19 February 2006

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.

Children's Group Request

In order to meet child protection regulations, two adults are needed when the Children's Group goes downstairs. Until now, the “second adult”, has been found by personal approaches, week by week, by Lorna and Margaret. Recently, it has sometimes proved more difficult to find someone to accompany the Group; it has therefore been decided to try producing a rota of helpers.

If you would consider joining this rota, please take a sheet from the Vestibule table, complete, and return it to either Lorna or Margaret.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Rotas for Counters, Coffee-makers and Door Stewards

Please collect your rota from the Vestibule table. It is helpful if any “swaps” are marked on the appropriate sheets in the office and library area. The Church Stewards take this opportunity to thank all those who help week by week by welcoming our congregation, providing tea and coffee, and assisting with the collection.

Lent Worship

• On Wednesday 15th March Methodists are partnered with St Luke's & Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, in leading worship there at 7.30 pm on a theme from “Easter People in a Good Friday World” - Ferry Methodists are asked to contact Jenny to help in preparing this with St Luke's.
• Dundee City Centre Churches will meet on Tuesdays from 7th March at 7.30 pm in Meadowside St Paul's, using “Life Balance” by Robert Warren & Sue Mayfield (Wesley Owen, £3.99).

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Traidcraft

There will be a Traidcraft stall today. Copies of the new catalogue will be available for taking away with a view to ordering! It may be possible to obtain a discount on clothing items if there is sufficient interest. Please let Margaret know quickly if you are interested in any item either at full price or discounted.

Scottish Bible Society

• Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in February for work in Chile (see library noticeboard).
• Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
  • good inter-Church relations, translators, literacy programmes and 'Faith Comes by Healing' in Benin;
  • awareness of HIV/AIDS and literacy work in Togo, also translators and the launch of the Kabye project;
  • expansion of work, recruitment and funds to allow Scripture distribution across the country of Niger;
  • completion of two new translations in Ghana, plus project enabling mobile-phone users to receive Bible verses by voice or text-message.
  • The SBS is also appealing for support in providing Bibles for poor Christian homes in India, where Christians, although a small minority of the 1.1 billion population, amount to more than 25 million. (see library noticeboard)

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• Pray Without Ceasing focus: Liverpool District;
• The President of Conference at the Tri Forces Chaplains Conference tomorrow & Tuesday; The Vice-President of Conference in the Darlington District next weekend;
• Connexional Faith and Order Committee meeting next weekend;
• NCH work throughout Scotland;
• preparations for and outcomes of the Circuit Forum;
• partners and projects in Brazil (Christian Aid);
• Bible Schools in Hebei, Guizhiou and Zhejiang, China (Feed The Minds);
• The Leprosy Mission's promotional work in the British Isles, Southern Africa, and Canada;
• Bible Society work in Chile;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Ashbourne Circuit (Nottingham & Derby District), and in Cockenzie (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).

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