15 January 2012
Next Sunday
22 January 2012
- 11 am
- Worship, including Holy Communion, conducted by the Rev Mary Patterson
- Communion Offering for the Benevolence 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.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Broughty Ferry Churches Group decided at its last meeting to change the format of the celebration in the WPCU (18-25 January). There will no longer be a Saturday event (Coffee-and-Worship), as has taken place in recent years in Broughty Ferry Baptist Church, to whom BFCG is grateful.
Instead, it has been decided to surround the regular Friday Christian Aid Lunch with a short Act of Worship.
Thus, this Friday there will be worship beginning at 11.30am until noon when the Lunch will be served as usual (soup, bread & cheese, tea/coffee). From the usual ending of Lunch at 1pm, the second part of worship will bring the whole celebration to a close by 1.15pm. There will be seating at tables throughout and serving of Lunch will be in the usual way. The organising group hope that as many people as possible will attend as much of the whole 1_ hours' Celebration as possible.
As this year's theme, from Poland, is “We will all be changed”, they suggest that this year's new approach for BFCG's WPCU is a fitting one. They look forward to meeting as many as possible in the YMCA on Friday.
(For further details, contact David Easson, organising group)
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 16th January 2012, 7.30pm | Dundee Methodist Church, “L” | Circuit Leadership Team |
| Tuesday 17th January 2012, 10.30am | Dundee Methodist Church, upstairs | Plan-making Group |
| Thursday 19th January 2012, 7.30pm | Dundee Methodist Church, “L” | Finance and Property Committee |
| Friday 20th January 2012, 11.30am - 1.15pm | YMCA 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (opposite “M&S Food”) (map) | Broughty Ferry Churches Group Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Service, incorporating Christian Aid Lunch at 12noon - 1pm. |
| Saturday 21st January 2012, 2.30pm | Dunblane Cathedral | Service of Thanksgiving for Scottish Churches House. ACTS and Scottish Friends of Ecumenism are hosting an Act of Worship to express thanks for the 50 years of work and witness through Scottish Churches House Dunblane. An invitation is given to all Friends, supporters and users of SCH. If you hope to attend, it would be helpful to notify ACTS via joanpennycook@acts-scotland.org; tel 01259 215964. |
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
- UBS workers in the Asia - Pacific area, based in Brisbane, covering the region from Iran to Polynesia;
- United Bible Society staff based near London coordinating world-wide specialised work;
- literacy work and outreach to visually impaired people in Burkina Faso.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 24th February 2012, 10am to 4pm | Royal Scots Club, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh | “Without Words; Creative Communication” - a One-Day Workshop
run by 'Faith
in Older People', seeking to address,
from a spiritual perspective, aspects of communication when living and
working with people suffering from dementia.
The facilitators will be Kate Allan, a psychologist whose interests include communication creativity and wellbeing in dementia, and John Killick, a writer and champion of the role of art for people with dementia. Cost £65. Registration via
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| Saturday February 25th February 2012, 11am coffee / 11.30am start to 3.45pm | Central Edinburgh Methodist Church, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX | “Holiness and Risk” Event This day event is for all interested and especially as a continuation for any who attended previous H&R Days. The programme will include a mix of sharing stories, exploring resources, worship, table fellowship - with fun and laughter as essential ingredients!
Please advise Fiona Inglis, District Administrator, if you wish to attend by
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| Wednesday 29th February 2012, 4pm to 8pm (including meal together) | The Bield at Blackruthven | Invitation to meet Ann Morisy. Scotland District Learning & Development Forum is hosting an open discussion to be resourced by Ann Morisy. Ann, then visiting Scotland, is well-known as an exciting and encouraging speaker on the churches' engagements with communities, and has written widely on this, including “Journeying Out: a new approach to Christian mission”. To register, please contact the District Administrator, Fiona Inglis, on fiona@methodistchurch.plus.com or 01786 820295 before Friday 27th January. |
| Friday 23rd March 2012, 10am to 4pm | Ignatian Spirituality Centre, 35 Scott Street, Glasgow G3 6PE | “Without Words; Creative Communication” - a One-Day Workshop
run by 'Faith
in Older People', seeking to address,
from a spiritual perspective, aspects of communication when living and
working with people suffering from dementia.
The facilitators will be Kate Allan, a psychologist whose interests include communication creativity and wellbeing in dementia, and John Killick, a writer and champion of the role of art for people with dementia. Cost £65. Registration via
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| Saturday 24th March 2012 | Allan Park South Church, Dumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2QJ, with further events in Holy Trinity and 'the Smith' | The Drummond Trust Stirling Conference: 'Ian Masson Fraser'. “Ian Fraser is arguably Scotland's greatest living theologian, whose theology is lived out in action, prayer and poetry. This Conference provides a rare opportunity to explore in the round the ways in which Ian's gifts of thought and language have expressed themselves in a unique witness for our times ...” Contributors include Ian himself, Kathy Galloway, Elizabeth Templeton, Tim Duffy, Douglas Galbraith, Alison Jack and Elspeth King. Cost (incl refreshments & buffet lunch); £10 / £8 concessions. Early booking is advised, contact:
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Prayer Points for this week
- the President and the Vice-President of Conference at the Parliamentary Covenant Service, Westminster, Monday;
- Joint Implementation Commission for the Anglican-Methodist Covenant (Phase 2) meeting, Wednesday;
- Methodists and all Christians facing opposition & persecution, especially in Fiji and Nigeria;
- agencies campaigning on poverty and homelessness;
- projects in the course of planning and development (Methodist Homes);
- The Leprosy Mission's work resourced by donations & legacies;
- ecumenical relief & development work, especially where Church leaders face opposition, eg Zimbabwe (Christian Aid);
- Mission Aviation Fellowship work in and from Uganda;
- leadership and administration at Hope School, Beirut (BibleLands);
- Bible Society work in Benin;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
- we remember fellow Methodists in South-East Berkshire (South-East District) and in Stirling (Central Scotland Circuit).
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