Weekly Update, June 21st 2024

1. Sunday 23 June Gift Day

Gift Day is an opportunity for you to express your thanks to God for his goodness and generosity to you during the last year. The target is £40,000. Half of this will be used to help pay for a new heating system for the church hall. The other half will be divided equally between four projects: Eco-stoves for Malawi, solar panels at Scoughall, the Galilee Garden and improvements to North Berwick harbour.  You can bring cheque or cash to church this Sunday or any other one – please make sure your envelope is marked ‘Gift Day’. Alternatively you can make an electronic payment to

Account no.                        00228845

Sort Code                           80-17-95

Account Name                  St Andrew Blackadder Church.

This is a different account from the one used for regular offerings.

Unless you give alternative instructions your gift will be divided between the different projects according to the proportions I’ve indicated.

2)   Worship on Sunday 23 June

Services return to their usual pattern in the church building at 9.30 am and 10.30 am. Junior Church and YF will be at 10.30 am, and that is the service which will be streamed. The passage if Colossians 3:1-11 and the theme, Are you a thermostat or a thermometer?

3)   Galilee Garden

One of the Gift Day projects is to help fund the Galilee Garden in Israel.  It is the brain child of Rev Muriel Pearson who works with the Church of Scotland in Israel. She spoke very movingly at morning services in St Andrew Blackadder on 31 Dec 2023.

Muriel’s ministry is focused on hospitality, welcome and bridge building. She is based at the Church of Scotland centre which overlooks the Sea of Galilee. Her vision is to develop the garden, which currently is a wilderness, into a place of prayer and peace. From Gift Day the congregation intends to give £5,000 – a tangible expression of our longing that shalom (God’s peace) may come to this troubled part of the world.

4)   Welcome Evening

Wed 3 July 7 pm

Are you new to St Andrew Blackadder? This is an evening that will help you find your place in the congregation. It will help you work out how you can find your place and where you can serve. It will be informal, fast paced and informative.  It will finish by 8.30 pm. Please come!

5)   Prayer Gatherings

Every Sunday in Prayer Room between 10 and 10.20 am

Every Monday in Room 1 between 10 and 11 am.

Every Wednesday on Zoom between for 30 minutes starting at 7 pm.

Please contact the office for log in details.

 

Neil

Rev Dr Neil Dougall