Dear Friends,

 

Once again, I have highlighted a couple of things happening you might want to take a note of. Please let me know if you are planning something or are involved in an activity others would enjoy coming to.

 

REGULAR SUNDAY WORSHIP

 

 

 

1 OCTOBER

 

10.30am – Weem Parish Church

 

LINKAGE SERVICE + HARVEST – Neil Glover

10.30am – Aberfeldy Parish Church

No service

10.30am – Logierait Parish Church

No service

10.30am - Tenandry Parish Church

Karl Weidner

5.30pm - Aberfeldy Evening Service

 

No service

 

 

ZOOM SERVICE DETAILS

 

Sunday Zoom Services – 10:30am - (Rm 920 598 9200, password 316316 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9205989200)

SORRY THIS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE EVERY WEEK

 

 

SERMONS

Neil’s sermons are now available for you to read on the Aberfeldy Church Websit

 

CHURCH NEWS FOR OCTOBER

 

• FUNERALS & THANKSGIVING SERVICES

 

      Flora Wilson – details to be confirmed

 

 

      Julian Haviland – Friday 6 October -2pm – Tenandry Kirk (See details below)

Dear friends, 

 

We will be holding a service of thanksgiving for our beloved husband, father and grandfather Julian Haviland on Friday 6th October at Tenandry Kirk, near Pitlochry.   The service will begin at 2pm and will be followed afterwards by food and refreshments at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.  

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Church+of+Scotland+Tenandry+Kirk/@56.7324116,-3.7812536,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4888a9cbae001333:0xcf5a35b77ec9b3e2!8m2!3d56.7324116!4d-3.7812536!16s%2Fg%2F1v2ppt0q?entry=ttu

 

Since Tenandry is not a large church, it's possible numbers will exceed capacity.  We may therefore to have to ask some people to stand outside, where they will be able listen to an audio feed of the service through loudspeakers.  We must stress that we do not want this to deter anybody from attending.  Our father had a huge family but also huge numbers of friends, and all those who wish to remember him with us will be equally welcome.  We are likely to ask some of the younger generations to remain outside the church should the need arise.

 

As there will be no parking available at the church, we will be arranging the following:

 

1)    Shuttle bus to transport people from the Festival Theatre car park to the church and back.

 

2)    Private parking at the Garry Bridge car park (which will be closed to the general public), for anybody who wishes to drive.  From the car park, it's a 10/15 minute walk uphill to Tenandry Kirk along a minor tarmac road.  Or, alternatively, the shuttle bus coming from Pitlochry will be able to pick you up at the car park.

 

Since Covid-19 is still very much around, we will be offering blue surgical face masks at the entrance to the Kirk to anyone who wishes to wear one.  We do not want anyone to feel awkward about doing so if that's their preference.

 

We do not wish to exclude anyone who turns up unannounced, but to give us a rough idea of numbers, we would be grateful if people could RSVP to me, Richard Haviland, at this e-mail address - rfhaviland@yahoo.com - by Saturday 16th September.    In your reply, please also say whether you will be needing seats on the shuttle bus from and back to either the Festival Theatre or the Garry Bridge car park.   

 

Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think might like to see it.

 

With love and best wishes from all the Haviland family

 

Caroline, Peter, Charlie, Richard

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• CAP HIGHLAND PERTHSHIRE are offering free budgeting advice, benefit checks and support to complete benefit applications as well as their usual support for people struggling with unmanageable debt at a monthly drop-in session at the Advice & Information Hub at Aberfeldy Health Centre on the first Monday of each month from 11.00am – 1.00pm.  Please spread the word about this new, helpful, free service.

