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CROSSREACH PERINATAL SERVICES SERMON: CELEBRATING DARWIN DAY YOUTH WORSHIP NIGHT www.mayfieldsalisbury.org THE MANSE Revd Scott S. McKenna Dear Friends,

At Mayfield Salisbury, we have so much to give thanks for. At its best, the church is a community of prayer and pastoral care, of public worship and daily witness in our everyday lives. As a community, we are at our best when we appreciate and encourage each other, when we celebrate the gifts of others as well as our own, and when we live out mercy and forgiveness when things are not all that they might be. In a world at times harsh, lonely and unloving, it is of immeasurable value to be part of a community defined by love. We may not always get things right, but to embody love, understanding and compassion is a true sign of God’s presence, of the Spirit’s influence within us and among us.

Inclusion has always been part of our story at Mayfield Salisbury. I have watched people with physical disability I am proud of our efforts to support the struggle to climb or descend our steps at work of Christian Aid and, more recently, the West Door and for some the risk of the perinatal project at CrossReach. Over falling is high. At a funeral I watched a and above this, Mayfield Salisbury is a single mourner progress to the West Door substantial contributor to ‘aid-receiving’ to greet the bereaved family and, having churches across Scotland, which enables done so, slowly proceed all the way back churches to have a minister which would to the West Mayfield door; the sole not otherwise be able to afford one. mourner to leave by that door. In creating step-free access to the sanctuary Be assured of my prayers and very good at the main door of the church, I believe wishes. we have taken the right decision and together we show our members and others beyond the community the Every blessing, importance we attach to inclusion. Scott

2 YOUTH WORSHIP NIGHT Hillary Leslie

On 25 February, we held our first Youth toward the teens, but Worship Night - a night for ‘the young and structured so that all the young at heart.’ This worship service ages can benefit from took place during the evening service the service. The hope worship slot and will happen on the last is that this service Sunday evening of every month at will be a space for 7.00pm. Mayfield Salisbury’s youth to have We had a good attendance of folk from another opportunity the first and second Sunday morning to explore and reflect on their faith, in services at Mayfield Salisbury, totaling addition to developing leadership skills by around 30 people. There were moments helping to run the service. Another aim of of scripture, song and various ways of the evening is to see inter-generational praying which included ‘praying in colour’ relationships formed within Mayfield and prayer stations throughout the Salisbury by offering an additional chance sanctuary. The service’s theme focused on for members from both morning services Lent and the various stages of ‘letting go,’ to interact more with our youth. ‘welcoming in,’ and ‘going out’ that encompass our individual and collective All members of the congregation are Lenten journeys. encouraged and welcome to join in this service and we look forward to seeing you The contemporary service style is geared next time!

3 SERMON Revd Scott S. McKenna CELEBRATING DARWIN DAY THE BATTLE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION IS FAKE NEWS Sunday, 11 February, 2018 Genesis 1: 1 – 5, 24 - 27 Proverbs 8: 22 – 31 St John 1: 1 – 5 Wisdom of God, Creative Spirit, Life- Weekend. The Clergy Letter Project Giver, at home among the stars, in the suggests that the Sunday nearest to 12th seas’ depths and the darkness of the February should be Evolution Sunday. human soul, inspire us afresh, fill us anew. Among other things, the Project states: May we walk the Earth with the spiritual heart of Jesus. Amen. Religious people from many diverse faith traditions and locations around the world 12 February is Darwin Day. Darwin Day understand that evolution is quite simply marks the anniversary of the birth of the sound science; and for them, it does not in English naturalist, geologist and biologist any way threaten, demean, or diminish their Charles Darwin. Celebrations are held faith in God. In fact, for many, the around the world. The celebrations not wonders of science often Enhance and deepen only recall the contribution of Darwin’s their awe and gratitude towards God. work to science but promote science generally. Born on 12 February 1809, Part of the motivation for The Clergy tributes have been made sporadically since Letter Project was to counter creationism, his death in 1882. As time has gone on, which is a religious belief that God created the celebrations are typically supported by the universe and everything in it by specific Humanist and secular societies. These and individual divine acts. While societies promote themselves as people creationism is popular in parts of the who value science and reason. I often feel United States, in my twenty-four years that the implication is that people of faith, experience of full-time ministry I have met like you and me, are unscientific and only one creationist in Scotland. Is there a irrational: one can’t be a scientist (or, at case for the Church of Scotland to adopt least, not a real scientist) and also a today as Evolution Sunday? One the one Christian. Today we celebrate Darwin hand it may be a bit twee; on the other Day. hand, it would give every parish church an excuse to reflect on and think about Alongside Darwin Day, in 2004 in the science, scientific discoveries and the United States, the American biologist nature of the universe. Such a Sunday Michael Zimmerman initiated The Clergy might also go some way to counter the Letter Project which encourages clergy and erroneous myth that science and religion congregations to participate in Evolution are mutually exclusive.

