When contacting the office please email [email protected] or telephone (Tuesdays and Thursdays) 10am – 12.30pm (01505 862583)
Notes for your diary: (Week beginning 15th December 2025)
(All activities in THE CORNERSTONE unless stated otherwise)
Monday 15th December
· 1.30pm – Playtime
· 3.45pm – Junior Singers
· 6.30pm – Boys’ Brigade
Tuesday 16th December
· 7.00pm – One World Committee
Wednesday 17th December
· 7.00pm – Joint Service with Our Lady of Lourdes
Thursday 18th December
· 1:00pm – Chit Chat
· 6.00pm – Girls’ Brigade
· 8.15pm – Senior Choir Practice
Sunday 21st December
· 11.00am – Nativity Service in the Church (Fourth Sunday in Advent)
Christmas Services
17th December, 7.00pm Joint Service with Our Lady of Lourdes in The Cornerstone
24th December, 4pm Carols at The Cornerstone
24th December, 11.30pm Watchnight Service at the Church (Note: tea will be served from
11.00pm)
25th December, 11.00am Christmas Service in The Cornerstone.
Funeral intimations
Yvonne can now confirm that the funeral for Mrs. Maureen Sloan will take place at 10:30am at Clydebank Crematorium on Thursday 18th of December.
Albert and the family have been assured of our prayers and support.
It is also Yvonne’s sad duty to intimate the death of Dr Joyce Alexander. Joyce died peacefully at Quarriers Village on the 3rd December.
Joyce’s funeral service will take place at 9:30 am on Friday 19th December at Clydebank Crematorium.
Douglas, his sisters and other family members have been assured of our prayers and support in their loss.
At this time of year we remember all who are mourning the death of a loved one.
Sunday Kidz
Children are encouraged to be part of the Morning Worship from 11am in the Church, and they may leave after the second hymn to take part in a creche which will be available for all children in the Extension Hall.
Boys’ Brigade
The Boys’ Brigade meets on Mondays at 6.30pm.
Open to primary school boys.
Girls’ Brigade
The Girls’ Brigade meets on Thursdays
· P1 – 3 6.30pm
· P4 – 7 7.00pm
· Sec. Sch 7.45pm
For more information – Email: [email protected]
Playtime at The Cornerstone
Meets on Mondays from 1.30 until 2.45pm.
Parents/guardians who bring their child /children, will be responsible for the overall care and overseeing their children at play.
Junior Singers
The Junior Singers meets on Mondays in The Cornerstone from 3.45 – 4.45pm. We will be singing Scottish songs, songs from shows, Disney tunes and some choruses and hymns.
The group is open to children of Primary School age and meets during school term time.
New members will be made very welcome.
Walk and Talk Group
The Walk and Talk Group meets in The Cornerstone carpark on Tuesdays at 9.30am.
Coffee Stop
The Coffee Stop is taking a break for Christmas and will re-open on 6th January. 2026. This group normally meets on Tuesdays, between 10 and 11.30am.
Drop in for tea/coffee and biscuits. Come and go as you please and catch up with friends.
Thursday Chit Chat Group
Meets every Thursday at 1.00pm. December programme
· 4th – Christmas Crafts
· 11th – Christmas Worship
· 18th – Christmas Party
· 25th – No meeting
Bishopton Christian Aid Group – Christmas Card Delivery
The post boxes for the Christmas card collection will be in situ from Monday, 1st December until Sunday 14th December at 12 noon. The stamped cards will be out for delivery from week beginning 15th December.
Post boxes will be located at:
The Church, The Cornerstone, Our Lady of Lourdes, and
The Co-op Greenock Road, Sainsbury’s Dargavel, Woody’s Station Road, Avalon Station Rd, and, Angie Campbell’s Hair and Beauty Greenock Road.
We ask for a minimum donation of 40p per card, the donation placed in an envelope wrapped with the bundle of cards before placing in the post box.
If anyone would like to help with sorting or delivering cards, please contact me on 07971537348.
Thank you. Carolyn Macdonald
Presentation Service
Many thanks to bakers, those who set up on the Saturday, those who helped on the Sunday, and to the congregation for all their help to make this a special and memorable day
Baking tins are in the Cornerstone – you please pick them up.
Allison Hope.
