Month: October 2016 (Page 1 of 3)

Tuesdays, during the winter months, Strathdearn Hall 11am -12.

£2 per session.

We would love to see new members come along. It’s a simple format – a tape of music plays for half and hour, starting slowly and getting faster and we each do whatever exercises we feel like doing, according to our fitness levels. And we chat 😉 After the music, there’s about 20 minutes of stretches and yoga-type moves.

Contact Denise

The board of Strathdearn Community Developments Company meets once a month. The meetings are open to the public although technically attendees should be Members of the Company so if you’re not signed up yet, please contact strathdearn@hotmail.co.uk. There may be a confidential section to each meeting, if needed, to discuss issues such as staffing matters.

The next meeting is scheduled for 8th December at 7.30pm in Strathdearn Hall. This date replaces the previously advertised date of 24th November

We’re working for you. Come along and tell us how we can do better!

Please note : all our services and activities are presently suspended due to the coronavirus epidemic. The Interim Moderator the Rev. Robert E. Brookes is producing a service every week for the Churches in Daviot & Dunlichity and Moy, Dalarossie & Tomatin. You can read this week’s sermon HERE. You can find more information on the church website HERE. Please also see below for information about “Messy Church at Home”.

‘Messy Church at Home’

All our Church Services and activities are currently suspended because of coronavirus, but we wondered if those of you trying to keep wee ones occupied at home in the lockdown might be interested that Messy Church nationally is providing a weekly Messy Church at home session until at least the end of June, which Messy Church @ Moy, Dalarossie & Tomatin would be happy to e-mail to interested families who might like to try the activities and crafts.

The first session – ‘Emmaus at Home’ tells the story of Jesus’ encounter with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus after the Resurrection. There are four craft activities to try at home:

1. ‘Footprints’ – cutting cardboard roughly into the shape of little feet, small enough to stick onto the end of your finger as if your finger is the leg – and then dipping the feet into paint and ‘walking’ the feet along paper leaving a footpaint trail behind; doing this three times in different colours to make three sets of footprints which join up.

2. ‘Slo-Fast Races’ – where the challenge is to see who can go from A to B the most slowly – and who can be fastest to go back from B to A.

3. Design a Board Game where:

a) the players have to get from Jerusalem to Emmaus.

b) on the way, every Old Testament book (the bit of the Bible written before Jesus was born) needs to be used somehow on the journey

c) to win the game, the player has to ‘break the bread’ in Emmaus.

4. Make a Mentos Geyser – by putting mentos mints as quickly as you can in a newly opened bottle of coke (using a paper funnel) AND STANDING WELL BACK as it fizzes and sprays out!

If you are interested, text Vivian on 07887 704 915 – or e-mail vroden@btinternet.com with your e-mail address to get the e-mail containing the download with all the instructions you need to make the crafts, as well as the Bible Story, and other links including one to ‘Messy Church Does Science’ about the mentos geyser, and a song! 🙂

Moy, Dalarossie & Tomatin Parish Church, Scottish Charity No: SC 015653

Church of Scotland

Parish of Moy, Dalarossie and Tomatin

Interim Moderator:  Rev Morven Archer

T: 01463 237840

Since the closure of Tomatin Church, we now meet in the Strathdearn Hall every Sunday at 10.30am, except for the Services which are held at Dalarossie on the first and third Sundays of the month from March – November, inclusive.

We have Tea after the Services in the Hall at Tomatin, and on the Second Sunday of the month, invite donations for the Highland Foodbank.

Any of the following items will be much appreciated:-  Breakfast Cereal / Pasta or Rice / Tinned Potatoes / Oatcakes or Crackers / Tinned Vegetables / Tinned Tomatoes / Tinned Fruit / Long Life Fruit Juice / Tinned Ham or Corned Beef / Tinned Soup / Tinned Tuna or Salmon / Tinned Mince or Stew / UHT Milk / Tinned Custard or Rice / Teabags or Coffee / Sugar.  Further information from Vivian on 01808 511255.

Afternoon Tea:

Join us at the Strathdearn Hall for a chat over freshly made sandwiches and delicious scones and cakes between 3 and 4 pm on the second Monday of each month. Further information from Vivian on 01808 511355.

The Guild:

Meets at 7.30pm on the second Wednesday of the month between September and April, inclusive, usually in the Strathdearn Hall unless stated otherwise.  New members welcome.  Further information from May 01808 511448.

Messy Church:

We also have Messy Church, usually on the last Sunday of each month, in the Strathdearn Hall from 4pm – 6pm.  

