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Summer service plans – https://stmungos.org/news/summer-services. Please read the information about the plans for the 7 weeks of school holidays from 3 July as our services are different. There are 4 services each Sunday and you are free to choose whichever service or services that best fits for you. These service are:
08:45 – Traditional Communion service @ the Church Building Ladycroft, Balerno
10:30 – Church Family service @ James Watt Centre, Heriot-Watt University (All ages)
10:30 – Morning Service @ St Margaret’s Academy, Livingston. (no separate 0-18 groups)
18:30 – Evening Service @ the Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno (click here https://stmungos.org/news/evening-service to see the speakers)
David Brown retired from his role as St Mungo’s pastoral worker recently. Check out the presentation xxxxx that was made to him from the church. Give thanks for the huge contribution he has made to the pastoral care of so many in the church.
St Mungo’s Vacancies: The role of Youth & Children's Worker in Livingston remains vacant. Please do pass the details on to anyone you think would be interested in joining our 0-18 Ministry and working in Livingston and pray for this role to be filled over the summer. This is a great opportunity for someone to work alongside our new Associate Rector, lead the ministry in Livingston and develop the ministry through networking and relationships with local schools. The job application pack can be found here.
Valley Friends. Check out the presentation given by Helen Yewdall about this upcoming project on the newspost. We will be offering a more detailed information session on this after the summer. Please be prayerfully considering if this might be something that you could do to demonstrate God’s love and care in our community. Please contact Helen at helen.yewdall@stmungos.org if you would like to know more.
Love After Marriage. This course will be running again in the autumn (start date of Monday 3 October with sessions on 6 Mondays and some Saturdays). It will be held at Holy Trinity Wester Hailes Church premises and run by Paul and Sarah Stanger from St Mungo’s. It is open to any married couples from St Mungos or Wester Hailes church. The Love After Marriage is a course to encourage couples to experience the marriage they’ve hoped for. It helps connect couples on a deep and intimate level so they can experience the kind of marriage they’ve hoped for.Contact: Paul & Sarah Stanger for more details, (paul.stanger@outlook.com, sarahstangerconsulting@hotmail.com).
Magnitude: Saturday 23 to Wednesday 27 July. Please pray for this event and our many young people attending, and the team supporting them.
Youth events start back Friday 19 August.
Wellness Centre is closed until Monday 15 August.
Minis starts back on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 August.
Primary Kids Weekend Away: Parents of current P5-P7 please save the dates of 9-11 September 2022. Booking is now open and available for all, invite your friends!
0-18 Volunteers Required: We are looking for 2 volunteers to join our Livingston Preschool team post summer. The group is for 0-2 year olds. For more info, please contact caroline.simpson@stmungos.org
Prayers
Give thanks for Isaac and Ruth Knight joining the staff team this summer - check out their recent video message here: https://stmungos.org/news/staff-update-ik
Pray for the St Mungo’s team at the Balerno Farmers market on Saturday 9 July.
Pray for all those involved in arranging and leading Christian activities for children over the summer. Pray for a significant impact from these events in the lives of young people.
Give thanks for another year of church life – pray everyone gets the rest and refreshment they need in July.