On Armistice Day as we remember our country’s war dead, our chaplains have been playing their part in services across Scotland. In Edinburgh, West of Edinburgh chaplain Kristina Herbold Ross held a service of Remembrance at Royal Mail’s main Sig...
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland Blog
WHEN LIFE GETS HOT
Many years ago, I was literally in a desert wilderness. A wise person with me on pilgrimage said, “It’s not what we do in the wilderness that matters, rather it’s what the wilderness does in me.” Here is a simple story to show what is meant by this.
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CHAPLAIN INVITED TO ROYAL GARDEN PARTY
Geoff Findlay (Dundee City Chaplain) and his wife, Debbie, pictured with the Queen's Royal Bowman, when they.attended the Queen's Garden Party at Holyrood Palace last week.
The Lord Provost of Dundee nominated Geoff and Debbie to receive an invitatio...
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COULD YOU BE OUR NEXT VOLUNTEER CHAPLAIN?
Please use the attached poster to further promote this introduction session in your churches and places of worship.
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland
Introduction Session
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland aims to meet people where they are - in the settin...
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Clyde Opera Goes Doon The Water
Fancy a night at the opera? Clyde Opera Group are performing at Portland Church, Troon on Saturday 20th July at 7.30pm.
Tickets, priced £10, are available at the door and include complimentary refreshments.
All are welcome.
Keith Banks receives a standing ovation.....................
Glasgow Airport’s Chaplain Keith Banks retires later this month. He received a standing ovation when he was presented with the Lifetime Contribution as a Frontline Employee Award at the Scottish Transpor...
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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 trustee David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC), described the October spike in the number of empty shops in our town centres as: ‘a cause for concern’ when commenting on the latest results of the SRC – Spr...
Thanks to all who took part in our lunchtime Workplace Wellbeing Seminar on Work/Life Balance at Edinburgh Park, in Edinburgh, courtesy of the park management yesterday.Local chaplain Kristina Herbold Ross welcomed 20 people to the manageme...
During Dundee's popular Christmas Festival, our chaplain Allan Webster is again producing the Dundee Nativity, which played to packed houses every performance last year.
The performances bring a new slant to the Nativity story when four charac...
Congratulations to Herald Society Awards 'Unsung Hero' winner Raza Sadiq, who helped found an Active Life Club to help build community relations on the southside of Glasgow. We echo what Eamonn Connolly, director at evh which back...
Bank branches are closing at a faster rate in Scotland than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, figures unearthed by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show.
Statistics from the Competition and Market Authority show that, between 2013 and 2...
In his Workplace Word, this month, East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone asks, 'Have you ever felt like this?'
On holiday I saw a basket in a kitchen cupboard of the house we were staying in which read: “Load Shedding Kit”. I had no idea ...
We are excited to have some eight potential new volunteer chaplains entering our interview and induction process following our recent Introduction Day in Edinburgh.The all-day event was hosted by our partner Palmerston Place Church. More than 20 chap...
Aberdeen Chaplain Ron Flett (pictured) was interviewed on Aberdeen’s community radio station SHMUfm-99.8fm about the work WPCS does both locally and nationally.Ron said later: "It was a great experience and I very much appreciate ACVO (Aberdeen ...
Our recent free lunchtime Workplace Wellbeing Seminar, in conjunction with Edinburgh Park Management, prompted some insightful questions and comments from attendees involved in financial services.
Ten people attended the session on the subject of sup...
