 Maen nhw'n ymwneud yn cael ei wneud. Daeth ddiog λeithas ymwyng yng Nghymru yn gynhyrch, ac mae'r gynhyrch gyrraedd Oedden son, yn ystafod honno ein neal, Monica Michelin Salomon, mynd mewn dim ymwythbeth yn Côrscwrthi Chircau Sgolfau. Thank you. twenties Presiding Officer, members of Parliament, everyone here. I would like to address my sincere appreciation for the opportunity to address to you this afternoon. I am Italian by birth, Scottish by adoption, ordained in the Walthensian Church and currently serving in the East End of Glasgow. Virginia Woolf once wrote, as a woman I have no country, I want no country, my country is the entire world. To me it applies well with a distinct preference for wild and untamed places. Tolcross, Shethyswn Parish is one of them. Challenging and demanding has many that inhabit the place. It is known has a multiple deprivation location, often prejudices, are the only available narrative about the place. Often partial, often unkind, categorising. I have one example to the country. The church became involved in hospitality towards another Christian denomination almost by accident. A group of Eritrean asked permission to worship in the sanctuary. Their congregation is almost entirely formed by young refugees. Predominantly males, 70 members and growing. Most of them had a treacher's journey across land, desert and sea to get here. And despite it all, they have an unwavering faith and an hopeful look on the future and on humanity itself. So worship now on a Sunday is in Italians cocked in the morning, Presbyterian, and Tigrinia, Coptic Orthodox in the afternoon. Learning to share the same place and to accept each other has not always been easy. For some was an innate instinct for others a learning curve still. For all involved it has been a profound experience of growth and acknowledgement of interconnectedness. We knew it, we knew it intellectually, we knew it here. But to know it wholeheartedly is a completely different matter. It is a change of perception that will never be forgotten. So once on one of the guys' backpack, a sticker was noticed that read Mediterranean Hope, and I knew of that project. As a project based in Lampedusa, an island outside Sicily, and funded by the eight per thousand of the Woldensian church. In that one life saved, we found a deep connection between countries, traditions and customs, raising above all distinctions humanity at its very best. This is the East End too. People battling to survive through many adversities, addictions, mountain debts, but still open and willing to learn and to change and generous, generous to a fault. And in the midst of it all there is the church that may be small in numbers but not in efforts, tirelessly working in hospitality with community-based groups, food banks and charities in and outside Scotland, making God's love felt one life at a time.