| THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS train to be priests so that they will be able to help the laity to run the race that is set before them. But what about running the race so that ordinands can complete their training?
One layman, Stuart Mair, intends to do just that. On 26 April, he is taking part in the 53-mile Highland Fling Race from Milngavie in Glasgow to Tyndrum in the West Highlands. It has to be completed in 15 hours.
Then, on 21 and 22 June, he is to take part in the West Highland Way Race from Milngavie to Fort William, 95 miles, to be completed in less than 35 hours. It entails 15,000 feet of climbing and descent.
Mr Mair, director of music at St Francis of Assisi’s, Meir Heath, Stoke on Trent, is asking for sponsors from Meir Heath in aid of the Church Times Train-A-Priest (TAP) Fund; and he hopes readers who have not yet given to the appeal will be willing to sponsor him, too.
“Both races are extreme, and whilst no fatalities have yet occurred, there have been some close calls,” he says. While he hopes to complete both races, he suggests that he be sponsored per mile or per ten miles completed.
Mr Mair is 41, and married to Patricia, who gave birth last weekend to a healthy baby boy, weighing 7 lb 2 oz. So we hope that he won’t do himself any injury for TAP.
Please sponsor him in his heroic effort. We will keep you up to date on it. If you would like to let us know what you are pledging, email letters@churchtimes.co.uk or write
to the Editor. Otherwise, make a private resolution to do so, and put a covering note in with your donation, so that we can give Mr Mair the feedback he deserves.
Although Lent is drawing to a close, the TAP Fund stays open until Pentecost (Mr Mair’s race will be reported in due course). Please make an Easter offering, and use the Gift Aid form printed on page 16 last week (and on the TAP leaflets). We will print it again next week.
Address for your donations: TAP Fund,
G. J. Palmer & Sons, 16 Blyburgate, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9TB. |
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