November TheThe SentinelSentinel 2017 Volume 55 No 8 Have you got your poppy? Magazine of Giffnock South Parish Church REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY is on November 12th and the morning service will commence at 10.55am. Afterwards there will be a brief service and the laying of a wreath at the war memorial at the foot of Greenhill Avenue (pictured). Reappraisal 2017 - the Treasurer, Iain Grimmond writes…... I am delighted to report that once again the congregation of Giffnock South have risen to the challenge of Reappraisal and shown their usual generosity. To date gifts totalling £25,392 have been received, which, together with the tax recoverable under Gift Aid of £5,069, gives a total of £30,461 – a tremendous response by over 240 members. In addition, many new standing orders will increase our regular income next year. This will enable us to continue to meet our financial commitments for another year, keeping Giffnock South at the heart of our community as well as playing our full part in all the work of the Church of Scotland. Thanks are due to everyone who responded, to the Elders who visited their Districts and to Jan, Alistair Park and the Finance Committee for all their preparatory work. You may well attend the church every Sunday but you will never have seen this view of the complicated pipework underneath - until now - as Sentinel reveals to you here and on page 7 what is there - with an enlightening description by our long--suffering Fabric Convener, Willie Dunbar. Page 2 There are two items which, to our mind, need emphasising, the first is the launch of ‘Sing Well’ because singing is good for you and everybody can sing. It’s open for everybody and anybody - church member or not. So come along and enjoy. The second is the Men’s Lunch Club which next meets on November 7th at 12.30 at Babbo’s. This is your chance to meet up with friends old (!) and new -just contact Graeme Whyte on 638 2966. and get a doggy bag for me Contributions for the December edition of The Sentinel should be sent to the Church office or emailed to [email protected] by 13th November GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEWS The next moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has been announced and it’s the Rev Susan Brown minister of Dornoch Cathedral who will take up her year’s duties in May. She follows in the steps of a previous minister of Dornoch Cathedral, The Very Rev Dr James Simpson who was moderator in 1994/5. GIFFNOCK SOUTH NEWS The MEN’s LUNCH CLUB got of to a flying start on Tuesday 3rd October when no less than 21 hungry men Some of the lunchers got stuck in at Babbo’s. Next meeting (eating!) will also be at Babbo’s at 12.30pm on 7th November. Scientific evidence has shown that singing is good for your health which is as good a reason as any to come along to Giffnock South at 1.45pm on Wednesday 22nd November for the second ‘wee sing’ with ‘Sing Well’ the new initiative for the local community. PRIZE QUIZ Congratulations to Avril Holland who won September’s quiz with the only all-correct entry. The answers are shown below. Entries for October’s quiz should be handed into the office by the end of that month and November’s quiz will be issued on Sunday 5th. What’s the complaint? ANSWERS 1 CHIMNEY SACK HAS NOTHING LUMBAGO 13 BEEHOUSES HIVES 2 HAS MAT CRUMPLED? ASTHMA 14 SONGBIRD THRUSH 3 JET PLANE HAS SHOWER EAST MIGRAINE 15 UNRAVEL IRON’S BITCH BRONCHITIS 4 SOUNDS LIKE WHAT THE PLANE DID? FLU 16 BRILLIANT RED AGITATION FINDS IT SCARLET FEVER 5 THEY MAY BE ON YOUR ROOF SHINGLES 17 SHORT SWIM WITH THE CONFUSED IRA DIPTHERIA 6 EAST CENTRAL HAS SCRAMBLED MAZE ECZEMA 18 STIR I STIR STAG GASTRITIS 7 STIR STIR T HAIR ARTHRITIS 19 MASH E’ MASH MY PE EMPHYSEMA It’s not all for me! 8 YOU’RE NOT HOT IF YOU’VE GOT IT COLD 20 WATERFALL CATARACT The members of the 9 LEE MASS GIVES YOU IT MEASLES 21 SOUNDS LIKE FRESH COMPLAINT WITH YOU PNEUMONIA choir want their share.! Richard was 10 ASPIRIN IS NEARLY THE CURE FOR IT SPRAIN 22 AA POLICE SUFFER FROM IT ALOPECIA 21 on 21st November 11 YOUNG HEN WITH QUIET BOVINE CHICKEN POX 23 CANE GIVES YOU IT ACNE and was presented with this cake on 19th 12 MOTHER HAS AFTERTHOUGHT MUMPS 24 IS 1 TON SLIT SPILT TONSILITIS at Choir practice. Tie Breaker: FASHIONABLE FAVOUR IS FRENCH CHARGED PARTICLE : INDIGESTION Dear Friends, Page 3 CHURCH November is a month we might not look forward to. Winter is