Here’s something for all ages to do, and if possible all ages together! Colour in the drawing of folks waving their Palm Branches and let us see your finished pieces of art.
Palm Sunday colouring sheet
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.
A Psalm a day – Psalm 2
Psalm 2 The Message (MSG)
2 1-6 Why the big noise, nations?
Why the mean plots, peoples?
Earth-leaders push for position,
Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks,
The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
“Let’s get free of God!
Cast loose from Messiah!”
Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing.
At first he’s amused at their presumption;
Then he gets good and angry.
Furiously, he shuts them up:
“Don’t you know there’s a King in Zion? A coronation banquet
Is spread for him on the holy summit.”
7-9 Let me tell you what God said next.
He said, “You’re my son,
And today is your birthday.
What do you want? Name it:
Nations as a present? continents as a prize?
You can command them all to dance for you,
Or throw them out with tomorrow’s trash.”
10-12 So, rebel-kings, use your heads;
Upstart-judges, learn your lesson:
Worship God in adoring embrace,
Celebrate in trembling awe. Kiss Messiah!
Your very lives are in danger, you know;
His anger is about to explode,
But if you make a run for God—you won’t regret it!
Online Holy Week Services at Bellshill Central Parish Church
Please visit www.bellshillcentral.church/watch-live to take part in these services.
| Monday 6th April at 7.30pm | Music for Meditation with the choir and readers (the Crucifixion) |
| Tuesday 7th April at 7.30pm | Reflections with Rev Kevin de Beer |
| Wednesday 8th April at 7.30pm | Reflections with Rev Kevin de Beer |
| Thursday 9th April at 7.30pm | Reflections with Rev Kevin de Beer |
| Friday 10th April at 7.30pm | Reflections with Rev Kevin de Beer |
Some notes for Monday’s Music for Reflection
Last Holy Week the Church Choir and some friends lead a service with excerpts from Stainer’s Crucifixion and had hoped to learn the other parts of it for this year’s Holy Week, but alas it wasn’t to be.
This 2020 Holy Week, we invite you to use last years Holy Week service for your thoughts, reflection and meditations as we enter into the journey and mystery of Holy Week and the Great Easter Resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
We take this opportunity to thank those who took part last year and who are once again bringing this lovely rendition to us in 2020
- Rev Kevin de Beer, leading the service and some narration
- Jim Grier, narration (on the right of your screen)
- Hugh Ainsley, narration (on the left of your screen)
- Alan Mathew, Organist
- Duncan Mackay, tenor solo
- the choir of Bellshill Central Church
- choir members from the West Church, Bellshill
- Friends from Carluke, Lanark and others
We remember fondly and with love Betty Patrick & Bill Cameron. We sadly lost both during the following months. It is a lovely reminder to have had them part of this and again helping focus our thoughts in Holy Week, and we hope that they are singing with us in the heavenly choir.
A Psalm a day – Psalm 1
Psalm 1 Good News Translation (GNT)
1 Happy are those
who reject the advice of evil people,
who do not follow the example of sinners
or join those who have no use for God.
2 Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord,
and they study it day and night.
3 They are like trees that grow beside a stream,
that bear fruit at the right time,
and whose leaves do not dry up.
They succeed in everything they do.
4 But evil people are not like this at all;
they are like straw that the wind blows away.
5 Sinners will be condemned by God
and kept apart from God’s own people.
6 The righteous are guided and protected by the Lord,
but the evil are on the way to their doom.
