Sunday worship on 18th September will be led by our minister the Revd Kevin de Beer at 11am in the Church at 346 Main Street.
The service will be live streamed for those not able to worship in person.
Our Sunday School meets at 10.45am in the hall. They join us for the first bit of the service then continue their fun in the hall.
A book of condolence will be available after worship on 18th September following the death of HM The Queen. It is located in the Church just outside the vestry.
We will live stream the State Funeral of HM The Queen at the church so those wishing to see this sad but historic event can do so together with other members of the community, friends and family. The Church will be open from 10am and afterwards, allowing more people to sign the Book of Condolence.
People have been leaving flowers and messages at the church entrance, and this visible tribute us testimony to how respected and loved HM The Queen was. Please add more if you wish.
The church will be open between 6pm and 7pm on Thursday 15th September to allow people to sign the Book of Condolence.
Please note that some meetings during the National Period of Mourning may be cancelled at short notice, please check with group leaders of any changes.
Looking ahead: Carpet bowls resume on 21st September at 2pm in the hall.
Church Choir resumes 21st September at 7.30pm in the hall.
Rainbows, Guides and Brownies meet each week and if you want your daughter to come along please register on the Guiding website.
Tuesday walkers will meet on 20th September at 7pm. Please email hello@bellshillcentral.church if you are coming so we can let you know where we’re beginning from! We walk for around an hour then enjoy a cuppa and a chat.
Monday prayer group will not meet on 19th Sept due to the State funeral, but will reconvene via Zoom the following week.
Kirk Session and Congregational board will meet on Tuesday 27th Sept at 7.30pm. This is an important meeting, a full attendance is requested.
The 100th episode of the Organist entertains will be produced during September. We have a special message from the current Moderator of the Church of Scotland and will include some music as a memorial to people who have meet us. If you want to be included email Organist@bellshillcentral.church
Bellshill Central Parish Church is here for you. We are your church of Scotland presence in the town centre, Orbiston and Mossend areas.
Our minister Revd Kevin de Beer would be extremely pleased to hear from you if you are needing any support.
We are looking for singers to join our church choir!
Have you missed singing regularly in a group?
New to Bellshill?
Looking for a choir to join?
Music is central to the life of Bellshill Central Church, inspiring us and enriching our worship.
We are fortunate to have a wonderful acoustic in our building and a great musical tradition.
We have an enthusiastic choir for all voice parts.
Our repertoire ranges from the traditional to more modern items of music.
The choir sings at the 11am Sunday church service. We also sing at the occasional special service or wedding.
The choir sing introits and anthems as well as leading the congregation in hymn singing. We rehearse once a week in the church on Wednesdays at 7.30pm.
We are a friendly group and new members will be warmly welcomed. If you are interested in joining, we’d love to hear from you! Please get in touch
The new choir session is scheduled to start on Wednesday 14 September.
Due to holidays there was no Motherwell Times & Bellshill Speaker news this week, so please see below this week’s church family news.
Sunday worship this weekend (Sunday 31st) is a joint service with Bellshill Central and Bellshill West Churches beginning at 11am at Bellshill West Church.
Live stream will be via Bellshill West Parish Church facebook page.
Rev Kevin leads the joint service, and hospitality is offered in the West church hall afterwards.
Things happening in the week from Central Church are:
Monday evening prayer group has resumed via Zoom on Monday’s. Remember you can get in touch with Kevin anytime if you need prayer. If you want the zoom codes to join please email hello@bellshillcentral.church
Tuesday our Walking Group “Heart and Sole” meets at the church for some time together walking and talking. Tea is available at the end. Bring comfortable walking footwear and a jacket in case of some rain! We meet at 7pm.
If you are interested in learning some new worship songs please get in touch and we will arrange some singing sessions over the summer. Singing is good for you! It releases all sorts of good feelings and endorphins. It’s good for your breathing and a good way to meet new people. Contact organist@bellshillcentral.church if you’re interested.
Grant and Sharon Malone along with Grant’s sister and a few others are doing the Ring of Steall on Saturday (today). It’s in memory for their mum and doing it for st Andrews hospice. This is a link to the just giving page Lynsey has done, and Sharon also has a sponsor form. If you can support them please use the link or contact Sharon for the sponsor form. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/SteallTeam
Sunday 7th August regular weekly worship resumes at Bellshill Central Parish Church. Our services are at 11am and streamed live via facebook if you can’t come in person.
Our theme for Sunday 7th August 2022 is What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Our Reading is Genesis 1:26-31 and read by Cathie Bryden. The additional reading, within wthe message, is Psalm 8.
Our hymns include Be still, Speak O Lord and For the fruits of all creation.
Tea and coffee are served after the service on Sunday 7th August when we are back at Central Church.
Episode 100 of the organist Entertains is fast approaching. Please let Alan know of any special requests for this milestone event. If you’d like to send in a video saying hello, or what these 100 episodes have meant to you that would be great.
Sunday 14th August will be a minj songs of praise service service led by members of Bellshill Central Parish Church, since Rev Kevin is leading worship at Wishaw St Mark’s where he is interim moderator. Our main reading that week comes from Acts chapter 3.
Advance notice, Holy Communion will be celebrated on Sunday 11th September in church and live streamed. We will include a time of remembering for 9/11. There will be a retiring offering also. More details on the beneficiary next week.
Grateful thanks to our willing group of property folks, particularly Drew ane Jane Aitken and Robert and Chemaine Jarvie, for the upgrading of the church vesty. This will make the space more usable and organised space.
