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Keep the Faith!

Gosh! It's really difficult sometimes, to turn the other cheek, to smile and to love your neighbour,-------to walk with God:

-------and even more tricky if you're a Fabric Convenor.

Sometimes it seems easy to just let it all go, to let the building rot and decay --- but there are the people to consider, the community around us; those with faith, those with a different faith and those with none. They either live or work among us, and have come to know our presence and through that we hope to know God and Jesus Christ.

Its all very well being flashy and hip when that is what is required, to provide soup and cafes and shelters. The clever trick is to be able to identify the gaps within peoples perceived options and that, my friend, is real Marketing.

Within our own community there are many attractions which seem shallow and materialistic, every third shop is a cafe or bar -- and when did we come to need so many opticians? But just around the corner from the heaving hedonistic crush that is 'Destination Byres Road' is our Church.
Serene in its own space and offering a place to sit, to think, to pray,
to gain respite, to ask for God's Help, to cry against God! Or just to be!

And then there are the Children; many of them, of all tongues, together with their 'significant adults' or not. How can we accommodate them in a pub during the week? No matter how beautifully restored that pub may be. We cannot carry out all of our Mission to the Community in a pub.

WOW! Brill idea! Let's build a place, right in the centre of the community, where the People are!

Hey; wait a minute, that's what we've already got! Isn't it?
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