The minister, that goodly man,
Exhorts us "Help the poor"
And he himself does what he can:
Comme St Martin de Tours.
And so, to act as he believes,
He kindly gave away
His jacket, also half his sleeves -
One beggar's lucky day.
Not sure whether you interpretation is accurate, but if so the jacket may be somewhere in the picture above. I doubt whether he followed St Martin's example and cut the sleeves off his shirt! Earlier this week one of our church ladies had a request from Newton Primary School, (which is in the North part of Ayr and includes some areas that are within the 5% most deprived in Scotland) The school is acting as a hub for distributing clothes, children's books and games etc. They needed more goods. The request was passed around by Facebook and other means and got a good response from Alloway folk. As you will have noted we have a weekly collection for the local foodbank on a Sunday and it was arranged that people could drop goods off for Newton at the same time. The picture above represents some of the two vanloads that were collected today.