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Together News
The Corner Stone
Homelessness AndWhat We're Doing
Earth Be Glad
Christian Aid
200 Peals of St
Cuthbert's Bells
What Does TogetherMean? Robert Philp
Togetherness is
the EdinburghCity CentreChurches Togethermagazine.
Togetherness ishere to provideyou with
information,views, articlesideas and insightinto what'shappening in thecity centre, whatwe're doing in thecity centre andwhat you can doin the city centre.We hope you likeit.
Copyright © 2011Edinburgh City Centre
Churches TogetherAuthors.
Edinburgh City CentreChurches Together is aRegistered Charity.Charity NumberSC040773
St Andrew's and St George'sWest Church
13 George Street EdinburghEH2 2PA
0131 225 [email protected]
editor/coordinator Joe Evans
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Spring is in the air and as is
fitting, a period of new growthis upon us.
There is a definite feeling of
optimism and hope for new
initiatives with a variety of
different plans shaping up for
the near and longer term
starting to take place.
By the time this is printed we
will have seen events at our
churches in preparation for
the coming Scottish elections.
These will allow us to actively
engage with future policy
makers on the importantissues of homelessness and
climate change.
On the 9th of April, Together
are holding a day conference
on our way forward for new
forms of church. Please come
along to the Undercroft at StAndrew's and St George's
West, George Street, from
9am to have your voice heard.
The Together Green group is
starting to take shape, the
first fruits of this collaboration
appear in this issue, and more
Taking Together ForwardJoe Evans discusses some Together goings on.
details should be forthcoming
soon.
The Together Workplace
chaplain position is currently
being advertised through a
range of channels, this will
continue our collective tradition
of engagement in the business
life of the city centre. This postwill run in collaboration with
Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland
and the advert can be viewed
at tinyurl.com/work place
chaplain
As of 13th March, the
congregation of St Andrew'sand St George's West have
nominated Ian Gilmour to be
their new minister, and await
confirmation from presbytery
that he can be appointed.
This is of course just a selection
of the things going on acrossTogether, with new ideas and
old projects working alongside
each other all the time.
Hopefully we are continuing to
work, socialise and pray
together more and more, to the
benefit of us all.
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The Wider WorldThings Local and International
An exciting initiative to change
the situation in the Middle East
by changing the basis of the
conversation.
By following the route that
Abraham took through his life,
the walk encourages hospitalityand tourism to develop, in a
turbulent region.
walkpalestine.com
ted.com/talks/william_ury.
html
No, not a bit of the London Tube
Map. It's a detail from the new
Edinburgh Innertube bike map
from thebikestation.org.uk as
part of a £98,000 project to
improve our city's cycleways
Japan EarthquakeA massive earthquake, the
seventh largest recorded in
history, struck the east coast
of Japan on Friday 11 March.
The earthquake, measuring
9.0 on the Richter scale,
triggered a tsunami which hitthe east coast of Japan with
7 metre high waves, leaving a
trail of destruction.
Please donate to the Red
Cross Appeal for this and
other campaigns at
redcross.org.uk
Inner Tube
Tourism for Peace
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The United Church
in Jamaica and the
Cayman Islandsand the
Government of
Jamaica have
joined forces through the
Mount Olivet Boys’ Home to
provide a place of hope for
young boys who have been
abused or neglected.
It was in May 1971 that The
Corner Stone was set up as a
late night coffee house
outreach project, under the
auspices of the Council of West End Churches, a
forerunner of TOGETHER. The
band of helpers was sizeable
and though now scattered
many still keep in touch.
Arrangements are in hand to
mark Cornerstone's 40thbirthday with a reunion of ex
helpers. The planning group
would like to hear from those
who might like to attend, at
this stage to get some idea of
numbers. The reunion will take
the form of an informal lunch
on Sunday 5 June 2011,
following the TOGETHER JointService planned for that day at
St John's.
If you helped with The Corner
Stone in any way and have not
already received details of the
preliminary arrangements,
please contact: Rev ClephaneHume (0131 667 2996);
Anne Sturrock (0131 668 3524)
TheCornerStone
40 year celebrations for The Corner Stone
You can help by simply
collecting any of your used
stamps and posting them onto:
World Mission Stamp Project,
PO Box 9191, WISHAW,
Lanarkshire ML2 0YB. These are
then are sold on to raise money
for the campaign.
tinyurl.com/world mission
stamp appeal
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Hungry and
Homeless
Robert Philp, chairof the TogetherHomelessness
Group looks at whatcan be and is beingdone to combat thisever present issue.
