Mayfield Salisbury Parish
(Edinburgh) Church of Scotland

Mayfield Salisbury Parish (Edinburgh) Church of Scotland offers a wide variety of worship for all of the community

9:30am All-Age Informal Worship

Open to anyone who wants to come along, with activities for adults as well as children of all ages. This service lasts around 40 minutes. The early service will be conducted in the sanctuary.

The music is contemporary, the prayers are participative, the educational activities for children are age appropriate, including drama, games, modelling, drawing and eating to name but some of the activities. The adults have an opportunity to look more deeply at passages of the Bible always with a view to their modern (or post-modern) applicability to life.

10:15am Coffee

A chance to meet and have a chat either after or before your service depending on your preferred style of worship.

10:45am Traditional Worship

Open to anyone who wants to come along, lasts 1 hour and is held in the sanctuary (enter Mayfield Road). The music is varied, including traditional hymns and modern songs. The organ is the principal instrument, but a variety of instruments are used from time to time. The service offers more reflective worship, with choir contributions, and the sermon is a central part of the worship. This service offers both high quality worship and in-depth reflection on passages of the Bible, and always with a view to the Bible's applicability to life today.

Coffee is served after this service also.

7:00pm Evening Prayers

Open to anyone who wants to come along, lasts 30 minutes and is held in the south transept of the sanctuary (entrance on Mayfield Road).
This is a read service, with mostly quiet reflective music (including Taize and Iona songs and chants), with responsorial psalms and prayers. The principal instrument is piano, though flute and unaccompanied singing is also experienced often. Silence forms a significant part of this service. The service is intended to be therapeutic and spiritual in flavour rather than with an emphasis on education.

Chinese Evangelical Church

The Chinese Evangelical Church in Edinburgh meets for Sunday services at Mayfield Salisbury at 1:30 PM.

For full details of all this months' services, please view the Calendar.

Charities supported

From Mayfield Salisbury Church Website

Charities supported through our Renovation Fund-raising

Mayfield Salisbury

Two local projects Richmond’s Hope – Richmond Craigmillar Parish Church provides support for children in situations of bereavement. While they do get some funding from Local Authority they also use volunteers and would value donations for eg books and also for art & craft materials which they would use for making memory boxes with the children. The Sunflower Garden Project run by Crossreach (former C of S Board of Social Responsibility, at Simpson House). They work with families and children caught up in situations affected by drugs and alcohol abuse. They try to help children deal with on-going problems and also provide good experiences (fun, trips, clubs) for them. They also have some Local Authority funding and sponsorship, but would welcome donations for a specific purpose eg trips for children. Two overseas projects

Fucellas in Thailand: The overall goal of the project is to provide practical care and support to those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in the Sangklaburi area (on the Thai-Burma border), to expand the ability of community-based groups to provide on-going support and education and to provide AIDS prevention education for the community and so decrease the number of new infections.

In practical terms they provide counselling, home support visits to care for patients, medicines, education and training, hands-on support of various kinds (basic provisions, help for children from families affected by HIV to attend school, transport to hospital, advocacy at hospital, payment of medical bills, help to find housing and work) and of course spiritual support.

Stegens in Kenya: Oliver is working as a linguistics consultant over a wide area. The project he would like us to support is in northern Tanzania, the Mara region on the Eastern shore of Lake Victoria. The Mara region is home to approx. 1.4 million people, speaking 14 distinct languages (not counting dialects!). Our money would support an ecumenical endeavour to help mother tongue speakers in that area learn how to develop writing systems for their languages as well as to become teachers and translators. As the establishment of spelling rules for each of nine languages nears completion, workshop activity increases, including computer training, beginning literacy classes, literature production (including booklets on vital topics like AIDS, health education etc), and starting the translation of the first Biblical books. This project can change people’s lives. It has the potential of reaching 1+ million people, improving their education by making their mother tongues available in written form, and improving their understanding of the Christian faith by providing vernacular Scriptures.

Four short stories about the impact of the project in four of the nine languages can be found under the following web addresses.

For the Zanaki language: http://www.thetask.net/mara/this-is-very-good.html

For the Ikizu language: http://www.thetask.net/mara/the-blessing.html

For the Ikoma language: http://www.thetask.net/mara/you-are-just-wasting-your-time.html

For the Kuria language: http://www.thetask.net/mara/the-key-that-unlocked-scripture.html

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