Boclair Church at Westerton Gala Day 2025

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More Spottings!

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Spotted around the Church.....

More "spottings" in due course!

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IGNITE! takes off again after Summer!  Pass the word around!

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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.
  Apologies if anyone hopes to get a bacon buttie ( a la Chit-Chat cafe, faithfully run by Douglas and Jean Muir and others) but bbs are not on the menu, however chat, fellowship and playtime for those of a certain age, most definitely are. Watch this space for the Grand Opening date!
  
  
• Alpha@ Boclair : First Meeting is on Monday 20th October at 6.45pm.  Alpha is a series of interactive sessions that explore life, faith and meaning. Each talk explores a different question around the Christian Faith and is designed to spark conversation
  
  
• Among the Ashes : Learning Lament with the Persecuted Church, starts Monday 10th November 11.30am till 12.30pm after Cafe and runs for 5  Mondays in total.
  
  
• The Big Quiz Nght: Saturday 15th November in aid of TearFund. Save the date. More details in due course.
  
  
• Coffee Rota at Westerton : A volunteer sign-up sheet for the second half of 2025 is now available in the walkthrough for names to be added.  It has been updated to take out the dates where there is no service taking place at Westerton. Thanks to all who volunteered in the first half of the year 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

• Life and Work : The August issue is now available for collection from the vestibule. This is the last Edition of the CoS's magazine, which was born in January 1879 (and spawned 1758 issues!)
  
  

• 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 Prayer Space : every Fiday 9.30 am till 10am in the Sanctuary and every Sunday 9.30am till 9.50am in the Welcome Area

• 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. 

• 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 : restarts Wedmesday 3rd September 2-3.30pm and every second Wednesday
  
  

• 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

• 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. 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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