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Past
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This page contains photographic memories that some of our members would like to share with you.
| 1948 - Women's Guild trip to North BerwickGuild trip to North Berwick |
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Back Row - Mrs McMillan,
Mrs Bain (Creoch), Mrs Goudie |
25th
Anniversary of the Women's Guild - 26th November 1963
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| Mrs Mitchell, the Hon. Vice President, cutting the cake with the Rev. and Mrs D C McPherson looking on |
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Back Row, l - r, Mrs McGill, Mrs Timpany, Mrs G Jackson, Mrs Bauld, Miss E Turner, Mrs McKnight, Mrs J McDonald, Mrs S Kerr, Mrs W McKechnie Front Row, l - r, Mrs McLelland (Treas.) Mrs McPherson (Pres.) Mrs Crearie (V Pres.) Mrs H Trotter (Secy.) |
Sunday School Party - 1964. |
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Back row - B Houston, WJess
(as Santa's stand in), S Houston |
| 1965(December) - Youth Fellowship Concert |
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Back Row (boys) B Williamson, I Jess, B Gilmour, H Burgoyne,S Kerr, R Campbell, D Pearson, I Thomson, J Smith,J McFarlane,J Geddes, H Haddow, I Pollock 3rd Row (boys) T Timpany, P Ratcliffe, R Bain, A Swan, B Riddell, R McCron, R Kennedy, J Kay, R Hart 2nd Row (girls) S Geddes, M Clapperton, J McLatchie, M McIver, L Crearie, xx, E Wilson, xx, F Climie, E Climie, F MacSween, M Begg Front Row (girls) xx, D Turnbull, E Shankland, M Turnbull, S Ferguson, S Wark, M Whiteford, E Robertson, M Haddow, N Scoular, A Capstick programme cover / show items (Courtesy of Mrs A Jess) Photograph courtesy
of Mrs M Ritchie, Cumnock - from the Cumnock Chronicle of 17th Dec 1965 |
| Young Mothers Trip to Rothesay - 1967 |
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Left to
Right are Jean Bell, Margaret Murray, Mary Dornan, Nancy Kelly |
1970 Sunday School Trip "Up the Afton"
Suzanne Kelly, Mary Dornan, John Dornan Right - John on the wooden shute which was taken on all the trips. We used to go to far away exotic places such as David Livingstone's birthplace at Blantyre, Lynn Park in Glasgow, Strathaven, Sorn or the beach at Troon. However in 1970, we came back home and went "up the Afton" to Pencloe holm at the foot of the Carcow burn. Photos courtesy of Mary and Patrick Dornan. |
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| Fortieth Anniversary of New Cumnock Old Church Women's Guild - November 1978 |
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Present
and Past Presidents Mrs A Davidson, Mrs N Crearie, Mrs B Sanderson (Pres.)
Mrs N MacPherson cutting the Anniversary cake |
| The Committee |
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Back Row - Mrs B McDonald, Mrs M McKnight, Mrs N Duncan, Mrs H Robertson, Mrs F Timpany, Mrs Mair, Mrs N Hunter, Mrs M Hodge, Mrs H Beck, Mrs Bauld Front Row - Mrs S Anderson, Mrs M Ferrans, Mrs N Riddle, Mrs B Sanderson, Mrs J Wallace, Mrs J Stobie, Miss J Jackson Photographs courtesy of Mrs Jean Wallace |
| Rev McGurk's Induction and Ordination June 1983 - robed by Miss Barbara Murdoch of the Leggate |
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| The Kirk Session in 1987 |
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| L-R : F Farrow, G Storrie, J Brown, D Shankland, S Capstick, A McMillan,
J Bain, W Mason, C Kilday, J Hodge, S Ferrans, J Murray, D Sanderson,
J Grozier, P Dornan, I Harper, T Nairn, A McKnight, D Beck, W Turner,
Rev McGurk, W Murray, J Trotter, D Serrie, J Duncan, D Corson, J Clapperton,
M McLauchlan,W Jess, D Hunter, D Wallace T Campbell, H McFarlane Front row L-R: Mgt Ritchie, M McCormack, S Goudie, M Harper, V Barr, C Murray, C Wilson, M Dornan, B Laird, M Murray, A Hogg |
