Christian Aid : Updates

April : Christian Aid launches emergency appeal following devastating earthquake in Myanmar.  The following link provides more detail:

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/christian-aid-launches-emergency-appeal-following-devastating-earthquake-in-myanmar/

March : "We don't want to see the war in Gaza come back again" .The following link provides more detail:

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/we-dont-want-to-see-the-war-in-gaza-come-back-again/

February :  "The world must not look away” says Christian Aid as one million people flee Sudan to South Sudan. The following link provides more detail:

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/christian-aid-says-the-world-must-not-look-away-as-one-million-people-flee-sudan/

 Alan Stevens

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Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• Need to Brush up on your Scripture?  Try either (or both!) of these :
  
  

  • Bible Book Club :  Next meeting is on Tuesday 29 April, 09.30-11.00am, Creche Room. Having completed Genesis, we're moving on with Exodus!  Please join us if you take the notion.

  • Community Bible Experience : we next meet on Wednesday 30th April at 7pm in the Vestry, to study more Proverbs. All welcome
    
    
• Westerton Guild AGM: This will take place in the large Hall on Monday 28th April; fish and chips for lunch will be served at 1pm followed by the AGM then some entertainment, to complete the year!
  

• KVO Big Band makes some Noise for Christians Against Poverty : The KVO Big Band are coming to the Kilermont building in Rannoch Drive on Wednesday 30^th April at 8pm. Tickets are £5.00, (including refreshments) and can be paid for at the door or from David Sherry. All proceeds to Christians Against Poverty.

• 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 April issue is now available for collection from the vestibule. Invoices are now available for 2025, subscribers who have still to settle should do so as soon as possible. If you are unsure if you have or have not paid, please contact Hamish Marshall.
  
  

• 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" 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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