About Dalgety Parish Church

Who's Who at Dalgety Parish Church

Parish Grouping Assistant: Alasdair Campbell
Shared among the congregations within Forth Churches Group – Dalgety, Inverkeithing, North Queensferry and Aberdour.

Responsible for:

Sharing in Pastoral Ministry
Developing pastoral care support, including mental health aspects
Parish visitation of housebound, elderly and sick
Running Bereavement Support Group
Co-ordinating ‘Time to Remember’ service
Co-ordinating Fellowship lunch for older members of congregation living alone
Worship in Henderson House Care Home
Involvement with Aberdour Day Care Centre
Involvement with Dalgety Bay Day Care Centre
Involvement with Dalgety Bay Senior Citizens Club
Sharing in leading worship
Sharing in the conduct of funerals

Session Clerk: Isobel Macfarlane
The Session Clerk is usually a full member of the Kirk Session and is elected by members of the Session. In Dalgety Parish Church the post is for a 5-year (renewable) term of office. The Session Clerk is expected to be concerned with the welfare of the congregation, support the minister and have a good knowledge of the Church’s rules and procedures.

The Session Clerk is responsible for:

Preparing for Kirk Session meetings
Taking minutes of all Kirk Session meetings and taking extracts where required
Dealing with all correspondence and paperwork
All the Records of the Congregation and submitting these annually to Presbytery
Liaising with the Conveners of the Kirk Session Groups
Organising elders’ duties
Controlling the logistics of Communion
Being a ‘sounding board’ for the minister in relation to Church activities
Essentially, being manager of the Kirk Session

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The Minister: Rev Robert Watt BD
Currently, Dalgety Parish Church is vacant i.e. it has no resident minister. To cover the period of the vacancy, Mr Watt has been appointed as Interim Moderator. In practice, this means he undertakes those duties which a resident minister would be obliged to do.

The minister’s role is to be responsible for all Church activity within his parish. He exercises pastoral care and support for people in the parish (whether they are members of the Church, or not); conducts parish funerals; celebrates the sacraments – communion, baptism, marriages and conducts regular worship.

He chairs the Kirk Session and is an enabler for developing the congregation through leadership and vision.

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