Thank you for your thoughtful editorial on War Memorials (Life and Work, November).

There is only one living Church of Scotland Church which was built specifically as a War Memorial. Many churches have plaques and windows and halls and aisles: but St Andrew’s Jerusalem alone was built to be a memorial to the fallen soldiers in the 1917 Palestine Campaign.

I have made this claim many times and not been contradicted: if I am wrong I hope some reader will tell me so and I will stop saying it!

I write as Convener of the Friends of St Andrew’s Jerusalem and Tiberias. We are very grateful to Life and Work for the attention given in its pages to the congregation and the ministers, the Rev Dr Stewart Gillan and the Rev Muriel Pearson.

These are terrible times for the people of the Middle East and for Christians in the Middle East. The Friends seek to support the ministers and congregation in their extraordinarily difficult work, and in their work with many wonderful partner organisations.

Our website (www.friendsofstandrews.com) has news and pictures and prayers and our latest newsletter. The Friends can be contacted at secretary@friendsofstandrews.com. New members are welcome. Our Annual Service is in St Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh on November 30 2024 at 2pm, when the Very Rev Sally Foster-Fulton will be preaching.

The service is open to all: you do not have to be a member. Dr Andrew R C McLellan (Very Rev), Dunfermline