| Courtesy of Mrs I Bain |
| 50th Anniversary of New Cumnock Parish Church Women's Guild - November 1988 |
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| Present and Past Presidents - Mrs N Hunter, Mrs N MacPherson, Mrs M Dornan ( Pres.) Mrs B Sanderson |
| Presentation to the Church |
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Mrs M Harper, Rev A McGurk, Mrs M Dornan, Mrs A Robertson, Mrs M Hodge, Mrs B Sanderson Photographs courtesy of Mrs Mary Dornan |
| The Choir with the Rev. and Mrs McGurk 1992 |
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Back row D Wallace, Rev a McGurk, W Murray Middle row J Rollie, R McCrorie, M Murray, D Sanderson, J Bain, S McGurk, J Lorimer, B Sanderson, I McDicken, V Barr, M Milroy, J Murray, J Mathieson Front Row M Ritchie, M McCracken, M McCormack, I Bain, M Davidson |
| Courtesy of Mrs I Bain |
| The Coffee Bean Ladies - July 1994 |
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| Back C Sloan C McFarlane
B Sanderson H Gledinning N Kelly M Mathieson L McNab Courtesy of
Mrs M Dornan |
| 60th Anniversary of New Cumnock Parish Church Women's Guild - November 1998 |
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| Present and Past Presidents - Mrs A Ferrans, Mrs B Sanderson, Mrs M Dornan (Pres.) Mrs N MacPherson, Mrs N Hunter, Mrs M Harper |
| Presentation to the Church |
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Mrs N Hunter, Mrs M McCormack, Mrs F Kennedy, Rev G Kennedy, Mrs M Dornan, Rev F Aitken Photographs courtesy of Mrs M Dornan |
| The Kirk Session in 1999 |
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| Back Row - M Ritchie, M Ritchie, J Clapperton, G McLatchie, T Nairn,
J Murray, J McCrorie, R McCrorie, C Campbell, P Dornan, H Glendinning Middle Row – D Serrie, J Mathieson, A Hogg, D Sanderson, V Barr, Rev. G Kennedy, R Gilliland, C Wilson, D Wallace, J Hodge, J Ferguson Front Row – N Kelly, M Murray, A Ferrans, M McCormack, I Harper, J Duncan, N Patterson, J Cain, M Dornan, J Ferguson. |
| Courtesy of Mr and Mrs R Gilliland, Afton Rd. |
| The Guild Entertainment Group 2002 |
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Back Row – M Harper, A Ferrans, M McCormack,
N Patterson, L McLatchie, I Gilliland
Front Row – R McCrorie, I McDicken, J Mathieson, M Rorrison, H Lamont, M Dornan |
| Courtesy of Mr and Mrs R Gilliland, Afton Rd. |
Our
Girls' Brigade Company celebrated their 45th birthday in December 2003.
Here are some images from their past........ |
| The Company, the whole Company and nothing but the Company |
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| Armistice Day | |
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| Winners of the Agnes Burgoyne Trophy |
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Carol
Nairn, Carolynn Bain, Fiona McGurk |
.........and here are some photos from the Birthday Party which was held on the 10th of December.
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In December 2003 the Guild celebrated their 65th Anniversary
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On the 15th Of January 2004 the Coffee Bean was 20 years old.
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September
2004
On the evening of
Tuesday the 28th September, the Rev. Young was inducted into the full
status charge of our church.
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The ceremony was organised
by the Presbytery of Ayr and officiating were
Back row left - right Rev. Alec Shuttleworth M.A., B.D., Minister, Annbank
linked with Tarbolton, Rev. James Crichton M.A., B.D., M.Th., Clerk to the
Presbytery of Ayr
Front Row left - right Rev. G. Stewart Birse C.A., B.D., B.Sc., Moderator
of Ayr Presbytery, Rev. Rona M YoungM.A., Dip. Ed., New Cumnock Parish Church
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The Rev
and Mr Tom Young |
The Rev.
