11 – 17 May is Christian Aid week. To find out more, and to donate online, go to: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/key-appeals/christian-aid-week
Our next services will be on Sunday 18th May
Athelstaneford 9.30am
Prestonkirk 11.00am
Worship this week will be led by Jacqueline Waugh.
Activities are available for children during the services, and refreshments are provided after all our Sunday services.
You can listen to past sermons by clicking the links on our Sermons page here.
Our most recent monthly update, detailing all of our upcoming services and activities is available here. To sign up for the monthly update email, please contact admin@parishoftraprain.org.uk
Our minister, Rev Douglas Hamilton can be contacted on 07831 657854, e-mail: dhamilton@churchofscotland.org.uk
Prayers at Whitekirk take place every fortnight from 2pm at St Mary’s, Whitekirk. This short time of prayer is based around the Celtic Daily Prayers of the Northumbria Community. We meet next on Wednesday 21st May.
On Sunday 25th May we have a special evening of Prayer and Praise at Prestonkirk from 7pm.
For other updates on what is happening within the church and our community, visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/parishoftraprain
During the month of May, please use the following prompts as a guide for your prayers:
Our Friendship Group meets on Wednesday mornings between 10-11.30am at the Lynton Day Centre in East Linton. At these meetings you get a chance to meet new people, learn new skills and connect with others in our community. There’s tea, coffee and home baking. People with dementia and their carers are particularly welcome.
Colourful Connections is a creative art session for people of all artistic abilities (and none) to enhance brain health and emotional well-being – an opportunity to learn new skills, make friends and chat with each other.
Tuesday mornings 10 – 12 at Prestonkirk Stables.
Please email admin@parishoftraprain.org.uk for further information.
Community Cafe
Don’t forget that every Thursday we hold a Community Cafe between 10am-12pm at Prestonkirk Stables in East Linton. Join us for a tea/coffee and a chat.
This is a partnership between the Church, The Ridge, Dunbar Debt Advice Service and East Lothian Foodbank. Support and advice is freely available and includes: Benefit support, Foodbank, Befriending, Budgeting and Housing Support, Recovery support and access to volunteering and wellbeing services.
Prayer has been a part of human activity across time and across cultures, but there are also many in our community who struggle with the idea of prayer and are not too sure where to start. The trypraying booklet is a short guide to prayer written primarily for people who aren’t religious. Copies of the booklet are available from our churches or you can check out the website for more information: www.trypraying.org
There is a weekly service at Prestonkirk, East Linton at 11.00 am.
On the first and third Sundays of the month there is a service at Athelstaneford. On the second and fourth Sundays there is a service at Stenton. All these services are at 9.30am.
In months where there is a fifth Sunday, we gather for a joint service at Prestonkirk at 11am.
Activities are available for children during the services, and refreshments are provided after all our services.