Dalmuir Church Community Pantry

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Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• Some stand-out points over the Festive Season: No, not gossip!
  + The ABC carollers in Asda raised £445 for Drumchapel Food Bank and Milngavie Women's Aid.  Some Westertonians were obviously in good voice!
  + The BCC Watchnight Service in Westerton building at 11.30pm on Christmas Eve was attended by over 50 people!
  
  
• Westerton Church Office : please note that the Church office will be closed on Thursday 2^nd January. The office will reopen on Friday 3^rd January 2025. Messages can be left on 0141 942 6960 or alternatively email , any messages will be picked up when the office reopens on 3^rd January 2025.
  
  

• 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 January 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.
  
  

• 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

• A fond Farewell? :  For those who know Ada Goziem-ibonye, who served as Family Pastor at Killermont for 10 years, she was ordained on Sunday 15th December at Renfrew North Parish Church, and will preach as the sole nominee for the charge of St Serf's Tullibody on 26 January.
  
  
• Association of Bearsden Churches Unity Lunch : Hosted by BCC this will take place in the Killermont Building on Saturday 8th February 2025 at 12 noon. Tickets are £10 (to include a light lunch) available from Alion Hannan before 31 January.  The speaker will be Robbie Morrison, of TEARFUND Scotland
  
  
• 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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