houston, crosslee
& brookfield Houston - Fitness Class
Body Conditioning Class. Saturday 10am in Houston Scout Hall. Contact Mandy: 07715 999 021.
1st Houston Girls Brigade.
The new session for the 1st Houston Girls Brigade commences on Monday 5th September in the Church Halls, Main Street, Houston. • Explorers (P1-P3) : 6.15pm - 7.30pm • Juniors (P4-P7) : 6.30pm - 8.00pm • Brigaders (S1-S6) : 7.45pm - 9.30pm
All girls are welcome to come along and take part in the weekly activities which are varied, cooking, baking, craftwork, games, sport activities, painting and mainly having FUN. The older girls in the Brigaders also take part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.
Please contact Catherine Green on 01505 690107 for further details.
Back to Business at Houston & Killellan Kirk
It’s been a very successful summer at Houston and Killellan Kirk, with Starzone attracting a good turnout of children on fi ve occasions during the school holidays. Much fun has been had by all as a different country’s culture was visited and explored in each session.
Watch out for Starzone days to come in September and October during school holidays!
Our Scavenger Hunt on Saturday 30th July was also hugely enjoyable as participants struggled to fi nd a huge list of obscure items before working off any surplus energy on the bouncy castle and eating at the BBQ.
Now for most of us it is back to business, and our organisations start up again over the coming weeks.
The Guild begin again on Tuesday 6th September with a Welcome meeting and Harvest Supper. New members are very welcome.
Senior Citizens meet again on 14th September. Both organisations promise a varied programme with lots of interest to all. They also offer a warm welcome to new members.
Houston Community Council
Members of Houston Community Council broke their usual summer recess to meet with planners, to discuss outline proposals which will see improvements carried out to the area at the Mercat Cross, a historical monument which has been in the village for some 300 years, and which is sited next to the local Fox and Hounds hostelry.
Members heard of various plans and proposals which if implemented will see seating installed in the vicinity of the monument, while other proposals would see paving and walls improved if money permits, as a fi rst phase of improvements which both planners and the Community Council agreed would be benefi cial to the village, funding of course permitting.
The planning representatives agreed to provide members with more defi ned proposals, based on the suggestions agreed upon by both sides, in time for the next full meeting of the Community Council on Wednesday 20th September, in order that fi nal agreed improvements can be completed within the current fi nancial year ending in March 2012. Planners and Community Council members alike left the meeting highly encouraged by the partnership approach taken, and the degree of consensus which existed within the meeting, and it is hoped that this a positive sign of things to come in the future, with further fi nancial help being sought to help fund additional phases of local improvements in and around the village.
The Carrick Centre - Sept’11 Monday to Friday
• Houston Community Nursery 01505 615876 • Woodlands After School 01505 615438
MONDAY • Camera Club 5th 7.30pm. Young Farmers Club 19th 26th7.30pm. Yoga (weekly) 1.15pm M. Laidlaw 01505 842877.
TUESDAY • Happy Harminis 10/11am. Pilates (wkly) 7.30/8.30pm. Yoga (wkly) 7pm.
WEDNESDAY • Melody Makers 14th/28th 7pm. Camera Club (weekly) 7.30pm. Rocket Youth Theatre 4pm. Community Council 21st 7.30pm. Anne Hall surgery 21st 6.30pm. Fairtrade 21st 7.30pm. Cricketfi eld Res Ass 7th 7.30pm.
THURSDAY
• French Class (wkly) 4pm. Folk Club (wkly) 8pm. WRI Crafts 29th 10am. • Crafty Friends 1st/15th/29th 7.30pm.
FRIDAY • Galaxy Dancing 3.30pm. Young Farmers Whist 30th 7.30pm. Happy Harminis 10/11am.
SATURDAY
• Galaxy Dancing 9.30am/2pm. SUNDAY
• Baptist Church 11am & 6pm. Family Photos by Karen 18th.
Booking enquiries to Ian Simpson 01505 612203 or Sandy Young 01505 613613 or The Coffee Shop
church lists
BRIDGE OF WEIR Freeland Church, Rev KN Gray BA BD. Morning Service 10.30am. Crèche, Sunday School, Lynx and Cornerstone. Evening Service 7pm Web site
www.freeland.org.uk
St Mary’s Episcopal (Anglican) Church Rev Colum McGranaghan 10am.
St Machar’s Ranfurly Church Rev Suzanne Dunleavy BD DipEd. Sunday services at 10.30am. Crèche. Hearing aid loop system. All welcome.
Hope Hall, Sun 1pm Sunday School, 6.30pm Gospel Meet; Mon 6.30pm Children’s’ Bible Club, 7.45pm Bible Teaching; Fri 8pm Bible Class.
Faith Christian Fellowship Sundays at 11am in the Cargill Hall, Lintwhite Crescent, Bridge of Weir. Tel: 0800 298 4875 email: fcf@ lifeonfi
re.org.uk
From the Bahá’i writings “If thine eyes be turned towards mercy, forsake the things that profi t thee, and cleave unto that which will profi t mankind”. For information and details of meetings, call Bridge of Weir 615641.
