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  • NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER 2025

    INTRODUCTION  This newsletter covers all the main events that have taken place over the last few months. This includes our AGM which I hope will be held earlier on in the year. It is convenient to have both the AGM and our Commissioning Mass on the same night, but it…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER MAY 2025

    Welcome to our May newsletter that’s crammed full of all things SPRED! Hope everyone is enjoying the good weather and is looking forward to everything that SPRED has coming up in the summer months.  GRAND SUMMER RAFFLE  We are very excited about our upcoming Grand Summer Raffle, with chances to…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2024

    AYR GROUPS MASS REPORT : THURSDAY 20th FEBRUARY 2025 It was a great pleasure to welcome Fr Philip Kitchen to celebrate Mass with the Ayr Groups and other invited guests. He has been a great Friend to SPRED over many years. Billy Hendren from the Thursday Evening Group was our…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2024

    As usual December was a hectic month in the world of SPRED Galloway (hence the wee bit of a delay in this newsletter).  It began right at the beginning of the month with an Advent Diocesan SPRED Mass and Christmas Party on Sunday 1st, continued with an Advent Service on…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2024

    THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER  We had a busy evening given that we celebrated our Commissioning Mass as well as holding our AGM on the same night.  COMMISSIONING MASS  Fr Philip Kitchen, a longstanding friend of SPRED, celebrated our Commissioning Mass with us.  Members of all our Groups were involved throughout the…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2024

    SPRED GROUP’S SUMMER EVENTS  I attended a meeting of the local SSVP Ayr Group earlier in the year.  This group covers both St Margaret’s and St Paul’s Churches.  At this meeting I reminded them of what SPRED is and what we do.  It was then agreed that they would give…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER JUNE 2024

    SPRED DIOCESAN MASS – ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH 23.6.24 ‘Bishop Frank Dougan Meets SPRED Galloway’ by Kathleen Jones A beautiful sunny afternoon, lots of Friends, Faith Friends and friends of SPRED and our brand new Bishop saying Mass – what better way to mark the end of SPRED Galloway’s 2023/24 session!…

  • SPRED GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER MAY 2024 – PART 2

    Pentacost Pilgrim Walks Members of the SPRED Galloway Family took part in a Sponsored Walk to raise funds for SPRED. How fitting it was that the weather was blazing hot over the Pentecost Sunday weekend and believe me when I tell you that our new SPRED Hoodies are warm!  HOODIES…