Church News : Boclair  and Beyond!

Boclair Community Church

• Bible Book Club : Tuesday 18th November, 10am - 11.30am, creche room, Westerton. Today we look at the book of James. As ever, all welcome. Further details from Caroline or Alan.
• The Guild at Westerton : the next meeting is on Monday 24th November at 2pm when the speaker wil be Betty Sharpe on " Every word tells a story". All welcome
  
  
• Christmas Cards : Christmas Cards to support the Lodging House Mission in Glasgow will be available for sale in the vestibule on 16th and 23rd November. The Lodging House Mission is one of the charities that Boclair Community Church regularly supports. The Mission helps Homeless, Vulnerable and Socially Excluded people in the city and is based in East Campbell Street.
  
  
• Service of Remembering : Our annual service when we bring before God those whose presence we miss over Christmas will be held this year on Sunday 14th December at 3pm.  As usual there will be an opportunity to write cards for those we wish to remember which will remain in the sanctuary over Christmas.  Please come along if you can and invite others to join us.

• 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 : The inaugural Meeting of the twelve-week course took place on 20th October, with a healthy turnout of almost 20 attendees and helpers, sharing a meal and conversation, before starting an interactive session exploring faith. Should anyone wish to take part, just contact Alan our Minister in the first instance to express your interest and get more information.

• 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. All welcome.
  
  
  
• Boclair (formerly Killermont) Carollers : The crooners will sing during our 10am service  Sunday 07 December at Killermont.
  Rehearsals will take place in Killermont after worship and a quick coffee on the following dates : 16th November, 30th November. Arrangements are in hand to enable any Westerton Warblers to practise as well, at a mutually convenient time.  There is no requirement to be at every rehearsal to participate but the more people can attend the more confident people will be on the day. 
  
  
• 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

• 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

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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