Category: General

During December we will have Covid secure services in the building at Mayfield and Easthouses on:

SUNDAY 13^th December at 11am– advent service with ordination of new elders (this service is now fully booked)

SUNDAY 20th December at 11am – all age Nativity Service with Christingle Demonstration

THURSDAY 24^th December at 6.30pm – Christmas Eve service

To book your place please call the church office on 0131 663 3245

All these services will be livestreamed on our website for everyone to watch at home.

During the pandemic you can visit our website for a Thought for the week and for Sunday worship every week.

On 6pm on 24th December Christmas Eve there will be a Christmas Jingle all over Britain, with children, families and churches ringing out their bells for hope and joy (and of course to help Santa on his way) so grab your bells and join in.
The church bells will ring from 6.00pm for the service starting at 6.30pm in the building and there will also be the live stream of the service at that time – why not start Christmas as a family celebrating with Christians world wide remembering the reason for the season! You will be able to find a link on the Newbattle Parish Website.

2020 Nativity Trail

On 12th December at “The Pool” Newtongrange and on Sunday 13th December at the Church at Mayfield & Easthouses, Affie and Erika will launch our Interactive Nativity Trail, there will be activity bags to collect and a trail in both communities to follow with podcasts that you can listen to, videos to link to and a Nativity window to make at home.

CHRISTINGLE will also be a bit different this year. There will be a video upload for you to watch and you can order/book a Christingle bag for collection on Friday 18th December out-side Scotmid in Mayfield. You will need to let us know if you want one in advance before via the church office (0131 663 3245) or on Sunday the 13th at church.

During December we will have Covid secure services in the building at Mayfield and Easthouses on:

SUNDAY 13^th December at 11am– all age advent service with Christingle demonstration

THURSDAY 24^th December at 6.30pm – Christmas Eve service

To book your place please call the church office on 0131 663 3245

Both these services will be livestreamed on our website for everyone to watch at home.

During the pandemic you can visit our website for a Thought for the week and for Sunday worship every week.

On 6pm on 24th December Christmas Eve there will be a Christmas Jingle all over Britain, with children, families and churches ringing out their bells for hope and joy (and of course to help Santa on his way) so grab your bells and join in.
The church bells will ring from 6.00pm for the service starting at 6.30pm in the building and there will also be the live stream of the service at that time – why not start Christmas as a family celebrating with Christians world wide remembering the reason for the season! You will be able to find a link on the Newbattle Parish Website.

2020 Nativity Trail

On 12th December at “The Pool” Newtongrange and on Sunday 13th December at the Church at Mayfield & Easthouses, Affie and Erika will launch our Interactive Nativity Trail, there will be activity bags to collect and a trail in both communities to follow with podcasts that you can listen to, videos to link to and a Nativity window to make at home.

CHRISTINGLE will also be a bit different this year. There will be a video upload for you to watch and you can order/book a Christingle bag for collection on Friday 18th December out-side Scotmid in Mayfield. You will need to let us know if you want one in advance before via the church office (0131 663 3245) or on Sunday the 13th at church.

This year, in the absence of many of our activities and services we wanted to make sure that our churches in Mayfield and Easthouses and in Newtongrange were lit up more than ever. A huge thank you to NC1 for donating extra lights at Newtongrange and to Connor Wright from our Property Working Group for giving so much of his time and talent to install the lights at both churches.

This weekend would have, under non pandemic conditions, seen our Christmas Switch on Events at Newtongrange and Mayfield and Easthouses. Although we will miss gathering together as we usually do, we do not need to miss out on the message we share on these occasions. As the lights are switched on, we remember that at the heart of our faith is the promise of the gospel that “the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out”. This year has been a very dark year with so much loss, suffering and poverty due to the Corona virus. However, it has also been a year of great kindness and care shown by our NHS staff, key workers and resilience volunteers in our community. The light of that love and support gives us cause for great hope. So this advent, as we look forward to a different Christmas, let’s remind ourselves that it could be different in a really positive way if we share the light with each other. For even in the darkest times, the bible reminds us that “these 3 remain: faith, hope and love”. Faith that we can hold on a bit longer and keep going, hope that things will get better and that this too will pass, and love – love that endures all things and transforms all things. Love, that is at the heart of this season when celebrate that love came down at Christmas -God’s gift of love to us; the child in the manger.

If you would like to journey through advent towards Christmas with hopeful thoughts and ideas each day, you can subscribe to the Church of Scotland advent calendar and receive an email each day.

https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/advent

You can also watch the online switching on of the lights on the What’s On pages for Mayfield and Newtongrange this weekend.