18 May 2014

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.

Easter Offering Appeal

Thanks are expressed to all who supported this which raised the sum of £104.60.

Sue's Abseil Adventure

Sue Marshall-Jennings is to do an “SAS-style Abseil” off the Forth Rail Bridge today in aid of Alzheimers Scotland. She will be grateful for any sponsorship - donations via Just Giving or handed to her in person.

If you are trying to visualise this, Sue is to descend for 165 feet from the South Queensferry “approach” to 'The Bridge Proper' (ie NOT dangling from the cantilever girdlers)

Christian Aid Week

The week officially ran until yesterday. If you still wish to contribute via an envelope, and have not received one through your door, please take one from the table at the top of the stairs. Filled envelopes, gift-aided if possible, obtained from any source, may be returned via the collection plate over the next month.

Dundee Methodists and Food Banks

We support the Dundee Foodbank by bringing in any of the suggested items from the Shopping List (on the table on the upstairs landing) and placing them in the large blue Bucket provided nearby. An explanatory slip is also available. There is also need for plastic carrier bags of suitable size; please place any spares by the Bucket. Monetary donations are also welcome. Contact Liz Kay for further information.

Link Club: Enable 60th Birthday Celebrations

Last Tuesday afternoon, the Link Club hosted a very successful “Tartan Tea Party”; the Table decoration of silk flowers and Enable Tartan scarves is on display today at the foot of the Lectern. The Club will be represented by two of its Volunteers at a Parliamentary Event for Enable Scotland in Holyrood on Wednesday.

Preaching Plans

The Plan for June - August has been distributed electronically to those on the list and some printed copies are on the glass Vestibule table. Please contact Jenny or David Easson for inclusion on the electronic system or for further printed copies.

“A Life More Ordinary”

ENABLE Scotland has joined with Radio Scotland to produce a series of 4 programmes telling the story of an ENABLE member's life, focussing on the thread of progress for people who have a learning disability.

The broadcasts are on Radio Scotland at 1.30pm on Thursdays, repeated the following Sunday at 6am, then available on BBC iPlayer for the next 7 days. The last in the series is this Thursday.

Dundee University Research Request

A request and leaflets have been received from “Ageing and Health” at Dundee University, seeking participants for a study "looking at falls and balance…seeking people aged 65 years or over who have experienced a fall in the past 12 months and sought medical attention”.

Contact: Deepa Sumukadas, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Ageing and Health: (01382) 383086 / 383670. email: d.sumukadas@dundee.ac.uk.

District Youth Event

Information is available about this gathering at Dalguise Perthshire from September 5th - 7th; two places will be reserved until June 6th for young people (P7 to S4) for each Circuit.

If you are interested please advise the Rev Mary Patterson and also contact Hayley Dunn Hayley@ymcaedinburgh.com or Terry Wright wesleyhorse@googlemail.com .

Agoraphobia Support Group

DVA (Dundee Voluntary Action) has received a request to investigate whether there is need for a Support Group for people affected by Agoraphobia. Contact Siobhain McIntosh on (01382) 305743 or 07530 237 467.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in May for work in South Sudan.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to

• contacts with refugees in Ethiopia and Bible Society work undertaken in Djibouti;
• successful distribution of 140,000 Bibles and New Testaments for migrant workers in the Gulf States, and also 10,000 Children's Bibles & 5,000 CDs;
• wide and effective use in Egypt of the new Arabic Van Dyck cross-reference Bible.

Prayer Points for this week

• the President and Vice-President of Conference at Wesley Day commemorations in London on Saturday;
• Connexional Memorials Committee, Friday;
• Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland General Assemblies meeting this week in Edinburgh;
• our Circuit Leadership Team / Invitation Committee;
• work of partner Coptic Evangelical Organisation for Social Services in volatile situations in Egypt (Embrace);
• mission in Chad ( MAF);
• projects, residents & staff in the Manchester and Stockport District (Methodist Homes);
• the continuing work of relief and development (Christian Aid);
• work in west India ( The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in South Sudan;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Malawi and of Zambia (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists on the Isle of Wight (Southampton District) and in Woodlands (Glasgow Circuit).

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