We are currently 18 members in the Guild coming from four villages. Since Covid during which guild membership took a big downturn nationally we are happy to receive the news that number in Scotland is back up to 15,000. Contrary to some thinking, the Guild is not merely a fund raising organisation of the Church of Scotland but originally came into being in order to give women a visible role in the church where through ‘worship prayer action and fellowship’ they could flourish and grow in faith, and be more informed of the of the outreach of the church nationally and worldwide.
We have a network of 13 branches in North Ayrshire linked and sharing with the whole of Ayrshire through Guild Together North Ayrshire (GTNA). Annually in September we have a national gathering in Edinburgh which is followed by Guild Week which is special this year as we will be hosting five Malawians coming from Livingstonia Synod in Northern Malawi. Monica Matembo will be coming to see the work of GTNA and share with us the work of the Unamwano (Malawi Guild), for the week immediately after the National Gathering and will be with us on Arran from Saturday evening 7th September – Monday evening 9th Sept. Watch this space
Arran Guild meets at 2p.m. on 3rd Tuesday of each month from September – April and we do hope many more of folk in Isle of Arran Church of Scotland will join us along with friends just wanting a ‘taster’.
(Not all our members worship in the Church of Scotland and the Guild has been open to men as well as women since 1997!).