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Simple Colouring Pages
You can download this week’s more simple colouring sheets for Advent here. Take time each day to think and meditate with your thoughts as you colour.
These images are taken from The Advent Tree by Kara Eidson ©2025 Westminster John Knox Press, all Rights Reserved. We are grateful to the author and publisher for allowing us to publish these on our website with their permission.
Advent Week Four (21st – 24th December)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday, Christmas Eve (with bonus colouring sheets!)
Advent Week Three (14th – 20th December)
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Advent Week Two (7th – 13th December)
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
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Advent Week One (30th November – 6th December)
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Monday
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More Complex Colouring Pages
You can download this week’s more complex colouring sheets for Advent here. Take time each day to think and meditate with your thoughts as you colour.
These images are taken from The Advent Tree by Kara Eidson ©2025 Westminster John Knox Press, all Rights Reserved. We are grateful to the author and publisher for allowing us to publish these on our website with their permission.
Advent Week Four (21st – 24th December)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday, Christmas Eve (with bonus colouring sheets!)
Advent Week Three (14th – 20th December)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Advent Week Two (7th – 14th December)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Advent Week One (30th November – 6th December)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sheila Hogan Funeral
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Assistant Minister Thorsten Koenig
My name is Thorsten Koenig, and for the coming weeks and months, I am the so-called “Assistant Minister” of Kilmacolm Parish Church.
What is an “assistant minister”? Because of the “Presbytery Mission Plan,” very few vacant charges to apply for are currently available. Therefore, the Church of Scotland developed a job description for an “assistant minister” appointment within a presbytery, allowing those having completed their training to minister in a context that is right for them and the Church at this time – and I am one of those.
So, back to me:
My wife Astrid and I are both Germans. Before we came to Scotland five years ago, when Astrid got an offer to work as a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, we lived in The Netherlands for sixteen years.
There, we were members of the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam, which has been part of the Church of Scotland since 1607, and for twelve years, I was one of its elders and the treasurer.
A call for ministry was always itching me after I became a Christian.
After I finished high school in Germany, I completed my mandatory civil service in one of the German Landeskirches. One thing became clear to me: I would never become a minister in such a “clergy-driven” church.
So, off I went, studied Food Chemistry, got my PhD, and worked for the next twenty-five years in the food industry. I became a real businessman, leading innovation for the world’s biggest flavour and fragrance company globally from the US to Japan. Later, I was a board member of the European Institute of Technology for Food for four years.
Well, Astrid and I always thought we would move to the north of Italy or the south of France…. but Scotland and its weather…
And then Astrid got this offer to work in Scotland.
For me, this was God’s “writing on the wall in blinking letters” – I thought, “OK, God, you were patient with me for thirty years; now I surrender.”
So, I quit my job, we moved to Scotland, and I began my journey into ministry. This journey led me from “classical” CoS congregations like Houston & Killellan and Kilbarchan via the young and inner-city friends of St Geroge’s Tron in Glasgow, to the Orkneys, and then my probation time in Govan, a priority area parish. And now I am here with you in Kilmacolm and delighted to be with you.
When you ask me about my theology, I like to keep it simple.
I grew up in the Lutheran tradition, joined more evangelical circles for a time, experienced a congregation in Amsterdam where denominations were unimportant, and saw quite different ways of being Church in Scotland.
So my theology is: “I am steadfastly orthodox and lovingly liberal – let’s better talk about God’s love for us.”
I hope we will have many opportunities to get to know each other. Hopefully, then, you will discover that I love telling stories and jokes (and Germans take humour “seriously”). I love being among people, and I am looking forward to our journey together following God’s calling.
Be blessed,
Thorsten
Presbytery Clerk’s Microwaveable Clootie Dumpling
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FoodBank
Kilmacolm Old Kirk is supporting one of the Inverclyde Foodbanks because there are still many people in Iverclyde who find it difficult to put adequate food on their table. You can become involved by placing donations in the container situated in the Church Vestibule. Your donations of tins and dry goods will help in making up emergency food parcels which are distributed throughout Inverclyde by the United Reformed Church in Port Glasgow through their project “CHURCH ANGELS”