8 January 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.

Beryl 'On Note'

Worship next Sunday is to be led by Marcia Mackenzie, appointed Mentor, and Beryl Cowling, training to become a Local Preacher. The recent Preachers' Meeting agreed that Beryl start her formal training “On Note”, accompanying and sharing the leading of worship with her Mentor. We assure Beryl of the support of the Dundee congregation in her leading of worship and her studies.

Bible Groups

As the “Year of the Bible” comes to an end, Tom Penman is consulting those who have attended the two Groups - and any others - about continuing ways of sharing insights and study of Scripture. Please contact Tom with thoughts and suggestions for 2012.

Scottish Methodists Together

The new edition of the District Letter is on the Vestibule table - please take, read, distribute. This edition contains the “faith journey” of someone well known to the Marketgait congregation from leading our worship …….

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in January for work in Benin. Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• 50 years Bible Society work in Cameroon, opening of depots to serve Equatorial Guinea and islands of SÃo Tomé & Principe;
• audio and literacy work in the Central African Republic, also provision of distribution vehicle and land for building of replacement office following demolition by the authorities;
• marking of 350 years of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer;
• outreach in Gabon, also new depots to serve the interior and planning of a Bible House;
• United Bible Society staff travelling in Africa, and serving Societies in Europe, the Middle East, & America.

Mission Aviation Fellowship

MAF is a “dynamic Christian organisation” operating more than 135 aircraft over 35 countries in the developing world, flying across some of the most hostile country to reach the most isolated people. MAF works in partnership with over 1,000 other organisations in the fields of disaster relief, health care, education and development.

• Every 3 minutes one of MAF's fleet of light aircraft takes off or lands somewhere in the world;
• airfield conditions are often described as “arduous”;
• aircraft maintenance, equipment and skills are vital;
• staff include pilots, engineers, administrators - plus volunteer supporters “in the field” and “at home”.

The work of MAF began more or less simultaneously in the UK and the USA in 1945/6, with Australia soon after. Since then there has been steady expansion.

For more information see website www.maf-uk.org.uk; phone 0845 850 9505, or write to MAF, Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2TN.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President of Conference in the York and Hull District, and the Vice-President visiting the Channel Islands, next weekend;
• Connexional Leaders Forum, Monday-Tuesday, and District Chairs Meeting, Wednesday-Thursday;
• decisions at the Stationing Matching Group (Tuesday) affecting our District and Circuit;
• residents and staff in the East Anglia District (Methodist Homes);
• The Leprosy Mission's promotional work in Europe;
• continuing post-earthquake work in Haiti by partners GARR and Haiti Survive (Christian Aid);
• Mission Aviation Fellowship work from Uganda into South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo;
• staffing changes in the Cedar Home, Beirut (BibleLands);
• Bible Society work in Benin;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Thames Valley Circuit (South-East District) and in New Stevenston (Lanarkshire Circuit)

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