Once again the SEITraining Fund has benefitted from receiving deputising fees which would otherwise have been paid to the Revd Sally Gorton and Lay Reader Ray Gascoigne, Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway. We thank them and the charges they have served in the past month: All Saints Bearsden, St Mark’s East Kilbride, and St Oswald’s Kings Park. Such money goes directly to supporting students training full-time via New College or the Mixed Mode pathway. Currently there are three candidates on these pathways, two being Mixed Mode students and the third studying at New College.
The Training Fund is also augmented from time to time by money collected at ordinations and services of licensing and institution. In this regard we thank the congregation of St Mary’s Broughty Ferry (Diocese of Brechin) for the generous donation received following the Institution of the Revd Mark-Aaron Tisdale as Rector on 13 August. We also thank the congregation of St Cuthbert’s Colinton (Diocese of Edinburgh) for donating the offering gathered at the Ordination to the Priesthood of the Revd Dr Lesley Penny on Wednesday 21 September. Lesley will continue to serve as Assistant Curate in that charge.
The Revd Canon Robin Paisley kindly suggests to those to whom he offers Pastoral Supervision that they direct the fees payable instead to the Training Fund. We have accordingly received two very generous donations from such clients this past month; our thanks to both Robin and the two donors.
Mrs Maureen Farquhar, second year ordinand from the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness, is likewise thanked for donating the fee received following her recent BBC recording (see News 05.09.22). Maureen very kindly earmarked this for the St James Fund, a pool of money used to enable students to enlarge their formational experience by going on retreats, attending conferences and accessing external training in specific fields such as Godly Play. We thank her for her immense generosity and thoughtfulness.
Finally a goodly sum was raised for the Brazil Fund through the sale of further theological books kindly donated by the Revd David Wostenholm (Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway) at October’s residential. Thanks to Jackie Fenton for her help with the book sale. The money will be sent to our sister Theological Education Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to support the mission work undertaken by the students there. It should be noted that the latter sum was augmented by the fruits of a policy newly instituted at SEI residentials: the offering of a donation every time someone locks themselves out of their room at Kinnoull. The chatelaine’s former annoyance at the hassle of providing the master key to such miscreants has now transmuted into one of pleasure at the sums thereby accrued for the Brazil Fund!
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