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Pentecost. We will celebrate by having a church family service in both Balerno and Livingston on Sunday 28 May at 10.30am with worship, teaching and opportunity for prayer ministry. These services will NOT be live streamed so please plan to join us in person.
Spirit Café.
· Spirit Café Evening Event: In order to help our team to practice and to give you the opportunity to come and try it for yourself, we are running a one-off Spirit Café for church family only on Saturday 20 May at the Ministry Centre, Balerno from 7:30pm – 9:30pm. If you aren’t sure what it is, or are thinking of bringing a friend to one in the future but want to try it for yourself first then come along and be blessed. No need to sign up, drop in event.
· Spirit Café Livingston: IMPORTANT DATE CHANGE: Now Monday 5 June at 7.30pm. A West Lothian wide initiative, ‘Love West Lothian’, is bringing together 25 churches from across West Lothian for a week of outreach and a celebration on the Saturday evening (10 June) and so we have decided to move our Spirit Café to be part of the week of outreach events and not to clash with this other event happening in Livingston on the Saturday. The new date for Spirit Café Livingston is MONDAY 5 JUNE and will run @ The Howden Park Centre, Livingston. See newspost for more information about these events.
Staff Appointment: Tara Devlin will begin the St Mungo’s staff team in her role as Team Administrator / Teaching Associate on Monday 5 June, on a 24 hours per week contract. Please pray for Tara as she finishes up in her current job and transitions into both of these new roles.
The 0-18 team are still in urgent and desperate need for volunteers across all of our Friday Night and Sunday Morning outputs. Do check out the great recruitment video to give you a flavour of what’s involved : https://stmungos.org/vacancies. Please contact
0to18team@stmungos.org to arrange a visit to see what we do and chat about how you can assist us.
Setup Team: We urgently need additional help setting up for Balerno service. We are looking for 4 people to serve on 2 Sundays between now and July. Timings are: 8am-9.30am and then 12-12.45. email graham.wilson@stmungos.org.
Safeguarding Training: Wednesday 24 May at 7:30pm, Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno. The SEC now requires everybody working with children, youth and vulnerable adults to attend in person safeguarding training once every 2 years. Please make this a priority to attend if you were unable to make the previous training in February. Check your ChurchSuite email or email penny.moise@stmungos.org if you think you should have been invited and weren’t.
Prayer Ministry Training: Please note that we will be running prayer ministry training on Wednesday 31 May, more details to follow this week via a ChurchSuite email.
Vision talk – if you missed hearing Ollie’s recent talk in person in either Balerno or Livingston it is available on the St Mungo’s website. Do take time to watch/ listen as Ollie shares his vision for the coming year in St Mungo’s; Vision and values
Communion and Soaking: Thursday 25 May at 9:30am, the church building, Ladycroft, Balerno. An invitation to come and press in to more of God. Come and wait (soak) in the Father’s presence and receive communion. A chance to pause the busyness and distractions of life and spend time with the Father. Lasts about an hour.
Livi Ladies BBQ – Saturday 27 May from 12.30 at Marian’s house. All the ladies from the Livingston congregation are warmly invited to join us. If you haven’t received the e-mail, and would like to come, please contact liviladies@stmungos.org for more information.
Life Seasons- Meal out for women of Balerno congregation at Rannaghor in Currie, Thursday 8 June at 7.15pm. Please book this week via your church suite email- 40 spaces available. New faces always welcome, a great chance to connect with others.
Balerno Men. There are a few spaces left for the Company of Men (Balerno congregation) tenpin bowling night on Thurs 1 June 7.30pm at Fountainpark. £10 for two games plus burger and chips.. what’s not to like! Check ChurchSuite invite for more details and to sign up – or email Adrian.smith@stmungos.org
Balerno Gala Day, Saturday 3 June - St Mungo’s is hosting an ‘activity village’ with games and challenges. Thanks to all those who have signed up so far. We have plenty of people to help set up but still looking for people to help man the stall in the afternoon. Contact Andrea.brewster@stmungos.org for more information or check the ChurchSuite email.
Baptisms. We will be holding a baptism service at 1pm on Sunday 4 June at Balerno High School. Do come along to support those being baptised - adult and young people. This is for all congregations – feel free to bring a picnic to eat at Balerno High School before hand.
The Wellness Centre are looking for volunteer receptionists for a Tuesday afternoon 12.30-3.30pm on a rota basis. If you would like more details or would like to offer please email Siobhan.short@stmungos.org or call the Wellness Centre 0131 451 5226.
Worship and Prayer evening for the Wellness Centre Ministry on Tuesday 29 August (change of date from May) 7.30pm – 9.30pm at the Wellness Centre – this is open to anyone from St Mungo's to join the Wellness Centre team of counsellors and receptionists to pray for the work of the Wellness Ministry. Save the date.
Gavin & Heather Falconer in Ecuador: We are delighted that Gavin & Heather from our Livingston congregation will be interviewed as part of the Reach Beyond's 'PrayerZone live' event on Thursday 8 June at 7pm for about 45 mins. We will make available the details for registering for the Zoom call as soon as we have them. Please do join if you would like to hear how their 2nd year in Ecuador is going and the amazing testimonies from the work through physiotherapy and hippotherapy and the transformation of children’s lives.
0-18
Primary:
· P5-P7 residential. Last few places remain- check email and flyers for details. All Balerno primary are in Drama Studio on 21 May.
Youth:
· Sunday 21 May: Balerno Youth meet at Church Building Ladycroft Balerno at 10.30am. Livi Youth in service for worship.
· Deeper on Sunday 21 May after Transform.
· Youth worship on Thursday 25 May at 7.30pm in Church Building Ladycroft
· Friday 26 May – prayer scavenger hunt in Balerno, meet at church building at 7.30pm