24 April 2011

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.

Easter Offerings

Envelopes for the annual Appeal for the work of the world church are being distributed today, for return through the offertory plate in the next few weeks. The 2011 theme is 'Seeds of Life - Harvest, Hope and Wholeness for all God's Children'.

This title is based on 'All Things New', the theme chosen by Judith Simms, Connexional Women's Network President, for her year of office in 2008-9.

The money raised through the Easter Offering goes into the World Mission Fund, to be used for work that contributes to God's mission in 65 Partner Churches outside Britain and Ireland:

• grants for particular requests from Partner Churches
• training and support of mission partners to work with Partner Churches
• 'Nationals in Mission' appointments in Partner Churches
• scholarship and leadership training requested by Partner Churches.

Broughty Ferry Churches Group

The monthly calendar which is compiled to indicate particular BFCG events and regular activities within the Group's member churches includes the following during May:

• Wednesdays at 10.30 am, Midweek Service in St James' Church (Fisher Street / Fort Street)
• Wednesdays 12.30 pm to 4 pm, Café in St Margaret's Barnhill Hall (Guthrie Terrace)
• Fridays 12 noon to 1 pm, Christian Aid Lunch in YMCA 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (opposite “M&S Food”) (map)
• Saturday 14th May
  • New Kirk Spring Fair 10 am to 1.30 pm
  • Barnhill St Margaret's Coffee Morning for Christian Aid, 10 am to 12 noon
  • St Stephen's & West “Cream Tea”, 2 pm to 4 pm.

The “end of year” BFCG meeting will take place on Tuesday 17th May at 7.30 pm in St Stephen's & West.

Holyrood Elections

The leaders of the Churches in Scotland have joined to encourage serious consideration of the issues and the exercising of the right to vote on Thursday 5th May. See the specially created website www.churchesvote.org & the Statement on the downstairs noticeboard.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

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

• provision & distribution of relief supplies and Scriptures to a dwindling Christian community in Iraq;
• launch of lecture series in Edinburgh exploring the theology of opera;
• successful Students of Heroes Gallery project in the East Caribbean, increasing the Bible Society profile;
• translation work and witness of John Ross to whom Korean Bible Society is unveiling a plaque in Edinburgh;
• prison ministry and new Bible House in Puerto Rico.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President of Conference in Shetland this weekend;
• Easter celebrations today in both Western and Eastern traditions, and throughout the world;
• our Circuit's Presbyters and their families;
• residents and staff in Wales (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's co-ordinators in India;
• partnership with Musalaha Ministry of Reconciliation to equip women in Israel-Palestine (BibleLands);
• partners working to counter malaria - Monday is World Malaria Day (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Chile and in Iraq;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Gwent Hills and Vales Circuit (Wales Synod) and our own witness based in Marketgait (Angus, Dundee & Perthshire Circuit).

• 17 April 2011
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