Kiltarlity and Kirkhill Churches
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 Welcome to the website for Kiltarlity and Kirkhill Churches!The purpose of this website is threefold. Firstly, to keep you informed about the life and work of our churches. Secondly, to be a useful tool in sharing news, and thirdly to be a source of further facts relating to the mission of the Church of Scotland and its related organisations.Message from the Interim ModeratorDear Friends,In August 1957 four climbers — two Italians and two Germans — were climbing the 6,000 foot near-vertical North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps. The two German climbers disappeared and were never heard from again. The two Italian climbers, exhausted and dying, were stuck on two narrow ledges a thousand feet below the summit. The Swiss Alpine Club forbade rescue attempts in this area (it was just too dangerous), but a small group of Swiss climbers decided to launch a private rescue effort to save the Italians. So they carefully lowered a climber named Alfred Hellepart down the 6,000 foot North Face. They suspended Hellepart on a cable a fraction of an inch thick as they lowered him into the abyss.Here's how Hellepart described the rescue in his own words: "As I was lowered down the summit … my comrades on top grew further and further distant, until they disappeared from sight. At this moment I felt an indescribable aloneness. Then for the first time I peered down the abyss of the North Face of the Eiger. The terror of the sight robbed me of breath. … The brooding blackness of the Face, falling away in almost endless expanse beneath me, made me look with awful longing to the thin cable disappearing about me in the mist. I was a tiny human being dangling in space between heaven and hell. The sole relief from terror was …my mission to save the climber below." Here we have the heart of the Gospel story. Human beings were trapped in an impossible situation, but in the person of Jesus, God lowered himself into the abyss of our sin and suffering. In Jesus God became "a tiny human being dangling between heaven and hell." He did it to save the people trapped below – all of us. The good news about Jesus is much more radical than just another religion telling us how to be good in our own power. It tells us the story of God's risky, costly, sacrificial rescue effort on our behalf. Yours sincerely, Edgar Ogston Roselynn, Croyard Road, Beauly, IV4 7DJ 01463 782260 edgar.ogston@macfish.com Kiltarlity Church of Scotland, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, SC014918 is a Registered Charity Kirkhill Church of Scotland, Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, SC003866 is a Registered Charity |