NEWS
Holy Week in Westerton and beyond
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Monday 25th March, 7.30pm : St Andrew's RC Church. The Way of the Cross
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Tuesday 26th March, 7.30pm : New Kilpatrick Church. LAMPS presents Passion Play
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Thursday 28th March, 7.00pm : Westerton Church. Maundy Thursday Supper and Worship thereafter
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Sunday 31st March, 11.00am : Westerton Church . Worship for Easter Day
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Sunday 31st March, 7.30pm : Westerton Church. "Songs of Praise" for Easter
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Christian Aid : Updates
March : Christian Aid and the Anglican Alliance launch new partnership, harnessing church networks to tackle climate change, conflict, and humanitarian disasters. The following link provides more detail:
March : Grim milestone of 30,000 deaths in Gaza is a “stain on the world’s conscience”, says Christian Aid. The following link provides more detail:
Alan Stevens
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Union of Westerton and Killermont Churches
Important information on the Proposed Union : Basis of Deferred Union
The legal document which contains the vote that we will all be asked to vote on, after morning worship on Sunday 14th April, is now available and copies can be collected from the Church vestibule. Copies for anyone who is unable to attend on these Sundays can be obtained by phoning the Church office (942 6960) to arrange for one to be sent to you.
Who can vote? All communicant members of Westerton are able to join in the important decision over its future by voting. If, however this doesn’t apply to you, but you are part of the life and worship of the congregation and would like to take your part in this decision, please speak to the Session Clerk on any Sunday morning about joining the list of adherents, or email her or the Church office. Both addresses are in the Church magazine which you will find in the vestibule.
Marlene Anderson, Session Clerk
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Church News : Westerton, Killermont and Beyond!
Westerton Church
- Church Magazine : The March edition is now out: if you have not already got one, please pick up a copy from the Church vestibule.
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Life and Work : The April issue is also now available for collection.
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Recycling : Clare Petrie is collecting unwanted spectacles and their cases, for recycling. Also, any unwanted postage stamps, but they must have sufficient paper surrounding the stamps, otherwise they are worthless. In other words, please do not trim the paper too close to the stamp. Thank you
Killermont Church
- Killermont Café : this Community Cafe is open the first Saturday of each new month 9am to 11:30am and also every Monday 9am to 11:30am and Friday 9am to 11:30am. All Welcome.
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De Cafe : For anyone living with, or concerned about, dementia or memory loss, this is a relaxed and informal setting where people and their carers, partners or family can meet and speak to each other. Provides information about dementia and local services for people affected by dementia. Meets 2-4 pm in the Café area of Killermont Church, on the fourth Tuesday of each month.
- Tea'n'Chat : Meets on Alternate Wednesdays from 2-3.30pm in the welcome area. There’s plenty of chat & tea … and coffee & home-baking too!
- "The Way Ahead Group": This is a stroke club for Bearsden which meets in Killermont Church on Thursday afternoons between 1.15pm and 3.45pm. It offers a warm welcome and friendship while assisting with physical and mental wellbeing and recovery. At present they need more volunteers to continue this valuable work. For more details,check out the Killermont Church website at
https://www.kpc.church/the-way-ahead-group-2/ - KVO Big Band Concert : This popular Swing Band Returns to Killermont Church on Wednesday 1st May at 8pm. Tickets cost £5.00 (inc. refreshments) from any band member or on the door. All proceeds to charity
Elsewhere
- "The Passion" by LAMPS : A moving and memorable retelling of the Easter Story on Tuesday 26th March 2024 at 1pm and 7:30pm in New Kilpatrick Parish Church. Tickets are free from the Church, also by email, or you can just turn up at your preferred time. See posters on the Church noticeboard for full details.
- Prayer Workshops : “I’m quiet untrained and not that eloquent, what will people think”? “I would love to pray, but I don’t know how or when or what to say”.Pray without ceasing - at home and during worship – if this is you – come and join us for Prayer Workshops led by Reverend Robert Hamilton at Dumbarton Parish, Church of Scotland. Please see posters on the Church Notice Boards.
Part 2 West Kirk on Saturday 13th April 2024 at 10:00hrs to 12:00hrs.
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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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The Westerton Church Magazine – Published 4 times a year, we hope to provide in due course, an online, as well as, printed edition.