REMEMBERING THEM
PILRIG St PAUL’S CHURCH NOVEMBER 2012
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 starts 25th September at 7.30pm. Wednesdays - Lunch club 12 noon (Marjory McArthur 553 2323) *Vocal Vibes and Singchronicity youth choirs 4-5.30pm Halls (*All music enquiries Martin Ritchie 07984 466 855) 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 )
NOVEMBER at PILRIG St PAUL’S Sunday 4th November Morning Worship at 11am Rev Jack Holt, Interim Moderator Sunday 11th November REMEMBRANCE SERVICE 10.45am Rev George Whyte, Presbytery Clark Tuesday November 13th 2 pm Guild - Jennifer Stark, Work in the Ocean Terminal Saturday 17th November 10am-12noon Guild Coffee morning 7.30pm Singchronicity present a 1920s Concert in the Sanctuary see page 8 for information re forthcoming Musical Events Sunday 18th November Morning Worship at 11am Nikki Macdonald Sunday 25th November Morning Worship at 11am During our vacancy most services will be taken by our locum. His/her name will be announced to the congregation once the appointment is made and confirmed. TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS from 11-1 Following completion of the work in the Sanctuary our open doorway will resume soon. The date will be announced in the intimations. Eric Fisher and the team look forward to seeing you there. Flower Diary
November & December 2012
4th November
Flower Fund
11th November
Flower Fund
18th November
Flower Fund
25th November
Sheelagh Green
PILRIG St PAUL’S CHURCH
OCTOBER 2012
Dear Friends
Marlyn and I thank all members and friends of the congregation for your company as together we’ve shared in the ups and downs of the journey as Christians in the Lorne and Pilrig area of Leith over the past 27 years. A large part of our lives has been invested in Leith including working with the Leith Churches Forum and Leith Churches Together and of course we feel sad to be leaving. Goodbyes are never easy – but we feel greatly privileged to have been given wonderful send-offs by the Staff and pupils of Lorne Primary School and also the staff and residents of Victoria Manor Nursing Home. These have all been topped marvellously by the wonderful congregational farewell Party on Saturday 27th October! We will, in due course be moving house to the Liberton area of the city. and we will watch with interest the unfolding new chapters in the life of Pilrig St Paul’s.
God bless you all!
Marlyn & John.
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INTRODUCING THE INTERIM MODERATOR. When a congregation becomes vacant the Presbytery appoints another minister, called an Interim Moderator, to look after the vacancy procedure. For Pilrig St Paul’s Presbytery has appointed the Rev Jack Holt, minister of Polwarth Parish Church. Jack became the minister at Polwarth in May 2011 with previous ministries in rural Aberdeenshire (16 years), a housing estate in Kilmarnock (8 years) and a suburb in Glasgow (2 years as probationer and assistant). He is originally from Greenock, trained as an Electrical and Electronic Engineer with IBM before entering the ministry in 1984. He is married to Sandra (32 years) who presently works as a Stewardship Consultant for the Church of Scotland and they have three grown up children, Jonathan (28) (married to Rachel), Adam (24) and Sarah (21). Jack also shares a connection to John Tait in that they were in the same sub-group at the same Selection School for the ministry back in 1980. Jack writes: “Although the experience of a vacancy is something of a novelty for the congregation, I have been an Interim Moderator on many occasions and so would like to think Pilrig St Paul’s will be in safe hands. I will be taking the service on Sunday, 4 November which will be the first service of the vacancy to formally introduce myself and to outline to vacancy procedure to the congregation.”
THE MAGAZINE Thank you for all the information I have received for this magazine but I could still use more! The deadline for December is Sunday 18th November. I am now taking orders for Life and Work for 2013. Please let me know if you would like to subscribe. The cost for the year is £19.44. Catriona Blackwood
THANKS Aileen Fraser and Maria Croall send thanks to everyone who sponsored them in the Bethany Sponsored Walk. They raised an excellent ÂŁ333.00 between them.
