Welcome to this Service of Worship
Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
7 August 2022 at 10.30am
WELCOME! This congregation is part of the Church of Scotland:
we are Reformed in our understanding of Christian faith,
Presbyterian in how we form our community, and a
member of the worldwide family of the Christian Church.
Whether you are in regular attendance at worship or this
is one of your first visits, you are very welcome as part of
this community and today’s service of worship. God bless
you. If you would like to keep in touch, please complete
the Connection Card on the back page of the printed
order or email
Notes on the Music, by Philip Sawyer Alan Hovhannes was an Amercian
composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. I am delighted to be joined
this morning by the young Ukrainian trumpeter Mariia Vodovozova. I was
her guardian when she was a pupil at the Purcell School in London; she is
now a student of music in Timisoara, Romania.
NEWS AND INTIMATIONS
1. OPEN TO ALL Coffee and tea will be served in the LOWER HALL at
the close of the Sunday services. Everyone is very welcome.
2. HEARING LOOP The whole of the church is served by a hearing loop.
Users should turn their hearing aid to the setting marked T.
3. YOUTH UPDATES Sunday 14 August: Youth Service Project and
Fringe outing for S2-S6 - We will be meeting at 530pm in the church for a
service project with Bethany Christian Trust, followed by pizza and
'Sunshine on Leith' at the Rose Theatre. Please contact Hillary by Monday 8
August if you would like to sign-up for this event. The cost is £15 per
person for dinner and the show. Youth Group will have its 'kick-off' session
on Sunday 4 September!
4. GIVING – QR CODE Today you will see we have added a QR code to
this Order of Service and larger versions near the exit doors.
Our Quick Response code is a handy way of using your smart ‘phone or
tablet’s QR app to link you to our Giving Page. Once you have joined the
Giving Page all the usual protocols and safeguards are still operative.
The Kirk Session wishes to express its continuing gratitude to those who
support the Church's work through their offerings. Covid restrictions have
prevented circulation of the ‘plate’ during services but those who would
have wished to use it may make use of the bowls marked ‘Plate Collection’
situated in the vestibule and halls entrance, at the close of the service .
Regular and one-off donations are possible online at
www.give.net/20311853 (scan the QR code) Or please contact our Freewill
Offerings Treasurer, Hugh Somerville on 0131 466 2446 or
5. EDINBURGH PEOPLE’S THEATRE (EPT) are delighted to be back in
action after a two year absence due to the pandemic. Our Fringe offering
this year is the Scots comedy The Deil’s Awa by Alan Cochrane, a roistering
tale of smugglers and excisemen in 18th century Pittenweem.
EPT are proud to be the only theatre group remaining from the original
eight that ‘gatecrashed’ the very first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947.
So, if you want to take part in the REAL EDINBURGH FRINGE do not miss
this August production In Mayfield Salisbury Church Hall (Venue 11).
Tickets are now on sale, priced at £12 (£10 concession) and are available
online at www.ept.org.uk/boxoffice or by phone on 0333 666 3366
(booking fee applies.)
All performances commence at 7.30pm from Friday 5 August to Friday 19
August except Saturdays 6, 13 and 20 August which commence at 2.30pm.
(No shows Saturday evenings or Sundays.) More information is contained
on the leaflets now available in the Church Hall.
6. PASTORAL CARE If you would like to have a regular home visit or
telephone call from one of our pastoral care team, please contact me and I
will arrange that for you. If you would like to be held in prayer, or would
like us to pray for someone you know, please make your request to Kay. If
you would like to participate in our confidential prayer chain praying for
these requests, please get in touch; prayer chain emails are sent out once a
week. You can email Kay on 07587 043 191 or
7. MIDWEEK PRAYERS You are most welcome to attend a time of
peace, prayer and reflection in the church sanctuary, this Tuesday at 10.00am.
8. JEAN’S KILTWALK I will be walking 14 miles on September 18 and
fundraising for Edinburgh Street Pastors. You may like to donate at
www.justgiving.com/EdinburghKiltwalk2022-JeanLeitch Cash or cheques
also gratefully received. Thank You! Jean MacGilchrist
9. STUDENT WELCOME: ‘CURRY AND CONVERSATION’ EVENING AT
MAYFIELD SALISBURY CHURCH ON WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER. Mayfield
Salisbury Church has many links with the University of Edinburgh, not least
via our minister Sandy Forsyth’s on-going responsibilities at the School of
Divinity at New College. Postgraduate Students arriving in Edinburgh to
study at the School of Divinity from overseas often have few if any contacts
with locals in general and with places of worship specifically. Last year
Mayfield Salisbury Church offered these students (whatever their faith) a
warm Scottish welcome by hosting a “Curry and Conversation’ welcome
event which was well attended and much appreciated by the students.
Several took up the opportunity to link with a host family for continued
friendship and support.
This year we will repeat the welcome event with a Curry and Conversation
evening on Wednesday 14 September from 6.30 to 8.30 pm in the Bill
McDonald Hall.
We will also facilitate connecting students, should they so wish, to
‘welcome hosts’ of individuals or families from the congregation. Examples
of hosting activities might include inviting them for a meal, showing them
the local sights and joining them at church on a Sunday morning
If you would like to (1) attend the welcome event and/or (2) become a
‘welcome host’, please contact Alastair MacGilchrist
(
Monday 22 August.
10. STAMP APPEAL We are still collecting stamps! This year, the proceeds
from selling them will be used to support pastors in Lebanon. They are
employed by the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon (NESSL),
which is a partner of the Church of Scotland. The economic crisis in the
country has struck hard and the Synod is struggling to pay salaries. Pastors
are key people supporting the spiritual and institutional life and ministry of
the Synod. Despite the hardships experienced, they are reaching out to the
needy in their congregations in a sacrificial way, and have even set up a
scheme where they give half of their salary to a relief programme for the
neediest families. The desperate situation has prompted the Synod to ask
its partners around the world for support. This year the Stamp Project aims
to raise enough funds to pay a pastor a full year's salary. You can be part of
this simply by passing on your used stamps.
Look out for our red stamp-collecting box on the table in the Halls
entrance. If you have a large collection, or stamps which you believe to be
valuable, please let me know and I’ll be happy to pick them up from you in
person. Contact Kate O’Brien
4362. Thank you!
11. THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL OF THE SACRED ARTS IN THE FRINGE
offers a wide range of events including worship, visual art, dance, music,
drama and poetry. Tickets available via the Fringe
https://tickets.edfringe.com You can pick up a leaflet in the vestibule or
halls entrance.
12. COFFEE AND BLETHERS Coffee and Blethers has resumed and will run
over the Summer on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of July, August and
September from 2.00pm to 3.30pm.
13. UKRAINE It is difficult to remind ourselves as we enjoy time outside
(albeit recently under grey skies) in the eastern part of Ukraine there is no
peace as shells rain down indiscriminately on people, buildings and fields.
The current avenues by which help can be given to support Ukraine, from
hosting a refugee family to prayer, can be found on our website:
www.mayfieldsalisbury.org/index.php/gallery/ukraine Please also
remember those in other parts of the world who face conflict and suffering.
Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church holds a CCLI Streaming License: #88916
Forthcoming Deadlines
Order of service for next week: Thursday at 6.00pm.
Next Grapevine: Friday 26 August at 6.00pm.
Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church holds a CCLI Streaming License: #88916
Some images from Pixabay under licence.
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