Cumbernauld Old Parish Church recently received a warm thank you from Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Baby Bank for taking part in their Fill-A-Bag Appeal. They said, “It was lovely to blether with you today when collecting the bag, and thank you to everyone involved for their support and generosity.”
We recently posted a prayer letter from our Interim Moderator Julie as she prepared to go with a group of young people to SU Summer Camp. Well, the camp has now been and gone and in her latest prayer letter below you can read how it went and how the Holy Spirit was at work throughout the week. Time to Give Thanks indeed!
Our Interim Moderator, Julie, is part of a team going with a group to SU Camp next week and has shared a prayer letter (attached) that God will bless the week and all those attending. Please take time to remember all those attending in your prayers today and as the week unfolds. Thank-you!
We’re delighted to share the latest Partner Letter from Sandra and Graham Duncan in South Africa – available from the download link below.
They are both keeping themselves very busy and are doing well. They are involved with an orphans’ project in Mamelodi, there is also a new church building under construction and a ‘nearly new’ shop being established. You can read all the details in the letter and there are also some photos below to give you a flavour of all that’s going on.
Thank you for all your continued support and prayers. These mean so much to them.
On Tuesday 18th September the speaker at Cumbernauld Old Parish Church Men’s Group will be Joyce Bell from Alva.
Joyce is a nurse at Strathcarron Hospice and, over the years, she and her colleague Caroline have visited South Africa to work with a number of local groups on a variety of health issues, especially HIV and AIDS. They have been sponsored by their local Church of Scotland congregation in Alva and became involved in this project through their association with Graham & Sandra Duncan, who are also our Mission Partners.
Because of our continuing relationship with Sandra and Graham, and the support we give them through our Mission Circle, the Men’s Group has extended an invitation to everyone in the congregation to come along at 7.30pm on Tuesday 18th and hear about the work that Joyce and Caroline have done in South Africa.
Cumbernauld Old Parish Church were delighted to receive the following letter from the Food Bank team at Cornerstone House recently:
Thank you all once again for your partnership and fantastic Christmas donations of food, gifts and money in December and throughout 2017.
We received over 1700 referrals between our two Food Banks in 2017, and put out over 130 extraordinary food hampers, gifts and toys in the Christmas week alone.
It is a blessing to us all in seeing what can be achieved in our own communities when the people of God work together.
Thank you for all the effort everyone puts in to make this ministry work. We look forward to what the Lord is going to do in 2018.
God bless, Norma Cowan
April 2018 will mark the third anniversary of the opening of the Village Food Bank at the Parish Church and we are delighted have forged such close links with the Bethlehem House of Bread, which operates out of Cornerstone House. The Food Bank in the Village is open each Friday from 11am – 12.30pm.
Firstly, we’d like to say a big “thank you” to everyone who supports the local Food Bank with donations, volunteering and prayer. Secondly, we’d like to update you with what we have planned in the lead-up to Christmas – and how you can help.
Preparations are underway at the Food Bank for helping those in need in our community during what can be a particularly challenging time. The Cornerstone Christmas event will be held on Thursday 21st December at Cornerstone House in the Town Centre. It will cater for around 150 people, providing them with a festive meal, food parcel and gifts. There will also be Christmas celebration at the Cumbernauld Village Food Bank the following day, Friday 22nd December, with carols, treats and fellowship.
Easter is past, the children are back in school and it’s now time to think about Christian Aid week, which runs from 15th to 21st May.
As always, we are looking for people to help with the door to door collection. If you didn’t receive an envelope last year, it probably means that no one in your immediate area was delivering envelopes – could you help this year? If you were one of the trusty band of volunteers last year, we hope you’ll help again this year.
The money raised makes such a difference to some of the poorest people in the world. Please give it some thought and if you are able to help, please contact Liz Dalling (727000) or Lesley Littlejohn (729083).
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