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Christmas and December events and services are being planned – flyers available and do keep an eye on our website for details. https://stmungos.org/news/christmas-st-mungos
Christmas Movie social on Sunday 4 December. Join us at the Church building, Ladycroft, Balerno from 3pm for our Church family Christmas Movie: Arthur Christmas. We’ll provide the space, teas, coffees, juice and the movie and you bring your own snacks. Open to all ages!
Beer and Carols – It is back! Join us on Thursday 15 December for a relaxed Christmas pub singalong. Tickets are limited to 50 due to space and we want to encourage you to come along and invite your friends who might not come to the carol service. Tickets will cost £5 and you’ll be given a token on arrival to swap for your 1st drink. We’ll have hot snacks available and the singalong will be led by Sarah Stevenson and a small band.
Mighty Mungos – Is back for a Christmas Special! We are pulling together a Christmas Day Mighty Mungos special to be streamed onto YouTube. We’d love for as many people to be involved as possible so please email any Christmas Jokes, or Gratitude Attitudes to: mightymungos@stmungos.org.
Mission Trip 2023: We would love to take a St Mungo’s team to Eswatini from 5 to 15 October 2023 to work alongside one of our mission partners, Challenge Ministries Swaziland. This would be our first mission trip since 2019 and a great opportunity to serve in a very practical way and experience a beautiful country with amazing people. Approximate cost £1,500. If you would like to find out more or note your interest, please contact wendy.brown@stmungos.org.
United in Prayer Event: Friday 18 November. The Thursday morning Pastors prayer meeting which has been running for three years and brings together pastors from Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife to pray for the church and the nation. There is another United Prayer event occurring on Zoom on Friday 18 November between 7.30-9pm. This is an amazing opportunity for churches to come together and pray together for a move of God in our region. The details for the Zoom are: Meeting ID: 876 0214 4306 Passcode: 757461.
COP27 is happening, and is the biggest and most important annual climate-related conference. Decisions made or not made at COP will impact on God’s creation and his heart for justice for the poor. The Creation Care prayer cell has created a web resource to help people focus their prayers during this critical time and invite the church to join them in praying for our world. You can find the resource at https://www.sites.google.com/view/cop27, and as our newspost this week.
Livi Men’s Curry Night: After a hugely successful Braai in September, we’re back, and all Livi men are invited to join us for what promises to be a fantastic Curry Night. Friday 18 November (from 7.30pm), at Andi Tooth's house in Murieston. To sign-up just drop an email to livimen@stmungos.org or speak with Lawrie Hudson.
Tearfund Quiz Night. The Quiz Night is back – churches around the country will all be hosting the quiz on Saturday 19 November. St Mungo’s will run our quiz in the Ministry Centre. Check out the Newspost and ChurchSuite email for more details and think about who you could form a team with. Any questions contact Andrea.brewster@stmungos.org
Balerno Company of Men Curry Night. Thursday 24 November at 7.30pm at Rannaghor Restaurant, Currie. Only space for 40 so sign up quickly via ChurchSuite invite. Cost of food £20, bring own drinks. Any questions contact Adrian.smith@stmungos.org
Livi Ladies Social – 11am on Saturday 10 December. All the ladies from the Livingston congregation are warmly invited to a bring and share lunch and social hosted by Marian MacCormack. For more details, please contact Marian on 07874 321 472.
Pioneers group meet on Sunday 13 November in Balerno High School.
Youth on Sunday 13 November. Balerno Youth Sunday Morning Bible Study on this week, meet for worship at Balerno High School first. Livi youth Sunday morning as usual.
Friday Night Youth is on this Friday Night (18 November) and sees the church turn into a life-size Monopoly game Sign up here by Monday 14 Nov. https://tinyurl.com/mungo-opoly
Prayers
Pray for the Pioneers group as they invite their friends to join them for a movie night in the church building on Saturday 19 November.