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One of the big events of the year is the New Year Lunch
We all know the experience of
walking along an Edinburghpavement past Big Issue
sellers, or tripping over
someone begging (perhaps
with a dog or ‘Homeless and
Hungry’ placard), and not
having any idea what to do
about it.
This is one ingredient of the
public stereotype of homeless
people, as almost a race
apart, there to make us
uneasy. But when people fall
through the system (oftenbecause of relationship
breakdown or alcohol), they
are still just ordinary,
vulnerable people like the rest
of us, needing a secure roof,
but also, crucially, a range of
support to build self respect,
confidence and an independentlife.
The homeless problem is right
on our patch as city centre
In 2009 10, 42207 households wereaccepted by their local authority as homeless
or potentially homeless.
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On 31 December 2010, there were 10,952households in temporary accommodationacross Scotland. 1,419 (13 per cent) of thesehouseholds were in bed and breakfast
hotels.In 2009 10 1,262 local authoritytenants lost their homes as a result of eviction action.
"Fresh Start, makes up ‘Starter packs’ anddoes great work in preparing flats forhomeless people to move into and
befriending them."
churches, – just as it was in
1991.
That was when we realised
there were teenagers sleepingin the churchyards at St
John’s and St Cuthbert’s, and
a TV crew came up from the
south to film the phenomenon
of teenage homelessness in
Edinburgh.
The response then within the
West End churches was to
launch The Rock Trust, – 20
years old this year and today
a highly professional charity
focused on 16 to 25 – year
olds. Cephas (Greek for rock)
was started by CWEC in the
1960s for young people, then
The Corner Stone Café was
launched in the 1970s, so the
name Rock Trust continued this
lapidary sequence.
The Homelessness Group of the
West End Churches was formed
in 1991 to support the first
Director of the Trust, Brother
Basil. Since this time it has
monitored the evolvinghomelessness situation
throughout Edinburgh, and
worked out ways in which our
churches can help.
Our activities include a
Christmas/New Year Lunch,
the first of which was held in St
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(often a dead time for those on
the streets), and it happened
in, first, The Ark in New Street,and latterly in the ‘Crisis
Centre’ in Holyrood Road.
This year we served a three
course meal with live music to
around 80 people.
Care Shelter: With nodedicated centre for overnight
shelter in the winter, these
shelters have been held in
church halls.
29 percent of those who become homeless doso because of a dispute within their
household
George’s West on Christmas
Day.
At that time the church’s
cooking set up lacked the
sophistication it has today,
and the turkey had to be
carried down Shandwick Place
by the gallant helpers from
The Corner Stone Café where
it had been cooked.
Later, as other lunches came
to be held at Christmas, we
moved ours to the New Year
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Originally church helpers had
to stay overnight, which could
be interesting. In recent
years, a small team of
regulars from the BethanyTrust has stayed overnight,
while church teams provide a
welcome and an evening
meal.
Our churches are fully
involved, and St Cuthbert’s
hosts shelters around once aweek. The Shelter now runs
for five months, November to
March, and the number of
people coming seems to go on
rising. In 2000, the total
number was 2268, last winter
was 5636, and this year
numbers again seem to be
sharply up. The number
sleeping each night averaged 28
the winter before last, 36 last
winter. Some are from Eastern
Europe, many from Poland. Atthe start of April the Shelter
stops and many are out on the
streets again.
Fund raising: Our appeal each
winter covers the cost of our
Shelters and Lunch, but our
congregations are so generousthat there is always a surplus.
With this we are able to help
some of the agencies around
the city which give food, shelter,
help and welcome to the
vulnerable.
One example is the churches’
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In 2009 10 1,262 local authority tenants losttheir homes as a result of eviction action.
Statistics retrieved from:http://scotland.shelter.org.uk/housing_issues/research_and_statistics/key_statistics/homelessness
_facts_and_research
own (‘Millennium’) project,
Fresh Start, which makes up ‘Starter packs’ and does great
work in preparing flats for
homeless people to move into
and befriending them.
Communication: With so
many agencies at work, it is
hard to keep tabs on what ison offer.
We have therefore prepared a
single sheet with an up to
date list of Services in the City
Centre for homeless and
vulnerable people, with
sections on Accommodation,In Crisis, Food, Money and
Health. We hope to re issue
this annually, since
arrangements change so
often.