Young and Mr I Harper, Session Clerk |
Patrick's Poem
This poem is the sequel to the poem which I wrote when the Reverend
Rona Young was first inducted as Minister on a five year
terminable tenure on 25 Sept. 2001. But after a lot of hard work
by Rona, and everyone connected to The Church in New Cumnock,
the terminable tenure was turned around after only three years,
and the Church was returned to Full Status, where it deserved to be.
Induction - The Sequel.
From Ayr they came, with big stick
in hand,
and proceeded to tell US, what THEY had planned
But they hadn’t reckoned on people power,
or our love for this Church, with its old clock tower
So we duly elected a vacancy committee.
And they had to search, each town and city.
For a minister, who would help us reach our goal,
they would have to work hard, with heart and with
soul.
So after many meetings, when some
harsh words
were said,
it was decided that we could go ahead,
and search for a minister, for a term of five years.
Then we’d be looked at again, by our Presbytery
Peers.
What we had before us was no mean
task.
Where do we look? Who do we ask?.
Who would want a charge of only five years.
But the search went on; we had to conquer our fears
The committee was split into groups
of four,
but had only to call on one Church door.
To listen to a minister, and arrange interviews.
Wondering if this was the one, who could fill our
pews.
As time went on and names got
fewer.
We prayed that God, would help us secure,
the person who was right, for the job to take us.
To where we belonged. Back to Full Status.
But God as we know, works in mysterious
ways.
And all at once, things, just seemed to fall into place
One minister stood out above all the rest.
We had found the person, who suited our needs the
best.
We should have known better,
we didn’t find her at
all,
it was she who found us, when she answered God’s
call.
So we invited her to come, and preach in our
Church,
and the congregation said YES, because they liked
her so much.
She had been very happy, at Crosshouse,
for ten
years.
She was sorry to leave, and had shed many tears.
She hadn’t planned to go, and would have stayed
longer,
but felt the calling of God, had been stronger.
Her induction was attended by
every Presbytery
member,
it had never happened before, no one could
remember.
And after all the speeches, and God’s praises sung.
We had our minister, the REV. RONA YOUNG.
But that was only the beginning of what lay ahead,
a lot of hard work, and lots of prayers to be said,
we must all pull together, and work as hard as we can,
and put together our Full Status Plan.
It’s not going to be easy,
no one said it would,
we had to fill the pews as fast as we could,
we had only five years to change Presbytery’s mind,
so we needed all the help that we could find.
So the first place we turned to
was God, and we asked,
please help us and Rona to fulfill our task.
We knew we would make it with God on our side,
but we must be seen doing it, there’s no place to hide.
So it was up to everyone to pull
their weight,
no one person could seal our fate,
minister, session, every organisation,
and every member of the congregation.
If we all worked together, we
would see this through,
it could not be left in the hands of a few,
so we knocked on the doors of every street,
telling them where and when we meet.
Everyone was made welcome, no one turned away,
some only came once, but some decided to stay.
So the congregation got bigger, the pews started to fill,
and were not finished yet, there’s lots to do still.
So members of Presbytery, I’m sure you’ve found out,
that the people of New Cumnock never had any doubt,
we’d be returned to Full Status, for all to see,
and it didn’t take us five years, it only took three.
THE END
Patrick
Dornan
February
2005
The Rev and Mrs Nkhoma from Malawi visited us on Sunday the 13th. Rev. Nkhoma
took the children's address and gave us a sermon on "Christian Concern and
Gospel Imperative".
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Rev. Nkhoma is the newly elected General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of Central Africa, Livingstonia Synod.
April
2006
As part of his ten day visit to Ayr Presbytery,
the Moderator, Rev. David W Lacy, was taken on a helicopter tour of the parish
and landed at the wind farm at Harehill which overlooks the village.
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The wind
farm at Harehill
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Mrs Lacy
and the Moderator inside a turbine
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Mr John
Clapperton (Senior Elder), Rev Rona Young, The Moderator, Mrs Lacy,
Wind Farm Rep, Rev John Paterson (Old Cumnock Old Church) |
June 2007
On
Wednesday the 27th
we had a visit from our Malawi partners, Rev Hamilton Gondwe and
Mrs Fides Msowoya
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