Dundee Methodist Church

20 March 2005

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.

Holy Week and Easter Ecumenical Worship

  • Dundee City Centre Churches worship
    • Maundy Thursday at 7 pm in Dundee Congregational
    • Good Friday Procession from St Andrew’s Cathedral to City Square at 12 noon, with “Songs of Praise” in City Square at 12.30 pm; evening worship in St Joseph’s (Catholic) Church, Wilkie Lane, Hawkhill at 7 pm
    • Easter Sunday “Songs of Praise”, Dundee Methodist at 6.30 pm
  • Broughty Ferry Churches Group Services each evening at 7.30 pm in St Mary’s Episcopal Church; Maundy Thursday celebration of The Eucharist, including the washing of feet and stripping of furnishings; Paschal Service on Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday evening Praise Celebration.

On the Vestibule Table

  • “Momentum” - ‘pilot copies’ of a new Methodist newspaper are available free: please take, read, pass on, and give “feedback” as indicated or to Jenny (Scotland Synod rep to Methodist Council).
  • “Christian Holiday Handbook 2005” – directory of Christian accommodation and leisure facilities in Britain and elsewhere.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Sunday, 20th March, 7.30 pm Caird Hall (map) Dundee Choral Union Concert; programme of English Music (see posters). Tickets (£13 / concessions £10 & £5) from David E, Matthew & Hilary or Central Booking Office.
Monday, 21st March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Holy Week service, with participation by member congregations.
Tuesday, 22nd March, 10.30 am - 11.30 am Dundee Methodist Church, “L” Link Club First Aid training
Tuesday, 22nd March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Holy Week service, with participation by member congregations.
Wednesday, 23rd March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Holy Week service, with participation by member congregations.
Wednesday, 23rd March, 2.15 pm Congregational Church Hall, Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (map) Talk and video on the work of the Mission Aviation Fellowship - a Christian organisation, whose mission is to fly light aircraft in developing countries, so that people in remote areas can receive the help they need.
Thursday 24th March, 7 pm Dundee Congregational Church Lower Constitution Road (map) Dundee City Centre Churches Maundy Thursday Service
Thursday, 24th March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Holy Week service, with participation by member congregations. Maundy Thursday celebration of The Eucharist including the washing of feet and stripping of furnishings.
Friday 25th March, 12 noon St Andrew’s RC Cathedral (map) to City Square Good Friday Procession, followed by “Songs of Praise” at 12.30 pm.
Friday, 25th March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Holy Week service, with participation by member congregations.
Friday 25th March, 7 pm St Joseph’s (Catholic) Church, Wilkie's Lane, Hawkhill (note change of venue) St Joseph's Church (map) Dundee City Centre Churches Good Friday Service
Saturday, 26th March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Paschal service, with participation by member congregations.
Saturday, 26th March, 6 pm Dundee University Chaplaincy (map; building 21) Bach Consort & String Ensemble performance of Buxtehude’s ‘Membri Jesu Nostri' (a Latin meditation upon Christ on the Cross)
Sunday, 27th March, 6.30 pm Dundee Methodist Church Dundee City Centre Churches Easter Sunday “Songs of Praise”
Sunday, 27th March, 7.30 pm St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Queen Street Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group Praise Celebration, with participation by member congregations.

Support other Organisations

Scottish Bible Society

In March we are invited to support work in the West Indies - see library area noticeboard.

Fair Trade

For some time now, we have had fairly-traded coffee, including decaffeinated, and tea after service. We now also have fairly-traded white and brown sugar. (For coffee organisers - can be found in new containers in the office drawer!)

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Wednesday 30th March, 7.30 pm Trinity Hall, High School of Dundee (map) Dundee University Orchestra, Choir & Chamber Choir. A wide variety of music: Beethoven’s 1st Symphony; Bach’s Cantata no 50 – ‘Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft’; Karl Jenkins’ Choral Suite from “The Armed Man: a Mass for Peace”; pieces by Wilbye, Rutter, Allegri, and Sullivan.“The Karl Jenkins is a very new piece but quite accessible. The Scottish premier of the full work is in September”. Ticket £7 or £5.
Saturday 23rd April, 10.30 am to 1 pm Scottish Churches House Dunblane www.scottishchurcheshouse.org “Nurturing House Groups” : an initiative to explore the nurturing of existing Groups and possible creation of new ones is being undertaken by Helen Wareing (District Training & Development Officer) and Jean Murrie. Please contact Jean if you are interested in going.
Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May Kinnoull, Perth (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Group is organising a weekend retreat to provide time and space to “meet old friends and make new friends” and to “relax away from the pressures of everyday life”. The theme is ‘The salt and light of the world’; if you are interested please see leaflet on the Vestibule table, see Jenny or David or Kate, or contact Anne Anderson (738620). Numbers are limited – prompt response is advised!

Prayer Points for this week

  • the President of Conference at the Chairs’ Retreat, Monday – Tuesday;
  • preparations and planning for Conference in Edinburgh in 2006;
  • the work of the Circuit’s Local Church Safeguarding Officers;
  • people and work in Sudan, especially in Darfur, (Christian Aid);
  • printing of three books on AIDS/HIV prevention and education, in seven different languages, by STEP in Ghana (Feed The Minds);
  • The Leprosy Mission’s work in partnership with patients;
  • Bible Society work in the West Indies;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Holsworthy Circuit (Plymouth & Exeter District) and in Dunbar (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).