It can be handed out to
anyone who needs to know allthis, and doesn’t at the
moment seem to be well
enough known, so if you want
a copy, ask your Church Office
for one.
Politics: The current stringent
programme of government cuts
has a tough message for
everyone with housing
difficulties. With so little
affordable housing and so little
building being done, increasingdebt and the fear of
repossessions, it looks as if
things can only get worse.
To highlight the problems, we
organized with the Festival of
Spirituality a ‘Civic Café’
discussion in February last year,By the time you read this, we
will have held a Hustings Event
before the forthcoming Holyrood
elections, dedicated to the
theme of Housing and
Homelessness, on March 23rd.
We shall be looking for answers.
‘Be it ever so humble’, wroteJohn Howard Payne, ‘there’sno place like home.’
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A n d T h e T r e e s o f T h e F i e l d s
W i l l C l a p T h e i r H a n d s
Earth be Glad is a project to
measure and reduce the
carbon emissions of an entire
faith community.
By measuring our collective
energy use through a website,
every simple action of closing
the curtains, walking to the
shops or saving energy in
church becomes a prayer, part
of our offering to God,
drawing us together as aliving faith community seven
days of the week.
How is this possible? Because
the environmental crisis is not
caused by some unidentifiable
evil, but by millions of tiny
actions by ordinary people likeus in a society which has got
its priorities askew. By taking
notice of what we consume,
we begin to understand how
precious a gift our natural
world is, to praise God for it
and treasure it. By doing this
together, we make it part of
our witness, and can help and
encourage one another.
St John's launched Earth be
Glad in 2005 by creating andgiving everyone in the
congregation a poster on
environmental living. We
reprinted the poster as a
resource for new Earth be Glad
churches. St John's celebrated
the season of Creationtide for
the first time, and has done soevery year since.
Creationtide (1 September to
10 October) is becoming more
and more common worldwide.
An ecumenical season, it
incorporates Orthodox Creation
Day, St Francis Day and HarvestSunday. At this time, St John's
has sermons, music and prayers
on environmental themes.
At the end of our first
Creationtide for Harvest Festival
people were asked to write
environmental pledges on paper
Eleanor Harris tells us about the pioneeringEarth Be Glad project at St John's.
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leaves. These were hung on a
'tree' as part of our harvest
offering. This link between
faith and action, introducedpeople to a positive idea of
lifestyle change.
The Earth be Glad monitoring
website, earthbeglad.org.uk,
emerged from a desire to
develop a one off pledge into
a more sustainedenvironmental action – after
all a church is a sustained
community. A pilot began in
2007, and participants
discovered that each year,
without making much
conscious effort, their carbon
footprint reduced, justthrough increased awareness
of their energy use. In 2010
we received funding from the
Scottish Climate Challenge
Fund to develop the website
and improve participation.
Now a large proportion of regular attenders at St John's
are involved, with other
churches and faith groups
interested in the programme.
We are currently applying for
a second round of funding to
enable us to promote theprogramme further and
develop it in partnership with
the other faith groups who get
involved. If you are
interested, please do contact
us, or pass this on to anyone
you know who might like to
get their faith group involved.You can find out more about
us on our website,
www.earthbeglad.org.uk.
Sing to the Lord a new song: sing to the Lord, all the earth
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad:
let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them:
then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
they will sing before the LORD, for he comes:
he comes to judge the earth in righteousness.
Psalm 96 1, 11 13
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Eco Life
In StCuthbert's
Starting out on the path to
becoming an Ecocongregation, we thought we
should start by setting our
own house in order. So we
drew up a list of simple but
effective measures to do this:
Notices were placed below 65
light switches asking the lastperson leaving a room to turn
off the lights.
All offices were supplied with
separate bins for waste paper
and used envelopes.
Plastic receptacles for cleancardboard were placed in
strategic places
A corner was designated the
“Recycling Centre” and a large
bin put there for waste paper.
The Council told us that to
qualify for one of its recycling
collections, someone wouldhave to live in the Church
premises. The Minister politely
declined this interesting
suggestion so our two Church
Officers kindly deliver used
cardboard and envelopes to
official recycling centres on
their separate ways home.
A small recycling compost bin
was put in the kitchen for items
like tea/ coffee bags/grounds,
vegetable or fruit peelings and
the contents are periodically
emptied into a large compost
bin in the churchyard.
