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Join us for online worship Sunday 5th April at 11am

April 4, 2020April 3, 2020 by Bellshill Central, posted in Other News, Sunday Worship, Weekly Church News

On Sunday 5th April, we will provide our next online worship which will be led by our minister, Rev’d Kevin de Beer, and will include some pre-recorded songs and hymns from our organist, the choir and congregation.

Join us from 10.45am, we will have some news screens to display and a couple of sing-a-long songs to join in with, before the Palm Sunday worship commences at 11am.

We thought it would be comforting to have familiar views and sounds while we worship in a different way during the COVID-19 crisis. So, in our online worship we will use the sounds of our organ, choir and congregation singing. We will use familiar images from our church, including our lovely stained glass windows.

The worship will be recorded in advance and will go online at just before 11am on Sunday morning at via our website and YouTube here https://bellshillcentral.church/watch-live/ or click the image to the left.

Once the live stream is finished it will be uploaded to our YouTube Channel for you to watch later if you missed the live stream and it will also be available on our Catch Up link at the very top of this website.

We hope you will join us!

waiting for our return!

Online Holy Week Services at Bellshill Central Parish Church

April 1, 2020March 30, 2020 by Bellshill Central, posted in Other News, Sunday Worship, Weekly Church News

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 – bible reading series

March 31, 2020 by Bellshill Central, posted in A Psalm a Day, Other News, Weekly Church News

Beginning on 1st April, the start of a new month, we begin a new bible reading series. Each day we will post one of the great Psalms of the Old Testament.

During this current time, there’s never been a better activity to do each day. Reading your bible as the old Sunday School song goes should be done every day. How many of us have let this practice slip? So, from 1st April a Psalm will be posted every day. Sometimes from the Good News bible, some from the King James, and some in more modern language. We’ll try and have a picture as a focus on the meaning of the psalm too. Keep an eye out on your inboxes, look at our Website for “A Psalm a Day”, our Facebook page and Twitter account to keep up with the daily series.

The book of Psalms (also known as the Psalter) is a collection of 150 poems, prayers, hymns and meditations. It consists of five collections of Psalms (1–41; 42–72; 73–89; 90–106; 107–150) which have evidently been gathered together at different times because there are a few duplicates. All the psalms are addressed to God, whether they are giving thanks for what he has done or begging for help in a time of crisis. The psalms give us an insight into the life and spirituality of God’s people and have been used continually in both Jewish and Christian worship. Because the psalms are so personal and portray such genuine human emotion, they remain as powerful today as they always were.

A tour of the stained glass windows of Bellshill Central Parish Church

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Bellshill Central, posted in Other News

The church at 346 Main Street is temporarily not open for public worship, general visiting or private prayer during the Coronavirus (CODVID-19) pandemic. Meanwhile, the community of Bellshill Central Parish – the clergy, the members & adherents and wider community – will sustain the worship, albeit privately, of a building that has been a witness to God’s grace and glory in this area for over a 150 years.

Our church is blessed with wonderfully rich, vibrant and inspiring collection of fine stained glass windows. We see them each week and perhaps take them for granted. In this time when our physical church building is closed we have put together a montage of our windows with the soothing sounds of John Rutter’s Clare Benedition.

The stories of the most colourful windows are all taken from the bible, and these stories, images and colours have inspired preaching for decades. The tallest of the windows, located behind the organ, is perhaps the simplest in design but holds the story of the early church here at 346 Main Street.

Windows are by

Lesley Marshall
Abbey Studios
Gordon Webster

Have a look at our Church Tour page to look at each window in detail, and other items of interest around our Church. Our History page has more information about the church.

We look forward to welcoming you in person once we are able to re-open and welcome you to a worship service or one of the many other activities that take place at 346 Main Street.