NEWS
Christmas Craft Fair 2025
This years craft fair was held on Saturday 22nd November we had 12 stalls selling goods ranging from paintings and art work jewellery, home baking, painted glass wear, needle felting, home baking, Christmas cards and gifts journals, preserves and stitched and knitted items. An information stall raising awareness of the work in Cameroon (Mavdaha).
There was an area set aside for children's activities.
Tea, coffee and a mince/apple pie available for those who paid admission and live Christmas music was provided by Kenneth in the sanctuary.
Approx 100 customers through the door and raised £1580 with some money still to come in. All stall holders were happy with the level of custom and enjoyed the day.
There was a lovely atmosphere which was commented on by visitors. Lots of good conversations and the opportunity to see the church in full swing.
I think we are now in the position to say we have an annual Christmas fair. Folks are keen to do it all again next year.
Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child
Shoe Box Appeal- 2025
This year our church participated in the Operation Christmas Child show box appeal run by Samaritans Purse.
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This was ran from 10th to 17th November 2025.
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The church managed to pack a total off 155 shoe boxes, which is 155 children that will get a present this festive season.
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We would like to thank everyone involved to make this possible, there are too many names to mention however some of the tasks that were involved included those who volunteered to ensure the church was open each day for donations to be received from the local community, donators of gifts and money, those who spent the donated money wisely to ensure each box was packed full of goodies for each child and finally those who assisted in packing the boxes
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We are overwhelmed with the generosity of those who are members of the church and indeed our local community.
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Some folks are already planning for next year!!
The Blooming Great Tea Party 2025
The last time we did this was in 2019. Over the last few years we continued to raise money for Marie Curie by delivering afternoon tea.
After some thought I decided that it would be nice to bring back the Blooming Great Tea Party, so we had the event in Westbourne Gardens. There were about 60 people who attended, friends family and local people. Most people said how much they enjoyed the event. A great big thanks to the folks from Struthers church and an old work colleague who worked so hard to make the day a success.
Currently we have raised just over £1100 mostly in cash. This means the just giving page does to reflect people’s generosity .
My just giving page is still open.
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Many Thanks Isobel Marshall
West Highland Way
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From 11th May until the 16th May 2025, Graham Offord and Dan Sneddon walked the West Highland Way to raise funds for the Glasgow Church Building, and if that was not enough proceeded to climb Ben Nevis on the 17th May.
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This fund is to enable the church to make repairs to the sandstone facade at the front of the building and the internal ceiling of the sanctuary repaired and decorated.
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Donations can still be made via Just giving or directly to the church marked building fund.
Recently we were notified that we had received a bronze award from the Incorporation of Gardeners of Glasgow in the Let Glasgow Flourish award of 2024.
This award is all thanks to the hard work of our neighbour and friend Mrs Clare Henry. During the week Clare and Howard went to the Trades Hall in Glasgow to recieve the award in a lovely ceremony.
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We thank Clare for her endless devotion to the display.
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For this season we are looking for donations of bedding plants and perennials if anyone wishes to help please let us know.
Good News!
An amazing 35 years of hard work has paid off for Willie and Annuka as they held up the copies of the Ouldeme and Vame New Testaments.
Willie and Annuka joined Wycliffe bible translators in 1989 and then headed out to Cameroon in 1992 where they began their life's labour of translating the New Testament in the Ouldeme and Vame languages.
We as a church have supported Willie and Annuka in their work throughout the years and words cannot describe how thrilled we were this morning when they brought copies of the newly printed bibles to church.
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We are looking at the fruition of 35 years of incredible dedication and sacrifice by Willie and Anuuka to enable the Ouldeme and Vame peoples of Cameroon to have the New Testament in their own language.
Carers Meeting
Some photos from our carers meetings in May and June. They do differenct activities each month, punctuated with lots of tea, coffee and encouragement!
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Saturday 11 may 2024
Enjoy photos of our packed Spring Fayre today. It was a fantastic event with dozens of visitors, lots of great crafts tea and coffee and superb recitals by Kenny Gaw.
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And a good time was had by all....the sun shone for our family fun day at Auchenfoyle Farm on Saturday 20th April. Both kids and adults had a fabulous day with loads of different activities.
Holy Week 2024
Follow Jesus on His final week with these daily readings starting on Palm Sunday and taking us up to resurrection morning. Spend some time each day thinking on the passages you have read and what it means for your life, as Jesus laid down His life for you.
We held a coffee morning on Saturday 2 March from 10am until 1pm. It gave people a chance to come into the church, view our beautiful sanctuary and have tea, coffee and cake. Here are some photos of the morning.
Happy New Year to all our church members and friends. We pray it will be a very blessed year for you all.
Particular verses have been given to us this year by the leader of the Struthers group of churches, Diana Rutherford. The verses for 2024 which are known as the New Year Word are:
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Isaiah 49 v 10 (second part)
"For the Lord in his mercy will lead them;
he will lead them beside cool waters."
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Isaiah 49 v 11 (first part)
"And I will make my mountains into level paths for them."
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Isaiah 51 v3
"The Lord will comfort Zion again
and have pity on her ruins.
Her desert will blossom like Eden,
her barren wilderness like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found there.
Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air."
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A fond farewell
On Monday 30 October 2023 a packed church said a fond farewell to our next door neighbour Phillip Bruno who has been attending Struthers church for many years. There was a fantastic turnout to honour a lovely man who was well known in the art world and his two sons came over from the US to speak at this celebration of his life.
Phillip's wife Clare Henry wrote his obituary for The Herald and can be read in full here: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/obituaries/23837000.influential-figure-art-gifted-us-collection-hunterian/
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