Our History
The Kilsyth Chronicle of 12 June 1897 carried the following announcement:-
"Regular meetings, under the auspices of the Kilsyth United Evangelistic Association, will begin in the Westport Hall this Saturday evening. This association is specifically intended to meet the wants of non church goers. In connection with the association, Open Air meetings and Soirees are to be held on Saturdays and at half past eleven on Sunday forenoons, the Children's Mission for boys and girls who do not attend church or Sunday School take place, whilst in the evening at half past seven o'clock, General Evangelestic Meetings will commence. In addition, some twenty young men have joined what is known as the "Samaritan Band" of the Association, their particular duty being, to lend a helping hand to inebriates."
This announcement heralded the beginning of the work which we now know as Church of God, Pentecostal Assembly, Kilsyth.
In 1898 the United Evangelistic Association began to use the Westport Hall for all their meetings.
A significant event in the formative years of the church took place in February 1908, when a revival occurred after the pattern of The Day of Pentecost as described in Acts 2. As a result Kilsyth became a leading centre of the New Pentecostal Movement which was sweeping Great Britain and North America at this time.
In 1961 the local authority had advised the oversight of the church to look for a new site on which to build a new church as the area surrounding the Westport Hall had been zoned for commercial purposes. Around the spring of 1961 after some difficult negotiations with the owner, much prayer and faith the church purchased the property and land known as Parkburn House.
The Westport Hall was destroyed by fire in October 1961 and in January 1962 work commenced on the construction of our present church building. The new building was formally opened on Saturday 15 December 1962.
We celebrated our Centenary with various events in December 2012.
"Regular meetings, under the auspices of the Kilsyth United Evangelistic Association, will begin in the Westport Hall this Saturday evening. This association is specifically intended to meet the wants of non church goers. In connection with the association, Open Air meetings and Soirees are to be held on Saturdays and at half past eleven on Sunday forenoons, the Children's Mission for boys and girls who do not attend church or Sunday School take place, whilst in the evening at half past seven o'clock, General Evangelestic Meetings will commence. In addition, some twenty young men have joined what is known as the "Samaritan Band" of the Association, their particular duty being, to lend a helping hand to inebriates."
This announcement heralded the beginning of the work which we now know as Church of God, Pentecostal Assembly, Kilsyth.
In 1898 the United Evangelistic Association began to use the Westport Hall for all their meetings.
A significant event in the formative years of the church took place in February 1908, when a revival occurred after the pattern of The Day of Pentecost as described in Acts 2. As a result Kilsyth became a leading centre of the New Pentecostal Movement which was sweeping Great Britain and North America at this time.
In 1961 the local authority had advised the oversight of the church to look for a new site on which to build a new church as the area surrounding the Westport Hall had been zoned for commercial purposes. Around the spring of 1961 after some difficult negotiations with the owner, much prayer and faith the church purchased the property and land known as Parkburn House.
The Westport Hall was destroyed by fire in October 1961 and in January 1962 work commenced on the construction of our present church building. The new building was formally opened on Saturday 15 December 1962.
We celebrated our Centenary with various events in December 2012.