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Summer service plans – We continue to meet in a range of locations this summer, up to and including Sunday 14 August. There are 4 services each Sunday and feel free to choose whichever service or services that best fits for you. These service are:
08:45 – Traditional Communion service @ the Church Building Ladycroft, Balerno
10:30 – Church Family service @ James Watt Centre, Heriot-Watt University (All ages)
10:30 – Morning Service @ St Margaret’s Academy, Livingston. (no separate 0-18 groups)
18:30 – Evening Service @ the Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno
Isaac Knight, our new Associate Rector, joins the staff on Monday 8 August and will be based at the Ministry Centre in Balerno. Isaac’s email address will go live from Monday and can be contacted on Isaac.knight@stmungos.org. Please do pray for Isaac as he beings this new role and for his wife, Ruth, as they settle into their new home in Livingston.
St Mungo’s Vacancies: The role of Youth & Children's Worker in Livingston remains vacant. Please do pass the details on to anyone you think would be interested in joining our 0-18 Ministry and working in Livingston and pray for this role to be filled. This is a great opportunity for someone to work alongside Isaac, our new Associate Rector, lead the ministry in Livingston and develop the ministry through networking and relationships with local schools. The job application pack can be found here.
Balerno Farmers Market, Saturday 13 August, 9am-1pm. A team from St Mungo’s will be hosting a stall (giving away church flyers and kids crafts). Please pray for opportunities for some great conversations, and if you’d like to get involved for all or part of the time, please contact andrea.brewster@stmungos.org
Refreshments Resume from Sunday 21 August: We are looking forward to serving refreshments again after both Balerno & Livingston morning services. To help reduce resources, we will be moving away from providing cups for everyone and we request that you bring your own reusable flasks / cups with you to church. Initially there will be recyclable cups available if you forget, and the children’s juice will be served in cups provided.
0-18 Volunteers Required: We are still looking for 2 volunteers to join our Livingston Preschool team which is for the 0-2 year olds. For more info, please contact caroline.simpson@stmungos.org
Balerno Youth starts back on Friday 19 August with a trip to Ryze. Booking has gone out.
Valley Friends. Check out the news post for full information about this new opportunity to be love to our community. Information evening on Wednesday 24 August in Ministry Centre. Please contact Helen at helen.yewdall@stmungos.org if you would like to know more.
Housegroup leaders will meet on Wednesday 31 August. Do offer to babysit where it helps.
Company of Men. Balerno men are invited to an evening walk on Thursday 1 September, followed by a drink in Balerno. More details will follow by email/whatsapp but note the date.
Kids Weekend Away: Parents of P5-P7 bookings open on Eventbrite for the weekend happening on 9-11 September. More information from Caitlin.boddy@stmungos.org.
Gold: is next meeting on Tuesday 13 September at 2pm until 3.30pm in the Church Building, Ladycroft, Balerno. More details will follow but please note the date.
Love After Marriage. This course will be running again in the autumn (start date of Monday 3 October with sessions on 6 Mondays and some Saturdays). It will be held at Holy Trinity Wester Hailes Church premises and run by Paul and Sarah Stanger from St Mungo’s. It is open to any married couples from St Mungos or Holy Trinity church. Love After Marriage is a course to encourage couples and it helps connect couples on a deep and intimate level so they can experience the kind of marriage they hoped for. Contact: Paul & Sarah Stanger for more details, (paul.stanger@outlook.com, sarahstangerconsulting@hotmail.com).
The Bethany Care Van has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Described as the MBE equivalent for volunteers, it is the highest award given to local voluntary groups in the UK. A huge congratulations to our amazing St Mungo's team of volunteers, who faithfully and sacrificially go out twice a month, Being Love to homeless people on a Monday Lunchtime and a Thursday evening. If you are interested in joining the team please contact emmagalloway@gmail.com for more information.
Congratulations to Allan and Sarah Lindsay (Balerno congregation) on the safe arrival of Harrison in July.
Prayers
Please pray for the Vestry which resumes their monthly governance meetings on Wednesday 10 August.
Please pray for all our young people who are expecting exam results on Tuesday 9 August. Please pray peace over their hearts and minds at this time at this time and remind them that neither entry requirements nor exam results, anticipation nor doubts, neither success nor failure, nor any expectations, neither last minute fears nor anxieties, nor anything else in life, will be able to separate them from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.