All updates from Liberton Kirk
If you enjoy walking then this Saturday there is an event just for you. Check out our latest page for the Thought & Trot group. There is a walk from Gullane to North Berwick so if you are interested in joining in the contact details for Andrea are on the page and she’d love to hear from you.
Now available to read online is the September edition of the church magazine. Read it directly online or download a copy to your phone or tablet and get the daily devotions, months diary and great articles and updates in your pocket to read on your way to work or at lunch. Check out the magazine archive page as well for previous editions.
Will you visit this place this particular Tuesday – for the first time perhaps?
Each Tuesday the hall above the Kirkgate Café becomes the Upper Room…..a quiet place with various spaces….comfy sofas, chairs, music, journals, readings, pebbles and a cross to pause in front of…….to help you have time out with God…….from 7.30am to 7.30pm. You are very welcome to come and make use of this time and space as and when you want during these hours.
At 7.30-8.00am, 12.00-12.30pm and 7.00-7.30pm there are times to share with others in prayer and comment at the Daily Devotions.
The Café downstairs is open from 9.30am-2.00pm Monday – Thursday……with a great menu…great prices…..and of course friendly staff!!
Take a thoughtful walk this summer?
Each Sunday morning, after the 11am service, there are opportunities to make use of the Prayer Stations in the church building.
There are members of the Prayer Team on duty in two locations – at the prayer corner near the East Door and at the back of the sanctuary – who are available for prayer ministry – to pray with you about an issue or to give thanks with you for an answer to prayer.
The Prayer Tree is also available at the East Door – for prayer requests and answers to be added – if you prefer not to talk to someone on duty.
We believe in Prayer – let’s put it into practice together!
Here at Liberton we have just come to the end of our season of looking ‘inward’ where we’ve been asking the question “What sort of a church do we want to be?” Our next season will be looking ‘outward’ and we are going to spend the summer months in preparation for this.
One of the first things we have to face up to is the reality that for most of us ‘outreach’ is a scary thing. For years our church culture has supported the notion that faith is a ‘private’ thing, and so any suggestion that we share it is met with uncertainty and reluctance.
To say our faith is a ‘private’ thing, however, is to confuse ‘private’ with ‘personal’. It was John Wesley who once said “Your faith may be a personal affair, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be a private one.” To be an outward-looking church is to be a church without walls – i.e. to be a community of Christians who are willing to be visible to the world.
But how do we do outreach? This is the question we are hoping to answer over the summer, and to this end we are inviting you to come back to school. In our Sunday morning service we will be learning from Jesus own teaching on outreach in Luke 10, and in our Sunday evening worship we will be running our first ‘Summer School of Mission’.
The Summer School of Mission will have two distinctive features:
Our means of outreach will simply be to think of ways of blessing an area of our parish. This summer we have chosen to target the new houses at Liberton Grange, (while Liberton Northfield will be targeting homes in the Inch). We will be knocking on doors to offer a welcome, some home baking, some useful information about the Kirk Halls and an invitation to a ‘meet the neighbours’ afternoon in the Kirkgate Café.
So, whether you are able to join us, or to supply some home baking, or to remember us in your prayers, your participation would be very welcome.
Much love
John