Next meeting - Monday 2 October

 

FORTHCOMING CHURCH SERVICES

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8 OCTOBER

 

9.30am – Weem Parish Church

 

Margaret Yearsley

10.30am – Aberfeldy Parish Church

Nicolas Leigh Hunt

10.30am – Logierait Parish Church

Neil Glover - Harvest

10.30am - Tenandry Parish Church

John Hayward

5.30pm - Aberfeldy Evening Service

 

No service

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15 OCTOBER

 

9.30am – Weem Parish Church

 

Tommy Pringle

10.30am – Aberfeldy Parish Church

Geoff Davis

10.30am – Logierait Parish Church

Margaret Yearsley

10.30am - Tenandry Parish Church

Donald Strathairn

5.30pm - Aberfeldy Evening Service

 

No service

 

 

 

22 OCTOBER

 

9.30am – Weem Parish Church

 

Neil Glover

10.30am – Aberfeldy Parish Church

Neil Glover – Communion + Harvest + Strategy Day

10.30am – Logierait Parish Church

Rose Patterson

10.30am - Tenandry Parish Church

David Hamilton

5.30pm - Aberfeldy Evening Service

 

No service

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29 OCTOBER

 

9.30am – Weem Parish Church

 

Margaret Yearsley

10.30am – Aberfeldy Parish Church

Donald Strathairn

10.30am – Logierait Parish Church

No Service - with St Andrew’s

10.30am - Tenandry Parish Church

Rose Patterson

5.30pm - Aberfeldy Evening Service

 

No service

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OUR REGULAR CHURCH BASED AND COMMUNITY EVENTS

 

 

ABERFELDY PARISH CHURCH

 

 

• STAY AND PLAY - Tuesdays 9.30 -11.30am

 

• PRAYER MEETING – Wednesday Evenings 5.00pm. We meet in Farragon and as always everyone is welcome to come along.

 

• ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS – ABERFELDY PARISH CHURCH, KITCHEN

Tuesday evenings 7.30 – 9pm

Contact –- 0800 917 7650

 

• QUILTING GROUP –ABERFELDY PARISH CHURCH, FARRAGON HALL

Thursdays - 11.am – 3pm

Contact Jane – 07771641390 or Annette – 07736384035

 

• WARM WELCOME CAFÉ AND STAY AND PLAY

Tuesday mornings

Warm Welcome Café 10.00am -12.00pm

Stay and Play starts at 9.30am

Funding to support both activities has come from the Church of Scotland and Perth and Kinross Council

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BREATHE ACTIVITIES

 

• STAY AND PLAY - Tuesday weekly- Lawers- 9.30am-11.30am

No  Stay and Play 4th July- 1st August

 

• ROCK STEADY - 6pm-7.30pm

 

• ROCK STEADY XTREAME- P6-S1- 6pm-7.30pm Rock Steady After Hours - S2+ 7.45pm-9pm

 

• MESSY CHURCH - 4pm-6pm

 

STRATHTAY PARISH CHURCH

 

• COFFEE BREAK

The group meet every Wednesday in the John Kyd Hall beside Strathtay Church at 10.30am - all are welcome to come along and join in!

 

• QUILTING GROUP – JOHN KYD HALL

7 – 9pm on 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month

Contact Marie MacLeod – stytchandturn@btinternet.com

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DULL AND WEEM PARISH CHURCH

 

• CHIT CHAT CAFÉ – 1st Monday of the month in the McDonald Room, Dull and Weem Kirk at 2pm

For further information please contact Liz Bruce

Elizabeth_1_bruce@btinternet.com

 

• GUILD, IN THE MCDONALD ROOM  - Meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 2pm in the McDonald Room.  Elizabeth_1_bruce@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

 

Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership is keen to hear patients’ views about their GP premises.

 

To ensure you continue to have access to the best possible health care we are planning some changes to the way services are delivered in primary care, which includes your GP practice.

These changes are needed for a number of reasons which include:

 

· Nationally, GPs need to provide increasingly more complex care to a growing population

·  Perth and Kinross has an increasingly older population who have more complex needs

· There is a national shortage of doctors, including here in Perth and Kinross. This is due to issues with recruiting and retaining doctors and many of our doctors are nearing retirement

 

One of the ways to resolve some of those challenges is to move towards providing care to patients using a multi-disciplinary team. This means patients receive care from other health professionals working at the GP practice.

 

The team members work alongside the GP, and each member of the team has a particular skill set and specialist knowledge. For example, physiotherapists, pharmacists and mental health and wellbeing nurses. Another way to help use your time and the health professional's time better is to offer Telephone Appointments or Virtual Appointments.

