Aim:  To provide a meeting place for the community and offer basic living skills in social well-being.
 

We are working with members of Kilbowie St Andrews Parish Church, Clydebank, (top picture right) to build and operate a new Centre on vacant ground adjacent to their Church (bottom picture right).  The Centre will provide a safe meeting place for individuals of any denomination living near the Church and in surrounding areas whereby they can benefit from services provided to improve their social wellbeing.  It is intended to have a café, healthy eating cookery classes, counselling services relating to debt, parenting and bereavement and a crèche for children of parents attending health clinics/doctors’ appointments. 

Many of our Elders/Board Members and members of the congregation have made personal contributions towards the initial legal costs associated with setting up a company limited by guarantee.  Following a presentation in September 2007 to a joint Session/Board meeting advising how the project was taking shape, it was agreed that our Church provide a further £6000 towards the initial costs.

The final cost of building the Centre has yet to be determined, however it will clearly be substantial.  While it is known that some funds will be made available from a number of sources, there is no doubt that members of Kilbowie St Andrews Church, with our support, have made a huge commitment and, in so doing, have put their trust in God.  There is still a very long way to go, but the end result whereby Christ’s Church will reach out and touch the community, will more than justify the effort.

Please pray for the project and all those involved.