About 18 months ago, we moved the financial reserves of the church, our investments, to a new investment manager – Epworth Investments. 

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve shared our service plan for the summer. We are going to be running things differently over the 7 weeks of the school holidays (30 June to 11 Aug inclusive) using the same format as we have over the past couple of years.

Due to the ever growing size of the St Mungo’s Youth, this year saw us run separate camps for our young people with the latest camp happening at the beginning of this month for the S1-S3s.

The local Gala has been a major community event in Balerno for over 60 years and the Gala Day is one of Balerno’s biggest annual community events.

We’re looking forward to our next Transform worship night in Balerno Parish church this coming Sunday evening (21 April).

We are excited to be launching Safar in St Mungo’s. Safar which means to ‘journey with’ has come out of the Iranian church which is one of the fastest growing churches in the world.

28 March: Maundy Thursday

8-9pm Communion Service // Church Building, Ladycroft Balerno

29 March: Good Friday

2-4pm Family Activities Drop-In // Church Building, Ladycroft

Join us for crafts and other interactive activities as we invite you to explore together the events surrounding the first Easter and what that means for us today.

7:30-9pm Stations of the Cross Personal Reflections // Church Building, Ladycroft

We will have a series of etchings of the Stations of the Cross by artist Peter Howson with accompanying devotions, prayers and readings for self-guided private reflections.

30 March: Easter Saturday

7:30 - 9:30pm Spirit Cafe // Drop-in // Ministry Centre, 46b Bavelaw Road, Balerno

31 March: Easter Sunday

8:45am Traditional Liturgical Communion Service // Church Building, Ladycroft

10:30am Easter Family Celebration // Balerno High School

Join us for an hour long celebration service as we gather together as a multi-generational church family to remember Jesus resurrection

7:30pm Origin: Resurrection Event // Usher Hall // Tickets required in advance

Our St Mungo’s Church Family Ceilidh is on Friday 15 March, 7-9pm (doors opening 6.45pm) at Balerno High School.

R Numbers. A phrase heard thousands of times over 2020 and 2021. Yet, a phrase that was right at the heart of this year’s St Mungo’s S4-S6 Youth Weekend Away. Unlike during the Pandemic, this had nothing to do with the Coronavirus

For those of you new to the church, you may not know about ‘Pioneers’, our Sunday morning group in Balerno for adults with additional needs. We meet alternate Sundays in one of the classroom areas. You may have seen us come and join in during the worship time and use the flags and banners.

Some people find that the format of the main service doesn’t suit them, and we aim to provide interactive bible teaching and prayer activities in a multi-sensory way.

The vision of Pioneers is not about creating an alternative to what the main church is doing. It is about recognising that we are all precious to God and that we all belong – every part of the body needs the other to grow and thrive and be a family.

If you have family, friends, or neighbours who you think might be interested to come along to Pioneers and get to know Jeus better, then please email jane.owens@stmungos.org to find out more.

It is with great excitement that we are now under a week away to our S4-6 Youth Weekend away!

We had 273 church members register votes of affirmation during the morning [in paper form and the online form via the QR code] and I am pleased to share the following results, in which all nominations were elected by overwhelming majorities.

We have 2 outreach opportunities to invite/bring people along to. These events are open to anyone, from any location, from any background, for any situation - they are all ways in which we can Be Love and introduce people to Jesus.

As you may know Jonny and some of the youth team have been running Deeper since August 2022, which is our discipleship and leadership programme for committed Christian young people in S4-S6.

Happy New Year!

January is often that time of year when people decide to ‘tighten their belts’ after Christmas spending, or resolve to review their finances and manage their money differently. If that is you, or someone you know,

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 10.30am: Sunday 21 January

Our AGM will be held as part of our 10.30am in person services (both Balerno & Livingston). 

Over the past year, the teaching topics we’ve covered as a church have challenged and encouraged us to think more broadly about our faith and walk with God.  We’ve looked at generosity; the words of Jesus on the cross; what it means to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and then to live by

For one night only – churches and other groups up and down the country will be taking part in a huge, multi-venue, nationwide quiz …. even in Balerno!

Scoughall 23

“it was too hot!” (I’m not complaining)

“ I discovered that Jesus is real”

“better than cub camp”

“why can’t we come back in S1?”

“best ever!”

Vestry recently approved the following year end gifts totalling £18,400 from the World Mission Fund, in light of having additional funds available for distribution at the end of this financial year.

Magnitude was a fantastic five days for the youth, team and volunteers who attended. Mungo’s had 31 youth attend for the five days, with seven others visiting for the day throughout the week. Plus a number of adults who were there as youth team, catering or serving as part of the SU Magnitude team throughout the week.

We are delighted that over the summer we are holding an evening service every Sunday in our Church Building, Ladycroft from 9 July.

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve shared our service plan for the summer. We are going to be running things differently over the 7 weeks of the school holidays (2nd July to 13th Aug inclusive) using the same format as we did for the summer holidays last year, with a few additions which take into account some of the helpful feedback we received last year.

Love West Lothian | 4 June-11 June

 St Mungo’s is excited to be joining with other churches across West Lothian for a week of service and outreach as we look to Be Love to our communities. We’d love for you to be involved in this as we reach out in Livingston. There are several ways you can get involved.

At 9:30am on the last Thursday of a month we gather together in the church building, Ladycroft, for 1 hour to share communion together and to spend time waiting on the Lord. The language we often use to describe this time of waiting is soaking.

EASTER.    Check out the events for all ages happening as we celebrate Easter together.