 

To deliver the care needed today, and into the future, GP practices and the buildings where they are based, need to be able to adapt.

 

This survey is part of our Perth and Kinross Health and Social Partnership’s Primary Care Premises Strategy which sets out how we move from where we are now to a future which enables general practice to continue to meet the healthcare needs of the people in Perth & Kinross.

 

This survey is for people registered with a GP Practice in Perth & Kinross.  

 

Your responses will give us a better understanding of how patients view their local GP practice or health centre and help us to understand what patients think about how we should be planning for the future of service provision in local communities.

 

This survey is now live and will close on Sunday 15th October 2023. Please click the blue link below to complete survey.

 

https://consult.pkc.gov.uk/hscp/primary-care-gp-premises-patient-survey/

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• MID ATHOLL STRINGS AND THINGS were delighted to lead the worship on the evening of Etape Sunday at Weem Church.  Following the service, several members of the congregation were interested to hear about our group.  Our practices resume on Wednesday, 30th August in Mid Atholl Hall, Ballinluig at 7.30pm and we would welcome players of any age and ability.  We play mostly Scottish Traditional music and we have fiddle, accordion, guitar, flute and keyboard players in our group. Perhaps you played an instrument in the past – so what about dusting it down and coming along to join us.  We also enjoy entertaining at care homes and friendship and social groups so do get in touch if you would like us to provide entertainment for your group.  

              Sandra Batty  battysan152@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

DEMENTIA FRIENDLY ABERFELDY: UP AND COMING EVENTS

 

• SINGING FOR FUN 10.30am – 12.00pm – Birks Cinema (2nd and 4th Friday)

If you enjoy singing some of those good old favourites, please drop in!

Friday 29 September

 

 

• CARER’S DROP-IN – Town Hall are currently on hold as a new, exciting, plan is currently in the pipeline!

 

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HELP WITH THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS

 

Breadalbane Community Larder

 

The Community Larder’s Social Supermarket is open at Offizone on Kenmore Street each Saturday from 11.00am – 12.30pm for customers to purchase dried and tinned goods at a reduced rate – 4 items for £1. 

 

The FoodShare table at the rear of Aberfeldy Parish Church is open 24/7 and often has a variety of goods which would otherwise be sent to the Co-op’s bio-digester.  It’s our Christian responsibility to ‘tend the garden’ ie our planet so we can all do our bit to reduce food waste by ‘shopping’ at the FoodShare table from time to time.

Remember, this part of the Larder project is about reducing food waste as well as supporting those feeling the pinch in these difficult times.

 

If you know of anyone struggling to make ends meet, please let them know about the range of options provided by Breadalbane Community Larder.

The Larder is a joint initiative of several local churches and also involves members of the local community.  If you would like to be involved, please contact the team on 07513 ‍652597 or For emergency support call 0345 30 111 00 (Mon – Fri 9.00am – 5.00pm) or email breadalbanecommunitylarder@btinternet.com

 

If you know of anyone who is struggling to heat their house and / or pay their energy bills, please do pass them on to us at Warm Connections, and we would be delighted to advise on ways of reducing your energy consumption and bills. 

 

There is now a Facebook page for Warm Connections     https://www.facebook.com/WarmConnectionsScotland. We would love it if anyone could share, like or comment 

 

We have free radiator foil to give away, we can even come and fit it. Its a great idea for radiators that are on outside walls. Just use the contact us form on Facebook or our website https://warmconnections.net/#section-553-149

 

www.warmconnections.net or email advice@warmconnections.net.

 

 

 

CHURCH CONTACT DETAILS

 

Minister – Neil Glover

 

Neil’s email -  nglover@churchofscotland.org.uk

Neil’s mobile – 07779 280074

 

PA – Judy Ewer – judy.ewer@adwgls.org.uk

Mobile – 07836 565528

 

  Pastoral Assistants

Judy Ewer -  judy.ewer@adwgls.org.uk

Mobile - 07836 565528

Kate Scott –  kate@adwgls.org.uk

 

Mobile - 07760 320031