Giffnock United Reformed Church

There will be a United Service in Pollokshields URC on Sunday 6th September at 6pm. All welcome.

There will be a short Church Meeting after the morning service on Sunday 13th September.

Bible challenge - to end the URC Vision4Life year why not read the Bible in 91 days? Can you rise to the challenge? Other churches in the West Link are being challenged too. A suggested programme can be obtained from Lesley, Alison or your deacon. When you have completed your reading let us know and we’ll see if more of us have risen to the challenge than our friends in other churches!

Thanks to all who made the Coffee Morning on 22nd August such a success. Everyone enjoyed getting together on a Saturday again, and in addition, over £170 was raised and will be shared between the Scottish Bible Society and Church funds.
If any other group would like to host a Saturday Coffee Morning between now and the end of September, please see Alison as soon as possible.

During the summer months people are encouraged to come to the midweek service on Wednesdays at 11.30am. After the service, tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Bring your own piece if you like! Enjoy the fellowship when so many other activities are finished for the summer.

The Christian Aid book sale will be held outside Morrison’s in Fenwick Road on Saturday 5th September 2009 from 10am-1pm. Donations of books welcome. Please see Sheila Graham or Gerry Brown if you have books to be uplifted.

The Women’s Union rally will take place on Thursday 10th September at 1.30pm in Martyrs Church, St Andrews. The speaker will be Rev Lindsey Sanderson.

Calling recyclers. Take part in local magic by turning plastic milk and fruit juice tops into a wheelchair! Orchardhill Parish are making the collection to help raise funds to purchase one. Bring your plastic tops to us. The collection point will be outside the vestry.

Christian Aid Prayer for the week: During the week please pray for the people of the Philippines whose land and homes are flooded as a result of clearing trees for mining activity.

Deacons are reminded that their next meeting is on Wednesday 26th August at 7pm for prayer and 7.30pm for the Deacons’ Meeting.

During the summer months people are encouraged to come to the midweek service on Wednesdays at 11.30am. After the service, tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Bring your own piece if you like! Enjoy the fellowship when so many other activities are finished for the summer.

The Christian Aid book sale will be held outside Morrisons in Fenwick Road on Saturday 5th September 2009 from 10am-1pm. Donations of books welcome. Please see Sheila Graham or Gerry Brown if you have books to be uplifted.

The Women’s Union rally will take place on Thursday 10th September at 1.30pm in Martyrs Church, St Andrews. The speaker will be Rev Lindsey Sanderson.

Calling recyclers. Take part in local magic by turning plastic milk and fruit juice tops into a wheelchair! Orchardhill Parish are making the collection to help raise funds to purchase one. Bring your plastic tops to us. The collection point will be outside the vestry.

Christian Aid Prayer for the week.
During the week please pray for all taking part in the Christian Aid-sponsored cycle to Copenhagen for the climate change conference.

Help is required to assist with preparing and serving the tea/coffee after the morning service during the summer months. If you are free to help, please put your name on the notice board outside the vestry.

A date for your diary! The Scouts invite you to a lunch – a Scoutbyte – on Wednesday 12th August at 12.15pm. This is their next fundraising event so keep the date free.

During the summer months people are encouraged to come to the midweek service on Wednesdays at 11.30am. After the service, tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Bring your own piece if you like! Enjoy the fellowship when so many other activities are finished for the summer.

A date for your diary. There will be a Coffee Morning on Saturday 22nd August from 10.30am till noon and hosted by the members of the Bible Study Group. Coffee and homebakes £1.50.

There will be a meeting at the Gillis Centre in Edinburgh on the 22nd August about what it means to be an eco-congregation in the 21st century. The meeting will take place from 10am till 1pm and coffee and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please see Lesley after the service.

•At the recent meeting of members of all the United Reformed Churches in the south side of Glasgow, held in Shawlands URC, the subject of “Team Ministries” was discussed. This on-going discussion could have wide-reaching effects on our church life, and each congregation was asked to consider its position. We would like to make time to discuss how this impinges on us here in Giffnock before the next meeting of the churches in the area which is scheduled for 14th September. Please give any comments or suggestions to Lesley or Alison.

The Christian Aid book sale will be held outside Morrisons in Fenwick Road on Saturday 5th September 2009 from 10am-1pm. Donations of books welcome. Please see Sheila Graham or Gerry Brown if you have books to be uplifted.

At Cumbernauld URC on Thursday 3rd September and at Morningside URC on Saturday 5th September from 10am till 4pm, a workshop is being offered on – Developing Community Work. The Cumbernauld workshop will take a look at the URC’s Church Related Community Work ministry. The Morningside workshop will be a broader look at church and community and the church’s engagement in community. If our church is to make an impact in the local community, we must learn how to get involved and engage with our local community. This workshop is a way we can begin to learn. Why not give yourself a challenge and go along? If you would like to be involved in either of these workshops, please let Lesley know by Sunday 16th August so that numbers can be confirmed.

There is an opportunity to meet the International Committee Members of the World Day of Prayer on Saturday 12th September in Beith Trinity Church of Scotland. The time of the meeting is 11am till 1pm – preceded by coffee and followed by lunch. Interested members please see Alison today.

Genesis/Giffnock Congregational Church Youth Fellowship 1978 to 1986 are holding a reunion on Saturday 3rd October 2009 at 7.30pm at Clydesdale Hockey Club, Beeton Road, Shawlands. More details and £10 deposit to Stephen Mackay, “Airds Cottage”, Ardross, Ross-shire, IV17 0XW. Tel 01349 882970 or email: tiggysootypat@yahoo.co.uk or Elaine Jones (Gunning) on elainewjones @btinternet.com