Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• BCC Community Cafe @ Westerton : Our café is doing well and word is geeting about, so please come along for a coffee, tea or soft drink.  Our Summer opening hours are 9.30am to 12 noon on Wednesday mornings all welcome.  Our volunteers will be there, and we'll be delighted to see you and have a chat

• Used Stamps : Still collecting used stamps ?  Why not bring them along and put them in the jar on the vestibule table.  They will be collected and taken along to join with those from our friends in the Killermont building, and be sent on to charity to raise funds.

• 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 :  Cafe operates from 9.30am till 11.30am Mondays  and Fridays; Prayer Space on a Friday from 9.30am till 10am; the Saturday cafe opens on the first Saturday of the month 9.00am till 11.30am, when hot-filled rolls are available. All Welcome. 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 : this has stopped for its summer break, but reconvenes in the Welcome area of the Killermont building at 2pm on 19th August. and thereafter every second Wednesday from 2pm to 3.30pm. Check BCC Church Calendar for dates
  
  
• The Way ahead Group : This meets in the Killermont building on Thursday afternoons from 1.15pm till 3.45pm and is for people who are recovering from stroke and aims to assist with physical and mental exercise and recovery.
  
  
• Women's Walk and Talk Group :  This group meets on the last Tuesday of each month in the Killermont  car park at 7pm for a wander and a chat around the Killermont area. Coffee in the church welcome area at 8pm for anyone who wants to drink coffee but not walk! Next walk on Tuesday 28th July
  
  

• 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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