LEITH CHURCHES TOGETHER
At a recent Kirk Session meeting it was noted that Pilrig St Paul’s is short of one representative on the Leith Churches Together Committee. If you are interested in helping and supporting the ecumenical working together of Leith Churches across the various denominations please give your name to the Session Clerk Mr John Innes.
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 Lilian Kane Val and Stuart Tod
Margaret Scott Barbara Graham Cathie Galbraith Frances Chambers Moira Fergie Norman Lawrence June Welsh Charlie and Joyce Forman Phil Howe Helena Adie Isabel Pert Agnes MacAuley
Please contact Roy Eprile with any names you would like included in this section.
PASTORAL NOTES
A Helping Hand Would you like to help us? We are looking to set up a team of members who would be willing to visit other members who are housebound or in hospital. We know that visits like these can be vital to those in that situation. A friendly face chatting over a cup of tea can make all the difference and you would also feel that you are playing your part as a member of our congregation. You would be paired up with another member visitor and visiting members who express an interest in receiving a visit. The minister does undertake a lot of visits to members and so this activity will support our members as we go through the process of finding a new minister. Please consider if you would be willing to get involved even if only on a trial basis to see how you feel. It is of course important that we establish that these visits would be valued by our members and so we would like to hear from members who would appreciate a visit, someone to talk to over a cup of tea. Perhaps the visit could simply be reminiscing about days gone be and to hear the latest news of people in Pilrig St Paul’s. It would of course be arranged in advance at a time that suits both you and your visitors. If you would like a visit please contact Linda Gill or Catriona Blackwood. We would also be interested to hear from you on this topic even if you are not looking for a visit to take place. Once we have the feedback from those interested in being visited and also the initial team pulled together we will hold a get together of all those who are interested to discuss and agree the details of our programme, what we would want it to look and feel like, what level of commitment we would want to ask of people and to land the timeline. We look forward to hearing from you.
Linda Gill (669 7409) and Catriona Blackwood (554 6183)
We have booked a training session for volunteers, to be held in Pilrig St Paul’s Session room on 16th January, in the evening. I will be putting out detailed information to all vounteers, current, or just joining, in the next 2 weeks. If you do not receive an invitation, and would like to come, please let me know. If you cannot attend on that date, let me know and I will arrange for you to attend a training session in another Church. Catriona Blackwood FLOWER DIARY
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2012
4th November
Flower Fund
11th November
Flower Fund
18th November
Flower Fund
25th November
Sheelagh Green
2nd December
Flower Fund
9th December
Norman Leithead
16th December
Margaret & David Fraser
23rd December
Millie & Joe Bald
30th December
Flower Fund
I am grateful to Aileen Fraser for agreeing to take on looking after the Flower Rota and arranging for flowers to be in Church week by week.
Marlyn Tait
The teams, with a great deal of background support from Martin Ritchie and Lily Gilhooley, are running Vocal Vibes, Singchronicity and the Choristers as usual, and Martin is conductuing the Pilrig Chorus. While the post of organist is not yet filled, and the organ is under wraps during work in the sanctuary, we are greatful to Mairi Leitch, Martin Ritchie, Jennifer Stark and David Fraser for playing the piano for our recent services, and to Mark Wexelstein for booking them.
CONCERT St. Margaret’s Church, Easter Road,Edinburgh Sunday November 4th, 7:30 p.m. _______________________________ A Memorial tribute to Fiona Pirie who passed away last year, given by her friends. ___________________________ Musical Contributors: ICC Saxophone Ensemble Tetrax Quartet Alternative Medicine Band The Pilrig Chorus and others with whom she made music. _________________________________ Donations for Cancer Research
MINISTER Vacant SESSION CLERK John Innes - 33 Monktonhall Place, Musselburgh (665 9125) 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, 1A Pilrig Street, Edinburgh EH6 5AH TREASURER Mark Wexelstein (665 6881) mark.wexelstein@googlemail.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 Vacant 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) Scottish Charity no. SCO07277 www.pilrigstpauls.org.uk www.leithchurchesforum.org.uk