As he was driving along a deserted country lane his car got a puncture. Easily sorted he thought; until he couldn’t find the jack. The evening sun was just setting and it was getting dark as he started to look for a farm where hopefully he could borr...
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland Blog
Use ALL Your Resources
A young lad wanted to help in the garden so his dad gave him a job to do; to remove an old tree stump “using all the resources available to him”.
He set to with gusto, and at the end of the day returned crestfallen. He had tried everything and u...
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West Chaplains say congratulations to Marion Perry........
Cate Adams and some of the volunteer chaplains, including Jack Quinn, from the West had their Team meeting this week. This was a particularly special team meeting as it was the last one before Marion Perry gets married. We look forward to...
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Welcome to Edinburgh!
Something in the news this week caught the eye of Chic Lidstone, Lead Chaplain (Support), and made him think about how life does not always work out the way we think it should. Here's Chic's comment :
Did you see th...
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Ferryhill Parish Church, Friendship Team, make generous donation
Ron Flett, Aberdeen City Centre Workplace Chaplain, was delighted to attend the service at Ferryhill Parish Church on Sunday (24th March) and share information about the work of Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland. During this service, Ron was prese...
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WPCS Chaplain - Hazel Brooks - Inspires Others
Hazel Brooks, chaplain at Braehead Shopping Centre, has been described as an “inspiration” on International Women’s Day.
The undernoted article appeared in the media last week.
Inspirational Woman
WPCS Chaplain meets Siberian Firefighters
Brian Porteous, Volunteer Chaplain is currently in Siberia at the World University Winter Games and happened to bump into the Krasnoyarsk firefighters! Brian is chaplain to the fire services - so it was particularly apt that he met a...
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Coffee Club for Widowed Men
A Coffee Club for Widowed Men is starting up on Tuesday, 5th March - 10.00am to 11.30am
This is an initiative supported by Scotmid Funeral Directors.
Esther Elliott (Edinburgh West Workplace and Community Chaplain) and Moira McDonald (Minister,...
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WPCS Represented at SCVO Exhibition - 'The Gathering'
Falkirk Chaplain, Dan Rous, and Paul Wilson, Lead Chaplain Development, were networking with charities and voluntary groups at the 15th annual SCVO Exhibition 'The Gathering' in the SEC, Glasgow this week.
FIREFIGHTER'S WEDDING
Firefighter Hilary Green arriving at her wedding with her colleagues from the Cupar Fire Station. Hilary and her husband Gary Marshall were married on Saturday 16 February 2019 by Chaplain Brian Porteous who is an Ordained Local Minister in the ...
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ABERDEEN CHAPLAINCY
Ron Flett, (Aberdeen City Centre Work Place Chaplain), was one of a number of guests who attended a lunch, on Saturday 9th February, at Mannofield Parish Church and met the Moderator of Church of Scotland, Right Reverend Susan Brown.
The guests...
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Congratulations go to Alloa Firefighter, Alan Faulds BCA, who has been awarded the British Citizen Award for his services to the community. He and his local volunteer team have spearheaded a roadshow campaign for safer roads in Forth Valle...
A thermostat sets the temperature while a thermometer records the temperature. “Oh, it’s hot in here”, says the thermometer, while the thermostat says it’s too hot in here and does something about it.
Which are you? It’s an old question posed by a mu...
Last month, Chic Lidstone (East Coast Area Organiser) took a trip to Derby to attend the Workplace Chaplaincy Missions UK (WCM UK) team leaders day.
WCM UK has 500 members, with 22 teams, spread across the UK.
There was a good representation of chapl...
Ron Flett, our Aberdeen based chaplain, received a very welcome gift on a recent visit to Marischal College, Aberdeen. He was handed an envelope containing a cash donation to WPCS.
This was received from an anonymous donor so we were unable to ...
At our staff team meeting last week, we were privileged to enjoy a talk by Dr Larry Scrimgeour - volunteer chaplain for Dundee and Angus College.
Larry is a self taught Iconographer (the study of icons) and is passionate about the subject. His ...
A long time ago, there was a wise teacher whose advice and wisdom many people would seek.
One day an important man came to visit this wise man saying, “I want you to teach me and open my mind to new possibilities”. His tone of voice was of one used t...
Words are inadequate to describe the terrible events that happened on Monday night in Manchester. It has shocked our nation and will deeply affect many lives for years to come.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who are personally affected.
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I'm thrilled and delighted to report that I completed the inaugural Stirling Marathon today, in a little under 5 hours. The photo is me looking reasonably fresh at 7 miles; it's not how I looked towards the end! The course was incredible, commencing ...
“Would you like a duck?” was the question asked in Princes Street Gardens at the Church of Scotland’s Heart & Soul event. Rarely were the ducks less than enthusiastically received (together with sweeties and WPCS leaflets). “Why ducks...
