Many look to 2017 with excitement at plans made, anticipation of promises given, relishing the challenges ahead, while others may not have reason to be so upbeat or positive.
Mr Nadeau wrote to E.B. White, the famous author and contributor to the New...
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Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland - Summer Newsletter 2018
Meet three of our Volunteer Chaplains in our 2018 Summer Newsletter
Lunchtime Seminars
WPCS are running 2 lunchtime seminars on 5th September and 7th November. Both seminars are free of charge and being held at:
Board Room, Charles White offices
Citypoint, 65 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5HD
Happy People, Healt...
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Advert - Ministerial Assistant(s), Palmerston Place Church, Edinburgh
Advert - Ministerial Assistant(s), Palmerston Place Church, Edinburgh
A Boring Story about Water
Six weeks ago a community in a village in southern India drank fresh water for the first time. On a warm Thursday evening from a newly drilled 500 foot borehole, flowed fresh clean cool water for the first time. You can see the delight!
Other parts o...
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On a Cold and Frosty Morning
We’ve all done it, especially at this time of year.
You know what I mean: scraping the frost or snow on the windscreen and then being tempted to drive away before you can see properly.
Have you ever been tempted to do that?
You know what happens next...
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HOMELESS JESUS
The sculpture outside (behind the church) is cast in bronze and was first created in Canada by artist Timothy P Schmalz. Many copies have been made. They are installed in different cities all over the world. This is the first one in...
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Adam Plenderleith
Breaking news: Our most recent volunteer chaplain in the West, Adam Plenderleith formerly a healthcare chaplain with the NHS has attracted the interest of one of our national newspapers! Adam, together with Rev Neil E Allison, has recently published ...
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WPCS gets involved at Dundee Airport Airex 2017 exercise
Airex 2017 was a disaster exercise at Dundee Airport which tested the terminal buildings in use as a survivor and repatriation facility. WPCS worked in partnership with British Red Cross under the direction of Dundee Airport and Police Scotland...
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Cast all your votes for dancing!
Hafiz was a 14th century Persian poet who wrote this telling piece on depression. It is interesting to think that mental health and wellbeing is not necessarily a modern thing.
This is particularly for the one in four of us who struggle with mental w...
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Our thanks to West Lothian Council communications team for permission to publish the following article and picture which appeared in their staff 'Inside News':Staff visiting West Lothian Civic Centre on a Tuesday morning, are being asked to stop and ...
“There are few more pressing issues for the retail industry than the prohibitive cost of business rates, which has moved in the eyes of many retailers from irritating to debilitating in recent years.”
So said Scottish Retail Consortium Director and W...
Our Fife Chaplain Brian Porteous has been getting out and about as Chaplain to his local Royal Mail delivery office, in Cupar. Here he is (wearing a Santa hat) getting ready to go out with the Christmas post.
Said Brian: “Our posties are wo...
Across Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland's different regions, chaplains have been, and continue to be, involved in community Christmas celebrations.
In Fort Kinnaird, in Edinburgh, our chaplain there, Judith Wilkinson, is organising a carol service in t...
By giving full rates relief to 100,000 Scottish firms, the government has lifted the prospects of smaller businesses facing a tough 2017, a spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland has said.
Following Cabinet Secretary for F...
Sharing his December 'Workplace Word', our East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone here suggests we take another look when we first perceive a problem:
In the film Patch Adams (starring the late Robin Williams) there is a scene when so...
For the third successive month, retail sales in Scotland have risen.David Lonsdale (pictured), Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium and a Trustee of WPCS described the latest figures as: “real-terms positive growth.”
He was speaking following t...
Depute First Minister John Swinney is sponsoring a private art exhibition in the Scottish Parliament by one of our chaplains.
WPCS volunteer Larry Scrimgeour’s skill in Pictish and Celtic art – which he took up on his retirement from a career in acad...
WORKERS in Kirkcaldy are being offered a confidential, caring, ‘listening ear’ when they want to get something off their chest.
In Fife Central Retail Park, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Royal Mail, in the ‘Lang Toun’, our chaplain Rob Jon...