most definitely here, the days are short, trees DIRECTORY and hedges have lost their leaves, gardens look empty. But November is an important month for us, our The Minister: Churches hold solemn services where we remember family and friends who have died, and we have Rev Catherine Beattie BDMin Armistice Day on Nov.11th followed by Remembrance 0141 258 7804 Sunday, this year on Nov.12th. These times and days of reflection are important for us, we look back with 07709 086 767 Mobile sadness and we look forward in hope of peace and [email protected] reconciliation between nations. This poem “What shall we pray” asks for peace for all who have been hurt The Minister’s by war, and asks that God will show us how to work Church Office Hours: Letter for peace In the months and years to come. The church office is open in What shall we pray for those who died, the mornings from Monday to Those on whose death our lives relied? Thursday from 9am till noon Silenced by war but not denied. God give them peace. 0141 638 2599 What shall we pray for those who mourn [email protected] Friendships and love, their fruit unborn? Though years have passed, hearts still are torn: God give them peace. Session Clerk: What shall we pray for those who live Alison Fenton Tied to the past they can’t forgive, 07713 242 080 Mobile Haunted by terrors they re-live? God give them peace. Church Website: www.giffnocksouth.co.uk What shall we pray for those who know The might of war, and cannot show facebook/giffnocksouthparish Grief or regret for friend or foe? Scottish Charity:SCO007807 God give them peace. What shall we pray for those who fear Enjoy a cup of tea or War, in some guise, may reappear, coffee before and after Threatening all that they hold dear? the service every God give them peace. Sunday. God give us peace and, more than this, . TEXT OF Show us the path where justice is; THE And let us never be remiss Working for peace that lasts. (The Iona Community). MONTH With every blessing For there will never cease to be Catherine.. poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide Communion will be held during the morning service on November 5th your hand to your brother, to the and a Contemporary Evening Service will be at 6.30 on November 12th. needy and to the poor, in your land.’ The Prayer Group will meet in the side chapel (or West Transept) at 10.00am Deut 15-11 ESV on the last Sunday of every month . All welcome. Page 4 The Guild Toys for Christmas Appeal It's that time of the year again when we start preparing for the Following our "trip" to Brazil in the company of Christmas festivities and buying presents for family and John Bleese we will hear from Hugh Smith, our popular friends. It is also a time when a number of families in Glasgow former church officer, about 'Life on Islay'. We hope many of will be under pressure to make difficult choices to either pay the congregation will turn out to welcome Hugh on 1st for heating, food and clothes or buy toys for their children. November. However, there will again be an opportunity for you to make a Then we go further north to St Kilda with Jim Percival on 15th difference to these families by joining the Sunday School in November. bringing new toys for children (aged 3-13) which will be distributed by the Glasgow Care Foundation (which is the Who knows where we'll go on 29th November as we hear Church's nominated charity this year). New toys (unwrapped - 'Tales of a Tourist Guide' with Sandra Middleton. as the children's parents will wrap them) should be left in the All are welcome, men and women, to any or all of these Vestry no later than 10th December. For those who may find it Guild meetings which are at 2pm each time. difficult to buy toys they can help by donating supermarket vouchers as we also distribute vouchers to disadvantaged families at Christmas to help with buying their Christmas Eastwood court dinner. Alternatively you can donate money by cheque The November service at Eastwood Court Care Home is on (payable to Glasgow Care Foundation) to me which will be used exclusively to buy vouchers or toys for teenagers. Tuesday 21st at 6.30pm. As always in November, we hold a Remembrance Service for those who lost their lives in two Every year members of Giffnock South have surpassed all expectations with their generosity and I hope that this year will World Wars and in conflicts since. As many of the residents be no different.