HOUSTON Houston & Killellan Kirk. 4th September at 9.45am Early Service The Sacrament of Holy Communion. 11am Morning Worship. 11th September at 11am Morning Worship and Re-Dedication of Ist Houston Boys Brigade and Girls Brigade. 18th September at 11am HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICE.
St Fillan’s, Main Street, Houston. Sun Masses: Vigil (Sat) 5pm, 9.30am & 11am. Weekday Mass: Tues-Sat 9.30am except Thurs, 7pm. Reconciliation: Sat 10-10.30am and after Vigil Mass; Thurs 7.30-8pm. Exposition: As announced. Baptisms: 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month by arrangement. Parish Priest: Rev Daniel J McLoughlin,
Dip.Th.,MA Pastoral Assistant: Sr Mary Frances Collett, RNDM (Tel 01505 613514). “Abbotsfi eld”, St Fillan’s, Main St, Houston, PA6 7EL. Tel: 01505 612046, Fax: 01505 610556. Email: parish@stfi
llan.org.uk.
www.stfi
llan.org.uk. Houston Baptist Church. 11am & 6pm Carrick Centre Wednesday Bible Study. Please note a change of time in our evening services. For more information contact Rev D Snelson on 01505 612722. Church of the Nazarene, Houston, at the Village Hall, Main street, Houston. PA6 7EL. Rev Benito S Coetzee. Family services at 10.30am with full toddler, children and youth activities running concurrently with the service. Youth meets at 6.30-8pm on Sundays. Word and Table Quiet Service held from 9 - 9.30am every third Sunday. Visit our website: http://houston.
nazarene.org.uk
HOWWOOD Howwood Parish Church, Sun 11am. Rev David Stewart. MA BD MTH. Prayer meetings held in the vestry every Sun at 10am & Fri at 7.30pm,
3 Bowfi eld Way.
KILBARCHAN Kilbarchan East Church. Service continue at 11am, conducted by Mr Russell Banks. Sunday
School and Bible Class resume on Sunday 4th from 10.45am in the halls. On Sunday 11th, the church will be open from 12noon-4pm for Renfrewshire Church Open Day. This is an opportunity to visit the 225-year old church and graveyard, a well-loved building in Kilbarchan. The Senior Citizens’ Outing to Callander is on Saturday 10th - an important day in the church year. The crèche will continue in the hall from 10.45am and tea/ coffee will be served after the services. Kilbarchan West Parish Church. Services conducted by Rev Arthur Sherratt BD Now that the summer has passed by all the Church activities are ready to start again. Junior Church, FEWsion and Crèche meet on a Sunday morning at 11am and all young people from babies to teenagers are warmly welcome to join us. Hearing aid loop system. All welcome and for tea/coffee in the hall after worship. Midweek Fellowship on Wednesdays in the Session House at 10.30am. Please join us for tea/coffee and a short informal act of worship. You will be made welcome at any of these services. Our Church and Hall will be open on Sunday 11th September from noon - 4pm as part of Doors Open Weekend. Tea will be served in the hall.
KILMACOLM St Colm’s Catholic Church The Very Rev William Canon McDade – Sunday morning family mass 10am. Kilmacolm Old Kirk Church of Scotland (Charity no. SC009291)
.www.kilmacolmoldkirk.org.uk. Minister Rev Dr Peter McEnhill (01505 873174). Morning Worship - Sundays 11am, all welcome. Sunday School and Crèche available.
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St Columba Church of Scotland. (a Scottish registered charity SC007992) Minister Rev Douglas
Cranston.Sunday Worship 11am Sunday School and Little Praisers Weekly prayer meeting Thursdays at 8.15pm. Visitors welcome. (registered charity SC007992)
Gospel Services in The Scout Hall, Kilmacolm on Sundays at 4.30pm and Thursdays at 7.30pm.
St Fillan’s Episcopal (Anglican) Church Rev Colum McGranaghan. Sundays 11.30am Visitors welcome. Christmas Services:
LANGBANK Langbank Parish Church Rev W McKaig. Sunday Services 11am. Short Communion on last Sunday of the month. Sunday School and Welcomers meet during Service. Crèche
available.
LOCHWINNOCH Lochwinnoch Parish Church - Rev Christine Murdoch. 11am Morning Service with Sunday School and Creche.
Calder United Free Church (Church St Lochwinnoch) Sunday: 11am Morning worship with Sunday School and Crèche. 6.30pm Evening Fellowship group, 7.30pm
ABC’s Teen group. Wed 6.30-7.30pm.
QUARRIERS Mount Zion Church Rev Andy Lunn BSc. 10.30am in Bethesda. Junior Church and Bible Class. Visit our website: www.quarriersvillage.2day. ws
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