19 September 2004

We give the assurance of our thoughts and prayers to all who are unwell, awaiting or undergoing treatment, or anxious or grieving for the loss of loved ones.

“Creation” - Harvest Celebration

Next Sunday’s worship will be the culmination of work in advance at two workshops:

• after worship today
• next Saturday morning

Ask ’tricia for more details – join in workshops (there is likely to be enough food for everyone today) – offer resources.

“Come as You Are”

A 10-week series to “help people think about their faith and what it means in their daily lives to be a follower of Jesus”. Meetings on Thursday evenings from 21st October to 23rd December inclusive, in Marketgait, from 7.15 pm to 9.15 pm. The course explores issues of faith and what it meansto belong to the Methodist Church in particular. Invitations are being distributed today – please consider the contents prayerfully and respond as indicated.

Communion Worship Books

It has been suggested that members of the congregation who may wish to have a personal copy of the Communion Service in the (new) Methodist Worship Book could do so through a “bulk order” at a cost of £5 per copy. If you wish to place an order through Sandy Laurie, please sign the list on the Vestibule table any time up to and including today.

Link Club – Enable Bowling Challenge

Thursday 7 October from 7 pm

The Link Club is delighted that a team from the church, calling itself The Flying Fish, has agreed to take part in the Enable fund-raising bowling challenge. They need to raise at least £50 sponsorship and would be grateful for your help. A sponsor form is on the table at the top of the stairs. Attached to the sponsor form are more details about the challenge. (If anyone else would like to form a team, Lorna can give more information.)

“Quiet Room”

The downstairs back room is prepared as a place for quiet reflection & personal prayer before worship on Sundays.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Trade Justice

Postcards are on the Vestibule table, concerning this campaign. If you wish to indicate support, please sign the postcard and return it, as indicated, to World Development Movement for forwarding ‘en masse’ to the Government.

Scottish Bible Society

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week in particular to

• the Bible Society of Lithuania’s new exhibition and bookshop
• increase in distribution of Bibles in Romania, distribution of Romani audio-cassettes, and development of special projects
• funding for provision of Bibles to prisons in Rwanda and printing of 'New Reader' scriptures for literacy programmes
• the SBS Board meeting on Wednesday
• work in South Africa among a multi-cultural and multi-lingual population, especially production of the Southern Ndebele Bible and the Afrikaans Bible for the Deaf.
• Work in Turkey on the Kurdish and Syriac New Testaments, Bible Dictionary and Concordance.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference at the Connexional Leadership Team meeting, Monday -Tuesday;
• Y Gamanfa (Methodists in Wales), meeting next Saturday;
• Rev Jim Jones, the Chair of the Methodist Synod in Scotland, visiting Training Institutions in Malaysia for 2 weeks;
• Montrose and Perth Church Councils on Monday and Wednesday, respectively;
• Trade Justice Event in Brighton next weekend (Christian Aid);
• annual school for the 42 clergy in Bloemfontein Diocese (an area the size of England), South Africa (Feed The Minds);
• The Leprosy Mission’s work in Indonesia, Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea;
• Bible Society work in Uganda;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Sheffield (South) Circuit (Sheffield District), and in Castlehill (Lanarkshire Circuit).

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