Gift Aid
Thank you to all who have returned their Gift Aid declarations. At the time of writing this we have a return rate of around 74%. We are aware that there have been some significant delays with the postal service so if you have still not received a letter from us, or you have just mislaid it, please let me know urgently at [email protected] or at 0141 588 2185 and I will supply a new form. Our aim was to have received all the returns by Wednesday 19th November for submission to HMRC by that date. However, we have managed to negotiate a short extension with the Revenue, so please return your form as soon as possible to The Cornerstone, or to the Church on Sunday.
If you no longer are able to, or wish to, contribute through Gift Aid, for whatever reason, will you please let me know as that will allow us to remove your name from our Register. Returning the form with your name and address and having circled the first or third bullet point on the top right hand side is a good way to do this. Gift Aid on offerings makes a significant contribution to the Church finances and being fully aware of the position as we prepare our budgets for 2026 is important to us. Thank you for your support and assistance.
Please note that there is a letter box in the “middle door” (at the Greenock Road side, about two thirds of the way towards the west end emergency exit doors).
Alex Macdonald
Finance Convener
GLASGOW CITY MISSION (1)
Today we launch our Advent appeal in support of Glasgow City Mission. It is a Christian based support organization for homeless, isolated, discarded and addicted people who have nowhere to go and no care or support in their lives. They provide day support, a comfortable warm environment for individuals and families, feeding 160 people twice a day and giving shelter, warmth and dignity to those in our city who have been thrown down by living rough, thrown out by a non caring society and abandoned by those who should love them. We are suspending our appeal for Chisangano over the winter as we feel this cause (GCM) is one that needs our help now. We therefore would ask for donations over Advent to help those who cannot help themselves in our own society. Thank you.
GLASGOW CITY MISSION (2)
Glasgow City Mission as a building is sited at the junction of Crimea Street and Brown Street, a poor area of what was formerly Anderson directly behind the Ministry of Defence building in Argyle Street. Rather than seeing the poor neighborhood you are drawn by the light around and of the building. It has four floors with the topmost given over to administration. The lower three floors each have two facings of windows making the building a beacon of light in its dull surroundings and is a beacon for both the people who work there and, more importantly, those who attend. This brightness pervades the whole building with wonderful supportive services bringing joy and hope to the attendees. They have facilities for relaxing in warmth, painting, computer usage and even a small music corner. Instruments and sound board donated as is much of the equipment elsewhere. Volunteers give of themselves to support with letter writing, job and benefit applications or simply being willing to talk to the men and women who have had no one to speak to or for them. God bless Glasgow City Mission and all those involved with it. If you can…help. One World Committee
GLASGOW CITY MISSION (3)
Glasgow City Mission can be described as having and being a physical structure, a building giving itself along with the caring staff to feeding, giving a place of safety and mission and care to people whom many others would want to forget existed. One of its most important functions however, is to give hope for help, support and a better future. For the poor souls who attend this may be hoping for a warm corner and a hot meal or hoping to avoid a bully or abuser or praying that they will manage to have the last emergency accommodation of the day. Hope is also wanting someone to talk to them quietly and in private, hope is someone offering a cup of tea or help with a form when you can’t read, hope is wanting, just once, that someone will greet and welcome you. Hope is thinking that the present is wretched and the future has to be better. They want and need your help…..can you give it?
Bill Doak
Renfrewshire Foodbank
As the demand for the Foodbank in Renfrewshire continues to remain high, our Church is pleased to offer support by welcoming donations at The Cornerstone or at the Church service on Sundays.
There is always a need for tinned foods, meat, fish, soup, vegetables pasta sauce, as well as cereals, biscuits, long life milk, diluting juice. Donations of toiletries, particularly shampoo, shower and shaving items, pet food and chocolate/sweets/crisps are also very much appreciated.
As usual donations can be dropped off at the Church on Sunday or at The Cornerstone when it is open for Chit Chat, Coffee Stop or Services.
Langbank Parish Church
Langbank Church Christmas “Crafternoon”
Craft enthusiasts of ALL AGES are invited to come to Langbank Church on Saturday 13th December at 2pm for the crafting event to make decorations and find out more about the story behind them.
Doors open at 2pm and the entry ticket is £2, including festive treats at the tea-room. Entry is by pre-booked ticket.
Tickets are available from Stewart Munro.
Articles for Newsy-Mail
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