26 March 2006
In this News Sheet
Next Sunday
- 10.45 am
- “Music for Lent”: Handel's 'Messiah' Part 2
- 11 am
- Worship led by Mrs Julya Walsh
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.
Editors' request
Jenny and David will be pleased to have details of advertised events for publication in the news-sheet before posters are pinned on notice-boards. This also means the information can go on the Church's website. Thanks!
Meetings this week
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 27th March, 7.30 pm | Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street (map) | J S Bach's 'St John Passion'- Concerto Caledonia, Mark Padmore (singer-director), Richard Holloway (speaker) (tickets £15, concessions £12, 'kids go free') |
| Tuesday 28th March | Meadowside St Paul’s (map) | Dundee City Centre Churches Lent meeting, using “Life Balance” by Robert Warren & Sue Mayfield (Wesley Owen, £3.99). |
| Wednesday 29th March, 7.30 pm | Dundee Methodist Church, upstairs | Circuit Meeting |
| Wednesday 29th March, 7.30 pm | Broughty Ferry New Kirk (St Aidan's), Brook Street, Broughty Ferry (map) | The Broughty Ferry Churches Group Lenten Act of Worship. The theme will be “Losing our humanity?” based on material in “Easter People in a Good Friday World”, led by friends from the New Kirk and Our Lady of Good Counsel. | Friday 31st March, 9 am to 4.30 pm | West Park Conference Centre, 319 Perth Road (map) | “Working Together to Make It Better in Dundee”. An invitation to those who work in and value the voluntary sector in Dundee is given by Dundee Voluntary Association as “ingredients … to cook up some new recipes in Dundee”. Please indicate interest by returning the form on the letter in the library area (or otherwise contacting) Hazel Imrie, DVA, