Kelvin West Parish Church — Attraction in Scotland

Wellington is an active Church of Scotland. I am a long term attender so this is an insiders viewpoint. Wellington is an inclusive, welcoming church. It has exceptional reflections from its preachers, marvellous music and a generous and diverse outreach to its local community, and nationally and internationally, given the size of its congregation and available resources. This involves reaching out to, and supporting students and staff of its near neighbour, the University of Glasgow and immigrants generally in Glasgow's West End and beyond Worship takes place in a building of architectural merit outside and in. The musical director has a magnifient, well maintained organ and excellent singers enhanced by scholars from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire to provide an exhilarating aural framework...

Japanese Matsuri- this was a free event and very engaging for children as well as the grown ups.

I believe they run some classes for which you may need to pay and register separately, but otherwise this was a free event and lots of fun!

We had a go at writing in Japanese, creating masterpieces from paper (oh I mean origami) and listen to some traditional Taiko Japanese drumming.

Overall, I would recommend...

My relationship with Wellington Church goes back to 1979 when I first came aware of their summer holiday programme. Since my first introduction, I have been part of Wellington Church's framework since, albeit on a more...