Beginning the New Year together

A shared morning service for the Church of Scotland congregations in the Parish Grouping will take place on Jan 1st 2012 in St John's-Renfield Church, Beaconsfield Rd at 11a.m. This will be a family service and all are very welcome.

Service of Grieving and Gratitude - 30th October

A Service of Grieving and Gratitude will be held in St John’s-Renfield Church, Beaconsfield Road on Sunday 30 October 2011 at 7.00 pm.

As the nights lengthen it can be a difficult time for those who have lost someone close. This 30-minute service is for all who continue to feel bereaved. Through worship there will be the opportunity for remembrance and thanksgiving.

Prayer Breakfast

Christian Men Together Prayer breakfast
Saturday 8th October at 9:30am at the Whiteinch Centre.
Contact Andrew Dunipace - mobile 07745579322.

Meeting

The Parish Grouping Council will meet on Wednesday 21st September at 7.30pm in St John's-Renfield Parish Church.

Freshers' Tea 2011

Calling all students, epsecially if new to Glasgow!

FREE FOOD ALERT!

Saturday 17th September at Hillhead Baptist Church, Cresswell St (off Byres Rd between Superdrug and Clydesdale bank) 3 pm to 6 pm

Quirky traditional afternoon tea.... free info pack.... free 'student survival kit' goody bag....

Meet some of the wonderful folk who are part of this diverse Christian community and who enjoy working with our C of S friends in the West End

Miss it... Miss out

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KANDINSKY IN GOVAN: ART, SPIRITUALITY AND THE FUTURE

In October 1911 the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky completed in German the manuscript of a little book that he called "Über das Geistige in der Kunst" – usually translated as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. This webpage (link below) sets the context of a small but international centenary celebration conference, Kandinsky in Govan. It will be hosted by community groups in an area of Glasgow that suffers from high unemployment and many social problems, but which retains a powerful community spirit and much artistic talent. Like Kandinsky's book the conference seeks not to promote "art for art's sake", but like the Russian Peredvizhniki school of "wanderers" or "itinerants", to explore "art as service". With keynote speakers including leading art experts and the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, we will be exploring how art can speak in places of poverty today. The conference will challenge the narcissistic nihilism of contemporary art forms that have turned their backs on beauty and, perhaps arguably, lost sight of art's deepest function.

Details of the conference here:

http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/Kandinsky.htm

United Service Latest

Hello everyone... Looking forward to Sunday 28th August and the joint service...
Thanks to Heather and Malcolm for getting Lansdowne Church as clean as humanly possible...
... to Laura and all who will be helping with young church activities. There will be a 'scratch choir' rehearsal from 10 a.m. led by Donald McIntosh. The hymns chosen by people in the churches are:

Hymn 120 God, we praise you. God we bless you.

Hymn 532 Lord, you have come to the seashore

Hymn 777 Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison

Hymn 489 Come down O love divine

Hymn 167 Guide me, O thou great Jehovah

Hymn 639 I bind myself today

Hymn 500 Lord of creation, to you be all praise!

Hymn 192 All my hope on G-d is founded (All CH4)

Lest you think that I have gone a bit hymn crazy, I took the executive decision to include all thee hymns submitted. Some will replace Anthems, Offertory music etc. It seemed kindest to include rather than exclude...

Roy 24/8/11

Hyndland Parish Church Kids' Club

Hyndland Parish Church is proposing to run a Kids’ Club for children aged 5-11, on Thursdays from 5.30 – 7.00pm.  If anyone would like to help on a regular rota, please come to Russell House, 81 Hyndland Road on Thursday 25^th August at 7.30pm or e-mail sessionclerkathyndlandparishchurch.org. Volunteers could be young adults with an interest in helping with children or working towards a Queen’s Badge or a Duke of Edinburgh Award.

Sunday 28th August

We are looking forward to the service on Sunday August 28th and 11 am in Lansdowne Parish Church. Welcome in advance to our friends, brothers, sister and colleagues from the churches of the Parish Grouping.


There will be provision for children and young people. Hymns will be chosen from a list compiled from favourites in each church and we plan to involve musical support from across the grouping. Don't be backward in coming forward!


So far we have 'Come Down O Love Divine' chosen by Hyndland.
And from Kelvinside Hillhead a choice of any of the three hymns which are set to Lux tremenda:  120 "God, we praise you", 353 "Bright the cloud and bright the glory" or 617, "Great and deep the Spirit's purpose" .... plus 204, "I am the church"

 

Many thanks for the great start!

The 'Meet Malawi' event last Friday (see previous post) was a great evening and very sucessful launch of the fund raising campaign for HIV/AIDS projects in Malawi, in partnership with Christian Aid. It was also an example of what we can achieve working together as a group of churches and of how enjoyable that can be.

