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After the events of Holy Week … come and celebrate with us on Easter Sunday (20 April)

Our next Messy Vintage is on Tuesday 15 April 12-2pm in Portobello Library. This is an opportunity to reflect and pray together around the stories of Holy Week, using craft and art. All welcome … lunch provided

We are so thankful to all the churches in Portobello who are helping us to worship during Holy Week. In addition to these services, we will meet for Morning Prayer online at 9am Monday-Friday and for Compline at 9pm Monday-Wednesday. Palm Sunday – 11am – start in Sandford Gardens for Procession into St John’s for…

Our next Wednesday Wonderings will be held on Wednesday 20 April. 12-1.30pm in Portobello and Joppa Parish Church. Val Cameron, our Pastoral Worker, will be talking about the art of Sacred texts … we’ve been promised lots of pictures! Do come along and join us for a light lunch and a chance to chat.

We started Lent with two services of Holy Communion and the Imposition of Ashes on 5 March and are currently meeting on Monday evenings to discuss the Diocesan Lent Course – Christ has no Body now but yours. Please contact us if you’d be interested in joining us

The work on the church building continues well and we are expecting to be moving back into the building at the beginning of May. It was discovered that the whole of the chancel roof (the ‘extension’ out the back of the church on the south side) needed to be completely re-slated. This has delayed the…

Our next Wednesday Wonderings will be on Wednesday 26 March 12-1.30 in Portobello and Joppa Parish Church. This is a light lunch at 12 followed by a speaker. This time we will hear from retired American Methodist Minister, Paul Sweet as he recounts his Tales from Ministry. All welcome. It will finish by 1.30 in…

Messy Vintage is an opportunity to worship, pray and reflect together around a Biblical theme using craft to open our hearts and minds. We then eat a simple lunch together. All are welcome .. this week we’re going to think about Light, Resurrection and New Life. Tuesday 18 March, 12-2pm in the upstairs room at…

Our monthly Lunch and Speaker will be on 26 February. Mike Cheesburgh will take us for a wander around Dawyck Botanical Gardens. At Portobello and Joppa Parish Church.

Have you ever watched a craftspeople at work? We have lots of amazing workers on site at the moment and, encouraged by the generous funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we are hosting two Observation Days for you to come and watch! The first – Lime Plaster…. although the plaster work will be nearly finished…