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.
A few weeks ago over 40 members of the 0-18 team met on Zoom for an hour of prayer and worship, with the specific desire to pray God’s protection and blessing over all the young people within St Mungo’s Church. We used breakout rooms to share any words and pictures that would help guide our intercession.
Last Sunday (17 May) I gave a summary of our financial situation to give the context for Malcolm talking on “Giving in Lockdown” from Phil 4 v 10 – 20. If you missed the service last weekend, please have a watch.
St Mungo’s continues to financially support the Bethany Care shelter (and van) as well as providing teams for both. The Care Shelter provides winter overnight accommodation for the homeless in Edinburgh – and has moved into the Old Waverley Hotel which is closed because of the coronavirus situation.
Dear Church Family,
It's been so encouraging to see how you are responding to the challenges presented the coronavirus crisis. Thank you for being family to each other and to those around you.
This update brings exciting news about our plans for this Sunday. Here's a short video message from Malcolm to tell you more.
As you might expect, St Mungo’s is following closely the global developments and local/national guidance on the coronavirus.
We’ve either developed or are in the process of developing plans which respond to all aspects of church life, ranging from our ability to meet together to the health and safety implications for our most vulnerable members, our volunteers, our staff and our entire church family.
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.
This is our next ‘Living Well’ event as a church – times when we tackle an everyday issue and explore it as Christians together.
‘Walking through the Valley’ is a day of learning, training, equipping and reflection for those who want to support others well when they are bereaved.
The day will consist of different short seminars interspersed by people from St Mungo’s sharing personal stories and experiences.
