What The Notice Board is

The Notice Board is a board, not a parish. It reads the public record of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen, a Scottish Episcopal congregation in the city centre, whose own pages posted sermons, published rotas, advertised the church magazine, announced the week's events, and described a building that opened its doors to more than its own congregation.

What a pin is

Each entry here takes one part of that record and pins it like a slip on the board: a dated sermon filed under its Sunday, a rota kept with its names, an issue of the magazine, a hall letted out for the week. The slips are ordered by where they would have hung on the board, not by importance.

What this site is not

This is not the church's website and not a congregation's bulletin. Nothing here is a service time to attend, a hall to book, or a parish to contact. Names and dates are quoted as historical record; the photographs on this board are illustrations, not the church's own pictures.

The board that governs

A parish pinned its public life where everyone could read it; this board reads that record the same way, slip by slip.