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.

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Fund Raising Group

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Fund Raising Group

Renovation Project
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Renovation Project

We now have a very active Fund-raising group, comprising 22 members, which has met twice in preparation for the launch of the appeal. Our aim is to raise £250,000 over two to three years.

We are busy planning a range of fund raising events which we hope will appeal to both the congregation and to the wider community. However the most important aspect of the appeal is undoubtedly our willingness, as members and adherents to pledge some money towards the costs. This can be a lump sum or a regular amount over a specified time period. We do hope that all members and friends of this congregation will feel that they would like to play a part in this big undertaking. Church members will receive an appeal package in September from their elder.

Members may recall that the Kirk Session was keen to link or fund-raising to some charitable work and, to this end the Fund raising group has selected four charities as beneficiaries. They are to be

Richmond's Hope

Richmond Craigmillar Parish Church provides support for children in situations of bereavement. They need lots of arts & crafts materials to help children make memory boxes.

Sunflower Garden Project run by Crossreach the 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 need money to help take children on trips and provide clubs.

Projects organised by our missionary partners: the Fucellas in Thailand and the Stegens in Kenya.


While we do want to encourage this aspect of our giving, we understand that some may not wish the money they give to go further than our own renovation project. If that is the case you are asked to note that on the pledge form.

What else do we have planned?

  • An exciting musical evening on 15 November - a concert by the Vienna Horns of Scotland and the Weiner Waldhorn Verein.
  • A Tutored Wine Tasting
  • Lovely Mugs are being designed specially for our church
  • Church notelets
  • And next summer - look out for our Charity Shop. This is a major undertaking and will need lots of us to sign up to help. Start collecting goods for sale now!

Several extravaganzas are being planned for next year. Do join in and experience the fun and fellowship.

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