Fairlane Baptist Church will be having revival services April 11-14. Services will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and a time of  regular worship a 11 a.m., Sunday. Leading the services will be Rev. Richard Collins. He is a former youth minister at Fairlane, former pastor at Piner and now a full time evangelist and missionary. In the past year Rev. Collins has been to Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia. He also did mission work in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.

It is our hope that you can join us for one or more of these services. We believe that you will be inspired by both the messages of Rev. Collins and the special music that will be presented.

Fairlane is located at 12898 Herringer Road, just off US 27, south of Grants Lick. Hope to see you there April 11-14 for a time of Spring renewal.

There is wildness in Norman MacCaig's poetry. Not just his poems describing the untamed western Highlands of Scotland, but those that are set in the Edinburgh University Staff Club. Seamus Heaney says of MacCaig, "His poems are discovered in flight, migratory, wheeling, and calling. Everything is in a state of restless becoming." (From Roderick Watson's "Introduction" to The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig [Edinburgh: Polygon, 2010]).

It is hard for me to believe, but I only discovered MacCaig this past summer - and that was by accident. I was, in fact, looking for another poet in the bookshop in Oban, Scotland. I had just come across a brilliant poem by Hugh MacDiarmid and wanted to read more. The bookshop didn't have any MacDiarmid, but they did have a pretty good poetry section - a rarity in bookshops these days. Working my way through the shelves, I came across MacCaig's collection, The Many Days. Scanning the verses, I was immediately drawn in. Serendipitously, the volume includes two poems MacCaig wrote about MacDiarmid, the second of which is titled, "After his death." The poem ends with these delightful lines: