Worship, Sun 26 March

Hi everyone... just a wee note about worship this week...
It's a pulpit swap week here at Upper Clyde, 26 March. I'll be across at the Douglas and Rigside congregations sharing the sacrament of communion with them. Meanwhile, onsite at Upper Clyde, we welcome back Mr Denham MacDougall - Interim Moderator for Douglas Valley congregations, and an elder at Cairngryffe Parish Church. We also welcome back Shenna Fox, who has kindly agreed to play for the service.

Given the swap, there will not be an online service from Upper Clyde. However, you might like to explore the following online worship options: 
Biggar Parish Church - LINK 
Dunfermline Abbey - LINK            
Kirkton Parish Church - LINK        
Parishes of Upper Tweed - LINK 

Normal service options are back this coming week, 2 April, which is Palm Sunday....

Don't forget that we're still accepting donations for the Clydesdale foodbank.... Thanks in advance for your support.

Worship Sun 19 March, Lent wk 4: Moving in a mysterious way

WELCOME/ Hello – and welcome to worship. We’re continuing on in our journey through Lent and this week we find ourselves with Ezekiel in a valley filled with dry bones, asking ‘can these bones live?’

If you'd like to go straight across to the service on YouTube you'll find the  WORSHIP LINK HERE

Copied below are our church notices:
This is our support your local food bank month. So, if you’d like to take the opportunity to donate food and other items, they can either be dropped into the box in the church vestibule, or to me at the manse. Alternatively, you can also donate through the webpage HERE 

Next week, there’ll be a pulpit swap, as I head across to the congregations of the Douglas Valley to share communion with them. Visiting onsite will be Denham MacDougall – who’s an elder at Cairngryffe and also the interim moderator for Douglas Valley and who some of you already know. Given this, there’ll be no online worship from Upper Clyde, but I’ll put some links to other online services if you’re not able to be with us onsite.

The parish newsletter has been put together and is now at the printers. These will be mailed out to those of you who are members, and spare copies will be available in the hall, as well as in the village stores at Abington and Leadhills, plus at the Abington community hub. I’ve already put an online version of the newsletter up on our blog, if you’d like to access it that way. Just look above this post at the tabs and click on 'Easter newsletter '23'

As we continue our journey through Lent, have a good week!

God bless
Nikki

Easter Newsletter 2023

Hi everyone, 
just to flag up that a copy of our Easter newsletter can be found on the dedicated page in the tabs above... but to make life quicker and easier, just click on the LINK HERE to take you straight there!
Hard copies of the newsletter will be posted to those on the membership roll...

Worship Sun 12 March 'Moving in circles' - Lent wk 3

WELCOME to our time of worship this week. We're moving further into Lent and this week, we're 'moving in circles' as we hear the story of Moses and the Israelites wandering and wondering in the wilderness.

WORSHIP LINK HERE

CHURCH NEWS 
Food bank: just a reminder that this month is a donations month for our local food bank. If you have any food, toiletries, or other items to donate, please drop them off at the manse, or the box in the vestibule at church on any Sunday morning during March. Alternatively, you can donate online via this LINK 

Cluster conversations: our next meeting to discuss the presbytery plan will be online, via zoom, at 7pm this week. The link will be emailed to all rep's.

In the meantime, have a great week.

God bless,
Nikki

Worship Sun 5 March - Lent 2: 'Moving on'

WELCOME to worship where we continue our Lent theme
‘On the move’.  
Last week, we were moving out… out of the garden with Adam and Eve and into an unlooked for, unwanted, and unknown future. This week, we’re moving on, this time, by invitation: with Abram and his family – as take a step of faith, and make a journey into the unknown.

Church notices are copied below, and our WORSHIP LINK IS HERE 

CHURCH NOTICES/
Congregational meeting today - onsite in the parish church we'll be having a congregational meeting to discuss the presbytery plan. For those of you worshipping online and who are members, or, who live within the parish bounds, we want to make sure you get to have your say as well. If you have any questions, or would like to share your thoughts, get in touch with me - Nikki - either by phone, or email, or via the 'contact us' link to the right of this page. We want to hear from as many of you as possible.

Church newsletter - just a reminder that the deadline for our Easter newsletter is coming up: if you have any items for inclusion, please send them to Dee or myself by 1pm this coming Sunday the 12th March. Thanks.

Bereavement support group - we meet on Thursday at 1.30pm in the Abington Community Hub. 

Kirk Session - meets online via zoom on Thursday at 7pm. Link will be emailed out.

Foodbank donations this month - as this is a month in which we have a formal communion, you’re invited to make a donation to the Clydesdale foodbank over any of the Sundays in March. You can do this by dropping in items in the box under the vestibule table, at the manse, or by making a donation online via their website…. at CLYDESDALE FOOD BANK DONATIONS

As you move on, into another week of Lent, be blessed and take care,
Nikki