Dundee Methodist Church

9 September 2012

Next Sunday
16 September 2012

11 am
Worship conducted by Mrs Heather Dean

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.

“Christianity Explored”

Every Monday evening, 17th September to 5th November inclusive, 7pm - 9pm, in St John's Methodist Church Hall, Arbroath, the Rev Mary Patterson will be leading this series. There is an open invitation to anyone to come along.

The Methodist Prayer Handbook

Copies of the 2012-13 Handbook, called “Crossing the Chasm”, are now available at £3.50, both for those who pre-ordered, and for those who would like to have one but have not ordered. Please see David Easson today. There are three prayers from the Scotland District, including one from our own Circuit! Buy one and find out!

Worship Leaders Course

Notice has been received of a course to be run by Rev. Andrew Letby (Superintendent of the Edinburgh & Forth Circuit) over a weekend at the beginning of October at Tulliallan (Police College). It will qualify those attending to be Worship Leaders within their own congregations, subject to the approval of their respective Church Councils. The cost will be £120 for accommodation and food, with materials being supplied by the Edinburgh & Forth Circuit. If anyone is interested, please contact the Rev Mary Patterson on 01674 672373 as soon as possible. There may be help with funding if necessary.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Monday 10th September 2012, 7pm Dundee Methodist Church, “L” Circuit Preachers' Meeting
Wednesday 12th September 2012, 10am to 11.30am Blairgowrie Methodist Church Coffee Morning. The support of Circuit friends is always much appreciated and a warm welcome given to all who come.
Wednesday 12th September 2012, 7pm Dundee Methodist Church, “L” Circuit Meeting
Friday 14th September 2012, 12 noon - 1 pm YMCA 151 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (opposite “M&S Food”) (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Christian Aid lunch. A choice of soups (including a vegetarian option), bread and cheese, followed by coffee or tea is available, and a donation of £2 (or more!) is invited to support the work of Christian Aid. A warm welcome is given to all to partake of the food and fellowship, whilst thinking of others worldwide.
Saturday 15th September 2012, 1pm St Paul's Cathedral Lunchtime concert given by Opus Duo. This duo comprises Jane Colvin on Cello and May Halliburton on Double Bass. Tickets are £4, with concessions £3 and under-16 children free. Coffee / tea is served after the concert.

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in September for work in Togo.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

  • registration of a national Bible Society in both Serbia and Montenegro, also opportunities to distribute Scriptures in schools, hospitals, and orphanages;
  • interaction in Kazakhstan with Bible Society's Lectio Divina project;
  • meeting of SBS Board on Friday;
  • raising of SBS profile through speaking engagements, including SU Friends Prayer Conference, Word for Women Conference in Swanwick, and the annual conference of the Telephone Prayer Chain Ministry.

Tax Justice Bus Tour Scotland

Christian Aid and Church Action on Poverty intimate that the “Tax Justice Bus” will visit Scotland in October, calling at St Andrews and Inverness on Thursday 4th October.

More details to come; to become involved contact Diane Green: email; tel 0141 241 6136.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Friday 28th September 2012 City Chambers, Edinburgh Seminar on “Welfare Reform”, organised inter alia by Scottish Churches Housing Action. The speakers will include Alastair Cameron, Chief Executive, SCHA, Mike Crockart, Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, and Margaret Lynch, Chief Executive, Citizens Advice Scotland. The seminar is free but lunch can be booked at £10 per head. For more info, e-mail: info@churches-housing.org .
Thursday 4th October 2012, 10am (for 10.30am) to about 4.30pm the new Gorbals Parish Church, 1 Errol Gardens, GLASGOW, G5 0RA “The Mission Dimension within Worship” - A Study Day, led by the Rev Dr Adrian Burdon, Superintendent of the Leeds Methodist Mission and Convener of the Worship and Liturgy Resources Group of the Methodist Faith and Order Commission. Dr Burdon is a former Principal of the Methodist Theological College in Tonga and currently at York St John's University; he recently completed a sabbatical on worship and mission, including time in China. The Day will also include contributions from Gorbals Parish Church's experience of worship and outreach in their local community.
The organiser, Rev Douglas Galbraith, Secretary of the Church Service Society (which this year celebrates its 150th anniversary) and Convener of ACTS, has sent a specific invitation to Methodists to this event.
Further details to come but the cost is expected not to exceed £20, including a buffet lunch and other catering. To intimate interest/ receive further details, contact dgalbraith@hotmail.com; tel 01592 752403.
Saturday 27th October 2012, 10am to 3.15pm Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EL Church of Scotland and ACTS Autumn Conference on the theme “Ecumenical Relations in an Age of Change”. See noticeboard for details; contact / book through Ros Milne, Committee on Ecumenical Relations, Church of Scotland, tel: 0131 225 5722 ext 2370; email: rmilne@cofscotland.org.uk

Prayer Points for this week

  • the President and the Vice-President of Conference at the TUC Congress on Tuesday;
  • the Rev Lily Twist, our Chair, returning from representing British Methodism at the Singapore Methodist Conference;
  • work in Papua province of Indonesia, amid tribal violence (Mission Aviation Fellowship);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in south east India;
  • refugees arriving in Egypt (BibleLands / “Embrace the Middle East”);
  • LPHU's work with the disabled in Lebanon (Christian Aid);
  • projects in the Southampton District (Methodist Homes);
  • Bible Society work in Togo;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia (WCC Ecumenical Calendar);
  • we remember fellow Methodists in London Mission (North West) (The London District) and in Milton (Glasgow Circuit).