Diary dates for week beginning 28 October 2007

Sunday 28 Oct 7.30pm Bookmark

Tuesdau 30 Oct 7pm Craft Group

Thursday 1 Nov 7.30pm Exploring Christianity - Contextual Bible Study with Anne Tomlinson

Saturday 3 Nov 10.30am 3S Cafe

Sunday 4 Nov Feast of All Saints and All Souls
7pm The Alternative Service - Remembering

Items needed for Advent Fayre - books, CDs, DVDs, tombola and raffle prizes, baking, antiques and treasures, gifts, crafts and cards

AGM - there are vacancies for 2 vestry members, and People's Warden. Nominations to be in by Sunday 11 November.

Bookmark's next book

Our next book will be Stardust by Neil Gaiman and we shall meet on Monday 3 December at 7.30pm.

Diary dates for week beginning 14 October 2007

Tue 16 Nov 7.30pm Vestry meeting

Thu 18 Nov 10am Eucharist

Sat 20 Nov 10am - 12noon Kid's Mission

Sun 21 Nov 10.30am Harvest Festival and Family Service
Bring along some Fair Trade goods
6.30pm Healing Service

Action for Burma

Saturday has been made a global day of action for Burma with protests in 67 cities around the world. There will be a Candle-lit vigil in solidarity at the Aung San Suu Kyi tree (beneath the floral clock) THIS SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER. 3pm.
Please WEAR RED.

There will also be a sponsored run on the Meadows in the morning see www.runforburma.org .

Edinburgh Citizens in Solidarity with Burma

PRESS PHOTO CALL

Saturday 6 October, 3pm, West Princes Street Gardens.

Edinburgh citizens are to take part in the Global Day of Action for a Free Burma this Saturday (6 October), alongside protests taking place in 67 cities around the world.

In the morning, a sponsored 5k run will take place on the Meadows, and in the afternoon there will be an eye-catching but solemn candlelit vigil in West Princes Street Gardens. It will take place underneath a tree planted there for democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi when she was awarded the Freedom of the City by Edinburgh Council in 2005.

Those attending the vigil will wear red in solidarity with the thousands of monks and others who remain under arrest and at risk of torture in Burma.

Ko Aung, a Burmese student leader from the 1988 demonstrations said, 'This day of action is to show that this crisis has not gone away. Our friends, families and spiritual leaders are in jail cells today at risk of torture. The UN Security Council must act now to end the crackdown and must keep focused on this crisis until we know the people of Burma are safe. The international community must not desert them now.'

Juliette Daigre, a Burma Campaigner based in Edinburgh, said, 'The public meeting organized on Thursday to plan Edinburgh's response to the situation was packed to the rafters. We want the people of Burma to know that Edinburgh stands with them, and to show the Burmese government that we are watching their every move. We also hope the protests will force the UK Government to do more to demand an end to the military crackdown and get the UN Security Council to act.'

Choral Evensong

Tonight our newly formed choir will be singing Choral Evensong at St Mark's at 7pm. If you hanker after 1929 Prayer Book language then this is the one for you. (And I shall not be cantoring (?) you will be relieved to know!)