09 July 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.

We send best wishes to Marketgait folk away on holiday and trust they have a time of re-creation; we also welcome visitors to Dundee and hope they enjoy their stay here.

'What Sort of Bishops?'

10 copies of the full Report are in a box on the Vestibule table - borrow, read, & return before 'Discussion with Coffee' on 9th September.

Crèche

As the Worship Group has asked that there be a crèche during July - August, will anyone on the rotas who will be available please contact Elaine.

HIV / AIDS Ribbons

Glittery ribbons, made in South Africa, are still available on the Vestibule table - price £1 (please leave in dish). Synod has invited support for HIV / AIDS awareness-raising as our 'world church project', working in conjunction with Christian Aid and other agencies.

Support other Organisations

What does our “coffee money” do?

The money given for coffee after worship goes (usually) to 2 Methodist Funds - those for “Overseas Missions” and “Home Missions”.

• Mission partners: selected and trained in Britain, then serving at the invitation of partner churches in other parts of the world;
• Nationals in Mission Appointments: enabling the development of mission through local people in their own countries;
• World Church in Britain partnerships: bringing overseas Presbyters (Ministers) to serve in 5-year appointments in Britain, to enrich the life and faith of the British Church;
• Scholarship Students: enabling men and women to study courses in cross-cultural settings, providing leadership development for partner churches, and resourcing the host country (2/3 study in Britain & Ireland, 1/3 'South to South' ie remaining in southern hemisphere);
• Grants to overseas churches, ecumenical and other organisations given in 2 ways
  • Block grants enable overseas partners to determine their own priorities
  • Special grants facilitate specific projects.

“Home Missions” information next week …

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in July for work in Mexico. See library area noticeboard for details.

• Recent publications by the China Christian Council;
• Rising sales of Bibles in Latvia, also ministry to street children, teenage mothers, and the visually-impaired;
• Further funding for the successful Bible Exhibition in Lithuania;
• Appointments of Area Coordinators in Aberdeen and the Ayrshire coast;
• Visitors to the Bible Centre in Vienna.

Christian Aid - “The Beat Goes On” - July 8th

A year after the G8 Summit at Gleneagles, the campaign 'to make poverty history' continues its pressure on the UK Government in a DRUMMING CAMPAIGN. 'Summer Drumming' includes events in July and September to “beat out our new trade justice demand for the Government to cut funding to the IMF and World Bank”.

There is also a “Campaigners' Day” being organised for Saturday September 9th in Colinton Parish Church Rooms, Edinburgh - see red leaflet on downstairs notice board.

More details from Christian Aid www.christianaid.org.uk or www.pressureworks.org/dosomething

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• Pray Without Ceasing focus: Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District;
• the President of Conference at Wesley Study Centre, Durham, Summer School, Thursday-Friday;
• development and use of the Scotland District website;
• Rev Mary Patterson and family, spending holiday time together;
• partners and projects in Afghanistan (Christian Aid);
• project of CEOSS (development organisation in Egypt) to promote mutual understanding between Arab and Western worlds (Feed The Minds);
• The Leprosy Mission's work in North East India - Assam, Bihar, Djarkhand, Nagaland, West Bengal;
• Bible Society work in Mexico;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Kampuchea, Laos, and Vietnam;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Pendle Circuit (North Lancashire District), and in Girvan (Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Circuit).

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