Join us for Harvest Thanksgiving, 10.30am, Sunday 26th September

You must still book a place for the service. Please book your seat by emailing the Church Office (office@morningsideparishchurch.org.uk) 

Our Church offers Music and Memories in Morningside (MMM), a dementia friendly musical workshop, for those living with dementia and their carers. It is proving very popular. The funding we received for this project came from the Church of Scotland Go for It Fund and was for an initial 12-month pilot. We will soon receive new funding from the TOR Foundation to help build and expand this work. The sum will be £15,000 a year for 3 years, with a condition being that MPC match this with an extra £6,000 per year for the same 3 year period. The initial £6,000 target will be the focus for our Harvest Thanksgiving fund-raising, part of the National Giving Day encouraged by the Church of Scotland. The extra funding for the expanding programme for MMM will include:

• dementia friendly exercise classes
• therapeutic animal workshops
• intergenerational work
• monthly Games afternoons
• dementia Friendly Concerts, 4 times a year
• Pastoral Care Training
• befriending

Please consider giving generously to our Church’s life-enhancing work with those affected by dementia in our local community. Donations can be made in the following ways:

You can contribute online by PayPal via the link on the weekly email or Church website and if you have an existing gift aid declaration gift aid will be applied. Alternatively, you can contribute by way of bank transfer direct to the Church bank account as follows: Royal Bank of Scotland, Sort Code 83-19-16 Account number 00127800, quoting “National Giving Day.  

Harvest Thanksgiving will also be supporting the SE Edinburgh Foodbank with practical gifts. Throughout the year the Foodbank benefits from our generous donations, but today we are hoping that an extremely large effort will produce an extremely large amount of goods.

If you would prefer to make a financial contribution to enable the Foodbank to make its own purchases, please send a cheque (made payable to Blythswood Care – South East Edinburgh Foodbank) to Blythswood Care, Highland Deephaven, Evanton, Ross-shire, IV16 9XJ. If you would like an acknowledgement of your donation, please include your e mail address.

Coffee will be served after the 10.30am service in the St Matthew Hall. There are limited spaces so you MUST book a place by emailing the Church Office (office@morningsideparishchurch.org.uk) 

Social distancing continues, and you must also wear a face-covering during the service and when you go through to coffee.

The 10.30am service will continue to be live-streamed, so follow the link on the church’s website and you will be able to watch the service live on Sunday morning at 10.30am, and you will be able to watch it at a different time if you choose.