January 2020
1pm Weekday Worship
We hold a short time of prayer at 1pm every weekday at St Andrew's and St George's West, led by members of the church community. This lasts about 20 minutes and everyone is welcome to attend. On Tuesdays this takes the form of a short Communion service. You can also leave prayer requests on the prayer table at any time, and there is always quiet space in St Andrew's and St George's West for personal prayer and reflection, either in…
Find out more »Messy Church
Messy Church is back! Join us for the first Messy Church event of the year on the 25th January here at St Andrew's and St George's West Church at 10am. Hope to see you there for a new year of fun, games, music and more!
Find out more »Sunday 9am Communion
Our first service at St Andrew’s and St George’s West on a Sunday is short Communion service at 9am. It lasts about half an hour and everyone is welcome.
Find out more »Sunday 9.45am Learning Together
Our 9.45am Learning Together service incorporates new liturgy and creative activities for all ages. It’s led by members and is by turns challenging, dynamic or reflective. We also lead the music with a variety of instruments and a monthly Leaning Together Band. Everyone is welcome to join the service.
Find out more »Quarterly Communion: Sunday 11am Morning Worship
11am Morning Worship at St Andrew’s and St George’s West includes a stimulating 10 minute talk and excellent choral and instrumental music. Brigitte Harris directs our choir and musicians. Children of all ages are welcome, enjoying a short talk and then creative learning and play in our Bright Sparks Children’s programme. After worship there’s a chance to enjoy a really good cup of coffee or tea – fair trade of course – and to chat downstairs in the Undercroft.
Find out more »Amnesty Undercroft Group
The Amnesty Undercroft group meets monthly in Edinburgh City Centre. We write letters campaigning for the release of political prisoners. We also campaign to raise awareness of human rights issues, under the Amnesty banner, and fundraise for Amnesty. We meet in the Undercroft Café beneath St Andrew's and St George's West Church, either at a table in the café or in the adjoining chapel to accommodate our growing group. The café serves great soup, sandwiches and light meals at reasonable prices so our…
Find out more »February 2020
Sunday 11am Morning Worship
11am Morning Worship at St Andrew’s and St George’s West includes a stimulating 10 minute talk and excellent choral and instrumental music. Brigitte Harris directs our choir and musicians. Children of all ages are welcome, enjoying a short talk and then creative learning and play in our Bright Sparks Children’s programme. After worship there’s a chance to enjoy a really good cup of coffee or tea – fair trade of course – and to chat downstairs in the Undercroft.
Find out more »Fellowship Lunch for EMMS International
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes. Today we're supporting EMMS International, founded over a hundred years ago as Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, which works in healthcare to transform lives in Malawi, Zambia, Nepal and India.
Find out more »The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
Join us for our joint lecture with The Aperture Trust! Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. When, in 1966, Edinburgh University Press published “The Making of Classical Edinburgh” by Professor A J Youngson with specially commissioned photographs by Edwin Smith, few could have foreseen the impact the book would have on moves to save Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town.…
Find out more »A Future that’s Bigger than the Past
Our monthly Monday Book Group is looking at Sam Wells' latest book A Future that's Bigger than the Past. The book outlines the Heartedge Movement which our congregation has recently joined and underpins the recent Chalmers Lecture Series which you can still view online here. We're meeting at 10.30am in the chapel in the Undercroft on Monday 6th January, Monday 10 February and Monday 9 March. You're welcome to join us!
Find out more »Albany Deaf Church Visual Service
Albany Deaf Church meets at 2pm on Sunday 16 February for an informal service of worship in British Sign Language with spoken English. All readings, songs and prayers on powerpoint (with printed copies of brief sermon/talk on request.) Sign language users, lip-readers and hearing people welcome! Come along and join us!
Find out more »Messy Church!
MESSY CHURCH! 10am-12.30pm Ages 1 to 11 years old! A joint project together with our friends in Albany Church for the Deaf and St John’s Episcopal Church A light lunch will also be available, everyone welcome!
Find out more »12 noon Communion
We hold a short Communion Service at noon on the last Sunday of the month. Everyone who seeks to follow Jesus is welcome at this table.
Find out more »The Georgian Concert Society
The Counterpoints – Il musicista itinerante Thomas Triesschijn – recorder; Matthea de Muynck – violin; Petr Hamouz – cello; Aljosja Mietus – harpsichord In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, musicians travelled between Italy and Great Britain and influences crossed between them. This ensemble from the Netherlands explores the connections, with music from Matteis, Corelli, Vivaldi and Geminiani to Purcell, Handel, MacGibbon and Oswald. "Few new ensembles create a buzz like ensemble 'The Counterpoints'" – De Telegraaf For more…
Find out more »March 2020
Fellowship Lunch
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes
Find out more »The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
In this lecture, Tom Parnell delves into Firth of Forth’s industrial past. Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. The Firth of Forth is dominated by a growing collection of celebrated bridges. But along the shoreline are less well-known remnants of an industrial past that were of enormous importance. The lecture will explore railways, limekilns, distilleries and power stations: some gone, some surviving, but all now out of use. Tom Parnell is an architectural…
Find out more »World Day of Prayer
World Day of Prayer in the Chapel. Everybody Welcome!
Find out more »Kirk Session
Kirk Session meets at 7.30pm in the Sanctuary. Session meetings are open to observers.
Find out more »The Georgian Concert Society
The Marian Consort – Singing in Secret Rory McCleery – director; Charlotte Ashley, Lucinda Cox – sopranos; Helen Charlston, Hannah Cooke – altos; Edward Ross, Benjamin Durrant – tenors; Michael Craddock, Edmund Saddington – basses A devout Catholic, William Byrd provided a comprehensive compendium of music for the Catholic mass, which in the early seventeenth century was still being conducted in clandestine services held in the private houses of the Catholic nobility here interspersed with music by Thomas Tallis, Robert…
Find out more »April 2020
The Architectural Hertiage Society of Scotland
Chris Stewart speaks to us on the award-winning architectural practice, Collective Architecture. Venue: St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA Time: 6.30pm Cost: £5 (Students free). Non-members welcome. Members may attend 6 lectures for £25. Chris Stewart is an Architect-Director of the award-winning architectural practice Collective Architecture and a director of the Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA). Collective Architecture, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has been owned by its employees for the last…
Find out more »June 2020
Messy Church!
MESSY CHURCH! 10.30am-12.30pm Ages 1 to 11 years old! A joint project together with our friends in Albany Church for the Deaf and St John’s Episcopal Church A light lunch will also be available, everyone welcome!
Find out more »July 2020
Fellowship Lunch
Join us for a simple lunch of soup, bread and cheese followed by coffee and home baking. You can make a donation – we suggest a minimum of £3. Proceeds go to local charities or good causes
Find out more »September 2020
Messy Church!
MESSY CHURCH! 10.30am-12.30pm Ages 1 to 11 years old! A joint project together with our friends in Albany Church for the Deaf and St John’s Episcopal Church A light lunch will also be available, everyone welcome!
Find out more »October 2020
Kirk Session
Kirk Session away day.
Find out more »November 2020
Messy Church!
MESSY CHURCH! 10.30am-12.30pm Ages 1 to 11 years old! A joint project together with our friends in Albany Church for the Deaf and St John’s Episcopal Church A light lunch will also be available, everyone welcome!
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