Worshippers from South Carolina to visit Largs in May

The Midland Valley Community Church of the Nazarene, in South Carolina, are heading to Scotland thanks to a link-up with the local Church of the Nazarene in Aitken Street.

They will be here from May 11-17, and during their visit will be lending a hand in a range of community projects that the local Church of the Nazarene is heavily involved in.

The visit is particularly exciting for one of the pastors in Largs, Tasha Alison, as she grew up as part of the Midland Valley congregation and her parents, Mark and Melanie Alison, will be part of the group.

Tasha said: “They are going to be doing some painting and general upgrades at the Church of the Nazarene in Largs, and if weather permits, we are going to paint some of the front of the church building.

"We are putting new lights in and we having the walls plastered again.

Steve Fountain and Tasha Alison of the Church of the Nazarene in Largs are looking forward to welcoming American visitors close to their original home in States (Image: Church of the Nazarene)

“I am also going to have them doing some work at Douglas Park and at a community green projects around the town with Wendy Low Thomson. 

"It is wonderful to have them coming over. It will be awesome.

"Their church is considerably bigger than us. Their campus is 80 acres, and they have several thousand members.

"Steve’s dad was the pastor there when I was a teenager, and we attended for the last ten years before we came to Scotland.”

Some of the members of the South Carolina congregation who will be visiting Largs (Image: Church of The Nazarene)

The Church of The Nazarene has been working closely with the Access to Food group at Largs Community Council by providing Common Ground community meals on Thursday afternoons, as well as cookery classes to help people save money on Saturday mornings.

Tasha said: “It is going to be wonderful to catch up my parents. It is called a 'work and witness' trip and it is just to help out where they can.

State of play: Church of The Nazarene is to be given a freshening up thanks to U.S visitors from South Carolina (Image: Newsquest)

"Some of them are electricians and some of them are joiners, and they will be able to do pretty significant work.

"They have sent money ahead to source supplies, and they have raised the money themselves to come on the trip.

"We have several couples, and then we have two families with older teenagers. For some of them it will be their first visit to Scotland.”

The Midland Valley Community Church of the Nazarene will be visiting in May. (Image: Church of the Nazarene)

The Largs congregation holds regular services, featuring food and fellowship as well as praise, prayer and preaching, every Sunday at 11am, as well as other meetings and events throughout the week.

For more see largsnaz.org.