Christian Aid : Updates

October #2 : Christian Aid, Oxfam, Cafod, Debt Justice, Greenpeace, Amnesty International UK and others are urging the new government to increase funding to tackle the climate crisis and introduce legislation to facilitate debt relief for lower income countries in crisis.  The following link provides more detail:

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/embargo-immediae/

October #1 : Onions cost more than a week’s wages in northern Gaza. One kilogram of onions costs more than £80 in northern Gaza - 400 times its pre-war price.  

The following link provides more detail: 

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/onions-cost-more-than-a-weeks-wages-in-northern-gaza-christian-aid-says-as-families-experience-catastrophic-food-insecurity/

Alan Stevens

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Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• Advance Notice -Service of Remembering : This year we will be holding our annual Service of Remembering on Sunday 8th December at 3pm.  On this occasion we have the opportunity to remember and give thanks before God for those whose absence we feel in particular over the Christmas season, with prayers, candles and words to help us in the Church which will be decorated for Christmas.  This year we will share this with all those in Boclair Community Church and with the wider community. Everyone is very warmly invited.

• Worship at Westerton – Call to Worship :  Alan writes " I am enjoying worshipping among you, the Westerton branch of our church family. Thank you for your welcome and encouragement. And I am grateful to all who read Scripture each Sunday with such meaning and clarity. I believe that we can share the leading of worship even more widely through the Call to Worship. This is both a welcome and focussing of minds and hearts upon God. A sign-up sheet will be at the front door for anyone who believes that this is something that they'd like to explore. Marlene and I will be happy to chat through what might be involved. So please don't feel that you'd be on your own."

• Life and Work : The December issue is now available for collection from the vestibule. There is also an envelope enclosed with it for those continuing to subscribe in 2025 with instructions of how to pay the subscription fee of £42.

• Logo : A new Church Logo has been chosen by the congregations. It will soon pop up everywhere!
  
  

• Prayer Requests : If you would like a prayer for yourself or others, please continue to write it out and put it in the box in the vestibule as before.  Also, as before, it is not necessary to give your own or anyone else’s name although you may do so if you would like to.  Although the Westerton group is not meeting at the moment, members are attending the Prayer Group which meets at Killermont weekly and will also undertake to pray daily for what is needed. Please speak to Marlene for more information.

• Killermont Cafe : The Killermont Café is open Monday and Friday from 9:30am to 11:30am and on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00am to 11:30am, when hot-filled rolls are available. All Welcome. 

• Church News extra : until our new united "Boclair" website is up and running, you can find news about our sister "campus" at Killermont here  https://boclair.church/
  Information about our Westerton "campus" will still appear as usual on these pages

• Members and Adherents' Communication : Please ensure that BCC has your current contact details and in particular a valid email address, if you have one, so that you don't miss out on communications from Boclair. Contact the Church Office, if necessary.

Elsewhere

• Religious Decline in the Scottish Census 2022: Four Causes and Five Blessings
  Read the article by Rev Dr Liam Jerrold Fraser here   www.missioninscotland.wordpress.com

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Drumchapel Foodbank

Foodbanks continue to struggle, any donations at all are greatly appreciated. – tinned vegetables, porridge, boxes of cereal. Teabags, coffee, sugar, instant noodles, long-life milk, tinned fruit and rice pudding/custard, tinned meatballs/hotdogs, pasta sauce, soup, tinned beans, tinned spaghetti, macaroni cheese, toilet rolls, shampoo/shower gel, and wet dog food.Leave in the box in the vestibule. Cash donations are preferred  - see details on how to give on the weekly intimation sheet.  Many thanks for your help!

Niall and Marjorie McCumesty (Bearsden West Communty Council)

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