Closing date has now passed!

Hi it's now the longest day in the year 21st June and we want to bring you up to date - the closing date has passed and now the hard work begins!

We have 5 applications from 5 impressive people. This is the most applications we have ever had which is brilliant but makes it even harder to choose!

Thanks folks for your interest. 

We meet on Monday for the interviews and decide who we would like to come on board.

 Please continue to pray that we choose the people that God wants for the 2 positions

So as they say:-

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Closing date for Chaplains post

Just a reminder that the closing date for the Chaplains post is Saturday 16th June.

If you feel led to apply please go to the Job Vacancy page on the right of our Home page and click on the HUGE blue button at the foot of the page and fill in the info.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Have a happy Jubilee holiday

An Eggstra Brilliant Easter Egg Project 2012

This year is our 2nd Easter Egg Collection and we would like to say a

HUGE

thank you to everyone who donated to CT Easter Egg appeal.

We collected an egg-ceedingly egg-cellent record number of eggs - 100 to be eggs-act!

100

which was absolutely brilliant!

Thank you especially to the anonymous lady who brought in 28 eggs from a local office the night before the project ended! 

Thank you all so much, there were 100 eggs-tra happy local children this Easter weekend :-) 

The Chaplaincy delivered the eggs to the kids projects and here are some photo's - although not brilliant but proving that our Chaplain Fiona collected them with the help of our Treasurer Margaret and delivered them without even eating one of them!!

The last photo is of the delighted staff at Homelink receiving them!

So again many thanks to all of you who helped us make this an extra special Easter for 2 of Edinburgh's worthwhile kids charities

CAMERON TOLL SHOPPERS ASKED TO BE‘EGGS-TRA’ GENEROUS FOR CHILDREN’S CHARITIES

 

SHOPPERS ASKED TO BE   ‘EGGS-TRA’ GENEROUS FOR CHILDREN’S CHARITIES

As part of Cameron Toll Shopping Centre’s commitment to supporting local community groups it will run its annual Easter collection for Edinburgh children’s charities.

Big hearted visitors to the shopping centre are being asked to donate a chocolate egg to help give some of the Capital’s children a better Easter this year .

The initiative, which is being run by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre & ourselves, will see the donated chocolate eggs being distributed to local children via Home Link Family Support & Barnados.

Home Link Family Support is a befriending service for families with pre-school age children & provides therapeutic family support in Midlothian for families with children under 12 years.  It provides a variety of services to families with young children who are under stress or experiencing difficulties. The core element of the service is a high quality befriending service which provides support for the whole family & is based in the family’s home. Volunteer Befrienders are carefully recruited & trained & are then matched with a family to provide focused support to meet the needs of the family.

As one of the UK's leading children's charities, Barnardo's works directly with over 190,000 children, young people & their families every year.  It runs over 800 vital projects across the UK, including counselling for children who have been abused, fostering & adoption services, vocational training & disability inclusion groups.  Every Barnardo's project is different but each believes in the potential in every child & young person, no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through.

Donations should be left in the centre in a specially created box located by the lift in the centre’s Centre Mall between

23rd March and 3rd April

The Chaplaincy will collect the eggs on 3rd April & will distribute them by Easter Sunday to our chosen children's charities

Chaplain resigned & New Chairperson appointed

Unfortunately the end of February saw the resignation of Alan.  We wish him God's blessing as he continues to work at his new job in Gorgie.  This leaves us with a space for a new Chaplain - again if you're interested in volunteering for 4 hours a week in Cameron Toll shopping centre (that leaves you plenty of time for some retail therapy after!)  click on the HUGE blue button under vacancy in this blog.

On a more exciting note - we have appointed a new Chairperson to keep us all under control!  This person, which is a first for the Chaplaincy, is a lovely lady namely Janet Sidaway who worships at St Peter's Episcopal Church in Lutton Place.  Now what do we call her - apart from Janet? Chairperson? Chairlady?  Or how about just Chair?  Whatever the name tag we welcome you on board Janet and hope you enjoy the challege.

BRAND NEW CHAPLAINS FOR CAMERON TOLL CHAPLAINCY :)

Cameron Toll Chaplaincy are pleased to announce that after the interviews which took place on 1st November we now have our 2 new Chaplains!

Fiona Beveridge of London Rd Parish Church & Alan Hamilton-Messer of Granton Baptist Church are our 7th & 8th Chaplains.

If you'd like to meet our new Chaplains please come along to our AGM on Thursday 17th November in the Faith Mission 7pm for 7.30pm

Welcome aboard Fiona & Alan we hope you enjoy your time with us.

Photo's will appear soon

Cameron Toll Chaplaincy AGM

Hi Folks

It's our AGM, if you would like to join us, details are below.

DATE - Thursday 18th Nov 2011

TIME - 7pm for 7.30pm

VENUE - Faith Mission in Gilmerton

SPEAKER - Malcolm Jefferson Assistant Minister at Liberton Kirk

Malcolm



Paul Wilson from Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland will also be saying a few words

If you want any more info please contact us.

Look forward to seeing you there