PILRIG St PAUL’S CHURCH APRIL 2013
SUNDAY SERVICES AT 11AM Holy Communion is celebrated on the last Sunday of January, April, June and October at the 11am Service, and informally as announced. The “OPEN DOORWAY” is open each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11am - 1.00pm. Pop in or arrange to meet a friend there over a cup of coffee. Enter by the main door. Our wheelchair entrances are in Pilrig Street. ORGANISATIONS WITHIN THE CHURCH BUILDINGS: Sundays - Sunday Club, 10:45 am for ages P1-S4 all welcome (Mark Wexelstein 665 6881) Mondays - Rainbows 5.45pm (Christine Buchanan 554 2941) Brownies 6.45pm (Christine Buchanan) Tuesdays The Guild 2.00pm (Irene Wexelstein 476 1385) Details of the New Session in the October Magazine *Pilrig Choristers 4-5.30pm Session Room *Pilrig Chorus at 7.30pm. Wednesdays - Lunch club 12 noon (Marjory McArthur 553 2323) *Vocal Vibes and Singchronicity youth choirs 4-5.30pm Halls *Contact Colin Gray 07901 556 217 In Pilrig Park School: Thursdays Rainbows (Ann Urquhart 554 8387) 6.15-7.15 Brownies (Ann Urquhart ) 6.15-7.30 Guides (Karen Wood 554 5493) 7.30 - 9.00 In Broughton Primary School: Tuesdays The 5th Leith Scouts (Pilrig Edinburgh North East) Beavers 53/4 to 8 years (6.00 to 7.00 p.m.) Cubs 8 to 10 1/2 years (6.30 to 8.00 p.m.) Scouts 10 1/2 to 14 years (7.30 to 9.00 )
APRIL in PILRIG St PAUL’S ALL SERVICES IN APRIL ARE AT 11am IN THE SANCTUARY The Sacrament of Holy Communion takes place on Sunday 28th April 2013 at 11 am
The Guild April 9th Postponed till April 23rd April 16th afternoon tea April 23rd GLEN MILLER AND HIS MUSIC (Mr Ramsey) Flowers in Church We all appreciate the flowers in our Sanctuary. Thank you to all who provide them. Please see Aileen Fraser for details of how to put flowers in the Church on a Sunday significant to you. (at Church or 07936 716 765) Events outwith our premises Tuesday 16 April 2-4pm
A presentation about Christian Aid’s work in Bolivia. See page 3
Sunday 21 April at 7pm. A lively, spring “sing-along” of old favourite songs and hymns in support of the Scottish charity, 500 miles at St Cuthbert’s Church, Lothian Road. See page 4
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From the Interim Moderator, A joyous Easter to all at Pilrig St Paul’s! Since the last publication both your Kirk Session and Nomination Committee have been very busy. The Kirk Session produced a very positive, encouraging and challenging Parish profile. The Nomination Committee met with me and discussed some of the processes involved including the formation of an advert for Life & Work and Ministers’ Forum (an in-house publication for ministers). This has appeared in the April issues and we now wait to see what interest it will garner. The Nomination Committee also met with the Presbytery’s Advisory Committee to consider their approach to the later stages of the process. So we are in another waiting stage, but a different kind of waiting from what went before. I ask the congregation to continue to support the Committee with their prayers and in particular that the person God intends to call to this charge shall be primed to respond by the advert. In April the congregation shall welcome its third Locum. This is the Rev Sara Embleton who has considerable experience of this work in charges across Edinburgh over a number of years including at Polwarth before I arrived. Sara is married to another Edinburgh minister, Brian, whom I followed as minister to Shortlees Kilmarnock, back in the mid-1980s. As the first ordained Locum, Sara has the opportunity to build a real sense of continuity into the life and worship of the church for the remaining duration of the vacancy. I know the congregation has enjoyed the ministry of your most recent Locum, Maggie Hunt, and would wish her well in her forthcoming exams and in her probationary period at St Mary’s Haddington. I would wish to add my thanks for all her work at Pilrig’s St Paul’s that made my life so much easier. On a personal note, my father-in-law died on 23 March and so I am writing this as I prepare to take his funeral. He had dementia and bowel cancer and in the end his death was a blessing for my mother-in-law, wife and all the family. So please accept my apologies that I did not have the time to be fuller with this article. JACK HOLT
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There is a general invitation to meet with CA’s Bolivia programme officer, Cecelia Cordova who is visiting Scotland in mid April. Venue :- Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge Date:- Tuesday 16 April 2-4pm A presentation about Christian Aid’s work in Bolivia is followed by tea & coffee and a chance to talk with Cecelia, Christian Aid Scotland staff and fellow Christian Aid supporters.
Christian Aid week is 12-18 May There will be details of our events in the intimations and the May magazine.
