You are invited to Afternoon Tea in Riverside Church Hall on Saturday 8 September at 2pm with entertainment from Fine Fettle.  Raffle and lucky dip.   Tickets £6, available from the Church Office (01389-742551).  

Dumbarton: Riverside Parish Church will be open as part of West Dunbartonshire’s Doors Open Day on Saturday 1st September.  Come in and look around the buildings and church yard, learn about the history and see some amazing stained glass windows!

A very warm welcome to Eric Jardine, our new Church & Halls Caretaker who starts this week. As organisations start back after the summer break you will get to know him – please look out for him & help him settle in to this important role.

We have updated our privacy policy, data protection and data retention guidelines in line with the new GDRP regulations from 25/05 2018.

Please see the following pages:

• Privacy Policy

• Data Protection Policy

• Data Retention Guide

Our best wishes today to the newly titled Earl and Countess of Dumbarton!

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Harry becomes the Earl of Dumbarton

With John R Turner (Organist Emeritus, Glasgow Cathedral) and Susan Turner (Soprano).

• Tickets cost £7 which includes a light supper.

The programme includes:

Fanfare for the Corontation of Poppea – Claudio Monteverdi

Allegretto from the 4th Symphony – Felix Mendelssohn

How beautifull are the feet
He shall feed his flock / Come unto Him ) Messiah – George Frideric Handel

Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C, BWV 564 – Johann Sebastian Back

The Swan (Carvnival des Animaux) – Camille Saint-Saux

Scherzetto, from the Sonata – Percy Whitlock

Five Pieces from the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks  – George Frideric Handel
Minuet in F
La Paix
Rigaudon
Saraband
Allegro in D

Let the bright seraphim their angel-trumpet blow – Handel

Our new Pastoral Assistant, Maureen Burke, will start in Dumbarton this week.  Splitting her time between the three congregations in Dumbarton, Maureen completes our ministry team following the triple linkage (Riverside, West Kirk and St Andrews), and we extend a very warm welcome to her as she starts her new role during this particularly cold end to March 2018.

She is currently a Family Support Worker with Carnwadric Win project (run by Carnwadric Parish Church). She qualified as a psychiatric nurse, worked for a time with the Health Board and then in the charitable sector including two overseas placements: one in the West Indies as a Church of Scotland partner, and then in Erbil, Iraq – until she was evacuated as IS approached the town.

As well as psychiatric nursing, she has qualifications in Guidance and Counselling (with a minor in Theology), and in Management in Health and Social Care. She is currently doing a Masters degree in Urban Theology.

She is a member of Whiteinch Church of Scotland in Glasgow.