Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• BCC Community Cafe @ Westerton : Plans are well underway to re-introduce to the Westerton Building, an opportunity  for young, old and everyone in between, to drop in on a Wednesday for a coffee, munch and chat. Grand Opening date - Wednesday 14th January 2026! More details in due course!
   
• Coffee Rota at Westerton : A volunteer sign-up sheet for the start of 2026 is now available in the walkthrough for names to be added.  It will be updated in due course once dates are known where there is no service taking place at Westerton. Thanks to all who volunteered last year (you know who you are!) and new names would be most welcome.
  Anne Mitchell

• Worship at Westerton – Call to Worship - an update :  Please think seriously whether you might be able to take part in worship here in Westerton on an occasional basis.  Two things which initially come to mind are joining the rota of readers and alternatively offering a simple welcome at the start of each service.  The more who join in, the less each needs to do!  There will be a sign-up sheet in the vestibule over the next few weeks – please add your name and contact details – phone number or email address – you will be contacted to arrange a short meeting, probably before or after church one Sunday, to talk over what is involved.  Marlene Anderson

• 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.

• Cafe at Killermont and Prayer Space :  Please note that the Friday cafe at Killermont will be taking a break over Christmas and will be reopening on 9th January. Prayer Space will also take a break on Friday 26th December and Friday 2nd January. The Monday cafe will be open throughout, and the Saturday cafe will be open on the 3rd. Please consider coming along!   

• Killermont De-Cafe : a group for anyone living with, or concerned about, anyone living with dementia or memory loss. 2-4pm every 4th Tuesday of the month.
  
  
• Tea 'n' Chat : takes place every second Wednesday. Check BCC Church Calendar for dates
  
  

• 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" as well as other news will still appear as usual on these pages

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. Please note no fresh or perishable food.  Leave in the box in the vestibule. On-line monetary donations are preferred  - see details on how to give on the weekly intimation sheet.  Many thanks for your help!

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