Author: Bellshill Central

As the Church of Scotland in Bellshill we extend a warm welcome to any of our activities. People have been coming to this building to worship God for over a hundred years. While our town has journeyed through many changes over those years, the constancy of the witness of the “Church at 346 Main Street” has remained uninterrupted. The mission of any Church is to reflect through its presence, its music, its fellowship and its beauty the greatness of God, and we seek to do that here in all that we share. We hope that everyone who enters these doors will find an encouraging, friendly group of people. While we are far from perfect, we are regularly discovering truths that are changing us individually and enriching our lives as a church community. As we worship together, learn from the Bible, and pray for one another, we are strengthened in our commitment to Jesus Christ as well as to each other. If this is your first time here, we welcome you, and invite you to share the joy that we have found.

Sunday worship 13th March 2022

by Bellshill Central, posted in Catch Up, Sunday Worship

Good morning!

Sunday worship from Central Church begins as usual at 11am in person and online 

Our theme this week is The Face of Freedom, and we celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion both in the one service.  

Bellshill Central is your Town Centre Church with a warm and welcoming Church Family waiting to say hello.

Our Sunday School has resumed during morning worship so we look forward to welcoming families along to our time of worship

There will be a retiring offering at this weekends service in aid of the Scottish Bible Society Ukraine Appeal. If you can please give if you can. If you are an online worshipper please donate using this link

Our services are slowly returning back to normal and it’s great to be able to gather together to worship God

This week we’re singing (with masks) 5 main hymns (and a short welcome and blessing song) in our service and we have something for everyone

  • Here O my Lord we see you face to face
  • Great God your love has called us here
  • Baptised in water
  • Shine Jesus Shine
  • How deep the Father’s love
  • God of freedom, God of Justice
  • May God’s blessing surround you each day 

Download our order of service and news sheet from this link

Orders of Service

If you are coming along in person there are still some COVID precautions in place

  • You must remain physically distanced (at least 1m) at all times.
  • Facemasks must be worn at all times, unless you are exempt
  • If you join in to sing you MUST wear a facemask.
  • Sanitize your hands entering and exiting the building.

Online worship is available from around 10.45am. Don’t worry if you cant join us in person!

The watch live page on our website will be updated with a new live stream link

Just go to 

Watch Live

Kevin’s theme for the service is Face of Freedom, with the reading being from Genesis 15:5-18 (reader is Stanley Cook)

We look forward to welcoming you whatever way you choose to worship

Blessings.

Bellshill Central Church of Scotland

Registered Charity: SC012556

346 Main Street, Bellshill, ML4 1BA

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Mid week Church via Bothwell Church

by Bellshill Central, posted in Mid Week Church

Join Revd. Iain from Bothwell Church in the Manse today as he reflects on our words and the power to unite and to tear apart. We pray today for the people of Ukraine and for the innocent people caught up in Russia.

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#churchofscotland #bothwell #bothwellparishchurch #prayforukraine #prayforpeace🙏 #lanarkshire #churchathome #midweekreflection

Lent day 5 with Tearfund

by Bellshill Central, posted in Lent 2022, Prayer items

Today, please use this devotion as your 7pm prayer focus. Many have received this devotion from Tearfund and will be praying with you.

A new light arrives

‘Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.’ (Psalm 30:5)

Today’s devotion isn’t quite going to be what was planned. The content for this series was written before recent events shook the world.

I think we’ve all been shocked and disturbed and upset by what’s happening in Ukraine right now. It’s certainly affected me. My great grandparents were refugees from Ukraine. They fled persecution in the early part of the 20th century. And now a million more refugees are running for their lives. And of course violent conflict is a plague in so many places around the world. It can be hard to know how to respond.

The plan for these Sunday devotions was to share a poem. To have it as a kind of Sabbath Day – where we can just spend time with the words and soak in God’s presence.

The poem I was planning on sharing today is about hope. And I wondered whether this was still appropriate. But then I thought, what could be more appropriate? The situation in Ukraine seems kind of hopeless. So many situations, globally and in our own lives, can seem hopeless.

But we hope anyway. Because hope is a choice. One that we always have. And it is a choice today that is rooted in truth – the truth that hate can’t win. Love wins. Hope wins. So, we’re going to share this short poem about hope. And we’ll keep sharing these devotions as we planned to – because we choose to, because the truths of the gospel never change, and because it’s in the darkness that those truths shine brightest.

Read the poem slowly. Ask God to speak to you through it. And let’s declare hope over the world.

A new light arrives

Buried in the night,
anxious thoughts crowded darkly
around me.

The last thing I expect
is a miracle;
the last thing I anticipate is God
riding the dawn.

But then,
like the only answer we ever need,
a new light arrives,
splashing grace-paint
on the worn-out canvas of my heart,

and all of a sudden
hope is running along the tops of the trees
wild-eyed
and rampant.

Gideon Heugh
Gideon writes for Tearfund and is a poet and environmentalist.
Poem is © Gideon Heugh, taken from Rumours of Light.

Sunday worship 6th March 2022

by Bellshill Central, posted in Catch Up, Sunday Worship

Good morning!

Sunday worship from Central Church begins as usual at 11am in person and online 

Our theme this week is Out of the Wilderness 

Bellshill Central is your Town Centre Church with a warm and welcoming Church Family waiting to say hello.

Our Sunday School has resumed during morning worship so we look forward to welcoming families along to our time of worship

We have tea and coffee served after the service and we hope you can stay behind 

There will be a retiring offering at this weekends service in aid of the Scottish Bible Society Ukraine Appeal. If you can please give if you can. 

Our services are slowly returning back to normal and it’s great to be able to gather together to worship God

We’re singing (with masks) 4 main hymns in our services and this week we have something for everyone (hymn sheet attached if you are worshipping from home)

  •  Light of the world 
  • Forty days and forty nights 
  • How sweet the name of Jesus Sounds 
  • At the name of Jesus 
  • May God’s blessing surround you each day 

Download our order of service and news sheet from this link

Orders of Service

If you are coming along in person there are still some COVID precautions in place

  • You must remain physically distanced (at least 1m) at all times.
  • Facemasks must be worn at all times, unless you are exempt
  • If you join in to sing you MUST wear a facemask.
  • Sanitize your hands entering and exiting the building.

Online worship is available from around 10.45am. Don’t worry if you cant join us in person!

The watch live page on our website will be updated with a new live stream link

Just go to 

Watch Live

Kevin’s theme for the service is Out of the Wilderness, with the reading being from Duteronomy (reader is Helen Daly)

We look forward to welcoming you whatever way you choose to worship

Blessings.

Bellshill Central Church of Scotland

Registered Charity: SC012556

346 Main Street, Bellshill, ML4 1BA

✉ hello@bellshillcentral.church

www.bellshillcentral.church

www.facebook.com/bellshillchurch

www.twitter.com/bellshillchurch

www.youtube.com/c/bellshillchurch