New Year News from Central Church

Bellshill Central Parish Church at 346 Main Street continues to be physically closed to all in person face to face meetings, including Sunday morning worship 

However, we are continuing to be the church locally in the community of Bellshill and Mossend by being active online, with Kevin’s continuing pastoral work and being a family of faith. Our groups and church members are in daily contact with each other. 

How are we doing this?

• Our website at www.bellshillcentral.church is continually updated and refreshed.  Have a look. Services and other outreach online is available here. 
• WhatsApp groups for our church family and most vulnerable folks. Our church chat of 50+members keep upto date, sharing important news, moments of humour and prayers. There are also separate WhatsApp groups for our choir and guild. 
• Online worship is our main focus, with sunday worship online at 10.45am and midweek Young church on Wednesday at 12noon. These have growing “viewer” numbers each week reaching out beyond our building in ways we’d never have imagined. www.bellshillcentral.church/watch-live
• Organist Entertains provided by our own organist and maestro,  Alan Mathew.  Now ready for the 44th instalment which is available tonight (Wednesday) at 8pm. The series has featured in Life and Work, the national church Advent Calendar and is viewed around the world. To date we have surpassed 23,000 views! www.bellshillcentral.church/organist-entertains 

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CHRISTMAS 2020

As a church and community we celebrated Christmas online as normal as possible. Our fab fundraising team prepared an ” At Home” Christmas treat day, supplying cakes and sweet treats, with a Christmas card from the church.  We had some fun with lovely raffle prizes and three lucky winners were drawn.  Our organist prepared a Carol concert online so we could watch and join in with, with our treats. 

Our Christmas eve service didn’t disappoint and our Young Church produced an exceptional nativity in COVID lockdown.  The nativity was augmented by our three wise men, with readings and prayers from the Young church leaders and Rev de Beer. We were able to share in a Service of Lessons and Carols where we enjoyed some lovely carols from previous choir Christmas services, and all the readings were provided by the young folks in our church family. 

Over Christmas we’ve decorated our church fench with various Christmas decorations.  We wanted our church to be bright and joyful looking throughout the festive period.  Our church members read a chapter from Luke’s gospel each day in advent.  

Looking forward into the New Year, our existing activities will continue online and we hope that you can join us when you can.  That’s the wonder of online church, you can worship where and when you are able. 

Our choir is having fun with a virtual choir setting.  We’ve already produced item #1 which was included in last weeks weeks worship.  We are aiming to produce one item per month to see how it progresses.  Its not as fun as real choir but its keeping us singing the only waybwe are allowed!

Beginning this week, and each Wednesday for the foreseeable future we are beginning a virtual prayer walk around the town of Bellshill.   We will choose three streets and ask you to pray and remember all who live and work there.  Look up #bellshillprayerwalk on Facebook and Twitter to follow our journey. The prayer walk will be available on the website also. 

If you need the help and support of the church in Bellshill then pleae get in touch.  Rev Kevin de Beer can be contacted viw the website https://bellshillcentral.church/contact/, via email kdebeer@churchofscotland.org.uk or by phone 01698 841176. 

Our prayer ribbons are still fluttering in the wind outside the church on the church fence.  These are a visible display of our prayers for ourselves, our town and communiy, the world. Please add a ribbon to show us you have prayed.