In September we hosted a long-awaited GO Relief Team in Stranraer! The Relief Committee of the RPCI send annual teams to do practical work for churches, mission situations, etc. Two men from the Relief Committee visited Stranraer in May 2023 to see some of the work that was needing done to the church and manse (both listed buildings). It was arranged that a team would come after the new windows were put in the church, which meant a delay of over a year due to the need to wait for planning permission. A 10-person team came during what turned out to be the best weather of the summer. The team did plastering where the new windows had been put in, painted the outside of the building, restored the rotting doors, turned the old session room into a minister’s study, turned an old kitchen into a creche/cry room, laid a new floor in the manse living room, and much more.
We are overwhelmed with thanksgiving for the work that has been done, and pray that the work that has done might spark peoples’ curiosity to come in and hear the gospel preached.