4 Science and religion are not at odds with each other. None of us would challenge the theory of the ‘Big Bang’, the scientific view that the entire cosmos, including finite time, came into existence with a big bang. The theory of the expanding universe was first proposed in 1927 by the Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître. The first insights into the genetic mechanisms driving evolution, arguably a discovery as important as that of Darwin himself, came from the experiments with pea plants carried out by the Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel. Known as the ‘father of modern genetics’, Fr Mendel had Charles Robert Darwin by John Collier (1883) no difficulty in writing of the law of genetic inheritance and rising haunt the Church is that of the amateur each day at 5am to offer praise to the astronomer Galileo. We know that in Maker of heaven and earth. A Belgian 1623 the Pope, Urban VIII, demanded that priest, an Augustinian friar and in the late Galileo recant. Galileo was following the 20th century, Francis Collins, an theory of Copernicus, the first Christian evangelical Christian, was the project theorist explicitly to argue for a director of the international Human heliocentric cosmos. The competing Genome Project. The project was set up scientific view was that the planets did with the aim of reading the entire indeed revolve around the sun but that the sequence of three billion DNA pairs that sun revolved around the earth. There was make up the genetic blueprint of one no religious trump card being played at this person. early stage: it was astronomers wrestling with mathematics and their observations One story which keeps coming back to of the stars and planets.

5 that the Copernican theory be described as yet unproven. History records that Galileo was a frequently unpleasant and dominating man. Galileo published the book as a dialogue and included the statement which Urban had requested, but the statement was put on the lips of a clown, an obtuse character called Simplicio. The Pope was right: the Copernican theory was unproven but he was in no mood to tolerate Galileo’s insolence. A better pope might have stepped back from the insult, but Urban did not. The story of Galileo is not a battle between science and religion.

Atheists are as prone to fundamentalism as people of faith. The American philosopher, Daniel Dennett says, ‘At least in the eyes of academics science has won and religion has lost. Darwin’s idea has banished the Book of Genesis to the Pope Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) limbo of quaint mythology.’ The Harvard In 1613, Galileo’s most important zoologist, Ernst Mayr, describes neo- supporter was Cardinal Maffeo Barberini. Darwinian science as the ‘ultimate What is significant about that is that, ten explanation of life’. More worrying still, years later, Barberini had become Pope the evolutionary embryologist, the late Urban VIII. Why would Galileo’s most Gavin de Beer, writing in the Encyclopaedia important supporter later demand that Britannica , said: Galileo recant? The Pope was under enormous pressure because of the Darwin did two things: He showed that Protestant Reformation, and that took its evolution was a fact contradicting scriptural toll. But, crucially, the scientific legends of creation and that its cause, community which existed entirely within natural selection, was automatic with no the Church, was not of one mind of these room for divine guidance or design. differing theories. Can you imagine scientists taking different views on a new, Educational standards are definitely falling! emerging theory?! In the late 19 th century, post-Darwin, many The Pope invited Galileo to write a book clergy in the churches accepted Darwin’s on the two chief world systems asking only theory of natural selection and evolution.

6 If there was friction with people of faith, it occurred when Christians insisted on a literal interpretation of Scripture. The preacher and mystic, George Matheson, was one of many who wrote on the subject. Matheson always looked at Scripture with imagination. In Genesis 1, we read, “And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind…’.” Matheson said that the ancients understood that the mechanism for creating new life is the earth itself.

