Community Day 7th September – can you be a mingler?

Posted on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 by admin

We are looking for volunteers for stewarding, health and safety, greeters and minglers for the Community Day on 7th September. Can you help? Want more info? Speak to any of the Outreach Group or email dloutreachgroup@granton.org.uk

New Welcome Ministry Schedules

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by admin

Welcome Ministry schedules for August - October are now made up. Check email for yours if you are on any schedules. Check the Welcome Ministry Rota page

Swap Shop – or is it?? What would YOU call it?

Posted on June 16, 2019June 17, 2019 by admin

For over a year we've been running our highly successful 'Swap Shop' and the Granton Goes Greener project in the West Hall. The 2 main reasons are to reduce the amount of clothing going to landfill and also to give people the chance to re-use clothes. When is a Swap Shop not a swap shop? We are looking for a new name for the Swap Shop - one that doesn't suggest that you need to bring something in to swap, or to take clothes away if you bring some. What will it be?? We're asking the...

Lent starts this week…..Wednesday 6th March

Posted on March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 by admin

Each day throughout Lent there will be a ‘Thought For The Day’ from the ministry team here at Granton. Lent is the period of 40 days which comes before Easter in our Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. We'll be sending out a ‘Lent Thought for the Day’ right through from Wedne...

Community Council Newsletter

Posted on March 3, 2019 by admin

Here is the latest issue of the Granton and District Community Council newsletter. Many thanks to Mizan for compiling it and passing it on to us. feb2019_issue13_gdcc_newsletter

New Lives for new Granton Residents – in 1939

Posted on February 7, 2019February 9, 2019 by admin

This archive film recently came to light in the National Libary of Scotland's Screen Archives. It was shot in 1939 and shows the experiences of a fictional family, the McAllisters, in their move from the city slums to a new housing scheme in Granton. Their new home has attractions which tend to soften the blow of being uprooted from the little world they have left behind. Family walk around their new home (0.30) The men begin to unload the cart (0.43) But with nothing to do, nowhere to go ...

Day 23 Dec 25 Luke 2:1-7

Posted on December 25, 2017December 18, 2017 by admin

Day 23 Dec 25 Luke 2:1-7 There is a lovely song written by a Christian group called Casting Crowns which is called "while you were sleeping". It asks questions of those in Bethlehem who missed Jesus birth, of those who failed to notice the signs, of those lying in the dark who missed the everlasting light, when God became human and stepped into the world. Born in a place foretold but forgotten and ignored by those who should have known better. Shepherds, wise men and angels, not the religi...

Welcome Ministry Schedules – play your part

Posted on October 3, 2017November 20, 2017 by admin

We are about to make up the Welcome Ministry Rotas for the next 3 months, so let us know if you're "off" and want to be "on", or "on and want to be "off". (more…)

Posted on April 9, 2017 by admin

Alan and Sandra were preparing for our next catering night for the Bethany Winter Care Shelter on Sunday by buying the food to feed fifty homeless people. This is what the retiring offerings at the Christmas Services are funding. This time we have an away team at the Church of the Sacred Heart at Lauriston.

Bethany Care Shelter – playing our part

Posted on January 10, 2017February 21, 2017 by admin

Granton Parish Church has again volunteered our catering talents in support of the Bethany Winter Care Shelter. The Care Shelter provides rough sleepers with a place to go for the night where they can find shelter, a hot meal and a warm place to sleep over the winter, from November until April. The service is run by a skeleton staff from Bethany and relies on around 800 volunteers from churches across the Lothian’s who provide church venues for service users to sleep in on a nightly rota b...