Church of Scotland. Townhead Parish Church Greetings to you all. There are times in life when you are reminded of certain things. Often, these times come with seasons – Re- membrance Day/Sunday brings memories of war, friends and family members lost in the battles of yester- day. Christmas and Easter bring to mind the arrival and triumphant victory of Christ our Lord. Anniversaries of marriages, births and deaths bring reminders of people and places, those precious moments which we share together. But there are also times in life when we are reminded of truths which we keep re- membering all the time. I am in the midst of one of these times, where I am reminding myself what a great opportunity to go on the Battlefield tour to Bel- gium with the Army Cadets. We travelled by a luxury coach on Saturday, 15 th Oc- tober and took the ferry from Hull and arrived in Zeebrug- ge on Saturday, 16 th October in the morning. We disem- barked and arrived in Ypres at 9:15am. During our bat- tlefield tour, we visited war cemeteries, memorials, bun- kers, Passchendale Museum Ypres and Flanders Fields Museum. We also took part in the Last Post Ceremony and had a full day guided tour of the Somme. As a Padre/Army Chaplain I had the opportunity to lead the one minute of silence at the Menin Gate and said a pray- er and more importantly, I was photographed at Charles Mackay’s headstone and left a poppy cross in memory of him. Charles Mackay was in the Highland Light Infantry Regiment, 9 th Glasgow High- landers Battalion. He was awarded the Allied Victor Medal. The memory of the battlefield tour to Belgium will remain with me. The memory of being a Minister amongst you all will remain with me too. GOD calls us to dream about tomorrow and to show caring love. This is an exciting time for our Church Family. Let’s seize every opportunity that GOD offers us. With my love, Ecilo 2016 M INISTER ’ S M ESSAGE Autumn / Winter Church of Scotland. Townhead Parish Church Magazine INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Minister’s Message 1 MED 2 Boy’s Brigade 2 Facebook 2 Church Roll 5 Finance 6 Church Diary 8 P ARISH N EWS ! G ET INVOLVED Do you have time and talents to help with the many tasks within the Church such as: The Congregational Board Painting Cleaning Children’s Address Gardening General maintenance Fundraising New Connections Please speak to one of the Elders for more information about the many opportuni- ties to volunteer your skills and talents, all offers of as- sistance will be greatly ap- preciated.
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Church of Scot land. Townhead Parish Church
Greetings to you all.
There are times in life when
you are reminded of certain
things. Often, these times
come with seasons – Re-
membrance Day/Sunday
brings memories of war,
friends and family members
lost in the battles of yester-
day. Christmas and Easter
bring to mind the arrival and
triumphant victory of Christ
our Lord. Anniversaries of
marriages, births and deaths
bring reminders of people
and places, those precious
moments which we share
together.
But there are also times in
life when we are reminded of
truths which we keep re-
membering all the time.
I am in the midst of one of
these times, where I am
reminding myself what a
great opportunity to go on
the Battlefield tour to Bel-
gium with the Army Cadets.
We travelled by a luxury
coach on Saturday, 15th Oc-
tober and took the ferry from
Hull and arrived in Zeebrug-
ge on Saturday, 16th October
in the morning. We disem-
barked and arrived in Ypres
at 9:15am. During our bat-
tlefield tour, we visited war
cemeteries, memorials, bun-
kers, Passchendale Museum
Ypres and Flanders Fields
Museum. We also took part
in the Last Post Ceremony
and had a full day guided
tour of the Somme. As a
Padre/Army Chaplain I had
the opportunity to lead the
one minute of silence at the
Menin Gate and said a pray-
er and more importantly, I
was photographed at Charles
Mackay’s headstone and left
a poppy cross in memory of
him. Charles Mackay was in
the Highland Light Infantry
Regiment, 9th Glasgow High-
landers Battalion. He was
awarded the Allied Victor
Medal. The memory of the
battlefield tour to Belgium
will remain with me. The
memory of being a Minister
amongst you all will remain
with me too. GOD calls us
to dream about tomorrow
and to show caring love.
This is an exciting time for
our Church Family. Let’s
seize every opportunity that
GOD offers us.
With my love,
Ecilo
2016
M I N I ST ER ’S ME SSAG E
Autumn / Winter
Church of Scotland. Townhead Par ish Church Magazine
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
Minister’s Message 1
MED 2
Boy’s Brigade 2
Facebook 2
Church Roll 5
Finance 6
Church Diary 8
P A R I S H N E W S !
G E T I N V O L V E D
Do you have time and talents
to help with the many tasks
within the Church such as:
The Congregational Board
Painting
Cleaning
Children’s Address
Gardening
General maintenance
Fundraising
New Connections
Please speak to one of the
Elders for more information
about the many opportuni-
ties to volunteer your skills
and talents, all offers of as-
sistance will be greatly ap-
preciated.
As many of you know I am
serving on our presbytery's
MED committee which is the
Church of Scotland three
letter acronyms for mission,
education and discipleship
committee.
I have been on the commit-
tee for two years now and it
has taught me so much
about the church. The most
prominent thing I have
learned is just how much
work goes on behind the
scenes that we don't see
with our visit to church on
Sunday.
My committee has dealt with
a huge chunk of issue rang-
ing from training events to
employing staff members.
There are so many things
going on it's hard to keep
track sometimes.
Things that I have been
working on recently are the
presbytery Facebook page,
facilitating the 17-25 year
olds in the presbytery and an
event for congregations with
little to no children.
The Facebook page is up and
running now and you can
keep up to date with all the
latest happening at presby-
tery and other churches in
the area as well as some
useful resources and advent
content that we have been
working on.
I have set up the Church of
Scotland youth group for
the 17-25 year olds called
COSY Hamilton and we will
be meeting up and having
events run by ourselves as
a way of keeping in touch
with likeminded Christians
close by to us as well as
bringing more people clos-
er to God. So far the group
has 53 members and our
first event will have been
held on 23rd of November.
There is also a Facebook
page for that too that you
can see what we get up to.
If you know anyone who
might be interested,
please speak to me at
some point.
live videos from every church
service zooming in on our
wonderful choir’s solo piec-
es. So, if you’ve missed a
service and want to see the
order of service (it’s there
too) or need to know what’s
coming up or just want to
hear your favourite hymn
over and over again,
SEARCH COATBRIDGE
TOWNHEAD PARISH CHURCH
and don’t forget to LIKE OUR
PAGE so you get updates
forever more!
Peter McClurg and Aaron
Johnstone are responsible
for the new FACEBOOK pag-
es for the church.
To access these pages,
Search Coatbridge Town-
head Parish Church in Face-
book.
So far we’ve had hundreds of
likes AND OVER 2,000 VISI-
TORS to the Facebook pag-
es in just over 3 months.
The Facebook pages include
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Mission, Education and Discipleship Committee Aaron Johnstone
T OW N H E A D PA R I S H C H U R C H O N FA C E B O O K ( P E T E R M C C L U R G & A A R O N J O H N S T O N E )