. I will continue meantime to host this B&S Website. If anyone wishes to relieve me of this task, replacing my somewhat passé HTML code with Cascading Style Sheets, or XML or whatever is in vogue these days, I will be happy to consider the offer. Otherwise I will plod on. But thank you for your forbearance over these past sixteen years. We have had quite a long voyage together.

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