Just back from an inspiring visit among the four baptist churches
in these islands, the most northerly extent of the UK. Where the nearest railway
station is in Bergen, Norway! Yet quicker, house to house, in flying to there
than taking the train to Aberdeen. A strange world we live in.
But as in Orkney,
there is a stronger sense of community than in the Central Belt of Scotland.
This is reflected in our baptist churches, where incomers - who
comprise up to half the population - find a home and a family.
The pictures here
are of the abundant wildlife;
the traditional peat bricks stacked ready for burning; and
a wonderful picture painted on an iphone during a service in Dunrossness, where
I was preaching yesterday morning, by artist Paul Bloomer on the sermon theme,
'Uprootedness'.
Thank God for
lively and vibrant baptist churches in the Northern Isles of Shetland.
