- Sunday 13th September Services at 9.30 am and 10.30 am (live-streamed). This week’s services will be led by the Rev Mary Haddow. The passage Matthew 5:13-20 and the theme is Sermon on the Mount- Ordinary Things, Extraordinary Purpose
Kaleidoscope Magazine- If you deliver the magazine, the latest edition is ready for collection. There are also copies available to take home in both the high Street and St Andrew Street entrances. Alternatively you can read it on our website https://www.standrewblackadder.org.uk/post-1730/
2) Global week of Prayer 6-13th September
Thank you to everyone who’s signed up to prayer slots this week. There are still plenty of slots left before it finishes on Sunday night – sign up https://signup.24-7prayer.com/signup/4d4b88 and remember to add a ‘v’ if you wish to pray virtually from home. Julie in the office is also happy to sign you up.
Feedback from those who’ve spent time in the prayer room has been so wonderful, with people experiencing Gods presence, enjoying the prayer activities and feeling a sense of peace on leaving.
Any questions, please get in touch with Ali Buchanan
3) Harvest Thanksgiving Service. This years’ service will be held on Sunday 27th September. We will be supporting TearFund again this year and will have their collection envelopes available as well as collecting items for the East Lothian Food Bank. Below is a list of items most needed
4) Macmillan Coffee Morning Sat 26thSept 10am – 12 noon in the chapel. Please put the date in your diary and come along to enjoy some home baking & help to make cancer care better for everyone, whoever & wherever they are. Donations of home baking will be gratefully received. For more information please speak to Katie K, Joan Mac or Elaine M.
5) The Guild
The Annual Gathering will be streamed on Saturday 12th September in the Chapel from 11am to 4pm.
Do come along to be part of this, the biggest event of the Guild year, bringing over 1000 Guild members and friends together for a day of worship, celebration and fellowship. We will be joined this year by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Rev Gordon Kennedy who share his thoughts on our new theme, ‘Beyond the Walls’. We will also have a special guest speaker, Rev Jane Howitt, Chaplain at Heriot University and wonderful entertainment. We can be part of this without travelling to Perth! So do join us. Tea and coffee will be available from 10.30 – 11am and during the lunch break.
A Soup and pudding lunch for the congregation will be served by the Guild on Sunday 13th September at 12 noon in the church hall, and everyone is invited to come along. This is to raise funds for o this year’s project “Living Stones for Livingstonia”. The LIVING STONES project celebrates 150 years link with the Church of Scotland and the Synod of Livingstonia in Malawi and the Church of Scotland Guild is aiming to equip a maternity unit in Bandawe, one of the first places the 19th century missionaries helped to found. Every penny will help to provide vital support to pregnant women and newborn babies. The National Guild have set an ambitious target of £15,000 which would be a wonderful living legacy!
We will be covering shoeboxes for the Blythswood appeal on Tuesday 15th September from 2-4pm in the Chapel. Please come along and help with this – its fun and tea, coffee and chat with friends will be provided! Please, also bring scissors – wrapping paper and sellotape will be provided. These boxes will then be ready for members of the congregation to take home and fill with items on the included list, and to be returned to the church at a later date.
The national Guild is encouraging all members to join in an hour of prayer for guidance on the future of the Guild from 2-3pm on Monday 14th September. This can be undertaken either at home or here in the Prayer Room
6) Annual Welcome evening. Each year we like to provide an opportunity for people who are new to the church to hear about our history, our guiding ethos and some of the church activities. Our objective is to help newcomers to get a more complete picture of what goes on and why – which is sometimes difficult to get from a busy Sunday morning and casual discussions. The conversations are led by Neil our minister, Tommy, Sheila & Rodger our Session Clerk’s and others in the church. Please let Julie in the office know if you would like more information. admin@standrewblackadder.org.uk
7) Messy Church October Could you please save any flat pack cardboard 1-1.5 m long and as wide as possible? Also any strong cardboard tube over 1m long.
8) Prayer Gatherings Every Sunday in Prayer Room between 10 and 10.20 am Every Monday in Room 1 between 10 and 11am Every Wednesday on Zoom for 30 minutes starting at 7 pm. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88152470672?pwd=WHpUOVdWN3NpSTBCUjF3aDRhcE1Ldz09 Meeting ID: 881 5247 0672,
Julie
0 comments on “Weekly Update, 11th September 2026”