BISHOPTON PARISH CHURCH (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) SCOTTISH CHARITY NO SC006109 Network Magazine September 2020 Coronavirus Advice Contact Information The Church office My Dear Friends, The Cornerstone I hope that you are managing to keep safe and coping with all the Greenock Road social restrictions that this Pandemic has necessitated and which Bishopton have been imposed on our lives. It is hard to believe that as a PA75JW congregation we have been unable to meet in the Church or Phone;01505 862583 Cornerstone for worship in the past 6 months and I am sure, like Email: me, many of you are missing seeing one another, and the
[email protected] fellowship of gathering together. As I write this article I am trying to plan our Harvest Thanksgiving Anyone wishing to contact the Service. I had hoped that this would be an event we could Minister should contact Yvonne celebrate outdoors but the recent rise in Covid infections in our area and the tighter National restrictions has quashed these plans and on 01505 862161 therefore our Harvest Thanksgiving service will be celebrated Anyone wishing to contact the online. session Clerk, Douglas Hope or We still plan to receive donations of dry/tinned food for the Food the Clerk to The Board, Stewart Bank and these can be dropped off at the Cornerstone on the 3rd, Campbell should do so through 4th and 10th October between 2 and 4pm - please see related The Cornerstone Office. Foodbank article. I also plan to launch our annual JARS of GRACE appeal which supports the work of UNICEF, the idea being every time we say In This Issue Grace and Thank God for our food we should stop and think about • Pastoral Letter children and families in so many parts of the world where famine, war, poverty or natural disasters have made food, water and • Message from Treasurer medicine scarce.