revealed 26 August 2024
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Newport-on-Tay Church in Fife, Scotland celebrated 900m A CHURCH ANNIVERSARY IN FORGAN PARISH.
The church, which is within the previous parish of Forgan, celebrated the achievement on Sunday August 18 with an open-air service within the kirkyard across the previous ruined Forgan Church led by their minister, Rev Dr Amos Chewachong.
Dr Amos stated the day was a reminder to these current ‘of their function as trustworthy builders, charged with preserving and nurturing the legacy left by generations earlier than them.’
“The 900th anniversary of the Church of Newport-on-Tay in Scotland was not solely a celebration of historical past, however a dedication to the lasting legacy of Christ,” he stated.
“Because the congregation left the historic partitions of Forgan Church, they did so with renewed goal, able to construct upon a basis that has stood the take a look at of time.”
Ruins close to the church most likely date from the fourteenth century, with a church on the location relationship from 1124.
The previous church sat a couple of miles from the shore cottages that then made up the village. In line with historic Kirk Session information, elders have been typically despatched mid-service to Newport to seek out absentees.
The current church was fashioned after Forgan Church closed in 1981 to merge with St. Thomas to kind the Church of Newport-on-Tay in Scotland.
Mary Shiels, an elder on the Church of Newport-on-Tay in Scotland, stated the congregation, aged 9 to 89, was ‘blessed with a splendidly sunny and heat morning.’
“We’re grateful to acknowledge the achievements of those early worshipers who, by way of their imaginative and prescient, arduous work and all their religion, have been capable of present a powerful basis for Christian worship on this parish,” he stated.
“Allow us to salute them and pray to God to assist them proceed their endeavours,” he stated.
