13 March 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.

Lent Observance

• Dundee City Centre Churches will share in studying material by Spurgeon on Tuesday at 7.30 pm in Meadowside St Paul's Church (lower hall); material available at meeting.
• The Broughty Ferry Churches Group will share in a Study Group on Wednesday at 7.30 pm in the New Kirk's Kippen Hall (St Vincent Street) on the topic “Strangers and friends” from the CTBI material 'Reconciliation Together'.
• Riverside Methodist Church Blairgowrie, will be hosting a series of Lent Talks, supported by EPACTS (East Perthshire Action of Churches Together in Scotland), at 7.30pm as follows:
  • Wed 23rd March: 'Is Faith in God a Creator necessary?' - Rev Fraser Penny;
  • Sun 27 March: 'Our Moral Choices' - Dr Jim McManus;
  • Wed 6 April: 'Richness of Diversity' - Dr Bill Reid
  • Sun 10 April: 'Caring for the Environment' - Rt Rev Bruce Cameron
  Our support is warmly invited. See poster on noticeboard.

Year of the Bible 2011

The Bible Reading Group will meet on Thursday at 7.30 pm in Marketgait, and, for any who cannot manage Thursday or wish a second session, on Sunday at 10 am, before worship

The 'Dig Deeper' Group will meet on Thursday 24th March, with Sunday 27th March as an alternative or second session. The book which forms the basis of the sessions can be accessed on www.thegoodbook.co.uk/dig-deeper, with a copy and discounted copies also available from Tom Penman.

For more information on Bibles / Groups, contact Tom Penman.

Our Lady of Good Counsel Broughty Ferry: Trip to New Lanark

Our friends at OLGC give an invitation to ecumenical partners to join them on an outing to New Lanark on Wednesday 11 May, at a cost of £28. The outing will include a Peace Service, tour of the Heritage Village and High Tea. For more details, contact Father Anthony McCarthy, 29 Westfield Road, DD5 1ED, tel: (01382) 778750, to whom bookings and payment should be made no later than Sunday 20th March

A New Book from an Author some of us know!

Malcolm Rothwell (our former Minister in Dundee) has written a second book which he has asked us to publicise: “Sense and Nonsense, conversations with a clown about spiritual things”. It is published by authorhouse 2011, and is available from Amazon (online) or Waterstones.

The preface, written by the Revd the Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Rev Leslie Griffiths) states “This book took hold of me and would not let me go until I had finished it” and concludes “I found it immensely pleasurable and I can only hope it gets a wide readership”.

“Scottish Methodists Together”: Spring 2011 edition

The Spring issue of the District newsletter is now available and contains articles on or details of

• 'Deepening Discipleship' which is to be the focus for worship throughout the District on Sundays 12th and 19th June and for activities during that week;
• 'Fresh Bible Challenge' & 'Writing the Bible in 2011';
• 'My Journey of Faith' by Howard Marshall (Aberdeen);
• 'Developing the Methodist Church in Scotland' - an emerging vision;
• 'Ecumenical News' and 'Dates for Your Diary'.

For printed copies, please contact the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis, on 01786 820295; email fiona@methodistchurch.plus.com

NB: the Diary Dates include the “District Resourcing Day” on Saturday 11th June in the Central Baptist Church, Dundee: note the date and place now!!

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited for work in March for work in Croatia. See noticeboard in library area for more information.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Bible Society work in Cameroon;
• production of a new Jubilee Bible in Gabon;
• launch of new Sango Bible in the Central African Republic;
• new leadership of the Bible Society in Uganda, seeking to meet challenges of rebel activity and population displacement;
• SBS Board members, meeting on Friday.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The Vice-President of Conference in Shetland next weekend;
• Connexional Leaders' Forum, Monday-Tuesday; Chairs' Meeting, Tuesday-Wednesday;
• meeting of EMU (Episcopal, Methodist, URC) Group, Monday;
• Arbroath Church Council, Monday;
• residents and staff in Homes and Schemes in London (Methodist Homes);
• Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BibleLands);
• The Leprosy Mission's international staff;
• the people of Zimbabwe, especially during the “hunger season” (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Croatia;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Swansea and Gower Circuit (Wales Synod) and in Portessie (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).

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