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Easter 2025 Quartz Forest Church Walking out from St John’s on Sunday I wondered about how long we have been doing this, and whether we should continue. The weather was was certainly great! But it had been a long day starting at 20.30 the previous evening, with an 08.30 gathering the next morning and then […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 2025 Forest Church Our last post describes what we set out to do, this one is a small insight into what happened. It is written from my perspective, but if you were there or joined in online please use the comments to add to it! We read from texts and creation. It interests me […]
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. […]
Some images from our 3rd Sunday in the month gathering for February. This month we worshipped with trees. We reflected on how much they are connected in ways we cannot see. How we relate to them and what they offer us personally. No one learned Entish, but then we are quite hasty – even when […]
Sunday 16th of February at 2pm, Crichton chapel We will gather in February to find Jesus in the trees. As is our custom we will gather outside the Crichton chapel at 2pm on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome to join us, and we adapt what we do according to the people […]
As is our custom we will gather outside the Crichton chapel at 2pm on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome to join us, and we adapt what we do according to the people who turn up. Have a look around this website to get an idea of what to expect and please […]
Hugging trees and reflecting on time. It was a cold and windy day today, which is normal for Scotland in December, but it was also damp. We met in peace and took a moment to become aware of our surroundings. Our reading was from the book of Luke. We discussed what could be considered “fruit” […]
We will meet, as is our custom, at 2pm in the Crichton estate outside the chapel. As there is a contempory service at St Johns this evening we will have a simple time of prayer and reflection. Since it is almost the Solstice we can spend some time working out the age of the trees […]