07/10/2008 by Ken Wilkie.

Ministers Vestry Hour - 12 noon  - 1.00 pm. Please contact the Minister for an appointment - phone 01592-758264 or  E-mail  forsythar@aol.com In the event of hospitalisation, serious illness, family anxiety, bereavement or personal difficulty the Minister is available to make a visit. You have to let him know if he can be of help.
Coffee Morning from 10.00 - 11.30am on Thursdays in the church hall. Join us for tea or coffee and a chat. Sales table and lucky tickets.
Markinch Primary School Harvest Service on Friday 10th October at 2.00 pm in the church. Come and join with our young people as they celebrate Harvest.
Life & Work 2009 - Orders are now being taken for Life & Work for next year, if you wish to continue with your yearly subscription or wish to start receiving the monthly magazine from January 2009 please inform Tracy Thomson. The cost for 12 magazines will be £15.60 which must be paid in advance. Payments must be made by the end of December 2008 (cheques made payable to Markinch Parish Church).  For any more information please contact Tracy Thomson.
Christmas Meal This has been organised for Tuesday 16th December at 6.15pm in Glenrothes College. Tickets cost £17 per person. Anyone wishing to attend please contact Tracy Thomson as soon as possible as numbers are limited.
Souper Sundays  - Due to other commitments Jennifer and Marianne will be unable to be on duty to make soup on the first Sunday of every month. Please contact Jennifer or Marianne if you can help out by doing a duty .
Rotary Shoebox Scheme Shoeboxes are now available for collection from the Church Hall.  If you are unable to fill a box but still want to help you can donate individual items, which the Youth Club will then add to boxes, or donate £1 to help with the cost of postage.  Filled boxes must be returned before 10th  November.    A leaflet suggesting contents is provided with each box. Please contact Tracy Thomson (01592 775752) for any more information.   Last year Markinch Parish Church supported this scheme and sent 230 boxes to Central and Eastern Europe.   How many boxes can we send this year ?
Update - Thank you to everyone who has returned filled shoeboxes or donated items for this
worthwhile appeal.  There have been 40 boxes returned to date - keep up the good work!
Markinch Church Tea Towels are back on sale, still at last year’s price of £3 each. They are available from Esma Morrison in the church hall after Sunday service or at the Thursday coffee morning. All proceeds will go towards the Kaning’ina Church in Malawi project.

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26/09/2008 by Tracy Thomson.

Thank you to everyone who supported the recent coffee morning.  A cheque for £275.00 will shortly be sent off to Macmillan Cancer Support as the proceeds from this event.

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10/09/2008 by Ken Wilkie.

The August 2008 copy of the Church Magazine “News From The Pews” can be downloaded from here. The printed version was recently distributed to all households in our parish.

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19/08/2008 by Ian Watt.

Scheduled Meetings:-
Congregational Board - 17th November
Kirk Session - 28th October, 15th December

All at 7.15pm in the Church Hall unless stated otherwise.

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17/05/2008 by Ken Wilkie.

The Kirk Session have taken the decision to assist with the building of a new Church in Malawi. The opportunity arose through Levi Nyondo the minister of St Andrews Mzuzu (a town centre church with various outlying rural prayer houses). He was the host for the St Kenneth’s team from Kennoway that went to Malawi.
He advised about the work of his local parish evangelism team in an area about 15 miles from the main town. “More than 66 people accepted Jesus Christ. We have now planted a new church to be called Kaning’ina Church. They do not have any shelter but they are freely worshipping their God.”
This new group of Christians need a place to worship. The cost of providing that is relatively small by Scottish standards but fairly prohibitive in a subsistence farming area with little cash.
As a result there was an opportunity here for our congregation to undertake a one-off project of providing a basic building for a new church in Malawi. (Often such buildings double up as school rooms at the same time.) From past experience the cost of corrugated iron roofing and timbers is usually about £1200, and the bricks are made and the construction done by the local congregation.
St Kenneth’s will help by making the local connections, providing a route for the transfer of funds with no bank charges, and getting our local contacts in the area to give details when the work is complete.
Funds will be raised by holding specific fund raising events during the year. Please watch out for these. Our target is £1200!  We may explore a partnership arrangement with the church at a later stage but no decision has been reached in this regard.
We are still committed to Zerihun, the child sponsored through the Sunday School. Please see the Session Clerk if you would like to assist with any fund raising or donations for this exciting project.

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14/10/2007 by Ken Wilkie.

Our church is represented on the Kirkcaldy Presbytery Prayer Group by Dr. Morven Duncan. Click on the link below to open a copy of the current “Prayer Call” booklet

http://www.markinchchurch.org.uk/download/PrayerCallOctNov07.pdf

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31/01/2007 by Ken Wilkie.

During his sermons, Rev. Alex Forsyth often mentions books and DVD’s that he thinks are definitely worth reading or watching. Many of you have acted on these recommendations and bought the books.
If you were to use the special links to the Amazon store from our own church website or from the sidebar menu on this page, you will find Alex’s recommendations all listed together in our “aStore”. If you purchase any of these (or any other Amazon product) using this method, the church will receive a commission on each sale which will go directly to church funds.

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15/01/2007 by Tracy Thomson.

The youth club is open to any young person who is in primary five or above.  The youth club meets in the Church Hall on a Thursday evening from 6.30pm till 8pm every Thursday during school term time.  The activities available include crafts, lego, games, music, cards, dominoes, chess, table tennis and a snack bar. 

Come along on a Thursday and join in the fun ! 

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07/01/2007 by Ken Wilkie.

This is the place to come for the latest church news. It will be updated by a number of people with interests in the various groups within our own church and the wider church.

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