Week beginning 7 April

Evening services.  The next St Mungo’s evening service will be Transform at Balerno Parish Church.  There will not be an evening service on 7 or 14 April in order to bless the volunteer worship and tech teams with a break.

Safar. Do check out details of  Safar  the recently launched one to one discipleship course.

Term card for April to June is now available at our services – do make sure you pick up a copy to know what is happening.   Also on line here

Gold on Tuesday 9 April for anyone over 60 in the St Mungo’s congregations.  At the church building at 2.00 – 3.30pm.  More details from David and Marjorie Brown.

Company of Men are getting together on the morning of Saturday 27 April for a walk or cycle starting in Balerno– full details to sign up sent via ChurchSuite.

Baptisms are being planned for Sunday 2 June.  If you have not already been baptised and are interested please get in touch with enquiries@stmungos.org

Thank you to everyone who gave a one-off gift in the run up to the end of the 2023-24 tax year.  Once the final gift aid claims have been made, we will be preparing annual thank you letters and gift aid statements.  If you would be happy to receive this electronically, please email  accounts@stmungos.org

Congratulations to Isaac and Ruth Knight on the recent birth of baby Clementine.

Baking. Thank you to all those who baked delicious treats for our Alpha courses in Balerno and Livingston over the past couple of months. The participants were very appreciative of people they had never met taking the time to bake for them to help them feel welcome.

Staff News: As Fil Stevenson is now semi-retired George Gera is covering this role on a temporary basis. We are hugely thankful to George for agreeing to provide cover in this area and joining the Operations team.

Pioneers meet on Sunday 7 April at Balerno High School.

0-18 notices.

Youth –

·        Sunday 14 April  Deeper Serving Sunday

·        Sunday 14 April Deeper at 4pm in Ministry Centre

·        Friday Night Youth resumes on Friday 19 April

·        Sunday 21 April – Refuel for Balerno Youth in church building Balerno

Primary –

·       Sunday 7 April all Balerno Primary together for a holiday week in Drama Studio

·       No Primary or youth groups in Livingston on 7 April

·       Pre-school groups in both locations will run as usual on 7 April

·        Sunday 14 April – Dive In 4pm

 

Prayers. 

Please pray for the team from St Mungo’s on our stall at Balerno Farmers Market on Saturday morning.   As well as chatting they will be giving out children’s craft bags.