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Rector’s Letter

Dear Friends,
It was a joy to bring something as positive as the ideas flowing from the Casting the Net programme to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity services at Aberdour and Inverkeithing. The shift in the management of the Diocese so that the focus is on the local churches to enable mission initiatives appropriate to their culture and setting is going to make a huge difference. That is if we in the local churches are ready to think about what those initiatives might be and what we might need from the Diocese in the way of resources and support.
In preparation for the work we will be doing in the ABI Group by Easter each of the churches will have used the ‘Mission Shaped Spirituality’ book either as a course of study or for private reading. I hope that it will be possible to work with the Diocesan facilitators soon after that to look at our mission opportunities and support needs. We have two Casting the Net Liaison Officers for the ABI Group, Marjorie Smith at St Peter’s and Sarah MacMillan for St Serf’s and St Columba’s. They are the channel for information from the CTN Action Group. Sarah has just joined me as a member of the CTN Action Group, taking over from Ian Harper who was in at the beginning of it. In addition Sarah and I will be part of the team of Diocesan Facilitators and I am currently involved in two of the pilot consultations, at Forfar and Kinross. By the time we roll out the full programme after Easter we should have ironed out most of the glitches.
As we enter the season of Lent then, we should be thinking about what it means for us to obey Christ’s command to go with him and be fishers of people.

Yours in Christ
Val Nellist