Stewart Weaver

For the 10th anniversary of our return into the sanctuary, lots of photos were collected.
They were then hung up in our sanctuary in grand, fun collages.

We’ve gathered many photos from the church recently as part of our
celebrations of the 10th anniversary of our return to the restored church.
Here are a few.

We borrowed an apple press from the local environmental group (Pedal) and had a great time extracting apple juice from tubs of ground up apples.  Exhausting and exhilarating!

Next time: Halloween!

Magda Milano, a well-known Italian artist, has been displaying her work at St. Philip’s as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and Portobello’s Big Things on the Beach.  Here are some photos.  Do come along from Mon. 29 August to Friday 2 September, 3pm to 7pm.

Two photos from Easter.

We started off with a service on the beach at 7am.  Strangely, no photos of this event.  Eyes too bleary.

After breakfast at 8am, a 9.30 communion and then the children met at the beach at 10am.  Kites, streamers and windmills to welcome Easter.  Here’s one of the set of windmills.

Easter windmills

After romping on the beach and some coffee/hot cross buns, it was an 11am service with communion.  The choir contributed Bach’s ‘Christians shout for joy’ as well as key bits of the communion liturgy drawn from James MacMillan’s St. Anne’s Mass.  Beautiful.  And now inserted between Curtains 1 and 2 by Rachael Thomas was the Easter Banner.  In front of the communion table are two kites made by the Breakfast Club during their overnight vigil and a prayer burst of sunlight.  A fantastic Easter.

For our evening communion on Palm Sunday Chris Galbraith, our probationer, teamed up with Linda Small, a member of the congregation.  They took the idea of a labyrinth and transformed it into a series of prayer stations.

A few photos of the church on Good Friday.

The curtains are the work of a final year art student at the Edinburgh College of Art, Rachael Thomas.  A description of her work and some of my thoughts can be found elsewhere on the website.

The latest round of church photos has inspired one of our members, Angela Stewart, to send in two new photos of the church during the last bout of snowy weather.  More reminders of the beauty of our building  and the talents of our congregation.

On 29 January 60 of us gathered in the hall to enjoy some Scottish crafts, a bit ‘o Burns, some dancing and a few turns.  We then heard some Tam O’Shanter before digging into the haggis, neeps and tatties.  One of the crafts included a ‘design your own tartan’ and here are two excellent examples:

And Anne Russell has provided some photos capturing St. P’s during those heavy snows.