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We will be hosting a café each Saturday, beginning this Saturday, 19 March. There will be scones, pancakes, biscuits, tea & coffee, and good chat with friends. The café is completely free and open to anyone in the community. We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, contact Ali.

This Saturday and Sunday is our official building launch. We’d love to have all family, friends, and neighbours visit us this weekend. The schedule of events is as follows:

Saturday 19 March
Open House — 10am-1pm
›› Free Café — 10:30am-12 noon

Sunday 20 March
Worship Services — 11am & 6pm
›› Speaker — Rev. Alasdair I. Macleod, St. Andrews

You can download an invitation flier to hand out by clicking here.

We are up and running again for sermon video. Dave Eglinton, Jim Eglinton, and the folks at Inverness TV worked hard on getting us prepared to film sermons, and the results are excellent.

Another upgrade is with blip.tv, the website that hosts our sermon video. They have upgraded their playlist with a new, sleek design.

If you would like to view each Sunday’s sermons, just navigate to the Sermon Video section here.

This Sunday we will be moving back into the Smithton Church building for worship services. Thank you to all who have made this possible, from the builders and architects to the volunteers who came in to help with the kitchen, chairs, etc.

Though our “official” launch is Sunday 20 March, we will no longer be worshipping in the school. There are still a few finishing touches to be put on the building, but we are looking forward to being back.

Just a few notes on activities/programmes that are on at the church:

• New Saturday Café: A new café will be starting at the church on 19 March to take place every Saturday from 10:30am-12pm. Cost is free and all are welcome.

• Sunday School: We will having Sunday school for Preschool-P7 this Sunday, beginning a new curriculum from Go Teach.

• Youth Fellowship: YF will be in church building (in the hall where worship services used to be held) each Sunday at 7:30pm.

• Pop-In Centre: The Pop-In will resume this week on Wednesday at 10am. Join us for games led by Alan Michael, tea and coffee, baking, and a soup lunch. Cost is just £2.

• Seniors Lunch Club, Friday Fun Club, and Fun Time Toddlers will all resume after the Easter holidays.

The building construction, which commenced 12 July 2010, will be coming to completion tomorrow, Friday, 18 February 2011. The contract period of the construction was 32 weeks, and we are delighted with the work that has been done. Charlie and Ethan are moving back into their office space (Charlie is quite relieved to be out of the portacabin!), and the finishing touches are being made.

Services in the “new” building will begin next Sunday. 27 February, at 11am and 6pm. The official re-opening will be Sunday, 20 March, with the Rev Alisdair I. Macleod, St. Andrews, preaching.

Many have asked if they could donate towards specific items, and, therefore, we have compiled a list. These are items not included in contract price and yet so essential for a church.

A great way to give is through online donation* or through the old fashioned way of sending us a cheque.

Please proceed here to read the list.

A job opportunity will be opening soon at Smithton Church. For more information, please head over to our employment page.

Just a reminder that our Wednesday evening prayer meetings are now being held at Smithton Church in the sports hall, 7:30pm. We are no longer at St Mary in the Fields.

We hope you like the new look to the Smithton website. We appreciate that there may be some errors here or there, so if you suspect something out of the usual, please email the webmaster.

Please note that the evening service will be changing from 6:30pm to 6:00pm beginning this Sunday 19th December and continue at that time.