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BUILDING PROJECT
Cast your mind back 12 months to the AGM in
March 2016 when initial plans were presented
on the proposed building project. Estimated
When the current building opened in 1976,
costs were detailed amounting to £1.2 million
I am sure that the leadership had no vision that
with initial targets of £300k needed, to be able
to seek financial assistance from banks for the one day we would have adult learning classes,
English language classes, two church
remainder.
services on a Sunday morning. What has God
got in store for us with this new project that we
Those milestones seemed so far away and have not even dreamed about? When we look
difficult to achieve. Now having just back in a few years we will see that God had
completed May 2017’s accounts, £272,464 the same plans for us now as He did in 1976
has been donated. I have been monitoring and as He did in Jeremiah 29:11 when he said
month on month how much has been “For I know the plans I have for you, declares
contributed and completing a forecast of when the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm
we will meet the various milestones. Every you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
month, bar none, the contributions have Why would we not be excited and want to be
exceeded that which I have forecasted.
involved in it?
Personally I have been blown away by the A new website has been developed at http://
generosity of you all and am really excited together.highkirk.org.uk so that everyone
about what lies ahead when the building can follow the project and receive information
project comes to completion.
along the way. It also details the various ways
to give whether monthly standing order,
I can’t wait to hear the chat from parents when regular giving through the property envelopes,
they arrive to collect their children from our one-off donations or gift days. If you need
various organisations and can stand and catch more information on any of these, there are
up with each other in the corridor, instead of links on the new website to direct you to where
waiting for their children to be released into you will find it; alternatively stop me anytime
a busy car park. The buzz from the new social and ask. I am only too happy to help.
space, when the whole congregation can
share together before and after the services,
without the fear of being hit by one of the Together Changing Lives
children playing; that those children can play
with their friends in safety without the risk of James Hamill
spilling tea or coffee.
