A very warm welcome awaits you at Insch Leslie Premnay Oyne Parish Church on Sunday 9th March at 10.30am. An especially warm welcome to any visitors who may be worshipping with us.
During Lent, we will be producing daily reflections based on the writings of the Irish priest and philosopher John O’Donohue. If you would like to receive these by e-mail each day during Lent, please pass on your email address to the minister.
Please e-mail Susan Donald, Session Clerk with the details on susandonald14@btinternet.com or call her on 01464 820045 or 07716 805879.
If you know of anyone who is ill, bereaved or feeling lonely and you think they would benefit from a visit from a member of our Pastoral Care Team we can be contacted on 07716 884335.
This year’s appeal for used stamps is to support Agroforestry in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We would be very grateful for any used stamps you are able to donate. There is a post box in the Church vestibule. Thanks to all of you who donate stamps and to Aileen and Fred who trim the stamps for us.
A number of our congregation are very appreciative of the lift they get to Church. If anyone would be willing and able to help by providing a lift to Church, please add your name and contact details to the volunteer sheet on the Table in the vestibule. Many thanks.
Urgently requires the following:
• 1ltr Fruit Juice,
• Jam,
• Pasta Sauce,
• Tinned Fish,
• Tinned Tomatoes and
• UHT milk.
They are running low on Cereal bars, Small jars of Coffee, Cup-a-soup, Dry rice, Hot Dogs, Tinned Meat, Instant Mash, Instant Noodles, Jellies, Tinned Custard, Tinned Macaroni, Tinned Potatoes, Rice Pudding, Tinned Spaghetti, Tinned Stewed Steak, Chicken in Sauce, Mince and Pies, Tinned Vegetables and Toiletries.
The BIBLE STUDY GROUP meets on Monday evening at 7.30pm in Insch Church Hall to continue our studies in Lent. We are in week three of our Lent Study using ' He chose the nails' Max Lucado. ''He Chose to love us forever''
The KIRK SESSION & CONGREGATIONAL BOARD OF Insch-Leslie-Premnay-Oyne Parish Church meet in Insch Church Hall at 7.30pm.
Sunday Worship will be led by Rev. Ian Manson at 10.30am in Insch Church.
FUN & FRIENDSHIP GROUP meets in Insch Church Hall from 2 – 4pm.
Bingo Night for Scouts Kent Trip in August. 6pm for 6.30pm start. Bring your own snacks. Tea/Coffee & Home Bakes at halftime for a donation. Raffles.
On behalf of Aberdeenshire North Food Bank, I would like to thank the very generous folk at Insch-Leslie-Premnay-Oyne Church for the wonderful 112.6 kg of food donations that were delivered to the Food Bank at St James’s Place on Friday morning.
We are so dependent on local people, like yourselves, giving us their support in this way because our current statistics do not make for comfortable reading. In the first month of 2025, across our network of five food banks in Inverurie, Huntly, Ellon, Fraserburgh and Peterhead, we took in 3994.08kg of stock but distributed in the same month 5584.12kg of food in emergency parcels across our area. It will obviously be a challenge to sustain this level of discrepancy for long and we truly value all donations of both food and money that come our way.
As you can appreciate, with the cost-of-living crisis continuing to unfold as we watch, we are seeing both an increase in requests for help and, sadly, a reduction in donations because people simply don’t have the spare cash to buy extra to give away.
We are finding ourselves regularly having to buy in quantities of stock that we are short of, in order to meet the nutritional requirements for each food parcel going out. None of this comes as a surprise but it makes us appreciate all the more the faithful and generous support that the Food Bank in Inverurie continues to receive from the kind-hearted folk in Insch-Leslie-Premnay-Oyne Church who are more than willing to put their faith into action.
With grateful thanks and good wishes,
Marbeth Ritchie