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.