{"id":1953,"date":"2012-12-03T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2012-12-03T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T11:22:42","slug":"ssafa-carol-service-at-markinch-parish-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"SSAFA Carol Service at Markinch Parish Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People from across Fife made their way to Markinch Parish Church on Sunday 2nd December to attend the annual SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors &amp; Airmen\u2019s Forces Help) Carol Service,<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Mrs Margaret Dean, the Lord Lieutenant of Fife, and SSAFA Forces Help, the service was attended by over 200 people.<\/p>\n<p>The readers included, Mrs Margaret Dean, HM Lord Lieutenant of Fife,\u00a0 Mrs Tricia Marwick MSP\u00a0&#8211; Presiding Officer,\u00a0of the Scottish Parliament, Councillor Kay Morrison, Deputy Provost of Fife, and Mr Robert Balfour DL, Elder, Markinch Parish Church.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Jean Forsyth played the organ and Markinch District Community Choir sang two anthems.\u00a0 Co-op Funeral Care, Glenrothes, supplied the hymn sheets<\/p>\n<p>The Revd. Alex Forsyth, the minister at Markinch, thanked the\u00a0 volunteers whose support on the day made this event possible and such a\u00a0 great success. \u00a3320 was raised for SSAFA funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DS2_1919b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1954\" title=\"The readers at the SSAFA carol service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DS2_1919b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DS2_1919b.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DS2_1919b-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People from across Fife made their way to Markinch Parish Church on Sunday 2nd December to attend the annual SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors &amp; Airmen\u2019s Forces &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}