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a ton to the Grassmarket - thank you!
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Nearly
half a ton of food delivered to the Grassmarket
Mission, which provides help to homeless people in Edinburgh, following
the Harvest Festival donations at our three worship centres on 19th October.
We'd like to say a special thank you to the children (and their parents)
in Newtongrange and Mayfield Primary Schools: the huge number of bags
you brought to the harvest assembly really helped - we almost needed a
bigger van! David Todd, who manages the Mission, said, "I am overwhelmed,
once again, by the fantastic generosity of the people - especially the
school children - of Newbattle Parish. We were nearly out of food and
your tins, packets, bottles and jars are just what we need." David
was expecting to serve hot meals to over 100 homeless people on the day
the food was delivered.
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| Kirkbank
Project - an update... |
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are making excellent progress towards finalising Midlothian Council's formal
approvals of the detail of the new building. A process called "porosity
testing" has now been carried out by the company that will construct
the building to check the condition of the ground on which it will sit.
A report goes to the Congregational Board in November and we hope to have
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Then
came the day we all went swimming - with more than 8ildren and a large
team of adult helpers! Great fun and none of the children left behind
an item of clothing, although an adult team member (who shall remain nameless)
did!!
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WORSHIPCENTRAL
UK Tour Edinburgh - 17 October 2008
WORSHIPCENTRAL
is a school of worship from Alpha International with a vision to encounter
God, equip the worshipper and empower the local church. Since launching
in 2006, tens of thousands of worship leaders, musicians and worshippers
have attended training events around the world, as well as using the on-line
resource, www.worshipcentral.org.
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On
Friday 17th October, a number of our fellowship attended one such event,
hosted by Morningside Baptist church and led by Tim Hughes and Al Gordon.
We joined between six and seven hundred other believers - worshippers and
worship leaders from so many different branches of Christ's Church in Scotland
- Free and Church of Scotland, Baptist, Catholic, traditional and free expression.
The Bible-based teaching on passion, purity and perseverance, the spontaneous
prayer and passionate praise of God our Saviour was so encouraging, reassuring,
challenging, inspiring - God our Father speaking to us, His gathered Church;
speaking to our hearts. I came away that evening with a number of thoughts:
need to seek Jesus every day, to realise that, whether we feel it or not,
His Holy Spirit is working in us as individuals and through His church family
to transform our passion for God, to encourage and empower us to worship
Him with our whole lives. The world needs to meet Jesus and our lives, transformed
and freed up by God, will cause others we encounter in our daily lives to
ask questions about what or who it is that makes the difference for us -
as a friend put it, we become part of a Church of 'explanation' (Ref: Acts
2:42 - 47). Words from songs we sang come to mind: 'We must go, live to
feed the hungry, stand beside the broken, we must go, stepping forward,
keep us from just singing, move us into action. We must go'; 'Give us Your
courage'…
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