14 March 2010

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.

Lent Observance

Our prayerful and active support is invited as we share a Lenten journey of faith with fellow Christians in and beyond Dundee:

• Dundee City Centre:
  • Tuesday Lent Study Groups, in Meadowside St Paul’s , at 7.30 pm, using The Leprosy Mission's “The Cost of Discipleship” material (downloadable from www.leprosymission.org.uk/resources/lent.aspx / contact David Firth).
• Broughty Ferry Churches Group:
  • Wednesday Lent meeting in Broughty Ferry New Kirk (St Aidan's), Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (map) at 7.30 pm led by New Kirk and St Stephen's & West, using CTBI material “On the Edge of His Pain”, this week's topic: “Mary”. The theme is being linked to BBC broadcasts.

“Replacement of Property Maintenance Items”

A four-page list has been pinned up on both the Vestry and the Office noticeboards (ie not publicly) indicating various items used on our premises (some are “basic but essential”- eg First Aid box, light bulbs, toilet rolls). It is helpful if responsibility for keeping stocks at a sensible level is shared. If you can assist, even if in just one aspect, please sign the list where there are still blanks. Thanks!

Publicity Spot!

Andy Jackson's book of poetry, “The Assassination Museum”, is now available for purchase from www.redsquirrelpress.com (£6.99 + p/p). To order through a bookshop, quote ISBN 978-1-906700-16-4

Support other Organisations

Scottish Churches House Prayer Network

Daily prayers are led at 9.00 - 9.15 am, with Network members particularly asked to join, if possible, on Wednesday mornings.

Prayers are particularly invited for “the increased effort needed during this year to increase use of the House, both through its Programme and in its use by other Groups and Organizations”.

Prayers are invited this week for those using the House, including the Interim Management Group meeting tomorrow evening as the governance process moves towards the formal appointment of a Board of Management.

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in March for work in Jamaica. See noticeboard for more information. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• development of the Bible Society in El Salvador's Bible Panorama project seeking to “bring peace in a nation affected by gang violence, murder and extortion”;
• Scripture distribution and work among 400,000 street children in Nicaragua;
• distribution of Scriptures among prisoners and young offenders in Puerto Rico, also celebration of 25 years of the Radio Bible Reading Marathon.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President and Vice-President of Conference in the York and Hull District next weekend;
• Connexional Leaders' Forum, Tuesday - Wednesday;
• Episcopal, Methodist & United Reformed Church (EMU) Partnership meeting on Monday;
• preparations for Synod / “Holiness & Risk” event in April;
• Church Land Programme in South Africa, supporting communities adversely affected by the hosting of the FIFA World Cup (Christian Aid);
• The Development of Upper Egypt Trust helping poor communities in southern Egypt (BibleLands);
• projects in the Manchester and Stockport District (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's International Office;
• Bible Society work in Jamaica;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (WCC Prayer Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Monmouth (S Wales) and in Greenock (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire Circuit).

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