We have some fun with crafts to begin with, and then have a Bible storytelling time with a hymn and prayer.  Then we have tea together (proper meal, that is, not just a cup of tea, although we usually have one of these after our meal as well!)

All are welcome.  Adults and teenagers as well as children –  you don’t have to have a child to come along and it doesn’t matter whether you go to Church or not. Messy Church comes under the ‘fresh expressions’ of Church and it’s Church for people who think a traditional church service isn’t really for them – although many of us who go are involved in traditional church too! It’s for everyone really!  

Children have to bring an adult with them –  they usually enjoy it too!  Parents/grandparents/carers don’t have to do anything (unless they want to try some craft work etc!)  You can just chill out with a coffee if you want.

No charge, but donations welcomed.

Further information from Vivian 01808 5112355, Sandra 01808 511246, or Liz 01808 511353 and we’d love to see you there.

SUNDAY SERVICES from Sunday 6th August to Sunday 19th November:

AUGUST:
Sunday 6th:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 13th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am

Sunday 13th:        Dalarossie Church    6.30 p
m   Evening Service (Holy Communion)
Sunday 20th:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 27th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am

SEPTEMBER:
Sunday 3rd:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 10th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am

Sunday 10th:        Dalarossie Church    6.30pm      Evening Service (Songs of Praise)
Sunday 17th:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 24th:         Strathdearn Hall    10.30am

OCTOBER:
Sunday 1st:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am  Harvest Thanksgiving Family Service   
Sunday 8th:            Strathdearn Hall    10.30am    Holy Communion
Sunday 15th:       Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 22nd:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am
Sunday 29th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am

NOVEMBER:
Sunday 5th:            Dalarossie Church    10.30am
Sunday 12th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am    Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 12th:        Strathdearn War Memorial 3pm    Remembrance Sunday   

Sunday 19th:        Dalarossie Church    10.30am   
Sunday 26th:        Strathdearn Hall    10.30am   

You may also be interested in two further events …..

‘Doors Open Day’ at Dalarossie Church on Saturday 16th September from 10am-4pm

Soup & Pudding Lunch for Church Funds

(No Charge – Donations)

Saturday 21st October  – 12 noon – 2pm – in the Strathdearn Hall

All warmly welcome at any or all of our Services and Activities

The aims of the WRI are:

• To advance the education and training of those who live and work in the country, or are interested in country life, in home skills, family welfare and citizenship.
• To promote the preservation of Scotland’s traditions and its rural heritage, and
• To promote the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreational and leisure time occupation so that the conditions and life of people who live in the country, or who are interested in country life may be improved.

Syllabus 2012-2013 to be arranged

Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes website: www.swri.org.uk

Day: First Monday each month from September to May

Time: 7.30pm

Location: Tomatin Village Hall

Contact Details

Secretary

Tomatin has a very active Step It Up Highland Walking Group. SIUH is not a rambling club, but aims to encourage community walking for health. The aims of SIUH are given in https://www.pfw.org.uk/projects/step-it-up-highland/

Day: Wednesday

Time: 2pm (1:30 winter)

Location: Tomatin Village Hall

Contact Details

Kathy Bonniface

Email: kathybonniface@aol.com

Tomatin and District Gardening Club meets at 7:30PM on the third Monday of each month at Strathdearn Community Hall. The aims of the Club are to improve our enjoyment and understanding of gardening under the rather special conditions prevailing in Strathdearn.
The Gardening Club is the organising body for the annual Strathdearn Flower Show.

Syllabus

Gardening in Strathdearn is constrained by climate (frost and wind rather than rainfall), acid soils and the ravages of rabbits and roe deer. Nevertheless gardeners in Strathdearn manage to create a variety of gardens, from alpine, through woodland, with some, in the more favoured, sheltered spots even aspiring to the cottage garden. Some manage high class fruit and vegetables which leave the majority of us perplexed and full of envy.

Art in Strathdearn celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year!  We welcome members from the local community and beyond to enjoy the mutual support and encouragement engendered amongst like minded people.

We meet in the village hall on Thursdays  from 2pm – 4pm ( spring  & summer times) working on individual projects but sometimes as a group -producing for example the painted glass panels in the entrance to the Millennium Hall.

We have a number of tutors throughout the year chosen to inspire and inform. Topics this year include Charcoal Portraiture, Basket Weaving and Driftwood Sculpture. Craft workshops are included to appeal to those who prefer working with materials rather than more painterly mediums.

Our annual Exhibition in August is an established and popular event in the village calendar – a showcase for our accomplishments.

Contacts for more information — Betty Watson 511271 & Pam Hardwick 511766