In contrast to a literal interpretation of the so-called creation of Eve, Matheson reads Genesis 1 and 2 together. In Genesis 2, it is said that God took a rib from Adam and with that rib created Eve. Traditionally understood, it is a good patriarchal text. However, with the eye of imagination, Matheson asked, ‘Where does this story occur?’ He said, ‘Adam is asleep; this is a dream.’ Matheson’s point is not that this Galileo Galilei by Ottavio Leoni (1578–1630) is the story of Eve’s creation, for she has organisms are among the most striking always been with him. In Genesis 1, they occupants of this universe; and the were created together. Rather, it is an materialist understanding of biology does account of their marriage: it is the not account for it. moment that Adam ‘sees’ her, as one with him, part of who he is; flesh of his flesh; Do the physical sciences account for his soul mate, as he is to her. beauty, love, morality or selflessness? Do they account for the study of Those who argue against the existence of mathematics? Evolution does not account God or the necessity of God often do so for itself. What is a ‘Big Bang’? Billions on the grounds that the material universe, of people across the planet speak of the through the process of evolution, accounts Divine, of the spiritual, of the Sacred, the for itself; the world of matter accounts for Holy: it is not a phenomenon that can everything. The problem with this theory easily be dismissed. is consciousness: the theory of matter does not account for consciousness. The I shall never forget the lecture given in this atheist Thomas Hagel, who does not want church by the physicist Professor Wilson God to exist, has said that conscious Poon. Wilson holds the Chair of Natural

7 Philosophy at Edinburgh University. As our different ways to that piece of the lecture drew to a close, Wilson left the music….But I have not yet met anyone lectern, sat at the piano and played the who, in the face of music like that, is able second movement of Beethoven’s Sonata to look me in the face and say that such Pathetique. It was exquisite. He returned scientific accounts are exhaustive, and to the lectern and said this: nothing else needs to be said. I think many physicists are avid amateur I can give you a pretty exhaustive account musicians precisely because deep down, we of the physics of what has just happened, know we need regular reminders that in terms of waves and resonances and science does not have the last word. what not. Douglas Blackwood [Professor Beethoven does! of Psychiatric Genetics] and his colleagues can give you a neurobiological account of Amen. what happens when we all responded in

PASTORAL CARE Morning Prayers take place in the Sanctuary each Tuesday morning between 9.30 and 9.45. This provides an opportunity to pray in silence for those known to us who are ill or who are passing through difficult times. If you or someone known to you would like to be remembered this way in prayer, please inform Scott. Wendy Mathison We continue, as always, to be mindful of 0131 447 5562 each other’s situations and needs. If you, [email protected] or someone known to you, would appreciate a pastoral visit, please inform Anne Mulligan Scott or one of the PV group co- 0131 664 3426 ordinators. [email protected] Maggie Ross (coordinator) Contact details for PV group co- 0131 668 3859 ordinators: [email protected] Hilary Watkinson Dorothy Cloughley 0131 667 3565 Changes of address etc. should continue [email protected] to be passed to the roll keeper, Hugh Somerville.

8 KATE PEARSON

Congratulations to our organist Kate and her husband João on the birth of their son Alexander on 3 January 2018!

We wish her all the very best and look forward to her return later in the year.

9 28TH BRAID SCOUT GROUP

The Troop celebrated Burns Night up at joined by a dance instructor who showed the Bonaly Camping Ground on a crisp the Scouts how they could keep fit to January evening. A team of hardworking music. The Scouts actively joined in the parents provided us with the traditional session, demonstrating some ‘cool moves’. Burns Night fare of Haggis, Neeps and Tatties in Forth Lodge. The Haggis was For the second part of the Challenge piped in by our Troop piper, Ben Woods, Award, we were pleased to see a former with his brother, Hamish, giving the Scout back to the Troop, Dr David Hogg. Address to the Haggis. After the meal, David is a GP on Arran as well as a the parents kindly did the washing up as member of the Mountain Rescue Team the Scouts engaged in some activities in there. He gave an illustrated talk on how the dark woods, all loosely based on Burns many of the skills he learned as a Scout poems. are now put into good practice in both of those roles. These included knotting, first The following weekend, 13 of the older aid, leadership, teamwork and Scouts were off at Hawkhirst Scout organisation. David has an interesting and Adventure Camp, Kielder, for the annual exciting life on Arran and perhaps has Winter Adventure Weekend. Activities inspired a few of the Scouts to consider included Bellboating and Canoeing on the going into medicine and joining a Reservoir, together with a Zip Wire and Mountain Rescue Team when they are Crate Building session. Despite the winter older. The appeal of flying in a helicopter temperature, several Scouts decided to was not lost on them. jump fully clothed into the reservoir at the end of the canoeing session for reasons that are only known to teenage boys. Alan Dickson The following week, we were back in the Hall for part one of the Skills Challenge Headquarters: Award. As well as a number of activities Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh based on keeping good health, we were Scottish Charity No SC006141

