{"id":3110,"date":"2022-01-15T15:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2022-01-15T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:30:24","slug":"rev-alistair-mcleods-reflection-for-9th-january-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"Rev Alistair McLeod\u2019s Reflection for 16th January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Final Reflection<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am told that if we add all the various times I have served Markinch and Thornton as your Locum Minister that it amounts to nearly 10 years. Today, as I sit down to write this Reflection it gives me great happiness to know that the church has found a minister to take us forward to a time beyond all the distress of Covid 19 \u2013 there can be very little doubt that \u2018the pandemic\u2019 has caused wholesale distress affecting the economy, redundancies, homelessness, and long-term illness resulting from \u2018long-covid\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp; It has been a dangerous time indeed, and we have all been a bit fed up with the rules and restrictions which the government put in place.&nbsp; However, those restrictions, when they have been adhered to, have saved many lives.&nbsp; But Covid 19 has also had a detrimental effect on the church, especially relating to the lack of numbers being allowed to attend. and that vexes me more than a little. Whenever we can, and that is going to be sooner rather than later I hope, we must get the congregation back together as an active worshipping fellowship once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next Thursday, the Reverend Dr. Conor Fegan will be ordained and inducted to Markinch and Thornton Church. I have met him and have spoken with him and I am convinced that he will be a very fine minister with a lot to offer. However, I can tell you that working two churches is not always an easy task and Conor will need all the support, love and care that you have to offer \u2013 I have benefited very much from that love and care over the years, and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and so I am encouraged that Conor will feel that warmth too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel blessed to have had the privilege to serve you. albeit intermittently, over the years, but now it is time for me to take a back seat. I have been asked to remain as a member of the parish and I will happily do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup> January Conor is your \u2018main man\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God bless you all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours Aye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alistair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Final Reflection. I am told that if we add all the various times I have served Markinch and Thornton as your Locum Minister that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wider-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","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=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markinchchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}