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...

This Week at Church

Posted on March 8, 2016February 20, 2019 by admin

There's a weekly bulletin most weeks - usually out on Thursdays for the following Sunday. The bulletin has the Order of Service for Sunday, notices, announcements, prayer points and information.Click on the above event... (more…)

Sunday 3rd January

Posted on December 31, 2015December 31, 2015 by admin

This Sunday is typically the worst attended Sunday service of the year, because understandably everyone is shattered! However, hopefully this will tempt you along; It is John Orioha's last Sunday in Scotland and his birthday. As a student from Nigeria, his visa allowed him to stay for the length of his studies and a few more weeks, but as he has successfully graduated, his visa means he has to return home. He has added to our worship group in voice and in style for the last 6ish months, and h...

Community Act of Remembrance

Posted on October 20, 2015March 19, 2016 by admin

Every year Granton Parish Church holds an Act of Remembrance for the community to remember people from the area who fell in the First and Second World Wars, who have served with our Armed Forces or been involved in conflicts around the world - past and present. This year the Act of Remembrance will take place around the Granton War memorial in the grounds of Granton Parish Church in Boswall Parkway on November 8, from 10:50-11:10, followed by a Remembrance Service inside the church for those...