10 CROSSREACH PERINATAL SERVICES voluntary counsellors and volunteers to assist each creche manager. Volunteers usually have a background of experience with children and need to be ready to attend regularly to care for the babies and toddlers. Each creche is a bright and welcoming place for the little ones, while their parent is with their counsellor. Sometimes parents, who are experiencing Mayfield Salisbury Church had its first emotional difficulties like anxiety or retiral collection in aid of the CrossReach depression, may hesitate over leaving their Perinatal Service on 25 February which child, and the children, too, may find it raised £1156.50. difficult to separate. Creche staff can help, and it is rewarding to see gradual progress. We have two further collections planned Little ones may also need encouragement after a morning service in June and in to play creatively and to communicate. November 2018. Collections at Christmas Parents, who come from all walks of life, will be shared with Christian Aid, like last say how much they like coming to a place year. like a home, where there is a warm welcome, knowledge and understanding, At the retiral collections, which will be and quiet encouragement, a place which publicised before each Sunday, there will nurtures their return to building family life be blue buckets and gift aid envelopes with greater confidence and acceptance. ready for you as you leave, with our group members, who can each also say something about this Church of Scotland Eilie Blackwood, social work. Stewart Houston, The three Perinatal Services in this city Wendy Mathison, (others in Glasgow, Perth and Inverness), Pamela Molyneaux depend on professionally-trained but Anne Mulligan. 11 SESSION MATTERS Catriona Spratt Session met on 23 January 2018 when the others involved in driving and following were discussed: accompanying; and those who organise, prepare and serve teas. The next Matters Arising: The Church Manager Afternoon Service is on 13 March. was thanked for ensuring the Sanctuary was lit over the Christmas period. This Pastoral Assistant: The Moderator had been much appreciated. reported that our revised deadline for applications for the post of Pastoral Correspondence: Assistant is 23 February, to accommodate (i)The Clerk had received an email from Life & Work advertising timescales. the McDonald family stating that they were all very pleased with our proposals to New Members: Alison and Ken Bogle commemorate Bill and his ministry. (ii)The wish to become members of the Treasurer had received thanks from both congregation. This was warmly agreed. Christian Aid and CrossReach for our donations from the Christmas Business Committee Convenership : offerings.(iii)The Clerk had received an The Moderator reported that Steve email from the Session Clerk at Carnwarth Holehouse had been nominated to take Parish Church once more thanking us for over Convenership of the Business the gift of Communion silver in 2013. Committee. The appointment was duly approved by the Session. Malawi: Heather Cubie updated Session on our links with the Scottish Malawi Fabric report The Fabric Convener, Peter Partnership (SMP) by proposing the Grant, gave an oral report. following initiatives which were endorsed by the Minister and Session. • Sanctuary Renovation Project phase 2 – Windows. The renovation of the west • We will support the 2018 Buy Malawian windows is now complete. The Nativity Campaign sponsored by the SMP. window will be cleaned in situ and similar external glazing fitted. Scaffolding • We will include a specific Malawian (external and internal) will be needed for element in a service during March. two months. This will be organised to ensure there is no scaffolding on 2 June as • We will make available to other SMP- a marriage will be taking place. supporting churches our remaining bookmarks (with The Lord’s Prayer in • Level Access to front of church. The English on one side and Chechewa on the Fabric Convener reported that five other); the ones distributed to the quotations had been received for the work congregation last year. (including new gate, renewal of the steps, front and side paving, handrail, lighting, Afternoon Services: Anne Sturrock professional fees). Only one was within thanked all the Pastoral Visitors (PVs) and the £40,000 budget envisaged. BC