So a big thank-you to all who made it such a good night.

All who came (more than we had expected!)
The fruit choppers, the juice squeezers, the balloon blowers, the hall-setters-uppers.
Tea and coffee servers.
The home team from Kelvinside Hillhead.
All who baked for the best laden home baking stall that's been seen for a long time.
All who sold baked goodies all night.
Those on the fairtrade stall from the Balmore Coach House Trust.
The Co-Op Great Western Rd. for donated snacks
The One World Shop for supplies of Malawian Cola and Fairtrade juice
The music makers:Nat Chalamanda and David Black who formed an instant new music duo to play music from Malawi.
The speakers: Wendy Young from Christian Aid and Sandra Whyte MSP
Roddy Watt with slides and informative commentary.
The clearer-uppers and dish-washers, and all who worked hard in any way to make the evening so enjoyable.
Money is still coming in - the total will hopefully be around £900, which of course will eventually be multiplied up to £9,000.

There will be more events and fund-raising activities for this project to raise our target of £5,000 by December 2012. Watch this space!

Meet Malawi

‘Meet Malawi’

at the West End Festival

A grouping of West End churches* warmly invite you to their ‘Meet Malawi’ evening at 7.30pm on Friday 3rd June at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Hall in Observatory Road.

Listen … (and dance if you like!) to Malawian music from the Moyenda Band

Enjoy … fresh fruit juices, Malawian cola, varieties of tea, coffee, and snacks

Learn … about Malawi today, as seen through the eyes of a recent visitor, with slides and a DVD

Stock-up … on fair-traded goods from Malawi via Balmore Coach House and home baking from Glasgow!

ENTRY FREE … but by giving as much as you can as a donation you will …

Help … to launch the West End Churches, Christian Aid Malawi Partnership Project, raising money for work with partner groups in the north of Malawi, to tackle the threats to life and health of HIV/Aids.

Be involved … in raising £5,000 for this project that the Scottish Development Fund are pledged to turn into an amazing £50,000.

* Hillhead Baptist Church, Hyndland Parish Church, Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Lansdowne Parish Church, St John’s-Renfield Parish Church and Wellington Parish Church.

Appreciation

Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed! Thanks are due to all the leaders of worship, preparers of worship materials, setters-up of worship spaces, openers and closers of churches .... for a memorable and though-provoking Holy Week. From the anointing of Jesus by Mary, reflections on Christ, the grain that dies and bears fruit, via the questions posed by Judas, the servant Lord at Last Supper, to the cross and passion...  much to ponder, much to be grateful for. Thanks everyone...

Tonight, 'Stations of the Resurrection' - 7pm in Wellington Church

Wellington International Club

GOOD FRIDAY

Please remember there will be NO INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB MEETING in Wellington Church hall tonight - Friday 22 April.  Instead, anyone who would like to come with us to St John's Renfield Church, 22 Beaconsfield Road, Kelvindale, for the 7pm Good Friday service will be most welcome. This is a sombre service contemplating the death of Jesus on the cross. We look ahead too, to Easter morning when He rose again.

Grace Franklin will  be at Wellington Church hall in Southpark Avenue at 6.30pm on Friday 22 April to give a lift to anyone who is there and wishes to go to the 7pm Good Friday service in St John's Renfield. After that service, Heather has invited us to her house nearby, where she'll provide us with tea and hot cross buns which she bakes herself. They are delicious!

Come if you can.

EASTER SUNDAY

Share in the joy of Jesus' Resurrection on Sunday morning 24 April when Wellington Minister Rev Dr David Sinclair will lead us in worship at 8am at a communion service in Kelvingrove Park near the Lord Roberts statue at the top of the park off Park Terrace.

After that joyful announcement that Christ has risen. Everyone can go to Wellington church crypt cafe for breakfast. There is also an 11am service at Wellington on Easter Sunday 24 April. Anyone connected to the Club is warmly invited - Christian or curious, believer or not. Come and share our celebrations and share God's love as we understand it.

FRIDAY 29 April

Our next INTERNATIONAL CLUB MEETING will be 7.30pm at CAFE SALMA, 523 Sauchiehall Street almost next door to Charing Cross Post Office and just round the corner from North Street at the Black Sparrow. There we will have a Morroccan meal to round off our April is Africa theme nights at the INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB. That meal will cost £10 per person and you can be sure it will be very special. Anyone who's budget won't stretch to £10 should have a discrete word with Heather on the night as the Club wants everyone to enjoy the evening without worry.

MAY PROGRAMME

Tuesday 3 May at 7.30pm in Wellington Church halls, 77 Southpark Avenue, G12 8LE, will be the first of nine Tuesday evenings when we will be able to learn authentic Scottish Country Dancing from respected teacher Walter Proven. If you want to learn to dance Scottish style, email Grace Franklin: grace.franklinATntlworld.com with DANCE in the subject box. This is a golden opportunity. The class are FREE. The teacher is top ranked. And this style of dancing is your passport to socialising around the world.

