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.

New Year News from Central Church

by Bellshill Central, posted in Weekly Church News

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 

Central to Christ, Central to Bellshill, Central to You

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 

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.  

Bellshill Central Church of Scotland
Registered Charity: SC012556
346 Main Street, Bellshill, ML4 1BA

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#1 Bellshill Prayer Walk begins today

by Bellshill Central, posted in #BellshillPrayerWalk

What is a prayer walk and why is it a good thing to do?

‘How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger bringing good news, breaking the news that all’s well, proclaiming good times, announcing salvation, telling Zion, “Your God Reigns!”’(Isaiah 52:7 The Message)

A prayer walk is exactly what it sounds like: a walk filled with prayer. Prayer walking has been woven through the history of the British church for centuries. People would walk from Cathedral city to Cathedral city on pilgrimage, and these pilgrimages were all about prayer. Still today, many churches have a prayer walk around their parish boundaries. This tradition is called ‘beating the bounds’, and is an act of claiming the ground for God in prayer.

Due to COVID19 these Prayer Walks are Virtual Prayer walks

We begin with Main Street Bellshill where our church is located, our doors open out onto and where the heart of our community lies. Pray for the people who live and work here, pray for the Key Workers who are keeping things going, the retail workers, the health care workers and countess others.

A Virtual Prayer walk simply involves thinking of and praying your way around your community (either alone or in a group), praying for the places and people you would see around you. We will choose a street, an area or a grouping of streets for you to focus your prayers on each week.

God told Joshua: ‘I will give you every place where you set your foot’ (Joshua 1:3 NIV), and there is something powerful and significant about making our prayers physical: expressing our longings for places by going and standing there to pray.

Prayers for homeschooling

by Bellshill Central, posted in Prayer items

Dear Heavenly Father, many parents today find themselves having to home-school their children, who have never had proper teaching experience and have no teaching qualification. They will feel rather unsure of what they ought to do and how to go about it. This frightening time of darkness in our world causes friends to be separated, routines simply brushed away and new ways of working for us all.

Give them the courage and the wisdom to set about the task of preparing my home-school environment, and guide them in what they should teach their children. Lord, we pray that they may have an aptitude for teaching them and that You would give the children willing, receptive minds and the ability to learn as well and understand what is being taught. Amen.

Central Church Worship – Epiphany Sunday 10th January 2021

by Bellshill Central, posted in Catch Up, Sunday Worship

Join us online via www.bellshillcentral.church/watch-live on Sunday from 10.45am as worship together for at the start of a New Year.

Welcome to this time of worship. While we may not be gathered in the same worship space, we are held together in Christ. Even though you may be at home, our Lord promises that where two or three are gathered in his name, he too is present.

Know that while we may not be worshiping in the same space, the peace of Christ is with us.

Make your worship space at home comfortable. We invite you to light a candle as you are able to serve as a reminder of God’s presence with each of us.

10th January 2021 – ENEWS Download