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 Welcome to the Gorbals Parish Church website. We hope you enjoy your visit.
We are the Church of Scotland congregation in Gorbals, in the Southside of Glasgow.
We subscribe to a progressive theology and our aim as a congregation is to provide:
- A warm welcome to all who join us
- An inclusive, open and affirming ministry
- A strong concern for social issues and a bias towards the poor in society
- A concern for environmental issues
- A desire to work positively with other churches and faith communities
- A commitment to quality in worship, both in preaching and music
- A place of inspiration and restoration
Sunday Services
We are currently building a new church in the New Gorbals regeneration area so at the moment we are meeting at 11 o’clock on Sunday mornings in the Skills Academy in Norfolk Street (formerly St John’s school).
We have a crèche for younger children which meets during the service in a separate room. Crèche volunteers (two at all times) are trained in safeguarding procedures.
Older children join in the early part of the service and then may leave to pursue activities appropriate to their age group with trained volunteers.
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From April until June this year we had great fun (don’t tell Anne we had fun, she thought we were working!) running a pilot study for our community music project “Givin’ it Laldie”. We had some great times working with the children in Blackfriars primary during the day and we were really pleased with the turn out and enthusiasm of the children from Blackfriars and St Francis’ primaries for our after school music club. Even over the short period of the pilot it was great to develop a rapport with the children and to see them growing in confidence in their music making, singing and playing various musical games. And who could forget the Friday afternoon sessions in the St Francis centre where the young (in spirit at least) and not so young sang their way through a very varied repertoire (and drank a lot of tea and ate some very nice cakes!) Over the summer a multinational virtual team is slaving over a variety of keyboards, working hard on funding applications with the common goal of bringing back “Givin’ it Laldie”, bigger, better and with extra twiddly bits, in the autumn. Watch this space…..
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