22 October 2006
Next Sunday
- 11 am
- Worship led by Mr Valtteri Mujunen
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.
Pastoral Charge
During Mary's sabbatical, from now to the New Year, please notify the Rev David Firth of any request or need for Ministerial pastoral care direct and / or via the Pastoral Secretary (Jenny Easson), Pastoral Visitors, or the Church Stewards.
Prayer Handbooks
The order has now arrived and copies (price £2.25) can be obtained todayfrom the Vestibule table, payments to Heather.
Methodist Homes
Envelopes in support of the work of Methodist Homes distributed today are for return in the offering plate on Sunday 5th November.
Anniversary Celebrations
Our friends in Dundee Congregational Church invite us to join in their “Songs of Praise” tonight at 6.30 pm as part of their Church Anniversary Celebrations.
One World Week
The 2006 One World Week this week is on the theme MIND THE GAP- between winners and losers
- between words and actions
- between 'friends' and 'enemies'.
For more information, contact the One World Centre, Princes Street, Dundee, and keep an eye out for news of events in the local press.
“One World Week provides the space for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to challenge inequality, discrimination and degradation, locally and globally.”
Next week's news-sheet
This will cover 2 weeks - ie no publication on Sunday 5th November. Please let us have any information / news of events up to 12th November as soon as possible: thanks - Jenny & David.
Chairs
“Worship Area: I would like to record the thanks of all the Stewards and, I am sure, of all the congregation, to the people who faithfully clear away the chairs each Sunday, and to the small team of volunteers who set them out in readiness for Sunday morning.Thanks are due to Sheila for up-dating the plan giving guidelines for positioning the chairs. (This is on the inside of the door of the sound-system cupboard.)
Since we now have a regular booking for Friday evenings, the church cannot be prepared until Saturday or early Sunday. If anyone who is not already involved feels they can help our church worship by helping on the “Chair rota”, please speak to me or any of the Stewards.”
Paddy
DUNDEEFORCHRIST
See Vestibule table or DundeeforChrist website for Autumn 2006 newsletter giving details of forth-coming events:
- Praise Night - Saturday 4th November: Abertay Lecture Theatre;
- Reel Fling Ceilidh - Saturday 11th November: Mark Henderson Centre;
- A Gospel Christmas - Saturday 16th December: Caird Hall
- “Resurrection” - Sunday 8th April (Easter Sunday): Caird Hall.
Tickets for 'Ceilidh' & 'Gospel Christmas' from Wesley Owen or CLC bookshops. “Entry free, offering uplifted” at 'Praise Night' (seating limit 300).
For more information, contact the office in The Steeple - (01382) 204700 or email info@dundeeforchrist.com.
“GROWING FROM THE INSIDE OUT”
If you did not receive last week's news-sheet insert please collect one from the Vestibule table today. This relates to worship on Sunday 5th November.
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 28th October | Dunblane | District Policy Committee |
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in October for work in Sri Lanka. See library area noticeboard.
Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to- effects of negative media attention on Bible Society work in Turkey;
- on-going Children's Bible project in Greece;
- representation at the Baptist Union of Scotland Annual Assembly in Aberdeen;
- Bible Sunday next Sunday - focus : 'A Voice for Romania'.
Traidcraft
Catalogues are still available on the Vestibule table: borrow, peruse, use … Margaret will take orders.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 25th November, 10 am and 3 pm | Scottish Churches House, Dunblane | THINKING Outside the BOX - The District Evangelism Group invites
anyone interested to join them
in “taking a fresh look at faith”. A sandwich
& fruit lunch will be provided. If you are interested and would like to know more, please contact Grahame Lockhart, Evangelism Unit Coordinator, tel 01356 624235; to book a place, contact the District Office in Dunblane, tel 01768 820295; email meth@scottishchurcheshouse.org (Please also tell Margaret Brown, Administrator, of any dietary or other requirements). |
Prayer Points for this week
- The President & Vice-President of Conference in the Plymouth and Exeter District this week;
- the future shape and work of the Connexional Team;
- District Evangelism Group meeting in Dunblane on Tuesday;
- planning to welcome the Rev Lily Twist as Chair of the Synod;
- partners in medical work in Cambodia (Christian Aid);
- The Leprosy Mission's work in Nigeria;
- Amritsar Diocesan Bookshop and similar outlets in Dioceses of the Church of North India (Feed The Minds);
- Bible Society work in Sri Lanka;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Burundi, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo;
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Gateshead and Jarrow Circuit (Newcastle-upon-Tyne District), and in Findochty (North of Scotland Mission Circuit), especially John & Winifred Dolling.
In this News Sheet
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