Lent starts on Wednesday 17th February. Below, we’ll post details of Lent services and activities.
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE
Wednesday 17th February is the beginning of Lent and we are planning to hold an online service that day at 7.30p.m.
The service will be conducted by our locum Rev. Bob Gemmell and Interim Moderator Rev. Ann Inglis and will be a joint venture with Dalmeny Kirk and Queensferry Parish Church. It will be live streamed rather than zoomed and to access it you should go to the Queensferry website at http://www.qpcweb.org/live
Please join with us as we begin on a very important season of the Christian year.
Christmas message
from the Moderator of the Church of Scotland
A very happy Christmas to everyone. Here is a Christmas Day message from the Moderator of the Church of Scotland,
Rt Rev. Dr. Martin Fair:
https://fb.watch/2BA02h5TlD/
Watchnight Service
In place of a live Watchnight we are providing a recorded Service of Lessons and Carols. You can access this via Dropbox (you don’t need Dropbox to download it): https://www.dropbox.com/s/blh74w0frqfk2b5/Service%20of%20Lessons%20and%20Carols%202020.mp4?dl=0
Here is the Order of Service:
| Lessons and Carols – Introduction |
| Lesson One: Genesis 3:8-19 |
| Once in Royal David’s City (v 1,2, 5,6) |
| Meditation I |
| Lesson Two: Genesis 22:15-18 and Lesson Three: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 |
| In the Bleak Midwinter (v 1, 2, 4,5) |
| Meditation II |
| Lesson Four: Isaiah 11:1-9 |
| Lesson Five: Luke 1:26-38 |
| Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
| Meditation III |
| Lesson Six: Luke 2:1-7 and Lesson Seven: Luke 2:8-16 |
| Lesson Eight: Matthew 2:1-12 |
| Congregational Carol – Still the Night |
| Meditation IV |
| Lesson Nine: John 1:1-14 |
| O Come, all ye Faithful |
From 1st to 24th December you can visit Wardie Advent Doors – windows, doors and gates around the parish that will display a poem, a thought or a prayer, along with a star. You can find the list of Wardie Advent Doors here.
On this page we’ll include pictures of some of the doors. If you host a Wardie Advent Door, don’t forget to take a picture and send it in!
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Every day from 1st to 24th December there’ll be a door to visit.
You’ll find a star and a poem or prayer at the addresses below.
You can visit at any time during the day.
Tuesday 1st December: Wardie Church, Netherby Road Door
Wednesday 2nd December: 64 East Trinity Road
Thursday 3rd December: 33 Boswall Road
Friday 4th December: 45 Netherby Road
Saturday 5th December: 102 Trinity Road
Sunday 6th December: 12 Afton Terrace
Monday 7th December: 4 Primrose Bank Road
Tuesday 8th December: 54 Netherby Road
Wednesday 9th December: 8 Clark Road
Thursday 10th December: 20 Larkfield Gardens
Friday 11th December: 14 Netherby Road
Saturday 12th December: 21 Netherby Road
Sunday 13th December: 3 Wardie Dell
Monday 14th December: 22 Lomond Road
Tuesday 15th December: 180 Granton Road
Wednesday 16th December: 30 Starbank Road
Thursday 17th December: 10 Russell Place
Friday 18th December: 13 Lennox Row
Saturday 19th December: 12 Stirling Road
Sunday 20th December: 19 Denham Green Avenue
Monday 21st December: 1 Bangholm View
Tuesday 22nd December: 92 Trinity Road
Wednesday 23rd December: 62 East Trinity Road
Thursday 24th December: Wardie Church, Main Door
Sunday 28th February at 10.30am
Join us live from the sanctuary of Wardie Church.
Accessing the Service
Join us on Zoom – https://zoom.us/j/98439245188?pwd=ZEN4SHJLanFxMUhWN1ZwUVgvaS91UT09
Access from 10.20am – Meeting ID: 984 3924 5188
Passcode: 3sbpRK
Access will be available from 10.20am.
Zoom is designed to mute everyone on entry but please ensure that your microphone is off when you are in the service.
There will be a virtual coffee after the service. Grab yourself a drink and stay online for a chat!
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Don’t miss Sunday School from 9.45am! Same joining details as above.
Wardie Parish Church is the smallest parish in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, and will appeal to you if you would like the opportunity to work in a friendly, close-knit community close to the shore of the Forth.
We are looking for someone to journey with us to fulfil our mission: “Building relationships, building community – finding God in dialogue with the world and its people”.
At Wardie we aspire to be a beacon of love, hope and support within Trinity and beyond. We aim to provide and nurture a safe and inclusive environment where people of all generations can belong wherever they are on their journey of life. For our young people we provide a strong Sunday School and a part-time Youth Worker.
Our 2019 Local Church Review stated:
“This is a congregation who ‘do church’ in many exciting ways. They boldly attempt to take new initiatives for God, while accepting that some will be unsuccessful. … They do not work in isolation but are open to learn from the experience of other congregations.”
“Wardie Parish Church is an outward-looking congregation who are enthusiastic to engage with the local, national and international communities. Their support for charitable work by action and finance is admirable.”
If you are interested in walking with us, providing leadership, guidance, support and strong biblical preaching to all our generations, then we would love to hear from you.
Our Parish Profile
Our Parish Profile takes you through the mission, values and history of Wardie Parish Church, and outlines what we’re looking for in our new minister.
Thanks to everyone who came to our ‘open for prayer’ sessions on a Sunday afternoon over the last few weeks and to those who helped staff and prepare these events.
At this time, we will be stopping the weekly Sunday afternoon prayer sessions as we are now focusing on preparing for the launch of online services from Sunday 20th September. We are also working through the process that will allow us to re-open for people to attend our Sunday 10.30am sevice in person. Our numbers will be limited by government guidelines and we are looking at giving priority to those unable to access worship online.
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At this unique and challenging time in the United Kingdom over 65 churches and movements, representing hundreds of others, have come together online to sing a blessing over our land. Standing together as one, our desire is that this song will fill you with hope and encourage you. But the church is not simply singing a blessing, each day we’re looking to practically be a blessing. Many of the churches included in this song have assisted with supplying over 400,000 meals to the most vulnerable and isolated in our nation since COVID-19 lockdown began. This alongside phone calls to the isolated, pharmacy delivery drops and hot meals to the NHS frontline hospital staff.
Our buildings may be closed but the church is very much alive!
Listen to the UK Blessing here.
Since we closed Wardie Church in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we have been producing a weekly Sunday Service that you can read, which includes a sermon, prayers and hymns. You can find links to the services below.
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