Nesting birds can now use 2
nesting boxes – provided by
Greyfriars Recycling Of Wood
(GROW) – which are hung high
up on trees in the churchyard.
Various efforts have been made
Irene MacKenzie discusses what's involved ingetting on the green bandwagon.
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to use only recycled paper
hand towels, toilet paper and
eco friendly cleaning products.
Members of the congregationare invited to donate used
stamps, clean plastic milk
bottle tops and used mobile
phones and printer cartridges.
The used stamps are trimmed
and sent to the Church of
Scotland Collecting Centre inWishaw from where the
stamps are sold to collectors.
The amazing sums raised go
towards the annual World
Mission project. The milk
bottle tops are collected
centrally and recycled. The
phones and cartridges raisemoney for Christian Aid
through a recycling appeal in
Falkirk.
Then, we raised our sights to
the Church building itself and
arranged for a couple of free
surveys – one looking into ouruse of water and the other
making general comments on
the running of the building.
The outcomes have been:
Filled plastic bottles in the WC
cisterns to cut down our use
of water
Eco friendly light bulbs in all
accessible areas of the building
And plans to look into
attaching draft excluders onthe outside doors
A graph displayed in the
vestibule shows that our bills
have decreased 37% in the last
year. This, of course, has been
a lot to do with the new gas
boiler installed in 2009 but thatdoes not account for the
decreased electricity bills.
Our latest project has been to
agree to have a Blythswood
recycling bin in the Churchyard
(with the permission of the
Council, to which theChurchyard belongs), in which
can be collected old clothes,
shoes and handbags, books,
toys, DVDs and CDs, curtains
etc.
This bin will be emptied when
necessary by the BlythswoodCharity staff and useable goods
sold in their various shops to
raise money for their social
projects in the UK, Europe,
Asia and Africa or sent as aid
to those in need abroad,
particularly in Romania and
Serbia.
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Why Should We Support
Christian Aid?
We as Christians have been given two great commandments by
Jesus: to love God and to love our neighbours. This underpins
all that Christian Aid has done since its inception just after the
Second World War when churches in Britain and Ireland set up
an organisation to help European refugees.
Since then, the focus has become global, whether it be giving
emergency help and aid when disaster strikes (e g earthquake,
civil conflict, flood), working with partner organisations in
numerous countries to help the poor and needy find a way out
of their situation(e g fair trade co operative, improved
sanitation) or lobbying and campaigning to highlight the many
areas of injustice in our world.(e g child labour, tax evasion bymultinational companies in developing countries).
This assistance is given regardless of the faith or nationality of
those in need. In the last decade Christian Aid has focused on
poverty and climate change, we all have a part to play in how
we view and use the world’s resources and how we can redress
the balance. We have been given so much, how can we not
support Christian Aid!
Why Should We Support
Christian Aid?
Christian Aid week runs from 15th to 21st May thisyear. Maggie Romanis takes a look into thecharity's background.
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Creator God,
You loved the world into life.
Forgive us when our dreams of the futureare shaped by anything other than glimpses of a kingdom
of justice, peace and an end to poverty.
Incarnate God,
you taught us to speak out for what is right.
Make us content with nothing less than a world
that is transformed into the shape of love,
where poverty shall be no more.
Breath of God,
let there be abundant life.
Inspire us with the vision of poverty over,
and give us the faith, courage and will to make it happen.
Christian Aid Prayer for an End to Poverty
christianaid.org.uk/actnowpovertyover.christianaid.org.uk
Take Some Action Now
May 2009. The Katiku family in the droughtprone Usugu Village, east Kenya, have beenable to grow crops on their land despite no rainfor four years thanks to the help of UCCS. Thepartner built a small sub surface dam in anearby river which pumps water up on to theirland. With the farming techniques that MakulaKatiku has learned on the UCCS training days,he is now able to grow enough food to feed hisfamily and sell the surplus at the market. Withthe extra money he is able to educate all five of his children, build his own house and buy extra
livestock.Photo credit: Christian Aid / Jodi Bieber
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St John's graveyard has recently been renamed The Peace
Garden. It contains over 300 monuments to those buried there
from 1818 to 1965 including Robert Burns' Bonnie Leslie – a
woman born as a slave in the West Indies, and a leading
campaigner for the abolition of slavery. Sir Henry Raeburn andSir Walter Scott's mother both lie inside the Dormitory, a
unique enclosure providing safety from grave robbing.
