Week beginning 21 March

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St Mungo’s online. Keep up to date at  https://stmungos.org/news/coronavirus-update.   

Mighty Mungos! Join us at 10am on Sundays for 20 minutes designed for primary aged children and their families, some silliness, worship, and teaching - open to any age!   

Send in your pictures! Before the online service we are sharing recent photos you send to onlinechurch@stmungos.org.

Sunday evening worship and soaking takes place on 1st and 3rd Sundays of month – next is 21 March at 6.30pm, available on St Mungo’s Facebook Community and YouTube, and catch up. 

St Mungo’s Vision Sunday will be on 28 March.  Do plan to join the online service to hear Ollie’s vision for the year ahead.   Remember to change your clocks the night before! 

Our St Mungo’s job vacancies are now open!  Worship Pastor and Youth Worker.  Please check out https://stmungos.org/vacancies for more information.  Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested.

Staff News: Derek Thomson’s last working day on the staff team will be Sunday 28 March. 

Wider Leadership meeting on Wednesday 24 March at 7.45 for 8pm – invite to the zoom event has been emailed.  Please do check your junk or spam folders if you think you haven’t seen this yet.  A reminder of the Zoom code will be sent out before Wednesday.  

Connections evening, 7.45 for 8pm Thursday 25 March.  A panel style discussion on zoom exploring Parenting Teens and Tweens with optional breakout rooms for social chat at the end. All welcome, whether you’re a parent or you want to understand more so you can support and encourage our church families. Sign up for the Zoom invitation (details in the email sent to church members last week) and contact andrea.brewster@stmungos.org if you have any questions.

Easter events – keep an eye out for emails about our Easter events – we hope to have in person Good Friday (2 April) communion services.  We will be online together on Easter morning (4 April) with a worship event streamed in the evening.  All on St Mungo’s YouTube and Facebook community. 

End of the tax year – a gentle reminder for those of you who like to give a one-off gift at this time of year. Our bank account details are: St Mungo’s Church, Balerno, sort code 83-19-15 account no. 00266149.  Please add your name as a reference!  

Climbers pre-Easter zoom Sunday 21 March at 9.15am.  Come along and join in the fun. Contact caroline.simpson@stmungos.org for more details. 

Balerno Sunday morning youth small groups run on Zoom using breakout rooms from 10.50am to 12 noon every week, excluding school holidays.  For details, contact sarah.tomb@stmungos.org. Youth will not meet Sunday 28 March: Vision Sunday - all S1- S6 young people are encouraged to join the main church service as Ollie's casts the vision for the year ahead. 

Livi Youth P7-S6, Sunday 21 March - 7-8pm on zoom - for details lindsay.glover@stmungos.org

Friday Night Youth Termly Special - 26 March: Easter Egg Making. For all S1 - S6, from 7.30pm - 9.00pm on our usual zoom link. Details of equipment (especially the all-important egg mould), ingredients, method can be obtained from sarah.tomb@stmungos.org

Primary Team event Saturday 27 March, for Adventurers, Xplorers, Livi Kids - contact Caitlin.boddy@stmungos.org if you didn't receive or missed the invitation

Preschool Pre-Easter Zoom on Sunday 28 March at 9.15am. Let's celebrate together the joy of Easter. contact caroline.simpson@stmungos.org for more details. 

Primary zooms continue to run but will pause for the school Easter holidays.  

Primary Zoom Easter Party Saturday 10 April 6-7pm for all primary age - plus option to hang out until 7.30 for P6/7.  More details to follow from caitlin.boddy@stmungos.org