5 October 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.

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.

President of Conference in Scotland

The Rev Ken Howcroft is in the Edinburgh and Forth Circuit today:

• 11am Celebration of 250 years of Methodism, Dunbar
• 6.30pm Circuit Service, with Communion, City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, Nicolson Square.

IBRA

International Bible Reading Association devotional and study material can be ordered through Heather Dean. Please sign the paper on the vestibule table or contact Heather direct.

Montrose Methodists

Our Methodist friends in Montrose today embark on a new stage as a Methodist society, following the final service in their New Wynd premises last week. They are to be worshipping in studio premises to the rear of their church building which is at the point of sale and hand-over.

Safeguarding: 'Past Cases Review' Letter

A letter from the Secretary of Conference, the Rev Martyn Atkins, is being distributed to all Methodists, through Superintendents and Ministers in pastoral charge.

In conversation at the recent Church Council, it was agreed that the letters for Dundee be made generally available on and from next Sunday when the Rev Mary Patterson is to be in Marketgait, and that an explanatory insert be produced, by Mary and/or Sue Marshall-Jennings (Church and Circuit Safeguarding Officer), within this week's news-sheet, to supply some of the background to and aims of the Letter.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

Our support via the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in October for work in Bolivia.

Our prayerful attention this week is drawn to

• work in Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana with prisoners, the elderly, women and children;
• visit to Scotland of Nabila Omiesh from the Bible Society in Iraq;
• use of digital media by the Bible Society in Uruguay;
• growth of the Community Bible Experience, an engagement tool to encourage deeper reading in groups;
• funding for increased distribution work in Venezuela;
• visit by SBS personnel to Rwanda, from Friday.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The Vice-President of Conference at the Lib Dem Party Conference, Monday - Tuesday, and in the Gloucestershire Circuit next weekend;
• consideration of property and finances in the Circuit;
• effects of Cyclone Phailin on dalits in India (Christian Aid);
• international staff and recruitment (The Leprosy Mission);
• Bible Society work in Bolivia;
• residents and staff in Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire (Methodist Homes);
• The Learning Centre for the Deaf, Baabda, Lebanon (Embrace);
• work in Chad (MAF);
• we pray with and for the peoples of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (WCC);
• we remember fellow Methodists in Chesterfield (Sheffield District) and in Wallacestone (Central Scotland Circuit).

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