The project involved stonework repairs, improved access, new
planting (including a number of plants mentioned in the Bible)
and a teacher's pack for school visits.
You may have already descended the steps beside St John's tovisit the Café, the Bookshop, the Peace and Justice Centre or
the One World Shop. Next time you come, have a look at the
new display board to find out about the other things to see
there, or ask inside the church for the free booklet about the
monuments and plants.
If you would like to arrange a school visit or a guided tour,
telephone the church office on (0131) 229 7565.
Things to See and Do
The Peace Garden
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Right On Your Doorstep: Amnesty
Are you a supporter of
Amnesty International?Interested in the work they
do? Perhaps like many of us
you are full of good intentions
but not good at getting
started with the letter writing.
A few of us decided it would
be a good idea to start a newcity centre Amnesty branch.
We plan to meet monthly at
lunchtime in the Undercroft
Cafe at St Andrew’s and St
George’s West in George
Street.
Our first two meetings havebeen very sociable, we
enjoyed lunch and chat at the
same time as encouraging
each other to do something
worthwhile.
On our first meeting we sent
greetings cards to people suchas Isroil Kholdorov
(imprisoned for human rights
work in Uzbekistan), Troy
Davis (facing execution
despite doubts over conviction
in the US) and the October
protestors (Thongpaseuth
Keuakoun, Seng Aloun
A New Lunchtime City Centre Branch.
Phengphanh and Bouavanh
Chanmanivong imprisoned forpeacefully calling for change in
Laos).
On our second meeting we
welcomed Alison Cosgrove
from Amnesty who told us how
our small actions can make
such a big difference to peopleunjustly imprisoned or
campaigning for human rights
throughout the world.
We also wrote letters calling for
the release of Filep Karma,
former civil servant in
Indonesia. Filep was arrestedand charged with treason in
2005 for raising a Papuan
Independence flag at a
peaceful political ceremony. He
is currently serving 15 years in
prison.
You can send a letter too: seewww.amnesty.org.uk for more
information, or even better join
us for our next meeting on
Tuesday 29th March at 12:30
We hope this will be a city
centre community venture.
TOGETHER our small actions
can make a BIG difference…
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On Saturday 15th January ten
past and present members of the St Cuthbert’s Society of
Change Ringers rang a peal of
5200 changes of Yorkshire
Surprise Royal in 3hours and 5
minutes. Normally such an
event, while of interest to
other ringers, would not
warrant broadcasting muchfurther but this peal was
special, it was the 200th on
the bells. St Cuthbert’s is only
the second tower in Scotland
to achieve this total after All
Saints Inverary in May 2010.
It will be some time before
another Scottish towerreaches this mark, the next
highest total is 75 at St
Machar’s Aberdeen.
The first peal at St Cuthbert’s
was rung on September 13th
1902, the year that the
original 8 bells were installed.
It took 86 years to reach 50
peals after an addition in 1970of two new treble bells. Since
1988 the pace has increased
considerably. The second 50
peals were rung in 7 years, the
next 50 in 9 years and the last
50 again in 7 years!
The increase reflects a numberof factors: enthusiasm for peal
ringing by local ringers and
their ability to achieve success
(many of the peal bands have
been largely or entirely
composed of local ringers), the
increased mobility of ringers
meaning more frequentvisitors, and the generous
encouragement that has been
received from the church
authorities that has made the
attempts possible.
A full peal consists of at least
5000 changes and takes on
200th Peal Rung at St Cuthbert's
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average about 3 hours to ring,
although rather longer at St
Cuthbert’s due to the weight
of the bells, and is seen by
many ringers as a goal to aimfor. There are rules and
regulations governing what
constitutes a true peal and
not all attempts are
successful. A peal thus offers
a mental and physical
challenge to the ringers
concerned who are rewardedwith feelings of achievement
(and thirst!) at the conclusion.
Peals are rung not only for the
challenge offered to the
ringers concerned but also to
mark, celebrate and
commemorate royal, nationaland local events. For example,
the second peal rung at St
Cuthbert’s, in 1903, was in
honour of the visit of King
Edward VII and Queen
Alexandra. More recently,
peals were rung to celebrate
the 60th birthday of HerMajesty the Queen in 1986,
and the diamond wedding of
the Queen and Prince Philip in
2007. At the national level,
peals were rung at St
Cuthbert’s to commemorate
the end of the Gulf war and
also the 50th anniversary of
VJ day. Peals have been rung
to mark times of mourning;
two peals in 2000 were in
thanksgiving for the lives of
Rognald St Clair Wilson, a longtime ringer at St Cuthbert’s,
and Donald Dewar, Scotland’s
first First Minister. The
retirement of Reverend Tom
Cuthell was marked by a peal
in 2007 and last year a peal
was rung as a tribute to
Douglas Grant to mark hisretirement, after 54 years as
President of the St Cuthbert’s
Society of Change Ringers.
