Hello folks, and greetings from Bellshill Central Parish Church of Scotland. If you’re looking for a church that this Central to Christ, Central to you and Central to Bellshill then look no further! Here you will find a church and a people with a real heart and soul for worship, who enjoy fellowship and socialising throughout the week. Why not make just one New Year’s resolution in 2018? Find out more about Jesus to develop your Faith. We would be privileged to be part of that journey with you. You would be welcomed to contact our Minister, Kevin de Beer should you have any questions.
This coming Sunday’s service, Sunday 14th January 2018, is at 11.00am when our Minister, Rev’d Kevin de Beer, leads us in morning worship for All Ages. We are pleased to welcome Liz Blackman, wife of Rev Ross Blackman, to speak to us about the Passion Pay which takes place in Hamilton during Holy Week. Liz will present and show multi media to us during the service. The hymns that Sunday include: Come down O love divine, Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and Take my life and let it be. The readings are: Psalm 29 and Mark 1: 4-11. The theme is “Baptism of Jesus”. Crèche facilities are available every Sunday for the youngest of Children. We would be delighted to welcome you. Let us build a house where all can dwell – All are welcome in this place!
Please remember in prayer the families of the late John Fisher, Mr Henderson and Rena Girdwood who recently passed away. Service for Messers Fisher and Henderson took place last week. Rena’s funeral will take place within Bellshill Central Church on Wednesday 10th at 11am to which all are invited to come along and remember Rena and give thanks for her life.
Our organisations begin to resume now January has arrived
- Wednesday 10th at 10am Movers and Shakers, and 7pm Carpet Bowls
- Friday 12th at 7.30pm Church Choir in the church hall.
- Tuesday 16th at 6pm Rainbows
- Wednesday 17th at 1pm the Bellshill Probus Club, carpet bowls & movers and shakers meet at their usual times.
- Thursday 18th at 6pm the Brownies
- Thursday 18th at 7.45 the Guides
- Sunday 20th at 11am Young Church and Crèche meet in the hall/church during Sunday worship.
- Monday 21st at 1.00pm The Guild meet with a Burns Celebration with Irene Dick. All welcome – both men and women.
- Crazy Toes Dance School meet every Saturday during the school term from 10am in our Church hall. Check out their Facebook page for more information.
- Other dates are on our Diary Dates page on the website. Please go online to check.
PRAYER
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
WORD ON WEDNESDAY
Our minister, Revd Kevin December Beer, continues in his weekly “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
ADVANCE DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Sunday 21st January at 6.30pm in Dalziel St Andrew’s the joint choirs of Bellshill Central and Dalziel St Andrews Churches will help lead a service in the week of prayer for Christian unity. This is jointly run with the Lanarkshire Society of Organists and a donation will be taken to support St Andrew’s Hospice. Please mark the date in your diary and come along!
COMMUNITY HALLS AVAILABLE FOR USE
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, http://www.facebook.com/bellshillcentralchurch and 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
