research snippets• We are currently evaluating the impact

of educational initiatives designedaround the NHS Education for Scotlanddocument Spiritual Care Matters (2008).This document examines why lookingafter your spiritual needs in times ofillness and difficulty can sometimes bejust as important as taking the pills! Thefindings of this study will be published in2011.

• Ever need a good listening to? We are working with Mowat Research on a pilotstudy examining the impact of aCommunity Chaplaincy ListeningService. This tag line for this innovativeservice says it all: ‘Your story. Your time.Your wellbeing.’ We’re researching theimpact of the service and whether alistening ear can help people cope inchallenging times.

’’and...ACTION!Our film directors James Fleming (from Moodlight Media)and Craig Meighan (of The Retrofrets) have been planningthings on large flip charts for some time. Earlier this monththey battled the weather to hold a day of filming at HQ andmade us feel like a regular morning TV show. With soundexpertise from Ian Green (Stage Electrics) it added up to avery professional outfit and we had loads of funexperimenting with life on camera. As well as catching anumber of our other events on film, they’ll be in the editingsuite over the next few months turning the footage intosomething we can watch in 2011. Today Glasgow…tomorrow Cannes ;-)

Fire.CloudEDITION 5 / DECEMBER 2010

welcome...After a few snowy weeks here in Scotland, we are delighted to send our Christmasnewsletter. Last month things were very international at Fire.Cloud; after speaking in NewZealand, we featured in EWTN’s television series My Country, My Faith which aired in the USin November. Thanks to our featured artist Tracy Milligan who is spreading the word inBucharest we’ve also had lots of new website visitors from Romania. Hello Romania! Withdays to go until Christmas, our Advent projects just ended and they have been another great chance to be outin the community working with lots of inspiring people. So it’s almost time for us to relax, put our feet up for a littlewhile and welcome in another exciting year in 2011.

Have a wonderful Christmas when it comes!

Suzanne BunnissFire.Cloud Director

contactWant to know more about Fire.Cloud stuff?

• There’s loads of info at www.fire-cloud.org

• Follow us on Twitter (Firecloud1) and Facebook (Fire.Cloud)

• Finally, If you have any ideas, thoughts, or something you thinkwe should hear about let us know at enquiries@fire-cloud.org

Suzanne Bunniss

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introducing...NAME: Jennifer McGuigan

ROLE AT FC: Jen Of All Trades

JEN’S MOST MEMORABLEF.C MOMENT:“I could simply sayClaire’s experimentallemon drizzle cake that Itasted at this year’sADVENTure -mmmmmmmmoist!However, cake aside Iwould say that my mostmemorable F.C moments are hanging

out and making things happen with Suzanne and

the team - seeing the F.C plans become reality and

genuinely make a difference is... well, AWESOME!!”

F.C SAYS:“Jennifer is an organisational dream; feisty, funny

and super dooper organised, this is a woman who

gets stuff done. As our F.C designer in residence

she deals with all things visual and makes

everything look great. Jenny brought our

newsletter to life, designs our promotional

material and supports much of our event planning.

Her formidable talent and attention to detail is a

perfect addition to the F.C team and we always

need her wise opinion on all kinds of weird and

wonderful questions every week. As if that was

not enough, Miss McGuigan is all heart. She

always goes above and beyond to make things

extra special. This lady is one swell dame! ”

the ADVENTurous kindIt’s CHRISTMAS! Well, almost…which means our Advent projectswrap up for another year. As always there were some new twiststhis time around: Patrick Brown was our MC (Dermot O’Learywatch out) and we held two ADVENTure evenings in the strikingoratory at St Peter the Apostle High School.

A special thank you to all the ADVENTure team for theirunwavering dedication – even in the snow – and the unsung heroof ADVENTure Claire Ferguson whose cakes impress us every year!We also helped St Peter’s chaplaincy team organize an Adventprogramme for their 1600 pupils. There were some very specialmoments and the pupils really made us smile. Thank you so muchall those who helped for your invaluable support.

intention of the month For many people Christmas can be a lonely, sad, stressful ordifficult time. Please pray with and for us that we will recognise thesigns of those in need and be there for them wherever possible.

foreign exchangePassing through the town of Franz Josef last month (home tothe famous Franz Josef glacier) Suzanne happened uponthe church of Our Lady of the Alps. A chance discussion withlocal priest Fr Michael Mahoney led to an impromptuinvitation to speak to a groupof Germans, Americans,Phillipinos and NZ localsabout Fire.Cloud and thework we’re doing. Thanks toFr Mike for his kind invite andall those who gave such awarm reception!

‘‘I’m planning to live forever; so far so good.

Spotted on the back of a campervan in NZ

fire.cloud HQ:Design whizkid Jennifer has created agallery of photographs from our pastevents to adorn the walls of the Fire.Cloudoffice. They arrived from the printer to greatexcitement and Owen McGuigan(Jennifer’s dad) was drafted in to hangthem. With Owen a photographer andhandy man extraordinaire himself, thisfamily are no strangers to a spirit level. Theresults look great. Thank you Mr M, you area Fire.Cloud hero!

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