1 May 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 available today, for return through the offertory plate in the next few weeks.

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.

See www.churchesvote.org & the Statement on noticeboard.

“Open Studios Fife”

Heather Dean draws our attention to next weekend's sixth such weekend of the opening of studios and displays of work by a range of artists and craftworkers in north-east Fife. Opening times: 4 pm - 9 pm Friday; 10 am - 6 pm Saturday; 11 am - 5 pm Sunday.

Brochures are on the Vestibule table; see also website www.openstudiosfife.co.uk

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.

Methodist Art Collection in Scotland (again)

The Methodist Art Collection is to feature as a central part of the “Shadows of the Divine” Exhibition in New College, Edinburgh from 14th May to 11th June. The exhibition sets the pictures alongside a rare first edition of the 1611 King James Bible. The aim is to explore how pictures set in a literary context can represent and even contribute to the search for peace.

The Methodist Art Collection, begun in the 1960s and a unique collection of Christian art, includes more than 40 works by Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink and many other renowned artists. It is described as “one of the most significant collections of its kind ever assembled”.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

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

• Pan Vida programme in Peru providing breakfast and Scriptures to child survivors of last year's floods;
• Scripture audio programme in Dominican Republic and the strengthening of relationships with Protestant, Catholic and Adventist churches;
• delivery of Bibles to rural areas in Uruguay, through the new van proved by SBS supporters.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President of Conference in Cornwall this week;
• The Vice-President at Wesley House, Cambridge, Thursday-Friday;
• Connexional Strategy & Resources Committee, Thursday;
• preparations for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland later this month;
• those taking, carrying out, and affected by decisions on the relocation of the Circuit's Manses;
• residents and staff in the Cumbria District (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's research work;
• The Sams El Birr Centre's work with children with visual impairment in Giza, Egypt; (BibleLands);
• The peoples of Ghana (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Iraq;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Sudan and Uganda (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Conwy and Prestatyn Circuit (Wales Synod) and our Circuit colleagues based in Scott Street, Perth (Angus, Dundee & Perthshire Circuit).

• 24 April 2011
• 8 May 2011

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