12 March 2006
In this News Sheet
Next Sunday
- 11 am
- Worship led by Mr Charles Richmond
- 6.30 pm
- United Service, St Joseph's Church, Wilkie's Lane, Hawkhill (map)
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.
Trade Justice
Please take time today to look at the display of Trade Justice leaflets, posters, cuttings, etc, in the church and send a brief letter (suggestions provided) to the Prime Minister on the issue.
Pray Without Ceasing : latest news
More than 8,000 hours of prayer have been logged up by PWC events at the halfway point of the 14-month initiative.
PWC has not been confined to churches:
in London South-East, prison chaplains joined the rota and reported 30 hours of prayer from prisons, Young Offender institutes, and the Dover Immigration Removal Centre.
Other events have taken place in schools and homes; an increase in Quiet Days and retreats is also noted.
“The quality of our caring and witness can only be enhanced by time spent consciously in the presence of God.”
(Michaela Youngson, Connexional Secretary for Pastoral Care & Spirituality)Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 13th March, 7 pm - 9 pm | Dundee Methodist Church | Circuit Preachers' Meeting |
| Tuesday 14th March | Meadowside St Paul’s (map) | Dundee City Centre Churches Lent meeting. Suggested material - “Life Balance” - contact David Firth to order copies. |
| Wednesday 15th March | St Luke's & Queen Street Church of Scotland, West Queen Street, Broughty Ferry (map) | Broughty Ferry Lent worship to be planned and led by St Luke's & Queen Street and Dundee Methodist. The theme will be “Punish, repay, reform?” based on material in “Easter People in a Good Friday World”. |
| Sunday 18th March, from 10 am | Dundee Methodist Church | Circuit Training for Day for Church Stewards. This important opportunity for learning and sharing is for all existing Church Stewards and those who have indicated interest in serving as a Church Steward. Further details from David Firth or Paddy. |
| Saturday 18th March, 7.30 pm | Younger Hall, North Street, St Andrews (map) | St Andrews Chorus presents Mendelssohn's St Paul. |
Support other Organisations
Scottish Bible Society
- Our support for work through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in March for Cameroon - see library are noticeboard for more details.
- Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
- United Bible Societies' Europe - Middle East Board meeting on Tuesday;
- achievement of the Bible Society in Venezuela's goal of taking the Bible to 1/3 of the population in the next 5 years;
- distribution in the Amazon area of Brazil through the vessel, 'Light of the Amazon'.
- See the library area noticeboard for details of the current SBS Appeal to “provide Bibles for poor Christian homes in India”. Jean is our local SBS link-person.
Tayside Cancer Support
See noticeboard for leaflet giving details of support offered for cancer patients, their relatives and friends. Open support meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at 7.15 pm in Dundee Voluntary Association (DVA), 1 0 Constitution Road. Further details from TCS Coordinator, Room 12004, King's Cross Hospital, Clepington Road, Dundee, DD3 8EA; tel (01382) 596995; email:support@tcs-dundee.org.uk, www.tcs-dundee.org.uk
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday 19th March, 7.30 pm | Caird Hall (map) | Dundee Choral Union Spring Concert. Works to be performed are Bach's Jesu Meine Freude, Stainer's Crucifixion and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs - tickets from David, or Hilary & Matthew. |
| Tuesday 21st March | Meadowside St Paul’s (map) | Dundee City Centre Churches Lent meeting. Suggested material - “Life Balance” - contact David Firth to order copies. |
| Saturday 25th March, 10.30 am to 4 pm | Rosyth Methodist Church, Queensferry Road (map) | “Resourcing Day” - 'New Ways of Being Church'
ALL INTERESTED - especially Preachers, Stewards, Church Council members, are invited to an exploration of the above theme. Among the resource people will be Peter Pillinger and Jonathan Kerry who will give a wider view from their particular Connexional and ecumenical perspectives. This is a day in which we are invited to
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| Friday 28th April, 2.30 pm and 7.30pm | Whitehall Theatre, Bellfield Street (map) | 'All Our Yesterdays' to be performed by Timeless Theatre Productions : see noticeboard for details. |
Prayer Points for this week
- Pray Without Ceasing focus: Manchester & Stockport District;
- The President and Vice-President of Conference at the Diaconal Convocation, Swanwick, Monday - Wednesday;
- preparations for May Synod in our Circuit;
- Montrose Church Council, Thursday;
- partners and projects in Zambia (Christian Aid);
- distance learning programmes of Centro Evangelico de Estudios Pentecostales (CEEP) in Chile (Feed The Minds);
- The Leprosy Mission's work in Bangladesh;
- Bible Society work in Cameroon;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Belgium, Luxemburg, The Netherlands;
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Derby (East) Circuit (Nottingham & Derby District), and in Leith (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).
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