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A message from our Interim Minister:
Weekly Message
‘But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.’
Jeremiah 29.7
According to the ‘Visit Southampton’ website, “On the morning of 10 April 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage: a journey that would end in tragedy just five days later. The sinking had a profound impact on the city, touching nearly every street and household.”
Apparently, my late grandmother was there when she was a little girl and she saw the Titanic sail off. She moved from Southampton to Glasgow and trained as a fever nurse. She witnessed at first-hand how antibiotics and other modern discoveries changed medicine. She lived through the first and second world wars, the great depression, the cold war and the ‘swinging 60s’. What changes she saw.
We are now in an epoch (that’s the only word I can think of to describe it) of massive change, social, technological, ethical, religious. Any which way we look, things are in flux. I wish it were in my gift to share an easier of more comforting message.
Thousands of years ago, the prophet Jeremiah lived through a time of massive and far-reaching change too. The settled world that he knew collapsed. Many of his people were exiled in Babylon.
Thinking that all is settled, is an illusion. It is understandable that we might want to hark back to ‘better times’. Jeremiah had understood that his Lord was not for him settling down and having children, so unsettled was the future. Here, in chapter 29 he tells the exiles to have families, settle down in a strange new land. “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”
It strikes me that we, in the Christian Church, are now more like explorers than those who are settled. We are in a new place and challengingly are being called to keep the faith, in that new place. More than that, figure out how to sing the Lord’s song, in a strange lane.
Worship
12th October — Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson. With Prayer Tree Service. In Currie Kirk at 11.15am. (Worship in BPC 9.30am)
19th October — Joint Service with Balerno Parish Church. Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson. In Currie Kirk at 11.15am.
26th October — Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson. Quiet Communion after service. In Currie Kirk at 11.15am.
(Worship in BPC 9.30am)
2nd November — Joint Communion Service in Balerno Parish.
Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson. 9.30am
Intimations
The 2025 Balerno Jazz Party
12th October.
7.30-10.30pm. At St. Josephs Hall. Tickets £20.
Guild Coffee Morning
25th October.
10am-12pm at GCH. Tickets £5.
Walking Group
Next Walk, Sunday 19th Octboer.
After the Joint Service in Currie Kirk. Leaving after coffee time, approx. 12.40pm. Plan to walk up Kirkgate to Clubbiedean, along to Torduff, then down onto Water of Leith walkway back to Currie. Approx. four miles. Coffee stop at Clubbiedean, (if still open). Jean Smith.
Balerno Village Screen
Saturday 25th October. 7.30-9.45pm
(doors open 7pm) At St. Josephs Hall. CINEMA PARADISO (12A)
Tickets free from:www.balernovillagescreen.com donations appreciated.
Supper & Songs
Saturday 1st November 7.30pm. At St. Josephs Hall.
Tickets £25 are available from Balerno church office.
Milk Bottle Tops
Collection of milk bottle tops will cease on 19th October 2025.
Partnership Support Group –
Balerno l/w Currie
Saturday 1st November 2025
Gibson Craig Hall - 156 Lanark Road West, Currie. EH14 5NY
For members and associates of Currie Kirk and Balerno Parish Church.
A facilitated conversation taking stock of the past,
appraising the present and looking to the future.
A time to set tasks and goals for the linked charge
as it becomes a united charge and looks forwards.
Led by our Partnership Support Group:
Rev Dr Louise McClements & Rev Sandra Black
- Interim/Transition Ministry Team
Rev Moira McDonald
- Presbytery Edinburgh and West Lothian
Tea & Coffee - 10.00 a.m.
Start - 10.30 a.m.
End - 12.30 p.m.
If you want any information or need to speak to someone please call the Kirk office (451 5141) or contact one of the Session Clerks - Louise Lamont (07910 594188) or Isobel Webber (07702784186)
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