Category Archives: People
Lunch Club is Back
How do you fancy a nice home-cooked lunch with tea and coffee afterwards and all for £5? Then come along to our Lunch Club starting on Thursday 3rd February at 12.30pm in the church hall. 2 courses plus tea/coffee for £5. We are fortunate to have acquired the services of experienced chef, Jim Aird fromContinue reading “Lunch Club is Back”
Lunch Club
How do you fancy a nice home-cooked lunch with tea and coffee afterwards and all for £5? Then come along to our new Lunch Club starting on Thursday (note different day) 14th October at 12.30pm in the church hall. We are fortunate to have acquired the services of experienced chef, Jim Aird from Forbeshill, toContinue reading “Lunch Club”
Introducing the Sass Family
My name is Steven Sass and I have been married to Marina for almost 16 years. We have two boys, Karl (12) and Fredrich (10). I have been in fulltime Ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church in South-Africa since 2002. I studied at the University of Stellenbosch and received the following degrees: Bth(IV) Mdiv. andContinue reading “Introducing the Sass Family”
Donations of White Goods needed – Urgently
We are trying to help a family coming to work for the Church in Forres in the first week in August. They have only the suitcases of clothes they can carry having given all their household to poor people where they have left. The aim is to ask all Forres Christians if they have any surplus whiteContinue reading “Donations of White Goods needed – Urgently”
Cheap Grace
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906- 09 April 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and keyContinue reading “Cheap Grace”
Challenge Poverty Week
During the month of October we are encouraged by the Scottish Churches to reflect on our responses to poverty, both personally and at a Church level. Many people from all the Churches give their support to poverty minimising activities like Food Banks. Others help lobby their MPs and MSPs to address the needs of low income families and single people of all ages living alone. For further information please follow the online link: https://www.challengepoverty.net/ PleaseContinue reading “Challenge Poverty Week”
St Leonards Church 