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BADENOCH GARDENING CLUB Meet on the 3rd or 4th Wed each month in Newtonmore Village Hall (Lesser Hall) starting at 7.30 pm. Annual membership £10.00. Free for members. £2.50 for visitors. All welcome. BADENOCH & STRATHSPEY RAMBLERS Alternate weekends, mostly Saturdays. Visitors are welcome to join us for up to three walks before joining the Ramblers. Call Ann Hadley 01479 873806 or bands.ramblers@live.co.uk . BALL - OVER 60'S CLUB Wednesdays 10am - 12.15pm at Memorial Hall, Tomintoul. BIRD WATCHING AND WILDLIFE CLUB All special events, suggested itineraries & programmes are subject to availability and liable to change without notice. BWWC Ltd, 25 The Square, Grantownon-Spey, PH26 3HF. Call 0800 043 8585 or email: booking@ bwwc.co.uk
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CAKE WALK & STORY GROUP Regular walks for all ages. For more details call Guy on 07724 992790 / www.guyandjocelyn.org CARRBRIDGE OUTDOOR CURLING CLUB Call Patrick Blease 01479 841359 COIRE CHORISTERS Thursdays, 7:15pm at St John's Church Hall, Rothiemurchus. All members of the community welcome. For info call Carolyn Turner on 01540 662294. GRANTOWN & DISTRICT DRAMA GROUP Thursdays, 7pm, YM/Community Centre. All new members and young people welcome. Call Jennifer Tiller on 01479 872262 GRANTOWN ON SPEY BRIDGE CLUB Mondays, 7pm in Grantown’s Episcopal Church Hall (Oct Apr) Visitors and new members welcome. Call 01479 872672
KINGUSSIE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Wednesdays, 7:30pm - 9:30pm in Tala na Ros, King Street, Kingussie from September to March. New members and visitors welcome. Contact 01540 662060 / 01540 661772. MORAY COELIAC GROUP 1st Saturday (except Jan & Feb), 10:30am in the cafe at Baxters, Fochabers. For newly diagnosed and existing members to network, ask questions, share recipes and ideas / information. 'Coffee, Cake and Catch up' sessions. All welcome. For further info email Kirsteen.pyett@btinternet.co.uk MORAY FLYING CLUB 7 days a week. Also offering courses for people to become leisure pilots, all the way up to professional ratings. Kinloss barracks, IV36 3UH. For details please call 01309 617361 and visit www.morayflyingclub.com MORAY SANDS 3rd Wednesday every month, 7:30pm at Keith Health Centre Annexe. Self-help support group, run by bereaved parents for bereaved parents and their families. Informal and confidential. No cost. For more details call or text Beck on 07549 684986 or Karen on 07971 834133 or email moraysands@hotmail.co.uk MORTLACH ART GROUP Every Thursday, 1pm - 4:30pm in the Mortlach Memorial Hall, Dufftown. All welcome, 16 up. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES (MORAY, BANFF AND BADENOCH BRANCH) 2nd Wednesday, 11am, Eight Acres Hotel. Lectures on a variety of arts related subjects are delivered by experts from across the UK. New members always welcome. Contact Jennifer Kerr on 01343 835258 or www.nadfas-in-elgin.org.uk ROTHES BABY & TODDLER GROUP Open year round on Tues & Fri, 9.15am - 11.15am term time & 10.00am - 12pm school holidays & in-service days. £2 entrance fee per family, includes snack & drinks for children & parents.
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PASTORAL LETTER & CHURCH MEETINGS Do you believe it? December is a month in which many of us journey to visit families and friends. We may journey by road, rail, sea or air but irrespective of the mode of transport our plans usually involve excitement at the prospect of happy reunions; and apprehension. What sort of travel conditions will we encounter? Will we be caught up in chaos due to adverse weather? Will roads be blocked or trains and planes cancelled? We carefully and joyfully make our plans but some things are beyond our control – they are in God’s hands. Consider Mary who was betrothed to Joseph who was of the line of David (Luke 1:26-30.) One day, astonishingly, the angel Gabriel went to her and said “Greetings, you are highly favoured! The Lord is with you.” This was not something Mary had planned, and understandably she was greatly perturbed about what it meant. Sometimes in the midst of everyday life people do sense an extraordinary presence which captivates them. It can be confirming and at the same time disturbing and people may ask what it is all about. Gabriel reassured Mary that she was greatly favoured by God and had been chosen to bear the Christ, God’s Son, by the Holy Spirit. Mary
could only respond “I am the Lord’s servant.” With heart and head bursting Mary hurried off on a journey to visit her relative Elizabeth in the hill country of Judea. There she learned of more strange happenings. Elizabeth’s husband Zechariah the priest had temporarily lost his speech because he didn’t believe the word of an angel (Luke 1:20) and Elizabeth herself was pregnant in her old age. These were extraordinary events, but in Jewish religious thought every birth was extraordinary as it involved a mother and father and the Holy Spirit. Perhaps the Holy Spirit was involved in the birth of your children? Poor Joseph was stressed out. Not only was his betrothed (betrothal was much more than a modern engagement) going to have a baby but there was also the prospect of gossip and condemnation. For Mary’s sake he planned to quietly divorce her (Matthew 1:18-19.) We may never know what secrets some people bear silently for fear of rejection or condemnation. It can be a real burden and an obstacle to joy. James, the brother of Jesus, said that we should confess to each other and pray for each other that we may receive healing (James 5:16) – but who can you trust?
