Event cancelled

Please note that the International Cafe to be held on Saturday 6 October will not take place. Instead we will have our usual 3S Cafe from 10.30am to 1pm.

Open Week at St Mark's

After Doors Open Day St Mark's will be open for the week from 1-6 October from 10am to 2pm.

On display will be old Records and Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths. In the evenings there will be many events for you to take part in. Please bring along a friend.

Monday 1 Oct 7pm Film Night - Brother Sun Sister Moon (the story of St Francis of Assisi)

Tuesday 2 Oct 7pm Choral Evensong - St Mark's choir (Organist Andrew Morley)

Wednesday 3 Oct 7.30pm Quiz Night - teams of 3 or 4.

Thursday 4 Oct 7.30pm Talent Night

Friday 5 Oct 8pm Candlelit Compline

Saturday 6 Oct 4-7pm International Cafe (tickets £10)

Diary dates for week beginning 24 September 2007

Monday 24 Sept 7.30pm Bookmark is cancelled due to lack of interest. We will hold the discussion on this book until next meeting on Sun 28 Oct. We will also be reading 'The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox' by Maggie O'Farrell.

Ruth will be at a residential meeting of the Mission and Ministry Board meeting from 25-26 Sept.

Tue 25 Sept 7pm Craft Group. Please bring a note of items you have made for the Advent Fair.

Wed 26 Sept Magazine deadline for articles.
7.30pm Area Council mtg at St Peter's Lutton Place

Thu 27 Sept Ruth will be on a training course all day.

Sat 29 Sept 10am-4pm Doors Open Day. St Mark's will be open for visitors.

Sun 30 Sept 7.30pm Portobello Council of Churches at St Philip's

New Flickr photo album

You can now find photos of St Mark's on my Flickr page. Check it out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13592381@N04/

Music Festival at St Mark's

Reminder that St Mark's Music Festival is on Saturday from 2-5pm.
Come along and tap a foot, clap a hand, win something on the Tombola, buy some Fair Trade goods of second-hand books.
All welcome
Admission Free

Diary dates for week beginning 9 September 2007

Sunday 9 Sept
8.30am Eucharist - Bishop Alan Smithson
10.30am Sung Eucharist - Bishop Alan Smithson

Monday 10 Sept 7.30pm Joint Cursillo meeting at South Queensferry

Ruth will be at a residential Board Meeting from 10-11 September

Wednesday 12 Sept 12,30pm Chernobyl children's lunch
7pm Induction of Rev Dr Caroline Lockerbie at St Christopher's Parish Church

Thursday 13 Sept 10am Eucharist followed by coffee

Saturday 15 Sept 10am Church cleaning

Music Festival at St Mark's

Saturday 22 September 2-5pm

Stalls, refreshments, artwork, tombola

Music from:
Members of Auld Spice
The Wullie Broon Quartet
Ronaldo Caruso (jazz pianist)
Wendy Weatherby
Lawrence Dunn
Sally Simpson
Rebecca Mitchell
Members of Leith Community Concert Band
The Spurtle (Portobello High School's Ceilidh Band)
Cappricio Quartet

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