St Ninian’s – St Ninian's & St Clement's

13/04/2024

Didn’t our Walkers do well??

Wow! Our parishioners who took up the challenge of the Big Lenten Walk for SCIAF certainly put their best feet forward. The combined group from St Ninian’s and St Clement’s walked the roads and the miles round Dundee and have hiked home with an astonishing total of £5000!

Our super strollers send a huge THANK YOU to all who gave so generously.
This marathon effort has put the Parishes Together group at the top of the Cafod/SCIAF Justgiving page leader board, not just in Scotland, but for the whole of the UK!

So take a bow, St Ninian’s and St Clement’s, you may just have strolled into the SCIAF record books.

St Clements / St Ninian's Primary School / St Ninian’s

14/03/2024

Confirmation

This week, children from our 2 Primary schools, St Ninian’s and St Clement’s were confirmed by Bishop Stephen. Both were beautiful happy services led by the children but also a touch of sadness for parishioners as these were Bishop Stephen’s last duties as our Bishop in our Diocese. We wish him health and happiness to enjoy his retirement.

St Clements confirmation — **St Clement’s Confirmation**

Eco / St Ninian’s

07/12/2023

Ecumenical Advent Service

On Wednesday 7^th December, we were joined by parishioners from Auchterhouse, Fowlis, Liff, Lundie and Muirhead Churches and St John’s Cross Church, Dundee for a beautiful ecumenical Advent Service, organised and devised by Maureen Ruddy.

Fr Johney was supported in this prayerful service by Rev. Donna Hays and Rev. Grant MacLaughlin. The service comprised of prayers, readings, reflections, hymns and a candle lit procession which was particularly lovely.

We send a heartfelt thanks to Maureen for making this special event happen and thank you also to Angela, our organist and Colette, our Cantor for the wonderful music.

As one of the parishioners commented, “It was a beautiful uplifting service -so lovely to have the involvement of the other churches.”

View the slideshow below, to get a flavour of the evening…..

Lighting the advent candle
congregation
Praying
Fr Johney leading the procession
Candle procession
Candle procession
Singing

After the service? A chance to chat and make new acquaintances over a cuppa and mincemeat pie.

Eco / Garden / Recycling / St Ninian’s

06/10/2023

CC Juniors Gardening Club

Thursday past, despite the very poor weather conditions, 8 youngsters turned up after school for the first of monthly meetings of CC’s Juniors. (Gardening Club). Louise, Bernadette and Maureen had a busy but fun time with the children- sowing seeds, planting bulbs, making bird feeders from peanut butter + toilet roll!

They also enjoyed a healthy snack of fruit kebabs.

Our CC Junior Gardening Club is in full swing! 🌱 by Margret MacPhail

cafe / Eco / Garden / St Ninian’s

26/08/2023

Garden Update

The Garden Gang have been working away every Thursday in rain, hail and sunshine, ensuring the Mary Garden is kept in good shape, the garden produce is fed and harvested and flowers picked for CC’s and the altar. They also have a rota for watering the gardens to ensure our lovely flowers and plants don’t dehydrate :). Thank you Garden Gang!

cafe / cookery / Eco / Garden / St Ninian’s

18/07/2023

From Garden to Jar

Last week we had a bumper crop of strawberries, thanks to the dedication of our fabulous Garden Gang and of course, Mother Nature who provided the sun and rain (a lot). Brian was our official taster and with the help of his trusty ‘sidekick’ Jim, picked 3kg of strawberries which have now been made into jam. This will be served very soon as an accompaniment to scones as part of the Afternoon Tea menu.

cafe / St Ninian’s

24/06/2023

Civil Rights Party

On Monday evening 19th June, the group who had attended Jim Ashwood’s very interesting and entertaining talks about the American Civil Rights, met for a fun evening of chat, quiz and refreshments. Jim had encouraged them to dress up or bring along something with an American theme, and as you can see from the photos, they certainly all rose to the occasion.

St Ninian’s

07/06/2023

Church Cleaning

Ann, Eileen, Liz and Kenny – a few of the merry band of volunteers who turn up to clean the church on a regular basis, keeping it spotless for us all to enjoy. Gert and Brian escaped the photo shoot… !!

If you can give an hour of your time once a month, or even half an hour now and again, it would make a whole lot of difference to their workload.

Keep an eye out in the newsletter for the next date for cleaning. Huge thanks to all the lovely people who generously give their time.

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