10 June 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.

Olympic Torch Relay

As the Olympic Torch journeys through Britain, please remember that on Tuesday 12th June when it reaches Balbeggie (north of Scone) en route to Dundee via Perthshire & Fife, Maurice Paterson, one of our minibus escorts, will carry it. Please think of him and his family (dad Mike is one of our drivers) as they look forward to this exciting and important event in their lives (Jenny Easson, Link Club).

Riverside Blairgowrie Methodist Church 125th Anniversary Celebrations

1. A series of lunchtime organ concerts by Austin Wilkie, in course of arrangement;
2. Anniversary Weekend 25th- 26th August:
   • “Church Open Day” from 10am to 4pm on Saturday with exhibition, barbecue lunch, games …. (memorabilia for display warmly welcome)
   • Service of Renewal on Sunday

For more details please contact the Rev Jean Murrie or any Blairgowrie Steward - the support of the whole Circuit (and beyond) is warmly invited.

Methodist Women in Britain

The Edinburgh Launch of MWiB took place on Saturday 12th May and our attention is drawn to the first edition of the Scotland MWiB magazine (a successor to 'Network News'). Copies (20p) are on the Vestibule table.

Methodist Homes

The theme of this year's Methodist Homes Sunday is “Because they are worth it” - the motivation which underpins all that MH does in seeking to support older people and their families.

MHA (Methodist Homes for the Aged) was founded in 1943 as “a better option for older people than the workhouse”.

In Scotland, there are sheltered housing schemes in East Kilbride, Granton Edinburgh, Arbroath (Gowan Park), & Milton Glasgow, and also a Retirement Village at Auchlochan, Lesmahagow.

Iris Baldry (Arbroath) has succeeded the late David Nicoll as the Circuit's MH contact person.

For general information, see www.mha.org.uk

Envelopes in support of the work of MH are available for return on or after next Sunday via the offering plate.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in June for work in Nicaragua.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• BibleWorld Mobile in Queensferry and Dalmeny for the first time;
• Bible Society of the West Indies launching the New Testament in Jamaican Patois;
• National Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday;
• Bible Lands Team, a co-operation between the Israeli, the Palestinian and the Arab Israeli Bible Societies as they live out their unity as a public testimony in a place marked by conflict and separation;
• the Board of the SBS meeting on Friday;
• the United Bible Societies Project Round Table meetings taking place in Kenya;
• fathers everywhere next Sunday.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference at the Irish Methodist Conference this weekend, the President at the Outcome Conference on Saturday;
• preparations for Methodist Conference in Plymouth;
• process for nomination of our next Chair of the Synod;
• residents and staff in the Isle of Man and Channel Islands Districts (Methodist Homes);
• Mission Aviation Fellowship's emergency work in various countries;
• the G20 summit meeting in Mexico and our Prime Minister, David Cameron, preparing for this meeting (Christian Aid);
• Musalaha centre, West Bank, and its reconciliation training for Palestinian women (BibleLands);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in South India - Kerala and Tamil Nadu;
• Bible Society work in Nicaragua;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Angola & Mozambique (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Richmond and Hounslow (The London District) and in Tranent (Edinburgh and Forth Circuit).

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