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We may confess and pray to God with the certainty that He will hear us; and we can ask him to lead us to a human confidant who will be honest, discreet and caring – indeed we may be that confidant. It was an angel of the Lord who counselled Joseph. So, a very young pregnant woman and her betrothed began that arduous threeday journey from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem in Judea to register in the Census (Luke 2:1-5), which among other things would be used for taxation purposes. To cap it all when they finally arrived in Bethlehem the only place they could find to stay was a cave! Yet in a short while shepherds and kings would bow before their baby boy and they would be bathed in the Glory of God and the world would never be the same again. Do you believe it? As the Apostle Peter said, “…though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy…” (1Peter 1:8.) May Christ travel with you always!
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Followed by refreshments in the church hall. Email: blessings@stjohns-rothiemurchus.co.uk St Mary’s RC Church Fife Street, Dufftown, AB55 4AP Vigil Mass alternate Saturdays at 5pm. Tel 01340 810442 St Michael Episcopal Church St Michael's Episcopal Church, Conval Street, Dufftown. Family Eucharist every Sunday at 11 am. All welcome. Tel: 01343 862808. St Margaret of Scotland, Episcopal Church High Street, Aberlour, AB38 9QD. Sundays 10am: Eucharist. Website: www.stmargaretsaberlour.co.uk Tomintoul Church of Scotland Sunday morning service 11.15am All welcome. Listed from K - T & regularly rotated. If you are a member of a church not listed here or if there are any amendments to existing details, please email tamsyn@spotlighton.co.uk
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2014 has been quite a year. It seems like only yesterday I was writing in these pages while thinking about the momentous year we had before us just twelve months ago. So a year on, how far have we come? Seeing our economic recovery take root and having more people in work than ever before has been very encouraging. There is more work to do, but 2014 has been a record breaking year for employment and opportunity. And the historic Scottish Referendum has inspired more political engagement, and has inspired more, much needed, powers for Scotland. I’m sure that the coming year will bring new challenges for all of us, but we will face them as we always do – with strength and community spirit. As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help you with any problems, address any issues or answer any questions. I’m always happy to help. I’d like to wish everyone in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
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NOVEMBER 2014 26 wednesday do you like jokes? comedy club 7.30pm the drouthy cobbler (the blue room). tickets £10 from bar or www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk
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12 friday rnw presents: rock n' wrestle @ ironworks 7pm. call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com
12 friday - 20 saturday dick whittington and his cat buccaneer theatre club, raf lossiemouth. fri 12 & 19 - 7.30pm, sat 13 & sun 14 - 2.30pm and sat 20 - 2.30pm & 7.30pm. adult £6, child/conc £5, family & group tickets also available. call our booking hotline on 07930 361721.
13 saturday christmas fair 11am - 4pm at cantraybridge college activities, stalls and gift making. a great family day out. our event cafe will be serving homemade treats too. visit www.cantraypark.co.uk for more details.
christmas market @ logie steading 10am - 3pm. with carols and christmas tree, craft and food stalls and lots more! all welcome. the vatersay boys christmas cracking ceilidh dance @ ironworks 7pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com
14 sunday james ross presents the marvel of peru: christmas at the castle 3pm - 4pm & 5pm - 6pm at brodie castle. a variety of christmas carols some of which the audience will be invited to join in. £14 includes a glass of (non-alcoholic)mulled punch and a mince pie after the performance. www.nts.org.uk/events
17 wednesday do you like jokes? comedy club 7:30pm, the drouthy cobbler. your chance to see established acts and spot the next big thing, all in the intimate setting of the blue room. www.thedrouthycobbler.co.uk
19 friday schnarff schnarff vs indieness + foreignfox + searching for donkeys @ ironworks 8pm. for info call 0871 7894173 or visit www.ironworksvenue.com
26 friday boxing day beats - c4soundsystem presents a drum&bass night with local and guest dj's 7pm 3am at the victoria hotel, forres. earlybird tickets @ residentadvisor.net £8, door £10. for more info find us on facebook - boxing day beats!
Evening courses We have an exciting range of certificated and leisure courses to enhance your learning, gain confidence or just for pure enjoyment. Creative metalwork, pilates, military boot camp, cooking for Christmas, All the courses are on a Tuesday or Wednesday night for a number of weeks suitable to the level of course. We have evening classes enabling you to gain a qualification – how about National Certificate (NC) Beauty over two years, HNC Motor Vehicle two nights a week over a year or Introduction to Counselling for 12 weeks?
Call 01463 273000 to book. 3 Longman Road, Longman South, Inverness, IV1 1SA
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