Carols by Candlelight at APBC (photo credit Jonathan Ferry)

Join us to celebrate Christmas 2011…

Sunday 11th December 2011

• Morning Service: 11 am
• Nursery Nativity Service at 3 pm

Sunday 18th December 2011

• Morning Service: 11 am
• Carols by Candlelight: 6.30 pm

Saturday 24th December 2011

• Candlelit Watchnight Service at Renfield St Stephens on Bath Street. Come at 11.00 pm for mince pies. Service starts at 11.30 pm.

Sunday 25th December 2011 (Christmas Day!)

• Christmas Morning Service: 10.30 am (jointly with our friends from Renfield St Stephens just down Bath Street)

Sunday 1st January 2012

• New Year Noon Brunch: 12 noon. Food and worship on the first day of 2012.

You are very welcome at any of these special Christmas events.

(picture credit: Jonathan Ferry)

The concert will be in aid of two key charities we support: Glasgow City Mission and Totai Foundation in Bolivia.

If you wish to book tickets, please contact us.

Who Are Father’s Song

“How wonderful… when brothers get along” PSALM 133:1

The Christian faith brings people together, one with another, despite vast differences in life experience and background. Our society is more characterized by break-up, isolation and division, but the wonderful Christian message of reconciliation to God and then to one another through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the essential hallmark of what makes us FATHER’S SONG.

We are a vocal band of over 30 men drawn from a number of different churches in and around Glasgow, and FATHER’S SONG provides a place for the public expression of our thankfulness and praise to God for His love, mercy and grace. We really do want to sing, to shout and to lift up our hands in praise to God!

Being men of faith means that we are convinced that, in today’s tough world, sharing and expressing the truths of our faith is a powerful declaration of what God can do in a person’s life. We celebrate the impact and change that the Christian gospel brings to the lives and priorities of ordinary men from the West of Scotland.

Today, we want to direct attention away from ourselves to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. Everything we need is found in Him. He is the One!

Mission Awareness Day will take place on Sunday 8th May at Adelaide Place. The purpose of the day is to use and extend our main time of meeting on Sunday morning, when we gather for united worship, to discover and stimulate the ‘mission’ awareness of our congregation.

For an average sized congregation I suspect we have a more than considerable interest in mission in all its forms, but we want more than inclinations to guide our mission planning and support.

Our hope is to gather information about individual interest and involvement, to discover how much our church wants to be aware of mission enterprise and to highlight the mission activities that we are already engaged in by using personal reports, Skype contacts with members actually involved in other parts of the world.

Therefore through multi-media, personal stories, Scripture, worship and Communion, as well as a shared meal together we want to really get to grips with this issue in a meaningful and relevant way.

Find out more about our global perspective on things.

Picture credit: Ian Rankin at Christian Engineers in Development (see original set on Flickr)

On Sunday 1st May we are privileged to be hosting a visit by Ashfield Vocal Ensemble from Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire. The choir is formed from young people aged 12-18 from the local area, and is led by Elaine Guy. They will be leading our worship songs, and performing a few songs of their own.

So please do join us in giving the choir and their friends and family who are travelling with them a really big welcome to Glasgow!

Please join us for our Easter services in collaboration with our friends at Renfield St Stephens:

Monday 18th April, 7.00 pm, Renfield St Stephens

• Steps to Resurrection – Preparation

Tuesday 19th April, 7.00 pm, Renfield St Stephens

• Steps to Resurrection – Decision

Wednesday 20th April, 7.00 pm, Renfield St Stephens

• Reading the Passion of Christ

Maundy Thursday 21st April, 6.30 pm, Oasis Cafe, Renfield St Stephens

• Join RSS and APBC folk for a meal in the Oasis Cafe, followed by Communion (please let Jack know if you plan to attend).

Good Friday 22nd April
10.30 am, George Square

• Procession of Witness from George Square to St Vincent Terrace, Anderston.

7.00 pm, Renfield St Stephens

• Steps to Resurrection – Crucifixion.

Easter Sunday 24th April
7.00 am, Blythswood Square Gardens

• Sunrise Easter Morning service in the Square. Followed by breakfast in the Oasis Cafe.

11.00 am, Adelaide Place Baptist Church

• Easter Morning Worship. Led by Jacqueline Adams with Jack Quinn speaking.

You are welcome at any of these events, we look forward to sharing Holy Week with you.