Friday 6 May at 7.30pm in Wellington Church halls, 77 Southpark avenue, G12 8LE the INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB resumes its Friday night meetings. The theme in May is : Tourist trail travels in Scotland

Friday 6 May : CAPITAL attractions ... what's what and where in Edinburgh

Friday 13 May: LUCKY to be so near LOCH LOMOND

Friday 20 May: ISLANDS Idyll (Saturday 21 start of week on Iona for Wellington folk)

Friday 27 May: LAUNCH OF SUMMER PROGRAMME

Gloria IX

WEST END FESTIVAL - CHORAL CONCERT

Conducted by Ian Anderson (founder and director of the Paisley Philharmonic Choir)

ALL SINGERS ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART

REHEARSALS WILL BE IN WELLINGTON CHURCH EVERY THURSDAY AT 7.45 PM

FROM 5TH MAY ONWARDS

CONCERT - 7.30 PM THURSDAY, 23RD JUNE 2011 AT

WELLINGTON CHURCH, UNIVERSITY AVENUE

Additional Concert – 7.30 pm on Thursday, 16th June at Glasgow Cathedral

This year’s theme is “Five Centuries of Choral Music” from Tallis, through Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Elgar to Rutter

Holy Week 2011

That is one service complete...thanks are due to Paul Fraser and the team that put together last night's service at Wellington Church.  Tonight we're at Hyndland Parish Church at 7.00pm....

Elections 2012

Looking beyond Easter:

Prayers and worship on the eve of this year's Scottish elections - 7pm, May 4th  in Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church.

From Wellington International Club - 8th April

If you are free tonight Friday 8 April at 7.30pm - please come along to the Wellington Church INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB. Adah from Kenya will give a presentation on her beautiful country. She is a regular club member. The Club meets in the church hall at 77 Southpark Avenue, G12 8LE. Please ring any bell on the left of the doorway for entry.

Next week - Friday 15 April - we will have a presentation on Namibia from Edinburgh student Frances Barclay who spent a year teaching in that country. Same place, same time come if you can. This is part of our APRIL IS AFRICA series at the INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CLUB.

DANCING

The FREE classes on SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING will start on Tuesday 3 May at 7.30pm in Wellington Church Hall, G12 8LE. We are indebted to renowned teacher Walter Proven for offering to teach us how to enjoy, fully, this form of dance. If you have not yet signed up for these classes, please return this email with DANCE in the subject box and you will be signed in for the series of nine lessons each Tuesday from 3 May till 28 June.

St John's-Renfield Charity Fair

This year's Charity Fair will be on Saturday 7th May from 10 am till 12 noon.
St John's-Renfield Church, Beaconsfield Road, Kelvindale.

Many charities including the following are supported:

Bangladesh Rehab Centre; Olive Tree; Chest, Heart and Stroke, Scotland; Peru Craft; Children's Hospice Association; Projects India; Christian Aid; Save The Children; Lodging House Mission; Tear Fund; Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Project Malawi

Adults £1, Children 50p (Inc coffee, etc)

Parish Grouping Council

The Council will meet on Wednesday April 6th at 7.30pm in St John's-Renfield Parish Church.

Holy Week and Easter 2011

Come the time there will of course be other services and events but for now here is some news:

17th April   Palm Sunday Wellington Church 7pm

18th April   Monday Hyndland Parish Church 7pm

19th April   Tuesday Lansdowne PC 7pm

20th April   Wednesday Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church 7pm

21st April   Maundy Thursday Wellington Church   7pm

22nd April Good Friday Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Vigil: Noon - 3pm

                   St John's Renfield Parish Church  7pm

24th April  Easter Sunday 8am Communion Kelvingrove Park 
                   followed by breakfast at Wellington Church Crypt.
                   7 pm Stations of The Resurrection - Wellington Church...

Weaving Worship

Buddhist – Christian Conversations

The Place of Sacred Art in Buddhism and Christianity

Guest Speakers - Fr Jim Crampsey SJ and Anne Paul

Saturday 15th January 2011 - 1.30 am – 4.30 pm

The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, 1 Castle Street, Glasgow

An opportunity to learn about sacred art in Buddhism and Christianity and to engage in dialogue and conversation with one another

ALL WELCOME!

For more information contact

St Mungo’s Museum on 0141 276 1625

Ani Lhamo on 013873 73232 ext. 227

Sister Isabel Smyth on 0141 339 8174

Parish Grouping Council

The next meeting of the 'PGC' is on Wednesday January 12th at 7.30 p.m. in St John's Renfield Parish Church.