12 recommends that this quotation is Total Sums Deposited With Christian accepted and that, given the depleted state Aid for 2017 – the generous donations of of the Fabric Reserve Fund, we should time, talents and money, as well as a appeal to the congregation for the full generous donation of £1,800 from the amount. Salisbury Fund, have meant that we have donated at least £19,800 to Christian Aid • Upper Hall renovation Having made in 2017 which, with additional Gift Aid, the commitment to rename and re- may just creep over £20,000. dedicate the Upper Hall in memory of Bill McDonald, it was necessary to bring We received the following message from forward the renovation of this hall. This Phil Acott the Regional Support Officer: could be done in the five weeks over summer when bookings will not be It looks like it’s been another extremely problematic. successful year of fundraising for Christian Aid at Mayfield Salisbury Attestation Church this year. Please extend our • The Safeguarding Congregational thanks as widely as you can amongst the Register , January 2018 was duly circulated committee, congregation and community of and attested. The Safeguarding the church for their continuing and truly Coordinator, Anna Edgar, wishes to step exceptional support. down from the role. Her work over many years has been much appreciated and First Fridays Friends (FFF) Sandra Session wished that to be recorded. Carter reported on the work of FFF. In Morven Cadell has kindly agreed to be terms of the Annual Report of the Coordinator. congregation there was little change since last year: a pool of 17 Friends and carers, • The Roll, January 2018. The Roll and an average attendance of 10, which Keeper, Hugh Somerville, had circulated often means 13 or 14. We have 22 his report in advance of the meeting and committed helpers, for which we are very spoke very briefly to it. Hugh was also grateful. thanked for his work. The report was duly signed. The most important aspect of FFF is about building relationships, providing Christian Aid (CA) respite for carers and providing a small CA Convener Aileen Nimmo had intervention where people feel isolated or produced a report which was circulated lonely. FFF relies mainly on word of prior to the meeting and was taken as read. mouth referrals from the congregation The Committee thanked everyone for and people in the community. Session has their generosity at Christmas and for their a role to play in this, passing on continuing support. The sums passed to information to anyone whom we think Christian Aid from the Christmas might benefit. Contacts are Anne Collections amounted to £787.20. The Mulligan, Jean MacGilchrist and Sandra sums have been used by Christian Aid in Carter. their ‘Enough for Everyone’ Christmas Appeal. 13 NEWS AFTERNOON The next Afternoon Service will take place on Tuesday 13 March at 2.30pm to 3.45pm in the Upper Hall. Tea and SERVICE fellowship will follow. Level access is provided via the West OF HOLY Mayfield entrance. COMMUNION Everyone is made most welcome Our mid-week services are Officiating: especially appreciated by the less mobile in our parish Revd Scott S. McKenna community. Assistance is given on arriving and leaving and we all remain seated at our tea tables throughout the afternoon.

If you would appreciate further information or extra assistance please ask your Pastoral Visitor (PV), any Elder or Anne Sturrock.

The following Afternoon Service is on Tuesday Anne Sturrock 15 May during Christian Aid Week. HOLY WEEK Help offered to Craigmillar Park Church in serving breakfast after the morning services at 7.45 during Holy Week is always BREAKFAST welcomed. If you can help set out and serve tea/coffee, SERVICES juice, rolls and cereal, and clear up afterwards, one day MONDAY 26 TO between 7.30 and about 9.15, please contact David Booth FRIDAY 30 MARCH (667 0582) who is coordinating our team of helpers. WEST 2018 is the 125 th anniversary of this long established church based golf club. In recent years there have been 20 playing, MAYFIELD members with 6 current church members playing plus one GOLF CLUB former member (Jim Ross), who compete along with a number of other local interested golfers. Any other golfers in the congregation interested in joining us for our outings over this summer, please contact Hugh Somerville Peter Grant [email protected] FLOWERS Flowers during February were donated and Jane Main arranged by Deirdre Eustace and Bett 0131 667 1711 Wood, Rosemary McKenzie, Jinty Murray, Christina Somerville and Jane Chrystine Patterson Main. 0131 662 4506

14 To the Church front door on Mayfield Road STEP-FREE Following on the decision of the Kirk Session on 23 January, ACCESS we shall be launching an appeal in February for funds to carry out the construction of step-free access to the Church front door on Mayfield Road, this being one of the objectives agreed upon at our Congregational Gathering and in the Angus McIntyre subsequent Congregational Conversations. Session Clerk On Tuesday 27 March the Kirk Session will meet to approve KIRK SESSION the annual accounts of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church for the year ending 31 December 2017, in the Upper Hall at & ANNUAL 7.30pm. This is a public meeting and members of the BUSINESS congregation are encouraged to attend and are welcome to MEETING ask questions.Once the accounts are approved the Annual Business Meeting (ABM) of the congregation will take place immediately following the Kirk Session so that the Congregation may 'receive' the accounts.

