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CLUBS & SOCIETIES 1068 AIR CADETS Tues & Thurs, 7:15pm - 9:30pm, 2 Firth Street, Nairn. Activities ranging from flying to RAF Station visits. Ages 13 - 20. For details contact 01667 453232 on parade evenings or e-mail 1068@aircadets.org BOYS BRIGADE Contact 452950 BLAZIN NEEDLES Tuesdays from 1:30pm - 3:30pm at The Bike Shed, Grant Street, Inverness. A friendly drop-in group for anyone interested in working with wool or textiles. A beginner looking for a hand or an experienced knitter looking for company this is the group for you. Donations for room hire and teas and coffees.

CAKE WALK & STORY GROUP Regular walks for all ages. For more details call Guy on 07724 992790 / www.guyandjocelyn.org CAWDOR BOWLING CLUB Provides a six rink green where club and open competitions are played. Spoon competition Friday’s 7pm. Coaching for learners on a Tuesday evening.

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CAWDOR CURLING CLUB Call 404291 or 07831 760049 or email dave_rob@hotmail.com CROSSROADS Provide and develop a high quality, cost effective, domiciliary respite care service for carers within Nairn & Distict. Contact 455369 DALLACHY AERO MODELLERS Model aircrafts & helicopter flying at old Dallachy World War 2 airfield. Mainly at weekends.

Offers training on dual control. www.dallachyaeromodellers.org.uk FAMILY FIRST (BADENOCH, STRATHSPEY & NAIRN) Support service via home based volunteer support and or group support for families with a child under 4. Contact Lynne 452865 FÈIS INBHIR NARAINN Reg. Charity No. SC038460.

Weekly traditional music classes in guitar, fiddle, whistle, chanter, accordion, keyboard & bodhran.

Any ability from age 8. Instrument hire available. Tel: 462681 or visit www.spanglefish.com/inbhirnarainn FORUM FOR MEN Wednesdays, 8pm at Macnabs Bar, Columba Hotel. For gay and bi men. Look for the small red post box on our table. Text 07941 553620, www.gay-ness.org.uk or e-mail jampa40@yahoo.co.uk LEARN GAELIC IN NAIRN Weekly classes during school terms. Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30am - 11:30am. Wednesdays 7:30pm - 9:30pm. Beginners to Intermediate. Contact Lorraine McBeath on 01667 451291 for further information.

GEDDES W.R.I. Call Mrs Evelyn Cumming 404237.

HARMONY MUSIC THERAPY SCOTLAND Individual and Group Music Therapy sessions to encourage, enable and empower all ages and abilities through interactive music experiences. Will travel to private homes, facilities and schools. Call Kristen Macleod on 07770427396.

NAIRN & DISTRICT PIPE BAND Meet for band practice every Wednesday, 7.30pm - 9pm at the Nairn British Legion. More members needed who have experience in pipes or drums.

We play at various local events and functions throughout the year. Contactable via facebook (Nairn Pipe Band) or call Susan (secretary) on 07776 008413.

NAIRN ARTS SOCIETY We meet in the Laing Hall, Fishertown. Regular exhibitions, demonstrations & sales of art works. Groups meet daily at various times. for Information call Frances Hendry (secretary) on 01667 454653 or visit www.nairnarts.co.uk NAIRN COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Friendly & eager to involve all ages in cricket. Games on Saturdays. Practice night Tuesday at Nairn Links NAIRN DOMINO LEAGUE Contact 452496 NAIRN FRIENDSHIP CLUB Tuesdays, 2pm - 4pm in Nairn Community & Arts Centre. For over 16s, retired, disabled. Bring family & friends for an afternoon of entertainment. Tea, coffee & biscuits served. Entry £3. All welcome. Entertainers & volunteers needed. Call Moira on 01667 455011 or 07716 183466 NAIRN LACE GROUP Self-help lace group meets Thursdays from 7pm - 9.30 pm in Nairn Community Centre, Contact number 01667 453521 NAIRN MEN’S BREAKFAST Meets third Saturday(not July or December) 9:45am at Dunbar Golf Club, Lochloy Road, Nairn.