THE MAGAZINE Thank you all for your contributions to the magazine. There are two more, in May and June before the summer break, so please keep other members up to date with your group. The deadline for May is Sunday 21st April. Catriona Blackwood 3
OLD SONGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL A lively, spring “sing-along” of old favourite songs and hymns in support of the Scottish charity, 500 miles at St Cuthbert’s Church, Lothian Road, on Sunday 21 April at 7pm. We all smile and want to sing along when we hear the hymns and songs we remember from our youth. At this fun, informal celebration in song, YOU’LL be making the rafters of St Cuthbert’s Church ring with rousing tunes such as “Ye Gates! Lift Up Your Heads on High” and “To God Be the Glory”, one or two “redemption” choruses and some childhood favourites too. Special guest, Janet de Vigne, will provide a solo interlude and the programme will be led by a gathered choir – but most of the singing will be done by the audience! Presented by Bill Copeland, the evening will run for 2¼ hours with an interval at which refreshments will be available. 500 miles (www.500miles.co.uk) helps disabled people in Malawi, Zambia and Zanzibar who have lost limbs or lost the use of their limbs to get access to artificial limbs and limb supports by developing and delivering prosthetic and orthotic services in these countries. (Registered charity number: SC038205) Tickets £10 (£8 concession, £5 children aged 5-15, free for children aged under 5) will be available at the door.
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ADVANCE NOTICE OF OUR YOUTH GROUPS PERFORMANCES
The Singchronicity performance of Bugsy Malone will be in Pilrig St Paul’s Church Hall on Saturday 25th May at 7.30pm.
The Vocal Vibes performance of One Planet Future will be in Pilrig St Paul’s Church on Sunday 19th May at 4pm.
Please check in the next magazine for final details of these performances. Sinchronicity is lead by Kate Rigg, with Iain Mathieson at the piano and Vocal Vibes by Annabel Johnston. They are all working very hard to give us two afternoons of entertainment.
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THANK YOU We would like to thank everyone at Pilrig Dalmeny for their kind Christmas wishes and the lovely tin of biscuits we received. We hope everybody has had a very nice Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Dorothy and George Swanston. (Apologies, I received this just after Christmas and omitted it in error-Ed) Mary Rennie thanks the members of Church for the Christmas gift she received, and also for flowers delivered recently. Thank you for my Christmas Present and to Alec Eddington for delivering it. Also thank you for the flowers from the Church after my hip replacement. Jessie Todd Just to say thank you so much for the flowers received on 3 March; very much appreciated. Antje Armstrong I would like to thank the congregation for the lovely flowers I received recently. They were much appreciated, as were the good wishes. Alec Eddington THANK YOU and GOODBYE to………..
Nikki Macdonald who has been an active member of our Church while studying. We will miss her very much, but it is great that she is now at the stage of moving on in her ministry. Her hours of trawling the internet for pictures for our screens will be a lasting reminder of her time with us and her huge input for Pilrig St Paul’s. Maggie Hunt, our locum minister who moves on in her studying – we will miss your ‘acted’ talks and sermons! All the best to you and your family. 6
PRAYER CORNER Ina Grierson Jean Stark Isabel Hannay Matthew Green Mary and Jimmy Rennie Jeanette Sime Peter Sinclair Murdo and Joy MacLeod Linda Connolly Jack McArthur Morag Davidson Lillian Kane Helen Greig John Michael Jacobson Marion Thomson
Margaret Scott Barbara Graham Cathie Galbraith Frances Chambers Donald Nisbet Norman Lawrence June Welsh Charlie and Joyce Forman Phil Howe Helena Aide Isabel Pert Agnes MacAuley Alan Black Diane Davies Olga
Please contact Roy Eprile with any names you would like included in this section. SAFEGUARDING Thank you to everyone who has filled in, or is about to fill in, PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) forms. It is very tedious, but we will get there! At present, those who were on our safeguarding register before disclosure was introduced are being asked to complete them, in batches of up to 10 at a time. Those with enhanced disclosure will be asked to do PVG forms at a later date. Nearly everyone has now attended a recent training course and the others will have the opportunity to do so soon. Thank you to everyone who gives up their time for this. Catriona Blackwood 7
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MINISTER Vacant Locum Minister - Rev Sara Embleton (0131 667 3981) srembleton@gmail.com SESSION CLERK John Innes - 33 Monktonhall Place, Musselburgh (07563 248722) pilrig@btinternet.com THE CONGREGATIONAL BOARD CLERK Aileen Fraser (07936 716 765) aileen.fraser@btinternet.com ASSISTANT CLERK Maria Croall (07747 071 545) croallm@hotmail.com CORRESPONDENCE to: The Clerk to the Congregational Board Pilrig St Paul’s Church, 1B Pilrig Street, Edinburgh EH6 5AH TREASURER Mark Wexelstein (665 6881) mark.wexelstein@gmail.com ROLL KEEPER Mrs Jeanette E. Sime - 1 South Trinity Road (552 9652) PASTORAL CONVENER Mrs Linda Gill (669 7409) PASTORAL LINK ELDER and SAFEGUARDING CO-ORDINATOR Mrs Catriona E.W. Blackwood - 4 Cambridge Gardens (554 6183) bill.blackwood@tesco.net PROPERTY CONVENER Eric Fisher (552 8982) 104 Crewe Crescent HALL LET GROUP psp.halluse@gmail.com ORGANIST and CHOIRMASTER Colin Grey (07901 556 217) SUNDAY CLUB LEADER Mark Wexelstein (665 6881) mark.wexelstein@googlemail.com CHRISTIAN GIVINGS CONVENERS Mrs Ella Gilfillan - 8 Paisley Terrace (661 2281) Mrs Irene Wexelstein - 15 Upper Hermitage (476 1385) MAGAZINE Editor - Mrs Catriona E.W. Blackwood - see above Distribution - Mrs Margaret Cameron - 35 Lorne Street (554 2139)
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