17 April 2011
Next Sunday
24 April 2011
Easter Sunday
- 11 am
- All-age Worship, including Holy Communion, conducted by the Rev Gerald Bostock; Communion Offering for the Fund for the support of Presbyters and Deacons ('Auxiliary Fund')
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.
Holy Week
- Dundee City Centre Churches will share in
- Maundy Thursday Meal at 7.30 pm in Marketgait, hosted by Dundee Methodists. This time of table fellowship and conversation will also include a sharing in Communion;
- Good Friday “Walk of Witness” from 12 noon: meet at St Andrew's Cathedral ;
- Good Friday Ecumenical Service at 7.30 pm in the Salvation Army Citadel, West Marketgait.
- The Broughty Ferry Churches Group will share Services:
- “Stations of the Cross” at 6 pm on Monday in Our Lady of Good Counsel, Westfield Road, Broughty Ferry (map);
- Evening Worship on Tuesday at 7.30 pm in Broughty Baptist Church, 86 St Vincent Street, Broughty Ferry;
- Lunchtime Service at 12 noon on Wednesday in Our Lady of Good Counsel, Westfield Road, Broughty Ferry (map) - please bring a packed lunch;
- Passover Meal on Maundy Thursday in New Kirk Church Hall, Queen Street at 7.30 pm;
- Good Friday:
- distribution of Hot Cross Buns from 10 am to 12 noon, from 'centre' ie Broughty Baptist Church Hall, 86 St Vincent Street, Broughty Ferry;
- “Time for Reflection” between 1.30 pm and 3 pm in Barnhill St Margaret's Church, Invermark Terraace, Broughty Ferry ;
- Ecumenical Service in Barnhill St Margaret's Church, Invermark Terraace, Broughty Ferry at 7.30 pm.
- Easter Sunday - see local press / websites for details of Easter Day activities and Services in / near local churches. Please also note that this year there will be NO “Resurrection Event” in the Caird Hall which was unavailable (but there is one in Perth!).
Christian Aid
The 12th annual sponsored Tay Bridge Crossing will take place Saturday 23rd April from 2 pm.
Bible Reading Group
There will be no meetings of this Group in April. Support is invited for the ecumenical Maundy Thursday Meal in Marketgait at 7.30 pm on Thursday.
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited for work in April for work in Chile. See noticeboard in library area for more information. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
- Revised New Testament now available in Guyana in the indigenous Patamuna language;
- challenges and demands facing the Brazil Bible Society in a country of many social contrasts;
- unity and working together among the people of Ecuador;
- regular SBS contact and fellowship with the Methodist Homes Auchlochan retirement village, Lesmahagow
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 3rd May, 9.30 am to 3.30 pm | Stirling Baptist Church | ACTS Cross-Network Conference - 'Ministry in a Time of Change'. For details, contact Tom Moyes at ACTS (01259 222363) or, if you plan to attend, Joan Pennycook on joanpennycook@acts-scotland.org. |
| Saturday 7th May, 10.30 am (coffee) to 3 pm - lunch provided | Dunblane Cathedral Halls | “Journeying Together” - the second District Ecumenical Forum. To register please send form (see Vestibule table) to / contact Bill Reid (01786 820295), e-mail billreid@methodistchurch.plus.com. All are welcome. |
| Tuesday May 3rd - Tuesday June 14th, excluding May 10th, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm | Solas Centre, St Peter Street, Dundee | Life of Jesus - from the DVD. For DVD preview, see www.lifeofjesus.tv. |
| Tuesday 10th May, 7 pm | Solas Centre, St Peter Street, Dundee | Sons of Korah in Concert : A musical journey into the Psalms, in association with the Bible Society, Scottish Bible Society, and Bible Fresh. Tickets £8 / £5 concession. |
| Friday 13th May, 7.30 pm | St James' Church of Scotland, Broughty Ferry | Impromptu Singers concert in aid of RNLI. |
| Wednesday 18th May, 6.45 pm | Debating Hall, Teviot Building, University of Edinburgh | Sutherland Trust Spring Lecture Professor David Fergusson (Professor of Divinity & Principal of New College, Edinburgh University) will speak on “Theology and Therapy: Reflections on the Scottish Interaction”. For tickets (£17/£12) contact the Queens Hall Box Office (0131 668 2019) or www.thequeenshall.net |
| Saturday 11th June, 10.30 am to 3.45 pm | Central Baptist Church, Ward Road, Dundee | “Together in Mission” : District Resourcing Day. The Day will explore the role of small groups in deepening discipleship, as part of “Deepening Discipleship Week”. It is suggested that Sunday worship in the Week also focuses on “discipleship”. For more details of the Day and Week see www.methodistchurchinscotland.org.uk or the Resourcing Day leaflet (copies on the Vestibule table). Booking for the Resourcing Day is requested by 21st May if possible via the form, also available on the Vestibule table, or with the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis (01786 820295; email fiona@methodistchurch.plus.com. |
Prayer Points for this week
- The Vice-President of Conference in West Yorkshire this week;
- preparations for Methodist Conference in Southport in July;
- all Preachers and Worship Leaders throughout Tayside & Fife;
- residents and staff in the Bristol District (Methodist Homes);
- work of the Lily Shwayri Centre with disabled children and adults in Lebanon (BibleLands);
- The Leprosy Mission's programme coordinators;
- provision of books for children in Bangladesh - Saturday< is World Book Day (Christian Aid);
- Bible Society work in Chile;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Djibouti and Somalia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Llanelli and Carmarthen Circuit (Wales Synod) and in Banff (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).
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