Taken from the Castlemilk Crusader magazine, this is a history of the the church on Carmunnock Road, years 1955 to 1975along with some pictures from that era.

Saturday 14 November 2009

1962 (Part 2)

A bus-load of Youth Club members spent the Easter weekend camping in Glen Nevis.


The Boys' Brigade went to summer camp in Southport. Sgt A. Stephen was 2nd in the Individual Piping for Cathcart District and Ptes R. McConnell and Andrew Leven were 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Junior Drumming.


The Sunday School Trip went to Campsie Glen and the cost was 4s 6d for children and 6s 6d for adults.


The Holiday School took place from Monday 9th to Friday 13th July for boys and girls of 10 years and over.


The church grounds were much improved by the use of a new power-propelled mower and the hard work of the Gardens Committee, Messrs Taylor, Logan, Belshaw and Mearns.


The members of the choir got permission to have the chancel extended, and the male members went on and did “a very professional job of it” themselves.


Mr Swinton and the Works Committee, Messrs Barr, Niven and Trench and their assistants, made sixteen folding tables for functions held in the hall. They were “solidly built and beautifully finished, and cost nearly £40 less than if they had been bought”. Each organisation was to provide a sum of money for one or more tables, and the money saved by the committee would go to Church Funds.


Mr Donald Maclennan, the Colleague Minister left to take up an appointment in Edinburgh.


Mr Thomas Telfer tendered his resignation as Session Clerk, and Mr John Lawrence of Birgidale Road took on the role.


A party of pupils and staff from Glenwood Secondary School went to Moscow by bus.


Mr George Shearer, who was previously Church Officer, was ordained as an Elder. Mr Sydney Powell of Downcraig Road became the new Church Officer.


During the month of August two businessmen, one from Glasgow and the other from Rutherglen, gave sums of money for coloured glass to be fitted in the windows at the rear of the chancel, and carpeting on the floor of the chancel.


At a farewell social in the church on Friday, 14th September the congregation said goodbye to the Rev. Donald Macleod and family who left after seven years, to go to a new charge in Bridge of Weir. He was presented with a tape recorder and cheque by Mr John Lawrence, the Session Clerk, and Mrs Macleod received a transistor radio.


A party of about 100 went to see Mr Macleod inducted into his new parish, and to the social held in his new church.



Rev. George Gilchrist of Cathcart Old Parish Church was the Interim Moderator during the vacancy. The Locum was the Rev. Wm. Mackay and the Rev. Robert McDill was the Colleague Minister. Mr Mackay had previously had parishes in the Isle of Luing, Grantown-on-Spey and Glasgow, and had served as Provost of Grantown-on-Spey. Mr McDill with his wife and 3 month old daughter came 6,000 miles from the Mid-West of America.



The donations to the magazine for the second 4 months of the year amounted to £17 7s 2d.


Mrs Grant, the crèche convener, appealed for new toys for Sunday mornings and got “a splendid response”.


Some windows in the church were broken and the cost of replacing them amounted to £71 10s 8d.


In October the last tram “shook, rattled and rolled” along Argyll Street in Glasgow city centre, “and into history”.


The church repaid another £1,000 towards the debt on the buildings, making the total repayment to date £6,406. Nearly £7,000 remained to be repaid.


The Junior Choir put on a Nativity Play, and Christmas parties were put on for 600 children.


Children in the Junior Sunday School knitted two cot blankets to send to the missionary partner in Chitambo. Scrapbooks and pictures were also made to send.


The children went carol-singing to the old people in the parish, delivering little packets of tea to them.

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