Catch up with worship via Facebook or YouTube. Worship with us 24/7 you’re welcome in our midst.
You can also catch up with our Organist entertains series via YouTube. If you’d like something included contact organist@bellshillcentral.church
If you need to speak with Rev de Beer you can contact him via the Manse 01698 841176 or email kdebeer@churchofscotland.org.uk
Bellshill Central is your Town Centre Church with a warm and welcoming Church Family waiting to say hello. Our Sunday School meets during morning worship so we look forward to welcoming families along to our time of worship
Orbiston Neighbourhood Centre Donations – The box will remain in the vestibule each week if you want to drop off non-perishable food stuffs for the Neighbourhood Centre.
When you shop using “AmazonSmile”, AMAZON will make a donation to Bellshill: Central Parish Church Of Scotland. Use this link to help us out while you shop. https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/SC012556
This is a recording of our time together for prayer via Zoom. If you wish you can play this video and follow along with the text below.
For a community, church, nation or world that are going through tough times, Psalm 85 looks with confidence to a God Who continues to encourage and embody incarnation. Some scholars suggest that there is an echo here in the Old Testament of what the angels sing in Luke 2:14, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased!”
The writer of this psalm comes with the lament of the people but moves the song on to one of hope and blessing and the graciousness of God. This is an unequivocal word of peace spoken in God’s own voice.
Peace-loving and peace-giving God, you bless us with your unfailing and unconditional love: We come to worship and praise our loving God, and rejoice in God’s tender mercy towards us.
Generous God, you pour blessings and grace upon us, forgiving us for our sin and shame: We come to worship and honour our merciful God, and rejoice in the wonder of forgiven and forgotten sin.
Holy God, in the beauty of your shalom, and in the glory of your presence, all barriers are lowered: We come to worship and revere our glorious God, who enriches the lives of God’s own people and speaks peace into the hearts of all faithful people. Amen.
Its an anthem for the persecuted church. In around 60 countries Christians are currently persecuted for their faith, and a friend who heads up an organisation dedicated to their support challenged Graham Kendrick to write a song expressing solidarity with them. He drew inspiration from the prayer for he martyrs in the Apostle John’s vision in the book of Revelation. The song was launched at a prayer event sponsored by Release International and Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Opening Prayer
Lord God,
speak your peace to your people, gathered virtually in Jesus’ name.
We confess that our faithfulness to you,
our obedience to your calling,
our righteousness is not steadfast and true.
In living out our praise, we too easily falter after the first page.
Were it not for the lavish gift of your Son, we would be lost.
Through him, however, we turn to you in our hearts,
knowing your steadfast love and faithfulness,
your righteousness and peace.
In him your salvation is at hand.
We thank you.
May this worship and time of prayer reflect your goodness,
as we respond to you with our heart, soul, and mind.
Make a path through the middle of Your church here in Bellshill today,
and walk among us through your Holy Spirit.
This we pray in the name of the One who is your peace, your salvation—
Jesus Christ. Amen.
Prayer
Beloved, how gracious You are to your people;
You restore their souls time and time again.
You forgive their distractions
when they wander far from You;
You give them new life.
Yes, You bless them and raise up new hope;
You awaken their hearts to love.
Restore us again, O Spirit of Truth;
burn us with the refining Fire of Love!
We cannot live separated from You;
cast out the demons of fear, doubt, and illusion.
Revive us again, we pray; may your people rejoice in You!
Have compassion on your people, O Holy One,
and grant us your forgiveness.
Listen, O People, in the silent Chapel of your heart;
and the Beloved will speak of peace to you,
to the hidden saints, to all who turn their hearts to Love.
Surely new life is at hand for those who reverence Love;
O, that harmony might dwell among the nations.
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will embrace one another.
Wisdom will spring up from the ground
and truth will look down from the sky.
Yes, the Eternal Giver will grant what is good,
and the lands will yield abundantly.
Mercy and compassion are Love’s way;
You will guide our footsteps upon the path of peace
as we recognize with open hearts that You are our peace.
Amen
PSALM 85
1 You, Lord, showed favour to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 2 You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins.[b] 3 You set aside all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.
4 Restore us again, God our Saviour, and put away your displeasure toward us. 5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger through all generations? 6 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? 7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.
8 I will listen to what God the Lord says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.
10 Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. 11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. 12 The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest. 13 Righteousness goes before him and prepares the way for his steps.
Responsive Prayer
Lord, you were favourable to your land.
You restored our fortunes.
You forgave the iniquity of your people.
You pardoned all our sin.
Restore us again,
O God of our salvation.
Will you not revive us again,
so we may rejoice in you?
Show us your steadfast love, O Lord.
Grant us your salvation.
Let us hear what God the Lord will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful,
to those who turn to him in their hearts.
Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him,
that his glory may dwell in our land.
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet.
Righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground.
Righteousness will look down from the sky.
The Lord will give what is good.
Our land will yield its increase.
Righteousness will go before him
and make a path for his steps.
Prayers of Intercession and Lord’s Prayer
Blessing
Lift up your eyes! Look around.
Where does our help come from?
Our help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
God will not let you stumble and fall;
the One who watches over you
will never slumber or sleep.
God will keep safe from all of life’s evils;
from your first breath to the last breath you breathe,
from this day forward and forever.
So we go in peace to love and serve God and our neighbours.
BELLSHILL: CENTRAL PARISH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 