Dundee Methodist Church

25 September 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.

United Service Cancelled

The Rev David Firth intimates the cancellation of this evening's planned United Service in Marketgait. Please note that the Rev Gareth Jones will now preach at the United Service in Dundee Congregational Church at 6.30 pm on Sunday October 23rd when Methodist support will be warmly welcome.

Methodist Relief and Development Fund

www.mrdf.org.uk

Envelopes for donations in support of the work of MRDF were distributed last week and are available today. They can be returned through the offering plate.

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.

Circuit Meeting résumé - diary dates

Date & timeVenueDetails
Saturday 25th February Dundee Methodist Church Circuit Forum
Thursday 9th March Dundee Methodist Church Circuit Leadership Team
Saturday 25th March Dundee Methodist Church Circuit Preachers' Workshop
Wednesday 29th March Dundee Methodist Church Circuit Meeting
Wednesday 29th April Dundee Methodist Church Prayer Workshop
Friday 5th / Saturday 6th May Perth District Synod
Thureday 22nd - Thursday 29th June Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University www.eccscotland.com Methodist Conference

Meetings this week

Date & timeVenueDetails
Wednesday 28th September, 7.30 pm Dundee Methodist Church, “L” Church Council
Wednesday 28th September Scottish Churches House, Dunblane www.scottishchurcheshouse.org Friends of ACTS Autumn Conference. The theme is “The Churches and Parliament”, to be facilitated by the Rev Dr Graham Blount, Scottish Churches Parliamentary Officer, and speakers Sylvia Jackson MSP and Yvonne Strachan (Parliament Equality Unit). All are welcome -see leaflet/booking form on vestibule table or ask Jenny for more details.
Wednesday 28th September, 2.15 pm St Luke's & Queen Street Church Hall, Broughty Ferry - please note changed venue. (map) Mission Aviation Fellowship local support group meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month. A warm welcome is extended to all.

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.

Scottish Bible Society

  • Our support is invited in September for work in Egypt - see library area noticeboard for details.
  • See library noticeboard for details of the Autumn Appeal for work in Kazakhstan where a pilot project has been set up to take Scriptures and other material into 22 prisons.
  • Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
    • publication due soon of the Loa New Testament in Laos
    • translation work (from among 108 languages in all) and 18 on-going projects in Myanmar;
    • continuing cooperation between all agencies involved in post-tsunami work in south-east Asia;
    • Scottish missionary groups' network meeting in Dunblane on Thursday;
    • plans to place complete sets of Braille Scriptures in libraries and schools worldwide.
  • News of work in Siberia (linked to Bible-a-month Club for May 2005), a part of the Russian Federation which spans 11 time zones and whose populations speak more than 100 languages; translation teams are currently at work in the following tongues
    • Bashkir, near the southern end of the Urals
    • Buryat, near Lake Baikal close to the Mongolian Border
    • Ossetic, in the northern Caucasus, where the Beslan school massacre occurred
    • Yakut, Altai, Chuvash, Kreshen
    producing material for some 3.5 million people.

Forthcoming events

Date & timeVenueDetails
Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th October Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh (map) Christian Resources Exhibition - entrance, including all the seminars, is free. This is the first time for 3 years that CRE has been held in Scotland and Methodist support is being encouraged - please note the dates in diaries / planners. www.creonline.co.uk
Friday 28th October, 7.30 pm St Luke's and Queen Street Church, Broughty Ferry (map) Mary Slessor Foundation - Bruce Davies in Concert. Our support is invited at this fund-raising concert. Tickets £5. See poster - ring 01382 370493; visit www.brucedavies.com
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: Bristol District;
  • The Vice-President of Conference at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton to Tuesday;
  • Dundee, Perth, & Montrose Church Councils;
  • 60th Anniversary in Wales, Saturday (Christian Aid);
  • The Leprosy Mission's promotional work in Asia, Australasia, and Zimbabwe;
  • Bible Society work in Egypt;
  • we pray with and for the peoples of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger;
  • we remember fellow Methodists in the Banbury Circuit (Oxford & Leicester District), and in Wallacestone (Central Scotland Circuit).