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The Balerno 10.30 morning service on 18 February will once again be at Heriot Watt with groups for 0 to P7. As last week the youth will meet at the Ministry Centre from 10am to 12.30pm.
Life Seasons (St Mungo’s women’s group) will be doing a walk around the reservoir (weather permitting) at 2pm on Saturday 17 February. No need to book in, simply meet at the Harlaw car park. If anyone needs a lift to get there please email lifeseasons@stmungos.org
Communion and soaking. Thursday 22 February 9.30am - 10.30am. A short liturgical communion service followed by a time of worship and soaking in the Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno
Spirit Cafe: NEW VENUE! Spirit Cafe will be running on Monday 26 February in the Mercure Livingston Hotel. This is a great event to invite and bring people along to who don't know Jesus. We'd love to see you there.
Amy Orr-Ewing weekend [2-3 March 2024]: Tickets are selling well for the day conference on Saturday 2 March at Heriot Watt conference centre and still plenty spaces available if you'd like to book your place [https://stmungos.churchsuite.com/events/q9fwlxxc]. Tickets cost £10 for those 18 and over. If cost is a factor, please contact wendy.brown@stmungos.org. Please note that youth tickets are free. Sunday 3 March will be a regular morning service at Heriot Watt with all congregations joining together as we hear from Amy.
Church Family Ceilidh, Friday 15 March 7-9pm in Balerno High School. A fun, family evening for all ages with a live ceilidh band, plenty of dancing and refreshments. Tickets cost £5 per person (pre-school age children free) and rare available to buy online via the ChurchSuite email sent out recently.
Having difficulty booking tickets for events via ChurchSuite? ChurchSuite has changed the process for booking tickets via an invite email for multiple people in a household. The update means only another adult ticket can be added to the booking and not a child or youth in the household. If you have experienced this issue, please use the following links: Church Family Ceilidh: Ceilidh churchsuite link
Church Ceilidh – can you help? We are forming a team to make it all happen. Looking for helpers on Friday 15 March, especially hosts for during the event and help to clear and tidy up. Contact andrea.brewster@stmungos.org – we’d love to hear from you!
Bethel Team Visit: From Friday 15 to Sunday 17 March we will have a team of 12 Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry students coming to be with us from Bethel Church, California. We will be arranging a number of opportunities over that weekend to serve with them and receive ministry. We are also looking for people within the congregation to host the students in their homes for 2 nights. If you are able to help with this, please contact
St Mungo's Christmas Gift Collection has closed: We are delighted to share that we have raised an amazing £27,492.50 for SU Scotland's Development Appeal for the Alltnacriche residential centre. Thank you to everyone who has supported this appeal to bless one of our main mission partners in such a generous way.
Save the Date: Easter Sunday Origin Resurrection event [Sunday 31 March; 7.30pm], St Mungo's group booking will be available again this year, keep an eye out for the ChurchSuite booking email early next week. Booking also available direct https://www.originministry.org/bookings/
Communion. It will be communion at the 10.30 services in Balerno and Livingston on Sunday 25 February. Gluten free wafers and grape juice are available in Balerno and gluten free wafers in Livingston.
0-18 notices.
· Balerno Youth on Sunday 18 February – Refuel 10.30am at the Ministry Centre 46B Bavelaw Road Balerno
· Deeper for Youth on Sunday 18 February - after the evening service - at the Erasmusons
· Friday Night Youth on 23 February –at 7.30pm in Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno
Prayers
Pray for Vestry as they meet on Thursday, for the new members [Julia Sloan and Derek Thomson] to get up to speed on governance matters and for wisdom in all discussions.