CELEBRATING OVER 60 YEARS OF
SPIRITUALISM IN WEST LOTHIAN RAISES
OVER £7500 FOR CHARITY
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BATHGATE CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH celebrated the
Church's 60th birthday by having a bumper fundraising year
giving over £7500 to local and International Charities such as the
Kikambala Kids of Kenya, run by local nurse Angela Ward; IFAW;
Dog Trust; West Calder; Acredale Old folks day care centre; Lothian
Myasthenia Gravis Association; RNL; Redwing Horse sanctuary, the
West Lothian Toy appeal and many many more local Charities.

The Church began life in 1933 as a dedicated group of Christian Spiritualist's Mr & Mrs Henry Thomson; Mrs MacDonald and Mrs Charlotte Fairie met every week to help those in need in the Community and then the group opened it's doors as BATHGATE CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH early in 1946 (when Christian Spiritualism gained Religious legal status) with the famous medium Helen Duncan.
In 1977 leadership of the Church was passed to the descendants of Mrs Charlotte Fairie, Mary E. Pitt and the Rev Brian Pitt who vowed to continue in the Church's dedication to the local Community..
The Church's Minister, Rev Brian Pitt explained, “True Spiritualism is a forward thinking Religion, not some 'new age' hocus pocus and it is based on a selfless desire to help others. It was this principal that our founders build the Church on and this that we have continued to work upon”
Thanks to this continued dedication to service, the church recently raised over £2900 for Acredale Old folks day care centre in Mid Street, Bathgate.
BATHGATE CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH, the only Christian Spiritualist Church in Bathgate has now turned it's 2007 attentions to a local Charity for a fatal muscle disease , Lothian Myasthenia Gravis Association and Myeloma UK
Myasthenia Gravis is an auto-immune disease characterized by often fatal, muscle weakness.
Sufferers of this devastating disease can seems perfectly normal one moment, and a few hours, or even minutes later is droopy and listless. Activities taken for granted by most of us become difficult or even impossible at times for Myasthenia. Simple things like eating food, lifting arms, speaking to friends or laughing.
Mary Pitt, Myasthenia Gravis sufferer & daughter of one of the Church's founder member Charlotte Fairie explained, “Life with MG is at times intolerable, you can appear relatively fit and healthy one minute and the next you can't even get out of bed.”
“People with MG have to come to the acceptance that life will never be normal again and that you are living life on a time limit, yet, like many small Charities, there is no Government funding provided for support for sufferers, treatment or research into a cure for MG so Lothian MGA rely on local people for support.”
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Her daughter, Rev Mhairi Derby-Pitt added “Bathgate Christian Spiritualist Church is founded on helping those in need and so when the MGA approached us for help, we were more than happy to do what we could.”

We are also actively raising money for Myeloma UK.
Myeloma, is a type of bone marrow cancer arising from plasma cells, which are normally found in the bone marrow. Plasma cells form part of your immune system.
In myeloma, the DNA of a plasma cell is damaged causing it to become malignant or cancerous. These abnormal plasma cells are known as myeloma cells. Unlike many cancers, myeloma does not exist as a lump or tumour. Instead, the myeloma cells normally divide and expand within the bone marrow.
Myeloma affects multiple (hence multiple myeloma) places in the body where bone marrow is normally active in an adult, i.e. within the bones of the spine, skull, pelvis, the rib cage, and the areas around the shoulders and hips. The areas usually not affected are the extremities: that is the hands, feet, and lower arm / leg regions. This is very important since the function of these critical areas is usually fully retained.
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