Trinity Church Hamilton

Your copy of the May 2012 church mag is now available for download   May Mag 2012

Da Capo Alba Please check out this poster for the Da Capo Alba concert being held in the church on Friday 25th May at 7.30pm

Sale,sale,sale………Thanks to everyone who helped organise the Plant Sale on Saturday 12th May. The sale made £450.25 for church funds. A huge thanks also to everyone that supported the sale. I’m sure the gardens of Hamilton will be beautiful this year.

A concert was held in aid of Christian Aid, with the St John’s Singers on Saturday 20th March. The sum of £950 was raised.

We are pleased to announce that the Women’s Group Concert with the Cambus Singers raised £550

Proceeds in aid of Lanarkshire Cancer Care.

Thanks to all who attended and to everyone that helped organise the event.

For news of the Social Evening please go to the Fund Raising page

A reminder the Cosy Cafe starts back after it’s Christmas break on Sunday 22nd January at 6.30pm in Hillhouse Parish Church. We will attempt to answer some of the BIG QUESTIONS asked by the young folk before the break. So if you asked a question, make sure your there to see if it gets answered. Cosy Cafe is open to any young folk in p7-s6. If you are interested or know of someone who may be interested, speak to Karen, Drew or Jonathan for more info.

As you may know, we have in our midst, a new “trainee” minister, Jonathan Fleming. Jonathan will be with us full time for the next 15 months. We met him and his family a couple of weeks ago at morning worship and last Sunday (14th/8) he told us a little about himself.

If you were not at the service or didn’t quite get to hear all he had to say, he has written a bit about himself for the website (exclusive). So over to the man himself.

Having previously spent eight months in Motherwell: North Parish Church, ten weeks in Castlemilk East and West Parish Churches and nine months in Bothwell Parish Church, I am delighted to be here in Trinity for my Probationary Placement until Autumn 2012.I have recently graduated from the University of Glasgow where I studied for a BD(Min) in Theology & Religious Studies. I am not missing essays or dissertation deadlines!
Upon graduating in 2004, I began studying a Masters degree in Information Management and Preservation,which was cut short to allow me to take over the running of our family’s food distribution company due to my late father’s illness. During this time, I acquired a Forklift licence in eighty minutes, which I have used a lot more than my French degree, which took five years! In that time, I married Karyn, a music teacher in Stonelaw High School. A year later we had our daughter Rachel, who will no doubt terrorise the Sunday School once in a while!
In the Winter of 2007, I answered God’s call to Ministry and I have not looked back since. It has been a journey not only with its demands, joys and frustrations, but a journey of self exploration, which I continue to travel along to this day.
Thank you all for such a warm welcome to Trinity and I look forward to talking and journeying with you in the months ahead!

Jonathan Fleming

P.S. Feel free to check out my blog at www.jonathancfleming.com !