Knit and Natter

Knit and Natter will restart on Thursday 27th August at the usual time, in the Capstone 

Evening Service

From the 16th August (our August communion weekend) onwards our evening services will be held in Rosskeen. 

Date for your diary – Church Picnic

We hope to have a church picnic on Saturday 5th September at The Field in Alness. We’d love to see you all there and you’re welcome to invite friends and family too. More details to follow nearer the time. 

BLYTHSWOOD BOXES UPDATE 

Thank you all so much for all your donations over the last few months!

Over the month of August, our focus is on gathering underwear and socks for men, women, and children along-with deodorant and body spray. All contributions towards this would be greatly appreciated. There is a blue box situated to the left as you come into Church, where donations can be left. Thank you! I hope to have a ‘box wrapping’ session in the near future where we can meet together, wrap some boxes, and have a chat with tea and cake! Watch this space for further details.

The date for filling the shoeboxes is Saturday 7th November, if possible please keep this date free! Thank you! – Elizabeth McPhail

New SpeakLife Course – “Through the Bible”

SpeakLife (the Creators of the 3,2,1 Course that we recently ran) are developing a new course called “Through the Bible”.  The Course is being produced recognising the upsurge in interest in reading the Bible that we are experiencing, while also recognising the general lack of biblical literacy.  It is envisaged that the course will consist of 4 modules taking you through the Bible and showing how it leads us to Jesus.  Rosskeen (along with various other Churches around the UK) have been signed up to run a trial of the new material – namely the first module (a 4 part Genesis overview).  This will run end of October into November.  More details will follow closer to the time.  

Kirk Session

The next meeting of the Kirk Session will be on Monday 24th August at 7.30pm in the Saltburn Manse.

Communion Dates

Communion is a vitally important part of the Christian life and the life of our Church. Please make every effort to be present with your Church family around the table of the LORD.  

Lord willing, we will celebrate communion at our 11am service on the following dates: Sundays 16th August (today)  and 1st November (there will be a Saturday night preparatory service on the evening prior on both of these occasions).  We will celebrate communion at our 5.30pm service on 27th September, 6th December, and 17th January. Save the dates! 

Northern Convention

The Scottish Northern Convention takes place in Dingwall Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd August.  The speaker this year is Rev Dan Peters (Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church) and there are meetings Friday 21st 7.30pm, Saturday 22nd 11am and 7.30pm, Sunday 23rd 7.30pm.  More information can be found here https://www.northernconvention.co.uk/

Highland Men’s Conference

There will be a Men’s Conference at Culloden-Balloch Baptist Church on the 4th & 5th September 2026.  The theme for the Conference will be ‘Faithfulness’, and speakers include Joe Barnard, David Meredith and James Martin.  More information can be found on their Facebook page.

Presbytery

The next meeting of the Northern Presbytery will be on Tuesday 25th August at 7.30pm in Brora Free Church.

Lunch Club

Lunch Club begins the new Session on Wednesday, 19th August from 12noon to 2pm at the Capstone Auditorium.

From 12noon to 1pm soup and sandwiches are served, followed by home baking, tea and coffee.  From 1pm to 2pm it’s time to join in singing with Johnny Bremner and Jimmy Gunn and friends.  Please come and join us!

Men’s Chat 

Men’s chat will be restarting, with the next session beginning on August 25th, Tuesday 2pm-4pm in the Capstone Community Room. All Men welcome!

Big Summer Hymn Sing 

The annual joint Church summer hymn sing will be on Sunday 16th August at 6.30pm in the Alness Heritage Centre gardens.  

Evening Service – 23rd August 

There will be no 5.30pm service on Sunday 23rd August.  Rather, we are encouraging you to join with the Scottish Northern Convention in Dingwall at 7.30pm.