12 August 2012

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.

Gift Aid

The Treasurer is delighted to report that the Gift Aid tax return of over £5,000 was been paid into the bank last week. Warm thanks go to all who contribute in this way to the work of the Church and in particular to Cliff & Mary Foster for dealing with the administration of this aspect of our finances.

Contributions requested

The Link Club is to take a stall at an open air-market sponsored by Dundee Rotary in the City Square on Saturday 25th August. If you have suitable goods for this stall, please hand them to Club helpers. A marked Box is available for receipt of books (and other small items?) in the Vestibule. Funds raised are likely to be allocated to the purchase of equipment and materials for Club members' activities.

Riverside Blairgowrie Methodist Church 125th Anniversary Celebrations

Saturday 25th August

“It is our Birthday Party and our guests come free”

NB: please support and make this event widely known; an idea of possible numbers for catering purposes would be useful to Blairgowrie friends.

Request for volunteers

“With a smaller congregation and less people available to elp with the essential duties required to ensure that Dundee Methodist Church welcomes friends and visitors to worship on a Sunday, more members are needed to ensure that we can fill the regular rota. Support is needed for assisting the Stewards with counting after the service, to help with serving coffee and to act as Door Stewards. If you are not currently on the list of volunteers do please speak with Senior Steward, Alan Suttie, to find out how you can help. Many thanks."

International Bible Reading Association material

“There is a list in the Foyer for orders for IBRA Bible Readings for next year. Payment on receipt later in the year.”

Heather Dean

Methodist Publishing Order

It is intended to send in an order for churches in the Circuit, for MP material - the more items on the one order, the cheaper in terms of posting and packaging! If you wish to have a copy of any for the following (or other MP items), please let Jenny Easson know as soon as possible. The Order for Prayer Handbooks will be the minimum number for reduced p&p costs, but it would be helpful to know of individuals who wish a copy.

• Prayer Handbook 'Crossing the Chasm' £3.15
• 'Singing the Faith'
• Words £9 (large print £15)
• Music £30
• organ, £150, by 14th August
• Methodist Diary 2013 (£7; interleaved £10)
• 'A Gift of Prayer' booklet pack - £5 for 50
• Presidency Prayer Cards - free
• JMA, Safeguarding and other material
• Reports to Conference and annual reports of Methodist organisations
• Any other items on the website

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in August for work here in Scotland.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• the work of the Egyptian Bible Society in times of political uncertainty;
• publication, despite severe financial difficulties in Malta, of a new edition of the Maltese Bible for younger readers;
• SBS work with schools in the year now starting;
• United Bible Societies' European Migrant Ministry's contacts with refugees from war, famine and persecution in North Africa and the Middle East;
• the work of the Bible Society in Cyprus with tourists and refugees on the island.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President of Conference, Rev Dr Mark Wakelin, and the Vice-President, Michael King;
• the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis, based in Dunblane;
• preparations for Blairgowrie's 125th anniversary celebrations;
• residents and staff in Bolton and Rochdale (Methodist Homes);
• Mission Aviation Fellowship's work in the eastern areas of Democratic Republic of Congo;
• creativity in work as shown by APROFISA workshops in Haiti and by local supporters & groups in the UK (Christian Aid);
• Bible Society work in Scotland;
• Four Homes of Mercy Bethany's full-time care for people with severe disabilities (BibleLands);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in central India;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Wandle Valley (The London District) and all in Mosspark Local Ecumenical Partnership (Glasgow Circuit).

• 5 August 2012
• 19 August 2012

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