Dundee Methodist Church

15 May 2005

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.

Are you interested in being a Church Steward?

After many years as a Church Steward, Clare has decided to take a break (from September). We all extend our thanks to her for her dedication as she has contributed to the life of the church in this office.

If YOU would be interested in finding out what is involved in being a Church Steward (or if you have already been a Steward and feel ready for a second term), please speak to any of the Stewards before the General Church Meeting on 29th May 2005.

Tay Bridge Cross

David Firth would like to thank all those who sponsored him to walk across the Tay Road Bridge on 30th April to raise money for Christian Aid. David made six crossings and the total raised by him at present stands at £81. Thank you again.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Sunday 15th May, 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm from and to St Luke’s & Queen Street (West Queen Street, B Ferry) (map) Pentecost Prayer Walk. Broughty Ferry Churches Group invite you to join this Prayer Walk, which is also to mark the 60th Birthday of Christian Aid. The Walk will start and finish at St Luke’s & Queen Street (West Queen Street, B Ferry), where tea / coffee and cake will be served at 3.30 pm. Short Bible readings will be given outside the Churches and prayer also be led at significant points in the journey. All are welcome – further details of the route on Vestibule table / from Anne Anderson (738620) or just try to find us !
Sunday 22nd May, 6.30 pm St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Broughty Ferry (map) The Samuel Chorus presents “A Choral Miscellany”, in aid of St Luke’s Hospital, Nablus, and St John’s Eye Hospital, Jerusalem. See poster for details.

Support other Organisations

Traidcraft

Thanks to all who support the Traidcraft stall. There are new catalogues available on the Vestibule table to take away and browse. Any orders to Margaret; there are order forms if you wish to use them.

Scottish Bible Society

In May the Bible-a-Month Club invites our prayers and support for work in Siberia. See library area noticeboard for details.

Our attention is particularly drawn this week to

  • distributors of Bibles to villages in India
  • support by the Ministry of Education in Panama for schools’ programmes, aiming to reach 300 000 pupils in remote areas
  • provision of a new warehouse for resources for growing churches in Cuba
  • Scripture translation into Jamaican patois.

“Prosperity with a Purpose” Exploring the Ethics of Affluence

This publication of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) aims “to encourage Christians in these islands to rethink the issues of poverty and prosperity in a newly globalized world, threatened by environmental degradation” price £11.99, ISBN 085169 309 1; visit www.ctbi.org.uk/pwap or phone 01733 325002.

There is a companion volume, “Prosperity with a purpose: Christians and the Ethics of Affluence” – price £3.99; ISBN 08519 310 5; Jenny has a copy of that to borrow.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June Rosyth Methodist Church (map) “The ONE Weekend”for everyone between 12 and 25 years! This weekend is being funded by the Methodist Church in Scotland so only “pooled travel costs” to & from Rosyth Methodist Church will be required. Programme includes
  • Friday evening - gathering from 7.30 pm onwards
  • Saturday morning - “Hot Gossip” - talking and planning together
  • Saturday afternoon / evening - FRENZY – contemporary Christian music concert with Delirious, at Ingliston
  • Sunday morning - worship
  • Sunday afternoon - lunch & depart
Details / booking forms on Vestibule table; email thisistheone2005@hotmail.co.uk; visit www.shettlestonmc.com/theone; please take & return booking form by Monday 16th May if possible (or phone Luke & Sarah Russell on 01501 732049).
Saturday 18th June, 10.30 am to 4 pm Wallacestone Methodist Church, Shieldhill Road, Reddingsmuirhead, Falkirk (map) District Networking Day (formerly “Officers’ Day”). This is open to “anyone who is interested in sharing what is happening locally and nationally in the Methodist Church in Scotland”. The Day will include workshops / small group discussions led by people from within the Resource Units networks, on such topics as
  • disability issues in the church
  • ‘Prayer without Ceasing’ initiative to be launched at Conference in June,
  • priorities for our discipleship and development of new work to support us all,
  • “Sharing our faith” – exploring how we might tell the story of our faith journeys among ourselves and to others.
Last year’s enjoyable Day at Rosyth led to the development of new areas of work and more people being involved across the District. Soup and sandwich lunch will be provided - more details, including travel information, in leaflets coming from the District Office in Dunblane in the next week or so.

The Day is open to anyone interested and everyone is asked to think seriously about coming to meet and share with our Methodist sisters and brothers from other parts of Scotland.

Prayer Points for this week

  • the Vice-President at Bristol Network next weekend, and the President in St Ives (Hunts) next Sunday;
  • young people and children in the Scotland District;
  • our own Dundee General Church Meeting on 29th May;
  • Christian Aid Week events and supporters (Christian Aid);
  • promotion of indigenous theology in Melanesia & Polynesia by the Pacific Theological College in Fiji (Feed The Minds);
  • The Leprosy Mission’s work in West India - Karnataka, Maharashtra;
  • Bible Society work in Siberia;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Macedonia;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Plymouth and Devonport Circuit (Plymouth & Exeter District), and in Kilsyth (Glasgow Circuit).