The opportunity for men of all ages & denominations to share how there life changed through faith in Jesus. Call Campbell 01667 455149 to book a place.

NAIRN SCHOOL OF DANCING Wednesdays 3.30pm at the British Legion Hall. Contact Mrs Fraser 01463 729477

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NAIRN SMASHERS BADMINTON CLUB Mondays & Wednesdays 9am 10.30am, Fridays 9am - 10am in the Games Hall, Nairn Sports Club. A sociable group and new members are always welcome, irrespective of ability. Call Mrs Jan Stuart on 07742 019286 NAIRN SPEAKERS CLUB Fortnightly on Mondays, 7.30pm in the Newton Hotel, Newton Gate, Nairn, IV12 5PF. To hone your public speaking skills and gain confidence in a friendly, unthreatening atmosphere and get constructive help & advice.

Tea, coffee and sandwiches provided. For more info call John Brown on 01667 453373 NAIRN SPORTS CLUB Something for everyone - Fitness classes, Gym, Tennis, Squash & Badminton Courts, Sauna, Nonmembers welcome. Contact 454523 or email info@nairnsportsclub.co.uk NAIRN SYNCHRO SWIMMING CLUB A sport with a difference. Nairn synchro has both international and national swimmers. Email wyn.mcfadyen@tesco.net or call 454223 NAIRN THUNDERBOLTS Mini Rugby Club for P4 - 7. Train on Sundays 10.30am - 12pm @ Viewfield, behind Nairn Museum.

Call 01667 454963 or visit www.pitchero.com/clubs/nairnmi nirugbyclub/ NAIRN YOUTH CLUB Contact 453476 NAIRN WINE CIRCLE Home wine making. Meetings held through the year. New members welcome. Contact Rosemary on 454019 or Chris on 452000. Website: nairnwinewinecircle.org.uk PLEASE NOTE Details of Clubs & Societies are published on a rotational basis. If you would like your details to be included in this section please email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk

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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed The Christian writer and preacher, Michael Ramsden, tells the story of a psychiatrist who’s been transferred to a different wing in his hospital and is meeting his new patients for the first time.

who! But the problem is that Jesus doesn’t come over as such a person.

He didn’t then, and he doesn’t now.

On the contrary, he seems eminently sensible, wise and grounded - his teachings not only admirable but inspirational.

A psychiatric hospital might be the very place where you would find a person who would claim to be God. Yet this is the very claim that Jesus makes for himself over and over again. It was the kind of claim for which the religious leaders of his day wanted to stone him to death for his outrageous blasphemy.

Was he a liar then? Somebody who knew he wasn’t divine but went around claiming he was just so that he could dupe gullible people into following him?

But that doesn’t ring true either. Not only did his life and lifestyle match up to the highest standards of scrutiny, but it was clear to everyone that he held the word of God in the utmost respect and demonstrated true devotion to the person of God himself. If he was a religious con-man or liar he had nothing to offer his followers in this life, he gained no prosperity or status of any kind through it, and managed only to get himself executed at the age of about thirty-three.

You could almost forgive them for their reaction - after all, what kind of man goes around claiming such a thing about himself? Well, somebody with serious psychiatric problems, that’s

So maybe, just maybe, he was telling the truth all along. Maybe he really was the Son of God, sent into this world by his divine Father to be the Saviour of a lost and broken race estranged from

One patient seems particularly disturbed and the doctor asks him, ‘Excuse me, just who do you think you are?’, to which the man replies, ‘Napoleon’. ‘That’s very interesting’, says the doctor, ‘Who told you that you are Napoleon?’ ‘God told me’, replies the man, at which point the patient in the next bed says, ‘I most certainly did not!’

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Auldearn and Dalmore Parish Church Sundays 12noon.

Contact Revd. Thomas M Bryson on 01667 451675.

