Current Work
The church ministers to the surrounding Hillhead community, and to the staff and student body of the University which has grown to surround the church's site. Although the University maintains its own chapel in the nearby Gilbert-Scott buildings, the Wellington hosts both religious and secular university events. The church also hosts musical concerts, and recitals played on its original Forster and Andrews pipe organ.
The congregation is actively involved in social justice issues, such as the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005.The congregation had previously won Scotland's eco-congregation award in November 2004.
In 2006 it was proposed that Wellington Church merged with the neighbouring congregation of Lansdowne Church. This was due to declining attendances at both congregatons and the cost of maintaining the Lansdowne building. However, in June 2007 the congregation of Lansdowne rejected the proposed vote on the union at that time. The future of the plan is unknown although the proposals remain a future possibility.
Wellington Church is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Glasgow.
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