28 August 2011
Next Sunday
4 September 2011
- 10.45 am
- “early singing” - 'tricia Laurie
- 11 am
- Worship, including the Annual Covenant Service and Holy Communion, conducted by the Rev Gerald Bostock; Communion Offering for Methodist Relief & Development 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.
Church Photocopier
Please note that the photocopying machine will need to be replaced and there are no copying facilities in Marketgait at present.
Prayer Handbooks
The Order placed for “Run the Race”, the 2011-12 Methodist Prayer Handbook, has arrived. If you ordered a copy please collect it from Jenny; if you did not manage to place an order, there are a few spares so please ask Jenny.
International Bible Reading Association
Heather will be pleased to take orders for IBRA material, including “Light for our Path” notes. Please sign the paper on the Vestibule table or contact Heather direct.
Dundee One World Centre
The OWC has sent a copy of its Annual Report for 2010-11 and a supply of leaflets for reading / distribution. These are on the Vestibule table.
Our attention is also drawn to the forthcoming “Dundee One World Centre First Annual Lecture” to be given in early October in Abertay University: details awaited.
“Hearing the Word”
Tom has indicated that there is a small surplus from the donations on 13th August, after deduction of expenses. Tom would welcome suggestions as to a present / future use. “Thanks” to Tom, the Rev Dr Alan Reid, helpers and participants for a stimulating time of thinking about Bible Study.
Methodist Handwritten Bible
The Methodist Handwritten Bible is now on-line and part will be at Synod. David Easson carried one Book when representing the Scotland District in the Presentation Team at Conference.
“It contains 7,000 pages with verses written in English, Chinese, Welsh and Braille, plus accompanying illustrations. More than 30,000 volunteers joined in from every part of Britain and further afield - including prisons, schools, colleges, libraries, nursing homes, airports and shopping centres”
One Braille verse was contributed by Dundee - see http://methodist.org.uk/downloads/god-handwrittenbible-jeremiah-16-18.pdf - Jeremiah (chapters) 16-18, which was the part allocated to our Circuit within the Scotland District's Old Testament contribution. In the New Testament, look for the District's passages in 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon - not least for the Celtic illustrations.
Methodist Church in Fiji
O>ur prayers are again invited for our Methodist brothers and sisters in Fiji as concern grows with news of the Fiji Government's recent cancellation of permission to hold the annual Fiji Methodist Conference which had been allowed to go ahead after being banned until 2014. This week, however, the Methodist Church in Great Britain learned that “the interim Government had withdrawn permission for the Conference because of charges pending against the President and General Secretary of the Methodist Church in Fiji.”
Michael King, World Church Relationships Team Leader for the Methodist Church in Britain, said:
“We are concerned and very disappointed by what's happened because it seemed as though the situation had eased and relationships had improved.
This is a massive setback in the relationship between the Church and state in Fiji. If the Conference had been allowed to go ahead, there would have been a normal and constitutional change in Church leadership and a sense of returning to normality. We are praying for the Church in Fiji and for the nation, and we continue to watch developments with concern.”
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 6th August to Friday 28th October 2011 | Edinburgh University Library, George Square | “Singing the Reformation” Exhibition. The Exhibition will include displays of the famous 8 extant Partbooks,
illustrations of the life and work of Thomas Wode (the preserver of this
music), the role of psalm-singing before & after the Reformation, and
its continuing influence.
Opening times are as follows
There is now a CD, 'The Wode Collection', which has been recorded by Linn Records, featuring The Dunedin Consort, the viol consort Fretwork, and lutenist David Miller. |
| Tuesday 30th August 2011, 9.45am coffee & registration, to 4pm closure | Stables Estate Room, Falkland, Fife | 2011 Rural Conference, organized by The Scottish Churches
Rural Group on the theme “Being Effective Disciples in Today's
Countryside”. The programme has an interesting mix of topics covering elements of community development, health & well being, and 'fair food'. For an outline of the programme (9.45am coffee & registration, to 4pm closure) and booking form, see Vestibule table or contact ACTS, 7 Forrester Lodge, Inglewood House, Alloa FK10 2HU; 01259 215964; www.acts-scotland.org |
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for its own work in Scotland and in September for work in Peru.
Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
- launch last year of five new Bible translations in Burma, where there are 15 young members of staff;
- work on an improved translation of the Ayacucho Quechua Bible in Peru;
- promotion and distribution in Hong Kong of the Revised Chinese Union Version Bible, published last year;
- EXIT: VAN leading a weekend pilgrimage of male youth leaders in Glasgow.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 19th November 2011, 9.30am to 4pm | St Mary's Centre, Kinnoull, Perth | “Volunteering in Faith: Obligation or Joy?” An invitation is extended to ecumenical partners to this Conference organised by the Scottish Episcopal Church's Church in Society Committee. The Keynote Speaker, Anne Morrissey, is a free-lance community theologian, lecturer and author, who has worked in the social responsibility field for many years. There will also be interactive and creative workshops on aspects of volunteering. To book, please send details (name, address, email) and cheque for £5 (payable to The Scottish Episcopal Church) to the Church Relations Officer, SEC, 21 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 5EE, no later than 14th October. |
Prayer Points for this week
- The Vice-President of Conference at the Welcome to the Youth President, Methodist Church House, London, on Friday;
- Welcome Services for Ministers newly-stationed in Scotland;
- readjustment to new staffing situation in our Circuit;
- residents and staff in the Plymouth and Exeter District (Methodist Homes);
- The Leprosy Mission's work in Bangladesh;
- Mission Aviation Fellowship work in Tanzania;
- Al Ahli Arab Hospital's work in refugee camps in Gaza City (BibleLands);
- continuing response to Pakistan flood devastation especially by partners Muslim Hands and Church World Service-Pakistan / Afghanistan (CWS-P/A) (Christian Aid);
- Bible Society work in Scotland and in Peru;
- we pray with and for the peoples of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Circuit (South-East District) and in Kilsyth (Glasgow Circuit).
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