| AdminHistory | Given the complex relatioship between the churches in Livingston, there was the need for co-operative bodies that could oversee the interrelationship of the churches invovled in the Ecumenical Experiment. At a senior church level, members interested in ecumenical expression met in the Committee on the Approaches of the Churches to Livingston where broad consensus was arranged and also the Livingston Ecumenical Council.
Within Livingston itself there was the need to finess the operation of the management committees of the Craigshill church so that the running of the church was palatable to all parties involved in the area, as well as ensuring the church could operate on a day to day basis. This resulted in the formation of a management committee, a church council, and a variety of sub-committees. |
| ScopeandContent | 31 items and files comprising:
1. Minutes of meetings of the Committee on the Approach of the Churches to Livingston, with associated correspondence, agendas and memoranda, 1964-1975
2. Minutes of meetings of the Livingston Ecumenical Council, 1970-1975.
3-5. Correspondence and minutes of meetings regarding the construction of St Columba's Church, Craigshill, 1964-1971.
6-20. Papers relating to the management committee, church council, stewardship sub-committee and other management papes of St Columba's church, Craigshill, and of the Livingston Ecumenical Experiment, 1969-1975.
21-24. Notes and papers concerning educational activities within the ecumenical experiment, 1958-1972.
25.. Leaflets about St. Columba's Parish, 1960s.
26. Notes on the Methodist constitution, 1968.
27. Report of the ministerial team which visited Trist Holdings, 1967.
28. A copy of Livingston Life, March 1983, which contains an article on Maitland's retirement.
29. A copy of Unity Now, an article by Maitland on Livingston and the ecumenical experiment, 1981.
30. Material relating to the team ministry, 1977-1994.
31. Material relating to the ecumenical parish and which post dates Maitland's retirement, 1990s. |