Dundee Methodist Church

06 November 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.

Worship Group résumé

Those who met last Wednesday discussed

  • Advent and Christmas Worship - please note
    • All-age Worship on December 18th, coffee and mince pies after
    • “Offering under the Tree” for NCH on December 18th in lieu of donations to coffee and usual Christmas Day NCH offering
  • AIDS Vigil for World AIDS Day 2 pm - 4 pm on Thursday December 1st as part of the Scotland District Project to raise awareness of HIV / AIDS - contact Mary Patterson, Jenny or Heather
  • Next “Coming forward” Communion on Sunday January 8th 2006
  • Next Worship Group - Thursday 19th January 2006 at 7.30 pm.

Methodist Homes

Envelopes for donations in support of the work of Methodist Homes are being distributed today; please return them via the collection plate next Sunday or as soon as possible thereafter.

MHA provision includes

  • Residential care homes, including nursing and specialist dementia care
  • Sheltered housing and housing with care schemes
  • Supported retirement housing for sale
  • Community support for people living in their own homes
  • Specialist dementia day care centres.

Sheltered Housing Schemes in Scotland are at East Kilbride, Granton (Edinburgh), Milton (Glasgow), and Arbroath.

Conference in Edinburgh 2006 : “Our Methodist Identity”

Rev Angy Long (Glasgow Circuit) is inviting us to take the opportunity of co-hosting Conference next year to reflect on what it means to be Methodists in Scotland. She has prepared a (simple) questionnaire and would appreciate as many returns as possible. Copies are being distributed today - please take & complete as best you can, then return via the box on the Vestibule table (in a sealed envelope if you wish) or post direct to Angy if you prefer. Thanks!!

Link Club - Volunteer Minibus Escort

The Link Club urgently needs to recruit a minibus escort for the Wednesday morning session of the Club. We cannot run the bus without an escort who accompanies the driver around the city, collecting Club members, bringing them to Marketgait, and then taking them home at lunchtime. This is an important and enjoyable role within the Club - can you help us or do you know someone who might be interested? More information from Lorna, or speak to any Club helper.

International Bible Reading Association

Bible reading material, including Daily Notes, for next year can be ordered through Jean.

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Sunday 6th November, 2.30 pm Meadowside St Paul’s (map) Christmas Lights Choir rehearsal
Saturday 12th November, 10 am - 1 pm Mary Slessor Centre, Nethergate (map) The Leprosy Mission Christmas Card Sale. Sale of dairies, calendars, gifts cards and books - admission free - refreshments available (donations anticipated!). See poster.
Saturday 12th November, 11 am to 3.30 pm Dunblane Cathedral Halls www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk ( map ) “Leading Small Groups”. Current and potential leaders of “small groups” are invited to meet together to learn and share - lunch & travel costs provided. If you would like to go, please contact Margaret Brown as soon as possible in the District Office - 01786 820295; meth@scottishchurcheshouse.org. (If you would like company, Jenny is planning to be there!)
Saturday 12th November, 10 am to 4 pm Newport Parish Church Hall (map) Fair Trade Market in aid of the Malawi Project (a special appeal to provide a well in a village). There will be stalls from development and justice agencies, crafts and olive oil from Palestine, soup / tea & coffee / home baking. See posters.

Support other Organisations

Traidcraft

Copies of the autumn catalogue, including Christmas cards as well as goods, are now available on the Vestibule table. Please place orders through Margaret.

“Children Today”

A copy of the latest issue from NCH is on the upstairs table: borrow, read, return!

Scottish Bible Society

  • Our support is invited in November for work in Panama. See library noticeboard for more details.
  • Prayerful attention is drawn this week to
    • Bible contest in Peru in which over 7,000 children took part
    • Translation projects in three indigenous minority languages in Bolivia, with others already approved
    • Development of literacy projects in Wichi and holistic 'Medicine for the Body and Soul' programme in Argentina.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Wednesday 18th November, 4 pm to 9 pm Scottish Churches House, Dunblane www.scottishchurcheshouse.org “Dunblane Conversations” The last in this year's series of “Conversations on Spirituality and the Arts”. Elizabeth Templeton will lead reflections on'The last blade of grass' - ' a journey through 20th century poetry'. Cost £12 - contact Reservations Administrator, SCH, tel: 01786 823588; www.scottishchurcheshouse.org
Saturday 26th November, 7.30 pm to 11 pm St Aidan's Halls, Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (map) Broughty Ferry Churches Ceilidh. Tickets (£5) are now available from Jenny & David. A stovie supper will be provided - “feel free to bring a bottle”. There will be dancing, other music, chance to mix and meet - all welcome.

Prayer Points for this week

  • Pray Without Ceasing focus: Channel Islands District;
  • Vice-President of Conference in the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District this weekend;
  • Stationing Matching Group, Monday - Tuesday;
  • Connexional Faith & Order Committee next weekend;
  • visit of Rev Tom Stuckey (President) to Cockenzie (Tuesday) and Armadale (Wednesday);
  • preparations for the Circuit Leadership Team retreat;
  • Sabeel movement among Christians in Palestine, and Independence Day in Angola on Friday (Christian Aid);
  • The Leprosy Mission's work in Myanmar and in Thailand;
  • Bible Society work in Panama;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Italy and Malta;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Wirksworth Circuit, (Nottingham & Derby District), and in Portessie (North of Scotland Mission Circuit).