WEEKLY NEWS
1. NEWINGTON TRINITY CHURCH PICNIC IN THE MEADOWS TODAY (7th JUNE) Pack a picnic, come to the Meadows and help us to fundraise for Christian Aid. We’ll be launching the Meadows Moonshot! Orbit the route as many times as you can and ask friends and family to sponsor you. Whether you’re a speedy runner, a gentle jogger or a leisurely stroller, all are welcome. We need spectators too, to act as ground control and urge the orbiters on! Blast-off at 12.30, last orbit to be completed by 4.00pm. For more details, pick up an information sheet and sponsor form from the table in the West Mayfield entrance of the Mayfield Building or speak to a member of the CA team.
2. Services of Worship Next Sunday 9.30am All-Age Service of Worship and 10.45am Traditional Service.
3. Livestreaming The 10.30am and 10.45am morning services are streamed live on YouTube and can be viewed on either our website or YouTube page.
4. OPEN TO ALL Coffee and tea will be served in the Bill McDonald Hall at the close of the Sunday service. Everyone is most welcome.
5. PASTORAL CARE If you or someone you know would like a pastoral visit or phone call please contact, Pauline. Her email is
6.YOUTH GROUP DATES. The next meeting will be on 14th June. Venue tbc.
7. OFFERING Regular and one-off donations are possible online at: www.give.net/20311853 or scan one of the QR codes throughout the building. Alternatively, please contact our Freewill Offerings Treasurer
8. COFFEE AND BLETHERS will start fortnightly from Thursday 11th June, 2.00pm, in the Bill McDonald Hall.
9. MORNING PRAYERS ON TUESDAYS We meet for prayers every Tuesday at 10.00am in the Salisbury Room opposite the Office.
10. MILERS WALKING GROUP. There are a number of walks panned for May and June. The dates are 15th, 19th and 25th June. Do note the dates: full details will be in the next edition of the Newington Trinity News magazine.
11. Bethany Care Van: we are in need of jeans, joggers, hoodies, fleeces and T-shirts. So if you’re having a clean out to make room for summer wear now that the good weather has arrived please fill up our Bethany bins with any unwanted or outgrown clothing! Many thanks!
12. PRAISE AND PRAYER This small group meets every two weeks at Newington Trinity - Priestfield. Anyone is welcome to join others for this time of prayer from 7.30pm until about 9.00pm. We next meet on Thursday 11th June - Check the Newington Trinity website calendar for any changes.
13. Eco tips i) As a follow up to last week's suggestion about feeding birds , it can be satisfying to learn a bit more about the birds visiting our parks and gardens . A helpful bit of toolkit is the Merlin App which you can add to a mobile phone which allows for identification of images and song
ii)Just announced - an anonymous donation of £500,000 has been given to Newhailes Community Garden project in Musselburgh , the largest donation ever to a National Trust property (Newhailes House has 80 acres of parkland including woodland walks). Very good news for conservation and biodiversity .
14. Organ Recitals at Reid Memorial Church 13 JUNE 2026 This is to let you know that the next in the series of monthly recitals at Reid Memorial Church takes place on Saturday 13th June 2026. Tea, coffee and refreshments will be served from 10.30 am to 11.30 am and the recital will run from 11.00 am to approximately 11.45 am. These are intended to be relaxed and informal opportunities to listen to music and members of the audience are free to come and go as they wish. I look forward to seeing as many of you as may be available. All welcome. Martyn Strachan was born in Kent and was educated at Napier College, St Andrews University and the Open University, where he completed a doctorate in 2018. He retired in 2025, having been organist of the Reid Memorial Church from 2012 to 2025.
15. NCT Foodbank A big thank you to all who donate food items so regularly and generously for the Foodbank. We are very grateful for all donations of non-perishable food and basic toiletries. Here are a few things we are particularly short of this month: tins of meat and fish, cooking oil, baked beans, jars of instant coffee, shampoo and shower gel. Donations can be left in the boxes under the bench at the side entrance. Alternatively, donations of money for the Foodbank can be given to Fiona Ferguson or Julia Yarker who can also provide bank details if required.
16. VOLUNTEERS STILL SOUGHT - FELLOWSHIP TEAM - invitation and help needed – would you like to help us organise fellowship activities, all ideas and volunteers very welcome - please email the Fellowship Team on
17. Newman Association The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 24 June 2026, 7.40pm to 9.00pm at Newington Trinity- Mayfield Church. A Tainted Legacy: A member of L’Arche reflects on the legacy of Jean Vanier, six years on: Jim Cargin, L’Arche member since 1980. All welcome: entrance by donation - £5 proposed.
'A tainted legacy’ expresses the situation confronting L’Arche across the world since the shameful double-life of its founder, Jean Vanier, was exposed in February 2020. For an international network of 150 plus communities who were long content to bask in Vanier’s reflected glory, the impact has felt ‘an overdue crash course in humility’. It's a painful issue too for the many individuals whose lives had been shaped by a man once considered a spiritual giant, spoken of by some as a saint even within his lifetime. For them, grief has come twice over: first after Vanier’s natural death, and then again, a few months later, after the death of his reputation. How does anyone begin to sift the wheat from the weeds?
Jim Cargin takes up the Edinburgh Newman Circle's invitation to explore the issues thrown up by Vanier’s ambiguous legacy. What is a mature response to the messy human truth: the same man who, through L’Arche as well as Faith and Light, had done so much to revolutionize the way disability is seen in our world, had secretly betrayed the very values he publicly advocated.
Jim Cargin will draw on the 860-page report by the independent commission which L’Arche set up, published in 2023. He will outline the way that individuals have been responding to this crisis, as well as the steps L’Arche has already taken – and is still taking - to face up to a dark chapter in its history. And the lessons for those churches with their own tainted legacies.
Jim Cargin joined L’Arche Highland in Inverness in 1980. Since then, he has carried various leadership and support roles elsewhere in UK, as well as in Poland, Belgium and with the communications team for L’Arche International.
Please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone you feel may be interested.
Forthcoming Deadlines
Order of Service: Thursday at 10.00am
Next Parish Magazine: Friday 19 June 2026 at 6.00pm
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