At the ABM our Youth Worker Hillary Leslie will tell us all about the excellent work she is doing with the youth in our Church.There will also be an opportunity to discuss our agreed commemoration of the Very Revd Dr Bill McDonald. Angus McIntyre Everyone is welcome! Session Clerk

SPIRITUAL GROWTH FUND

The congregation has a fund administered by the Kirk Session the purpose of which is to resource spiritual growth. One use of the fund is to support individuals who wish to undertake courses designed to help with personal spiritual growth, such as silent prayer, Spiritual Direction or Ignatian Spirituality. To be eligible, applicants need to explain how undertaking such a course would be beneficial to them and Mayfield Salisbury or the wider Church. You can apply for a grant from this fund by contacting the Minister (in confidence).

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We held our Marmalade, Jam and Jelly opportunity. Sale on 18 February 2018 which raised £373.33. Thank you to everyone who 25 August Coffee morning, book and chopped, boiled, stirred, filled, and flower sale. bought. As you know we like to bring you As promised in last month's Grapevine we something new for our Big Event. This have further events scheduled. year we will be holding a Harvest Festival. More details to follow but think plants, We are starting off with the Hello gardens, and flower competitions, produce Summer Ceilidh on 24 March . So come stalls, cakes and crafts. Activities and fun and spring forward with us then. Tickets for all. will be available shortly. Also new for this year will be a St Christian Aid week is 13 - 19 May 2018 Andrew's Day Celebration on 1 with the theme of Together we are stronger December. than the storms . We will be holding a Big Brekkie on 13 May. The dedication As ever thank, you for your continuing service will be on 20 May when we will support and we look forward to seeing have a speaker from Christian Aid. There you at our coming events. will also be the usual street sponsoring

16 THURSDAY CLUB SYLLABUS MARCH 8 Catherine Booth Edinburgh Ladies of Science 15 Jean MacGilchrist The Bethany Van and Street Pastors 22 Springwell Choir 29 HOLIDAY

APRIL 5 Boyd McAdam Dordogne 12 Hamish Coghill W illiam Playfair 19 Sandra Carter F irst Friday Friends 26 Bob Lees A rran as seen by Dali, Modigliani and others!

MAY 3 Club Outing THE BIBLE IN A YEAR March 4 Numbers 12-14 / Psalms 28,29 April 5 Joshua 10,11 / Psalm 38 March 5 Numbers 15,16 / Acts 18 April 6 Joshua 12-15 / Romans 13 March 6 Numbers 17-19 / Acts 19 April 7 Joshua 16-19 / Romans 14 March 7 Numbers 20,21 / Acts 20 April 8 Joshua 20-22 / Psalm 39 March 8 Numbers 22,23 / Psalm 30 April 9 Joshua 23,24 / Romans 15 March 9 Numbers 24,25 / Acts 21 April 10 Judges 1,2 / Romans 16 March 10 Numbers 26,27 / Acts 22 April 11 Judges 3,4 / Mark 1 March 11 Numbers 28,29 / Psalm 31 April 12 Judges 5,6 / Psalms 40,41 March 12 Numbers 30,31 / Acts 23 April 13 Judges 7,8 / Mark 2 March 13 Numbers 32,33 / Acts 24 April 14 Judges 9,10 / Mark 3 March 14 Numbers 34,35 / Acts 25 April 15 Judges 11,12 / Psalms 42,43 March 15 Numbers 36 / Deuteronomy 1 / April 16 Judges 13,14 / Mark 4 Psalm 32 April 17 Judges 15,16 / Mark 5 March 16 Deuteronomy 2,3 / Acts 26 April 18 Judges 17,18 / Mark 6 March 17 Deuteronomy 4,5 / Acts 27 April 19 Judges 19,20 / Psalm 44 March 18 Deuteronomy 6,7 / Psalm 33 April 20 Judges 21 / Mark 7 March 19 Deuteronomy 8,9 / Acts 28 April 21 Ruth 1,2 / Mark 8 March 20 Deuteronomy 10,11 / Romans 1 April 22 Ruth 3,4 / Psalm 45 March 21 Deuteronomy 12-14 / Romans 2 April 23 I Samuel 1-3 / Mark 9 March 22 Deuteronomy 15,16 / Psalm 34 April 24 I Samuel 4-6 / Mark 10 March 23 Deuteronomy 17,18 / Romans 3 April 25 I Samuel 7-9 / Mark 11 March 24 Deuteronomy 19,20 / Romans 4 April 26 I Samuel 10,11 / Psalms 46,47 March 25 Deuteronomy 21,22 / Psalm 35 April 27 I Samuel 12,13 / Mark 12 March 26 Deuteronomy 23,24 / Romans 5 April 28 I Samuel 14,15 / Mark 13 March 27 Deuteronomy 25,26 / Romans 6 April 29 I Samuel 16,17 / Psalm 48 March 28 Deuteronomy 27,28 / Romans 7 April 30 I Samuel 18,19 / Mark 14 March 29 Deuteronomy 29,30 / Psalm 36 May 1 I Samuel 20-22 / Mark 15 March 30 Deuteronomy 31,32 / Romans 8 May 2 I Samuel 23,24 / Mark 16 March 31 Deuteronomy 33,34 / Romans 9 May 3 I Samuel 25,26 / Psalm 49 April 1 Joshua 1-3 / Psalm 37 May 4 I Samuel 27,28 / I Corinthians 1 April 2 Joshua 4,5 / Romans 10 May 5 I Samuel 29-31 / I Corinthians 2 April 3 Joshua 6,7 / Romans 11 May 6 II Samuel 1,2 / Psalm 50 April 4 Joshua 8,9 / Romans 12 May 7 II Samuel 3-5 / I Corinthians 3

