Author: Alan Mathew

There’s so much going on at Central Church this Christmas Season and we’d love for you to join us in our celebrations.   Come along to one or all of our events and you’re assured a warm welcome.

Sunday’s service on 10th December at Bellshill Central is at 11.00am led our minister and friend, the Revd. Kevin de Beer.  This Sunday is our Communion Service and all are indeed welcome.   We light the 2nd candle of Advent, the Candle of Peace.   Hymns include Advent favourites Ye gates lift up your head on high, Make way for Christ the King and Tell out my soul.  If you want a Church that is Central to Christ, Central to you and Central to Bellshill then look no further. We would be delighted to welcome you. Let us build a house where all can dwell – All are welcome in this place!

Thank you to all who supported the Christmas Carol Service and Afternoon teas on 2nd December.   It was a wonderful day with lots of festive cheers and smiles.  We were really very pleased to have raised over £1200 towards our church fundraising.  Thank you to all who help arranged, came along and supported our day.

Please visit our new Prayer page on our website- there is an online prayer request form which will send your prayer direct to our minister, Rev Kevin.
https://bellshillcentral.wordpress.com/prayer-requests/
Our prayer book continues to be available in the main vestibule of the church. We offer prayer for those asking for specific people and circumstances each week during worship. We are a Parish Church and are here for you in times of joy and sadness. Our minister, Rev Kevin de Beer, is available to the local community to offer spiritual support or to simply offer prayer. If there is something that you think your local church could be doing to offer services and/or support to our local community please get in touch via the Minister, Session Clerk, Facebook or website – Our church email address is bellshillcentral@gmail.com

Our minister, Revd Kevin December Beer, continues in his weekly live “Word on Wednesday” via Facebook. These involve a short 5-10 minute reflection, bible passage and prayer. We’d encourage you to look us up (Kevin De Beer and Bellshill Central Parish Church) to keep up to date. Kevin launched his “First Steps” book. Please look this up on Amazon, or contact Kevin for a copy as we hope to spread the Gospel message that little bit further in Bellshill and Mossend. Look up the hashtag #wordonwednesday

GROUP NEWS AND ACTIVITIES

Church choir meets Friday at 7.30pm in the Church
Most of our other groups are now winding down for the winter break and will resume in January.   Please check our website for more info.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

• Sunday 10th December 11.00am – our Winter Communion Service at 11.00am.
• Sunday 17th December at 11 o’clock a special choir lead service of carols readings and hymns for all.
• Sunday 17th December at 6.30pm – for a Candlelight carol service with some special thoughts on what Christmas means to me, from members of our church family. The church will be dimly lit mainly by candles. Please bring with you a torch or battery-powered candle to add to the atmosphere. It’s usually quite a busy service so do come early. Refreshments served afterwards.
• Sunday 24th December we celebrate Christmas Eve with two services – morning worship at 11.00am and then at 7.00pm for our family service including an All Age Nativity- you are encouraged to wear anything Christmassy (which may be flashing ties, woolly jumpers, festive hats, reindeer antlers or anything else you can think of). Refreshments are served after the 7.00pm service.

Our hall and facilities are available at other times during the week and are available to be hired for one-off occasions or longer term lets. Please get in touch with us if you need a space to hire. We have now installed Wi-Fi which means we can offer facilities for online events taking place in the church and halls.

CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE ACTIVITIES- our website at http://www.bellshillcentral.wordpress.com,www.facebook.com/bellshillcentralchurchand our YouTube channel. You can find out more information on Sunday Services, Weekly activities and catch up with our services from our uploaded videos. We are LIVE on the internet most Sunday mornings, and occasionally with other events, we hold. These are usually streamed via YouTube, and links are available from our Facebook and website.