IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Church of Scotland in Edinburgh has agreed to ask, in the strongest terms, that all gatherings for worship should cease until further notice, with effect from Wednesday 17th March 2020, or earlier if possible. Other Scottish Churches are taking similar actions. This includes Easter services as well as housegroups, meetings for youth work, and church cafes.
As such there will be no midweek or Sunday Services, or any group meetings in Kirkgate until further notice. Please look out for more information for online services being set up.
Palm Sunday Service from WKPC – Watch Again
Click below to watch today’s Palm Sunday Service from West Kilbride Parish Church:
Palm Sunday Service – from our Locum
Please click below to listen to our Palm Sunday service by Mr Brian Murray.
You can follow the service by downloading this Order of Service.
Kirkgate Messenger – April 2020
Please click here to view the April edition of the Kirkgate Messenger. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, this edition has been emailed out to members for whom we hold an email address, and it is available to view and download here. There will be no printed copies of this edition. For Life & Work Magazine subscribers, the magazines will be kept at the church until we are able to safely distribute them again.
Sunday Service 29th March – watch again
Watch this week’s service from West Kilbride Parish Church:
LIVE Sunday worship
Just a reminder that we’ll be streaming the service from West Kilbride Parish Church at kirkgatechurch.org.uk/live2 at 10.30am on Sunday mornings, which this week will feature lots of different folk taking part, and will include music, a children’s talk and more! If you can’t watch it live, it should be available here shortly after the service is finished.
Message from our Locum – Sunday 29th March
Please click the player below to listen to a short act of worship by our locum Mr Brian Murray for Sunday 29th March.
Ardrossan Presbytery – Moderator’s Easter Message
March 2020
Dear Friends,
As we approach Easter this year it is like no other approach to Easter in living memory. Church Services have been cancelled and there will be no services during Holy Week, no early morning services on Easter Sunday morning, like the ones on Bigholm Hill just outside Beith or on the beach at Whiting Bay. Both services I have attended. These early morning services are held in quiet places, and the peace that we feel makes us all think of why we celebrate Easter, the resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus had been betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas, and he must have been apprehensive of what was to come when found guilty of a set up crime and nailed to the cross. What joy we now know on Easter Sunday when the women found the stone was rolled away and the tomb empty, Jesus was no longer there. But at the time, did the women have a feeling of fear, just as we all have a feeling of fear at this time of the Coronavirus? Everyone is now to isolate to try to beat this virus. For my wife and I there will be no trip over to Arran, where we usually celebrate Easter, no hugs from family and grandchildren, hugs that are so needed when things get difficult. The time ahead will be difficult and uncertain for each and every one of us, we may have fears when illness strikes, when jobs are lost, like the fear the women had when they found the empty tomb.
However, when this emergency is over we will all be able to celebrate with our families and friends and receive the hugs we miss so dearly especially from our grandchildren.
I hope and pray that you will all be able on Easter Sunday to take time to think of the Easter story, the story that Jesus is alive and like God is with us all in good times and sad times.
May God’s blessings be with you all and your families at this difficult time.
R Allan Richardson
Moderator.
Online broadcasts / services
The Church will not close, because the Church is all around us.
Whilst we appreciate not everyone has access to the internet, here is a list of some traditional online religious services / request shows should you wish to watch/listen to something.
Kirkgate Church – we are hoping to have a live video stream on Sunday mornings from our Interim Moderator, Rev James McNay, minister of West Kilbride Parish Church on our website at: www.kirkgatechurch.org.uk/live2
The Church of Scotland has a list of congregations with online video / audio services (being updated regularly): www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/services-online and wider list of worship resources at www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/stay-connected-with-the-church-of-scotland
BBC Radio Scotland: NEW EVERY MORNING – Sunday 6.30: FM and online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ps1jk
BBC Radio 4: SUNDAY WORSHIP – Sunday 8.10am. FM and online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnds
BBC Radio Ulster: MORNING SERVICE – Sunday 10.15am. Online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cphq
BBC Radio Ulster: SOUNDS SACRED with Richard Yarr – Sunday 5.00pm. Online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpph
Premier Christian Radio: HEARTS AND HYMNS with Pam Rhodes – Sundays from 8.00am – 10am: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/radioplayer
Other radio stations are available!
On television:
BBC1: SUNDAY WORSHIP – Times vary, but approx. 11.30am Sundays
BBC1: SONGS OF PRAISE – Times vary, but approx. 1.15pm Sundays
BBC1 Scotland: REFLECTIONS AT THE QUAY – Times vary but approx. 12.15pm Sundays
Any BBC programme is available for catchup online via their iPlayer.
