(NOTE: This article was originally posted on 10 March 2022 and has been updated as at 10 November 2022).

Everyone knows about the terrible events which continue to unfold in the Ukraine.

This is where the idea of bell ringing – as a means to show solidarity with, and support for, the people of Ukraine – has come from: a tweet by the Mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, on 08 March 2022.

Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi calls on all people of goodwill to ring the bells every day at 6:00 pm Kyiv time (EET).

"The world has to know the truth. The truth about Ukraine.
Today we are fighting for this world.
Please help us.
Glory to Ukraine!" pic.twitter.com/dY8alj6o5Q

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) March 8, 2022

We have rung the bell at St James’ Church up to 107 times every day at 4pm from Thursday, 10 March 2022.

Daily bell-ringing continued until 24 April 2022, after which we moved to ringing the bell every Thursday at 4pm – from 28 April 2022.

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We will have our Harvest Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 02 October at 10:00am and then there will be a special “Songs of Praise” Service in the church at 2:00pm to which all are welcome.

You’re also welcome to come to the Harvest Thanksgiving Service. 🙂

The church’s Social Events group are planning a once-a-month music event at St. James’ on a Sunday afternoon at the start of every month.

This begins with a Songs of Praise which will consist of hymn singing for all, readings and a few other musical items.

Any donations received will be for church funds.

**STOP PRESS (11 July 2022): There are still places available for the club this week.

You don’t need to have attended the club from the beginning to be able to come along and join in the fun (i.e. why not come along on 12 July, for example?).

St. James’ Church will be taken over by the Showstoppers’ Theatre from 11-15 July 2022 (10.00 – 12.00 each day).

Malcolm (pictured below), our Creative Director, has instructed us to put out this latest information.

It’s open to you if you have just finished P1, up to P7 age.

Because we have a capacity limit based on the hall size and number of volunteers, we can only take up to 40 children.

As we expected, we have received a lot of completed registration forms within the last few days before the start of the club.

As we may reach the point where we will have to close the club to new registrations, we wanted to emphasise the following:

• Once the club is full up, we won’t be able to accept any further registration forms.
  
• If you would like to attend, please try to contact us ahead of time to make sure places are still available.
  
• Please do not just turn up expecting to get a place, if you have not been in touch beforehand. (You can still “just turn up”, but there might not be a place).

How to get in touch

Please call Peter Brash on 07967 720079 or send a message to the Church via our Contact Form.

You can download a registration form here.

Malcolm, the rest of the Out of the Box team, and our gang of volunteers are all looking forward to the Club with great anticipation and we hope to see you there.

P.S. For the original post about Showstoppers – including Malcolm’s personal (if a bit chaotic) invitation – see HERE.

Roger Jones is recognised and celebrated worldwide for composing Christian musicals.

And for his teaching on life and worship in the Spirit.

His extensive repertoire of 24 musicals, several hymn collections and teaching publications on Spirit-led worship have enriched the lives of many people around the globe.

It all began with the musical ‘Jerusalem Joy’, which, as a secondary school music teacher, Roger wrote for his school choir to perform at Easter…

Join him for the evening to find out what happened next!

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Our last holiday club took place in July 2019 so…

We are excited to again be running a children’s holiday club in conjunction with the wonderful Out of the Box.

Out of the Box (Scotland) Ltd (OOTB) is a charity set up in 2004 to provide Christian outreach using puppetry, song and other forms of performing arts.

Chris Watt, Children’s Worker with OOTB, will lead the club, which will be held in the Hall at St James’ Church from 10am to 12 noon, Monday to Friday (11 – 15 July 2022).

The club is open to Primary school children.

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