Peals have been rung to mark
engagements, weddings,
births, birthdays and
christenings and it is possible
to map out significant events inthe lives of the longer
established ringers from the
footnotes to the peals rung in
the tower.
The peal boards adorning the
walls of the ringing chamber,
together with other artefacts,provide an interesting history
of the bells and peals rung over
the last hundred years, and will
shortly be joined by another to
mark the 200th peal. Come
and see for yourselves we
would be delighted to welcome
you!
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What Does Together MeanTo You?
Robert Philp explains why he thinks that "the morewe get together, the happier we'll be"
Together, for me, is the
Churches in joint action,
involved in the city centre andits concerns, projecting our
shared Christian values into
the arena of our city’s
communal life.
It means our three churches
sharing aspirations with one
another in the confidence thatbarriers can be broken down
and that we achieve more in
partnership than apart.
At times it means worshipping
together. All right, at a joint
service we may find such
thoughts passing through our
minds as: What are they doing
that for? That’s a funny hymn!
Our Minister/Rector doesn’t dothat when he’s preaching., –
and so on. But these are the
inessentials. The essential core
is our determination to reflect
the love of God in our small
corner of Scotland.
I have a long history in thispartnership, starting (when it
was the Council of West End
Churches) in the late 1960s,
when the successful youth
outreach in the Cephas cellar
under St George’s West in
Shandwick Place made us
think: What next?
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Kenneth MacKenzie CB (chair)
David Hill (treasurer/secretary)
Revd Russell McLarty
Frances Currie
Gordon Reid
Frances Cooper
The outcome was the opening
of The Corner Stone Coffee
House (for younger adults)
under St John’s.
To be part of this was to be
part of something special. In
the early 1970s, its late
opening hours were a rarity,
and queues to get in could
extend out into Lothian Road.
Some who came were cheerfulextroverts, some shy or
lonely, some lost souls. We did
our best to welcome them all.
The helper group of 40+ came
from the six CWEC churches
with others and was
remarkable for its vitality and
closeness. Deep friendshipsand not a few life partnerships
were formed. Its 40th
birthday is this June (more
details p4). Being part of this
meant a lot to me. It was a
blueprint for ecumenical
action.
I was fully involved again in the
early 1990s as Chairman of
CWEC, when an ecumenical
response to youth
homelessness ignited the sparkfor the Rock Trust (see
elsewhere in this issue) Such
things happen when we are in
partnership.
As a Trustee today of the re
christened Together, it’s good to
feel the energy bubbling up.
Sensing the potential as the
voice of the churches is heard
in the debates of the city
centre, the outreach into
businesses of a Workplace
Chaplain, the quest for ‘new
forms of Church’, the sharedinterest groups, as well as all
the things we’ve been doing
together for so many years.
As the old song has it: ‘The
more we get together, the
happier we’ll be.’
Revd David Denniston
Professor Ian Percy CBE
Margaret Romanis
Very Revd Dr John Armes
Robert Philp
Paul Sweetnam
The Together Trustees are:
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"We could learn a lot from crayons: some aresharp, some are pretty, some are dull, whileothers are bright, some have weird names, but wehave to learn to live in the same box."
Anonymous
1 St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church
Princes Street
Edinburgh EH2 4BJ
0131 229 7565
www.stjohns edinburgh.org.uk
2 St Andrew’s & St George’s West
Church
George Street
Edinburgh EH2 2PA
0131 225 3847
www.standrewsandstgeorges.org.uk
3 St Andrew’s & St George’s West
Church
Shandwick Place
Edinburgh EH2 2RT
0131 225 7001
www.stgeorgeswest.com
4 St Cuthbert’s Parish Church
Lothian Road
Edinburgh EH1 2EP
0131 229 1142
www.st cuthberts.net
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The next issue of Togetherness will be released on26th June, with a focus on The Festival of Spiritualityand Peace and New forms of church. If you would liketo contribute, please contact Joe Evans on
07951529717 or [email protected] deadline for submissions will be Sunday 12th June