Posts for April, 2025

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All are invited to journey with us through Holy Week from Palm Sunday where we recount the Passion Narrative, and each day following until we end on Easter Day with the risen Christ.

We start the week with series of online Easter teaching from the Manse in Boat of Garten and culminate with an Easter Egg hunt in Carrbridge
14 -16.04.2026 7.30pm. Easter Week online Teaching from the Manse:
Leader Rev Graham Atkinson Online: ABCK Churches YouTube Channel
17.04.2025 7.30pm. Maundy Thursday Service:
Leader: Rev Graham Atkinson Abernethy Church, Nethybridge
18.04.2025 7.30pm. Good Friday Family Service:
Leader: Rev Graham Atkinson St Columba’s,Boat of Garten
20.04.2025 08.00am. Easter Sunday Early Service by Loch Garten:
Leader: Rev Graham Atkinson
Park at Loch Mallachie Carpark
20.04.2025 10.00am. Easter Sunday Service:
Leader: Rev Graham Atkinson St Columba’s, Boat of Garten
20.04.2025 11.30am Easter Sunday Service:
Leader: Rev Graham Atkinson Carr-Bridge Church
20.04.2025 10.30am Easter Sunday Service:
Leader: Peter Norgate Abernethy Church,Nethybridge
21.04 2025 TBA Easter Egg Hunt, Carr-Bridge

We look forward to welcoming you to our annual Easter Sunday morning short Church Service on the shores of Loch Garten to greet and praise our Risen Lord Jesus Christ.

Parking is available in the Loch Mallachie Carpark

Wear something warm

5pm. Come join us to sing Christmas songs at the Christmas tree on the Green in Boat of Garten

5.30pm .Christmas Carols in St Columba’s Church , Boat of Garten

6pm. After all that effort – mince pies and mulled wine at the Boat Hotel – kindly supplied by the Hotel.

All are welcome to join us for our Carol Service with traditional carols. The event is fully accessible.

Within the Scottish Episcopal Church, time is made available for people to remember friends and family that have died, and what they meant to us. St Columba’s are inviting anyone who has lost a loved one to join them in a special service on November 1st at 7pm. This will be a quiet contemplative service to help in our reflection.

There is a special tree to which names will be added for inclusion in our prayers. We invite people to email [email protected] with names of people they would like to remember, and to come to the service so they can light a candle to help their reflection.

A blessing of the animals has long been associated with St Francis of Assisi. The Feast Day of St Francis falls on October 4th, so we are following in that tradition of blessing animals. We invite you to bring your animals to church on the 13th, so they can be blessed. However, we do understand the need to keep animals calm and unstressed, so if you feel unable to bring your animal along, bring a photo of them instead.

A blessing of the animals has long been associated with St Francis of Assisi. The Feast Day of St Francis falls on October 4th, so we are following in that tradition of blessing animals. We invite you to bring your animals to church on the 20th, so they can be blessed. However, we do understand the need to keep animals calm and unstressed, so if you feel unable to bring your animal along, bring a photo of them instead.

A time of blessing the animals will be incorporated into the service, with refreshments following afterwards. All are welcome.

Giving thanks for a successful harvest and for God’s provision in our lives. Praying and seeking ways in which we can help provide for those who are struggling to put food on their tables.

A celebration of the gathering of the harvest around us, giving thanks for all that we have, and looking out to the communities around who may not have what we have and ways in which we can help others.

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Where is this event being held?

St Columba’s is the first church on the left as you enter Grantown-on-Spey from the South, next to the Craiglynne Hotel. Parking is available. The church and hall are fully accessible. St Columba Scottish Episcopal Church is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.