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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…

Join all the churches in Portobello for daily short (15mins) services and lunch … Monday to Friday in different churches. All at 12.30 Monday: St Mary Magdalenes, Bingham Ave Tuesday: Portobello and Joppa Parish Church Wednesday: St Marks @ PJPC (as our building is out of action) Thursday: Portobello Baptist Church Friday: St John’s Brighton…

Historic Environment Scotland awards £144,450 funding to St Mark’s Church in Portobello Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded £144,450 funding to the renovation of the unique historic church of St Mark’s Portobello. This funding completes the fundraising for this phase of the project and will enable all the conservation repairs to the building and provide…

Thanks to all who came to our Advent / Christmas themed Messy Vintage. Our next opportunity to meet for lunch, reflection around a Bible theme, craft and natter will be on Tuesday 14 January. This will be held at Portobello Library 12-2pm All are welcome …

There has been a lot of progress over the last 4 weeks at St Marks and contractors HM Raitt are working hard. Each week we are posting a small reel with photos of progress on Facebook and Instagram. Here is the fourth week. Previous reels can be seen here This week scaffolding has gone up…

We will be celebrating God with us with our Holy Night Communion at 10.30pm on Christmas Eve. And in a more informal Communion service on Christmas Day at 10.30am Because we are not currently in our building, both these services will be held at St John’s in Brighton Place. We hope to see you!

Even though we’re out the building this year we are still having our 4pm Crib service – a short service with the story and carols … on Christmas Eve. We’re just be hosted in the beautiful building of St John’s on Brighton Place. We hope to see you there.

A joint Carol Service as we celebrate the joy of Advent and Christmas – and the special partnership currently being enjoyed by the hospitality of St John’s. Come along and join us! 5pm on Sunday 15 December … and mincepies afterwards!

You’ve all heard of Messy Church …. but this is Messy Vintage – an opportunity to gather for food, bible story, craft and a natter. With us out the building, this is going to be at Portobello Town Hall … everything provided, although if you want to bring your own crafts to get on with…