This week, the Revd. Thembeka Pitoyi, minister of Thomas Gillespie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Mount Ayliff, South Africa joins us in worship at GMC. The church Thembeka shepherds was founded by Rev. Peter L Hunter, sent from Gillespie United Presbyterian Church (now GMC) in 1889 on request of the Local Chief Jojo in the Western Cape. And now 137 years later the word of God is brought back from South Africa for our ears in Dunfermline and across Scotland. Our worship service was streamed across our two churches, two nations, two continents, yet we were and are, one body of Christ, worshipping in one faith to our One Lord and God.

Revd. Thembeka brought a powerful word from Isaiah 49.v6 – “I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” That we, the church must be a light to those who do not know the Lord, and by us this means the whole priesthood of the church, which is not solely the ministers of God’s word, but the people of God. It is you, the people of God who know Jesus, that are a light to the world. Go now and be the light.

This episode was produced by Rev Mike Weaver (Prayers), and Rev Thembeka Pitoyi, Thomas Gillespie Presbyterian Church Mt.Ayliff South Africa (Reading &Preaching). It was mixed by Mike Weaver and Grant Ralston. It was edited by Barbara-Anne Hoey. Our soundtrack music is ‘Blessed Assurance (All My Attempts to be Satisfied)’ by Jaywan Maxwell, Michael Farren, Nathan Singh & Rhyan Shirley (City Alight Music), performed by Gordon Eastop & Mike Weaver.