What's On
Prayer bulletin for April is available in church and on the Prayer page here
Church Litter Pick - Saturday 13th April 10:30am. Meet at the church gate.
Scripture Union in our area. Saturday 27th April 1:30pm to 3:30pm at Ormiston Parish Church
Siskin Green Concert 10th May, 7:30pm. Siskin Green are a contemporary Scottish folk trio, drawing on themes of faith, feminism and justice. Jane Bentley (percussion), Suzanne Butler (fiddle, guitar) and Margaret McLarty (guitar, banjo, piano) weave close harmony singing with evocative folk instrumentation. Fiery protest songs are balanced by re-imagined hymns and their own new material, in a sound that moves between earthy and ethereal. Tickets available here.
Stated Annual Meeting. Sunday 5th May after the service.
Congregational Picnic. Sunday 23rd June, Vogrie park.
Sunflower Scotland - current appeal is for excersize eqipment for a rehab centre in North Ukraine. See Rachel McDonald for more info.
REGULAR EVENTS
Teenage Gathering: the next meeting in the upper room of the church hall is on Sunday 21st April 7:30 - 9:00pm.
Crookston Care Home service - next is Sunday 28th April 2:30pm
Prayer Group: Meetings are held in the church on Saturday mornings at 8am. All Welcome.
Open House: Open House takes place on Tuesday mornings in the Church Hall between 10am and 12 noon. Free tea, coffee and biscuits are served. All are welcome.
Pool Group The Pool Group meets on Wednesday mornings in the Upper Room of the Church Hall from 10am to 12 noon. All are welcome.
Fair Trade Stall We have a Fair Trade stall on the last Sunday of every month. With suppies from the Fair Trade shop in Portobello, there is an opportunity to buy various goods - cash only.
Magazine Sharing – bring and borrow - in the Church Gathering Area.
Foodbank Donations: Drop off points are Church Gathgering Area, Church Hall, Fraser Centre or Foodbank itself - 3 Civic Square (10am - 2pm Monday - Friday).
ONGOING PROJECTS
Crisp Packet Bivy Bag Project:
Crisp Packet Bivibag Project - We will pause further collection of crisp packets at the moment. A huge thanks to all who collected, sorted and ironed them - we should soon have 15 bivibags completed with 2,225 crisp packets recycled.
EASYFUNDRAISING
The Church has registered with easyfundraising and you can raise donations for Tranent Parish Church at no additional cost to you each time you shop online. Over 7,000 brands will donate, including all the big names like John Lewis, BT, Tesco, Argos, Boots, Marks and Spencer and many more. Please support us by registering on: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/tranent-parish-church.
By December 2023 we had raised over £134 through this.
Talk to Pamela or Linda if you would like to know more
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