At St Mungo’s pastoral care flows from our vision to be a nurturing church, where we value putting God’s love into practice through caring relationships. The primary source of pastoral care is our house groups. These provide a place for us to care and encourage each other in our faith. We have evening groups for the Livingston congregation, and both daytime and evening groups for Balerno. If you would like to join a house group, please complete a form and return it to a member of staff.
We also have a number of staff who devote some or all of their work time to pastoral care for more complex situations. This is coordinated by Ollie Clegg. This can cover challenges that we face with health, relationships, caring, finances, parenting, work, identity and discipleship.
The staff involved are listed below.
Tracey Braithwaite: welcoming newcomers to Livingston; ladies coffee mornings; tracey.braithwaite@stmungos.org
Andrea Brewster: Family-focused pastoral care, plus family events and courses; andrea.brewster@stmungos.org
David Brown: General pastoral care, Gold – with wife Marjorie; meetings with men; david.brown@stmungos.org
Ollie Clegg: pastoral care/discipleship related to newcomers; ollie.clegg@stmungos.org
Derek Thomson: pastoral care related to work; derek.thomson@stmungos.org
Kate Yates: Pastoral care alongside other duties, Minis, Salveo (inner healing) appointments – with husband Simon; kate.yates@stmungos.org
Helen Yewdall: General pastoral care with a focus on health and wellbeing; helen.yewdall@stmungos.org
0-18 staff team: available for pastoral care and support of our young people; david.lyons@stmungos.org
As she retires today we would like to thank Pat Banfill for the amazing care and compassion she has shown so many in St Mungo’s over the many years she has served on the pastoral team. Ollie