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A Message from the Minister

The Manse, Grey Gables, Ayton - 28th April 2009

I wonder how many people pass Grantshouse in any day?
Think of all that traffic on the A1. Think of how many people travel up and down the railway. It must be many thousands of people every day.

To those who pass places like Grantshouse or Houndwood, they must just be another place that they pass through or by. Yet the people who live in them, or people who come from them, see them as so much more. They are living communities.

They are places they call home. They are more than just a series of buildings, they are communities. It is the people within them that shape them much more than any town planner or architect.

Rev. Norman Ross Whyte

If we see our local villages as mere rows of houses then that is like seeing ourselves as just bodies. They have a life that goes far beyond that. I hope the church, even though in Grantshouse we have no building of our own, can be part of that community.

I hope that community will see the part we can play, That we will address the spiritual need that I believe is in every one of us as individuals and communities. So that we, the church and the community, will relate to one another, be part of one another and not detached from each other as those who pass by our communities are detached from us who watch them go by.

Norman Whyte -

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