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Mar 2017
KIRK SESSION – WHAT DO THEY TALK ABOUT? The Kirk Session met on 7th February with 56 members attending and they discussed a wide range of issues. Worship: Gillian Foy was thanked by the Moderator for agreeing to take up the post of Prayer Promoter. The choir had a very successful and well attended Nine Lessons in Carols service although there was great sadness at the death in January of long standing member, Florence Denholm. An appeal was made for new members to join the choir – if you would like more......
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29
Mar 2017
HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! Help is needed. In whatever age, size, shape or form. Please come along and join us for some Fun and Games at our Easter Holiday Club from 10am-12pm from Monday 10th April to Friday 14th April. We’d be pleased to see you anytime, on each or any day you can manage. Also, please collect your egg boxes for us. They can be left in the bag in the Hall of Friendship. Phone Alison Harvey 638 3679/07742282870 for any further information....
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29
Mar 2017
Dear Friends, Nature offers me a reminder each year that Easter is just around the corner. First there are the snowdrops and crocuses in the manse garden and then the cherry trees begin to blossom into wonderful new life in the church ground. The link between the new life of Easter and spring is one that is often made by people of faith, because it seems to point to how Jesus’ death on the cross (winter) was miraculously transformed into new life (spring). It’s a good illustration, but for it to mean......
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27
Mar 2017
DETERMINING A SPECIFIC LEGACY Our property dates from the 1880’s and presents many challenges in terms of fitness for purpose, accessibility and running costs. The largest and most costly space to heat and maintain (the sanctuary) lies empty for much of the time. With a reducing and increasingly elderly congregation, we are faced with the challenge of generating sufficient income to meet all costs. As we reflect on this, we are aware that we are the stewards of a legacy that was passed on to us and have a responsibility to make......
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27
Mar 2017
You are invited to support the LHM this Easter by making a cash donation. The LHM is sorry if it seems that it is always appealing for financial support, but the needs of the clients are great – the numbers attending daily are in excess of 100, and opening hours have been extended to include Saturdays. Saturday opening provides free food and fellowship unavailable elsewhere in our city on that day. You can donate via the website www.lhm-glasgow.org.uk , by post (Lodging House Mission, 35 East Campbell Street, Glasgow G1 5DT), by......
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26
Mar 2017
TEA AND COFFEE will be served in the Fraser Hall after the morning service. All welcome. IT IS WITH SADNESS that we announce the death of one of our members, Mrs Marion Margaret (May) Telford of Norwood Care Home, 39 Victoria Road, Barrhead. Mrs Telford’s funeral will take place on Tuesday, 28th March at 1.45pm at Linn Crematorium. Please remember Mrs Telford’s family and friends in your prayers. WE WELCOME REV. SALLY FOSTER-FULTON, Head of Christian Aid in Scotland, who will conduct our worship this morning. TODAY WE WELCOME mums, grans, aunts,......
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25
Mar 2017
POSTIES REQUIRED – Greenbank needs your help to deliver the leaflets about the Easter and Holy Week services round the Parish. Bundles of leaflets with the street or part of street attached can be picked up from the front of the Centenary Chapel. Thank you very much in anticipation of your participation....
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19
Mar 2017
TEA AND COFFEE will be served in the Fraser Hall after the morning service. All welcome. WE WELCOME REV. GRAHAM BLOUNT, Joint Presbytery Clerk of the Presbytery of Glasgow, who will conduct our worship this morning. COPIES OF THE MINUTES OF THE KIRK SESSSION MEETINGS OF 7th February and 12th March are available in the Centenary chapel for those who have not received them by e-mail. COPIES OF THE FEBRUARY PRESBYTERY REPORT are available in the Centenary Chapel for those who have not received it by email. “A LEGACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS......
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12
Mar 2017
TEA AND COFFEE will be served in the Fraser Hall after the morning service. All welcome. TODAY WE WELCOME the friends and family of Janine and Craig and their son, Cole David Anderson; we also welcome the friends and family of Kimberley and Christopher and their daughter, Cadence Karen Daveigh Morrison; we welcome too the friends and family of Ailsa and Iain and their daughter, Elizabeth Ailsa Munro. Cole, Cadence and Elizabeth will be baptised this morning. We pray that as they seek to follow Jesus, they will know His love and......
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09
Mar 2017
Dear Friends, Since the earliest times of the Christian Church there is evidence of some kind of Lenten preparation for Easter. The early church father, Irenaus of Lyons (c.130-c.200) wrote of this observance but back then it lasted only two or three days, not the 40 observed today. It wasn’t until almost 150 years later that a 40-day Lenten season of fasting was customary throughout the Church. How those 40 days were counted varied depending on location. In the East, fasting took place only on week days. The western church’s Lent was......
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