17 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MARCH Sun 4 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (Rt Revd Dr Derek Browning/SSM) 10.45am Morning Service: Third Sunday of Lent (DB/SSM) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (SSM) Tues 6 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 11 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship & Communion (SSM) 10.45am Morning Service: Fourth Sunday of Lent & Communion (SSM) 7.00pm Evening Service (Anne Mulligan DCS) Tues 13 2.30pm Afternoon Service & Communion (SSM) Sun 18 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Fifth Sunday of Lent (LL) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (LL) Tues 20 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 25 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Palm Sunday (SSM/LL) 7.00pm Youth Worship Night (Hillary Leslie)

HOLY WEEK SERVICES Monday to Friday in Craigmillar Park Church at 7.45am (20 minute Service followed by breakfast) Tues 27 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary 7.30pm Kirk Session & Annual Business Meeting Thur 29 7.30pm Maundy Thursday Service in the sanctuary Fri 30 7.30pm Good Friday Service in the sanctuary

APRIL Sun 1 7.30am EASTER Morning: Service in the Garden (SSM/LL) 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship & Communion (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Easter Sunday & Wedding (SSM/LL) 7.00pm No evening service Tues 3 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 8 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Second Sunday of Easter (SSM/LL) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (LL) Tues 10 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary

18 Sun 15 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (LL/SSM) 10.45am Morning Service: Third Sunday of Easter (LL/SSM) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (SSM) Tues 17 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 22 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Fourth Sunday of Easter (SSM/LL) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (LL) Tues 24 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 29 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Fifth Sunday of Easter (SSM/LL) 7.00pm Youth Worship Night (Hillary Leslie)

MAY Tues 1 9.30am Prayers in the sanctuary Sun 6 9.30am All-Age Informal Worship (SSM/LL) 10.45am Morning Service: Sixth Sunday of Easter (SSM/LL) 7.00pm Communion round the Table (LL) MAYFIELD MILERS UPCOMING WALKS MARCH Fri 9 Walk to Ewes Castle, Stow 4mls Jean MacGilchrist 447 6648 10.15am Waverley Station concourse with ticket for 10.24 train to Stow, destination Tweedbank. Bring your railcard if you have one. Mon 12 Round Bannockburn 4-5mls Bob McNie 667 9391 8.50am St Andrews Sq Bus Station Gate B for 9.07 City Link Bus 909, destination Stirling. Road and woodland paths mostly level. Wed 21 Ancrum to Harestanes 4mls Laura Ross 01835822941 9.00am Commonwealth Pool or Cameron Toll 9.10 for 9.15 Borders Bus service 52 to Kelso. River and woodland walking mostly level. APRIL Thurs 5 North Berwick Shore Walk 2-3 mls Jenny McCallum 667 2888 9.15 Waterloo Place for 9.25 X5 fast bus to North Berwick -Lothian Country Buses. Cafes available. Wed 18 Haymarket to St Margaret’s Park 4mls Isabel Smith 667 6336 10am at Church. Exits possible along the way. Tues 24 Dreghorn Woods to Greenbank 3-4mls Morvern Cunningham 667 4537 10.10 Morningside Clock for no16 bus at 10.19.

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5 Minister h 8 Revd Scott S McKenna [email protected] 0131 667 1286 c 7 r 0 u 0 h 0 Assistant Minister C C

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