A place of welcome to all in Dumfries, Scotland
The congregation of Maxwelltown West invites you to visit us, or to call upon us if we can help you.
To be a Pilgrim – David Johnson considers the benefits of a good walk. As a squeaky-voiced probationer chorister in Derby Cathedral choir, I loved singing “To be a Pilgrim”, also known as “Who would true valour see”. It is the only hymn that John Bunyan is credited with writing, sung to the tune “Monks’ Gate” by Ralph Vaughan Williams. I…
People often ask me if I get lonely when touring alone on my summer holidays, it’s by choice and not circumstance that I ride my high-powered BMW motorcycle without a visible pillion passenger. People think I may be lonely and therefore approach me and ask such thing as ‘where am I heading? Am I camping, and if so is the…
Greetings to you all. I do hope that you have enjoyed some of the glorious summer sunshine and enjoyed a holiday away for a few days. Easter Day brought tragedy to our world in the awful Christian church bombings in Sri Lanka. Over 250 people lost their lives, and over 500 injured, many with life changing injuries, whilst celebrating and…