Guild

The Guild today
 

The Guild is about invitation, encouragement, commitment and fellowship which leads to providing opportunities for continuing growth in Christian faith through worship, prayer and action.
 

Worship is an essential ingredient in all meetings and activities. Prayer underpins everything – and is a means of involving those members who cannot be active in other ways.
 

Action means living out the faith through project work, exploration of the discussion topics and local involvement of groups and individual members in various aspects of Christian service.

 

Aims and ethos 
Women and men of all walks of life meet together under our common aim

 

If you would like more information please contact admin@balfronchurch.org.uk

 

 

A letter from your President....

 

Hello Friends,

 

I am sitting in the office thinking over the meetings that we have had during the last guild year and I am very impressed with the places we have been to with the aid of our speakers. Remember our visit to Uzbekistan with Jean Armstrong.  Was she not a very gifted speaker who took us to various houses where the Secret Blessed Believers met, and gave thanks for the opportunity of being together to praise God for all He had done in their lives in this unsettled country.

 

November was a very much travelled month as we went to Fintry to hear the musical group ‘Clydebuilt’ who sang traditional songs of the Clyde area and some very amusing songs written by themselves.
 

Then we travelled Killearn to hear John Challis talk about the ambulance boat that was built in Macduff then transported to Lake Malawi.  All this was done through ‘The Raven Trust’ in Malawi.
 

Our open meeting was the next event and we had Joanna Hall from the BBC to take us on a trip around Britain with her various jobs until she found herself working for BBC Scotland with L.A.B. which records groups from the youngest of children up to the age of 95 so far and was willing to go higher. Joanna invited any of the guilds to visit the new BBC Headquarters with a view to recording their memories of and present day experience of the Guild. Our final event in November was to join with Fintry for a Guild Week joint event to stage a show by a group of Zimbabwe dancers who enthralled all of us fortunate to see them with their drama, songs and their very energetic dancing. It was a thrilling end to a busy month.

 

We went to the States through the medium of film in December, but we did it in style. We had sweets, popcorn and ice cream .

 

In January we went to Killearn for our festive dinner.  We may only have travelled 2½ miles but from the warmth of our friendship we could have been in the Tropics.

 

In February we were taken to the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro by a very brave lady who had suffered a severe injury to her foot and fought her way back to health to achieve her dream of climbing this mountain.  What a wonderful person this lady is. She filled each of us with hope.

 

In March we stayed at home because the snow was so severe that we had to cancel our speaker who was to take us on a journey through the bible with the ladies of the bible but she said she would come next guild session.

 

Finally we have reached April and our A.G.M.  We still have the same committee but we are trying a new format so why don’t you ladies or men with an hour or two to spare please join us on the last Tuesday of the months of September through to April for an evening of travel and fellowship?  Who knows where we will get to.

 

May God our Father richly bless you all. Take care and I’ll see you all in September

Your friend Aye

Elsie