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We will meet on Monday the 28th of April at 19.30 at Simon and Kate’s house. If you are unsure where that is, please get in touch. The theme will be preparing for Pentecost!

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Arts Easter 2025

Easter Vigil

Without relying on artificial light and clocks, does the new day start at sunset or sunrise? The Banners we have been working on will be unveiled at an Easter Vigil this Friday. It will be held at 8.30 pm on the Saturday before Easter Sunday in St Johns. There is also a Dumfries Christian Network […]

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Forest Church News

April Forest Church

3rd Sunday, Easter Sunday, 20th of April This Sunday is Easter Sunday! We will gather for Forest Church by the River Nith, just downstream from the car park at the end of Nunholm road. There is a beach opposite Lincluden Abbey. We have been gathering there on Easter Sunday for quite a while now! (not […]

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#SensingMeaningfulness #SensingSpirituality Youth

Wild Geese

In Dumfries we are nearing the end of a time when people say goodbye to the barnacle geese who visit from Svalbard. This has been curated into a “Wild Goose” festival which WSC contributes to in various ways. There is another Wild Goose – and this is the Wild Goose publishing of the Iona Community […]

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Easter 2025 Forest Church News

Easter Weekend

Quartz Easter Weekend 19th/20th April 2025 Easter Banner This Easter, as Quartz and the wider community, have been using visual arts to explore contrasts inspired by early medieval crosses. Visually there are contrasts between stone and vegetation, the overflowing of life and containers that hold things together. The banners will hang in darkness, like burial […]

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#SensingMeaningfulness #SensingSpirituality Arts Easter 2025 News

Easter Art

Easter is a time of contrasts. We will be exploring themes of stone and vegetation, structure and chaos, overflowing of life and containers that hold things together. Help make a banner after the 11 O’clock service on Palm Sunday (13th of April) in St Johns. We will also be working on it at the contemporary […]

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Arts News

Pen and Think

Monday the 14th of April 10.30 to 12.30 Stories have been plucked from the wind and passed down to us from ancient days, with the aid of goose feathers. The quills of scribes fluttered over a thousand years ago to record tales that were much older. Come and experience storyteller Simon Lidwell bringing a selection […]

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#SensingSpirituality Forest Church

QFC March 2025

16th of March 2pm , The Crichton Chapel. We will gather this March to meet with each other and God. To seek transformation, to bathe in the green, or just be aware of our curiosity. As is our custom we will gather outside the Crichton chapel at 2pm on the third Sunday of the month. […]

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#SensingSpirituality Lent 2025

Ash Wednesday

A crowd of us gathered to eat pancakes last night. A variety of toppings were enjoyed. Some were dairy free, some gluten free. Spam fritters featured. The pancakes included “Drop Scones (Scotch Pancakes)”, “Crepes”, Ukrainian style, and both sweet and savoury. The conversation flowed and saints were discussed as well as more everyday matters. Here […]

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Lent 2025

Buffet of Saints

Looking for someone to walk through Lent with? The days of the year can be a reminder of the cloud of brothers and sisters we live in an eternal communion with. The whole Church year is structured to tell the gospel story too, linked with the northern hemisphere seasonal changes! The chunk of time called […]