26 April 2009

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.

New Venture for Young People

As an outcome of previous conversations in the Children's Work Group and Pastoral Committee, this opportunity for our young people to meet together is being offered on a Sunday evening once a month, starting on Sunday 17th May at 6.30 pm. Rev Mary Patterson would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in supporting her in this.

Methodist Ministers Housing Society

“The Society provides accommodation for retired Methodist ministers, deacons, spouses and widowers. The Society began 60 years ago with the gift of a manor house and land at Barrow-on-Trent and now owns almost 1,000 properties throughout the UK. These are home to those who did not have the resource to purchase a property on retirement. We give assistance to about 40 ministers/deacons each year as they retire as well as enabling about 12 existing Society tenants each year to move to more suitable accommodation when circumstances change.” www.mmhs.org.uk

Workplace Chaplain Post

The Ministries Council of the Church of Scotland have asked their partner churches to publicise, in print and on websites, the following advertisement for a chaplaincy post linked with Corstorphine Old Parish Church for work in retail and business centres: Workplace Chaplain - part-time 24 hours per week; fixed term - 3 years; £23,139 - £30,426 pro rata; Edinburgh West. Closing date - 1st May 2009. For Application Pack and more information, call 0131 240 2249, quoting reference M16/01/09. The Church of Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland SC011353. (Some more details are on notice-board downstairs in porch).

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in April for work in Haiti and in May for work in Cambodia. See library area noticeboard for more information. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• Bible translation projects into Rungus and Timugon Murut in Sabah, Malaysia;
• redevelopment of Bible House in Singapore;
• volunteer teams sent from Singapore to Myanmar and China to distribute replacement Bibles to churches and villages hit by Cyclone Nargis and the Sichuan earthquake;
• Radio Bible ministry, and distribution to the armed forces and prisons in Cambodia.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President & Vice-President of Conference in the Sheffield District this weekend;
• celebration of 250 years of Methodism in Aberdeen;
• projects in the South East District (Methodist Homes);
• recovery from last year's cyclone devastation in the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Haiti and in Cambodia;
• mobile clinics based in the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital (BibleLands);
• The Leprosy Mission's Programme Officers and co-ordinators;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia (WCC Prayer Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Redruth (Cornwall District), and in Paisley (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).

• 19 April 2009
• 3 May 2009

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