Cawdor Parish Church Sunday 10.15am. Contact Rev. JS Mathieson: 01667 493217.

Nairn Baptist Church Nairn Community Centre. Sundays 11am. Contact the Pastor on 01667 452764 or Secretary on 01667 452351 or visit www.nairnbaptistchurch.org.uk Nairn Christian Fellowship Sundays 10.30am. Wednesday 7.30pm: praise and Bible study. Contact Sandy Shaw: 01667 456492.

Nairn Free Church Sundays 11am with Sunday school and crèche, 6pm at Gordon St, Nairn. Wednesday cafe, 10am.

Wednesday Youth Club, 7pm for S1-S6. Thursday: 316 Club, 3.15pm, for P4-P7. Thursday Bible Study Prayer Meeting at 7pm Contact the Minister Murdo MacLeod on 01667 459131.

Nairn Old Parish Church 10.30am: holiday worship and crèche. Contact Rev. Alison Mehigan on 01667 453777

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God by their sins and moral failings. His claims, properly reflected on and understood, tied in exactly with what the Old Testament Scriptures and prophecies said about the coming Messiah. And then he backed up his life and teachings with his miracles demonstrating his power over nature, over disease and ultimately, through his resurrection, over death itself.

For those who demand irrefutable proof of these things, no answer will ever seem good enough. For those who are willing to study the evidence that convinced many folk at the time, and has convinced millions and millions ever since, the ultimate answers regarding life, death and eternal life are to be found in the greatest, most truthful, most sane man who ever lived.

His name is Jesus and he can still be met and known today in 2016.

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed (Jesus, in John 20:29)

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St. Ninian’s Church Sunday services and Sunday school: 10.15am. Contact Revd. Thomas M Bryson on 01667 451675.

St Columba’s Scottish Episcopal Family Eucharist on Sundays at 10.30am. Holy Communion on Wednesdays at 10.30am. Contact Rev. Dean Alison J Simpson 01667 452458 St Mary’s Catholic Church IV12 4RJ. Saturday Vigil 6pm.

Sunday Mass 10am. Tel: 01667 453323.

United Reformed Church Sunday services and Sunday School with crèche 11am. Contact John C Brown (Secretary) 01667 453373.

The Pentecostal Church of God Nairn Sundays 10.30am.

Contact Minister JD Grant on 01667 456088 or visit www.churchofgodnairn.com Nairn Joint Service at Nairn St Ninian's Church of Scotland.

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MARCH 2016 1 tuesday forres library storytime for 3 - 5s 2.45pm at forres library. all welcome. forres library storytime for 5 - 7s 3.45pm at forres library. all welcome. for more information call 01309 672834. scottish ornithologists’ club: ‘twenty years on the se scotland atlas’ by ray murray 7.30pm at culloden library for more information call 01463 221661 or 01808 511740

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soup & coffee morning from 11am - 1pm at dyke & district village hall. all welcome. do you like jokes? comedy club @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. 5 pro comedy acts including a special headliner. book early. call 01343 596000 or visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk

‘going green’ themed art exhibition as part of the moray science festival 2016 at art gallery, moray college uhi, moray street, elgin. for information and for opening times email mary.johnston@uhi.ac.uk, call 01343 576266 www.moraysciencefestival.co.uk

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25 thursday rspb talk : the rspb’s natural secrets by peter holden mbe 7.30pm at culduthel christian centre, inverness call 01997 433283 for more information.

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26 friday tannara @ the drouthy cobbler 7:30pm. call 01343 596000 or visit www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk livewire ac/dc @ ironworks 7:30pm. ac/dc tribute. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com the sounds of wit: an illustrated talk on donald macintyre’s great satirical masterpiece, macphàil is macthòmais by bill innes 7.30pm in inverness gaelic school. non-members welcome.

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Sat 5th - 7:30pm The Chandeliers Sun 6th - Nairn 10k Mon 7th - Cinema Nairn - “Floodtide” (PG) – Matinee 2pm

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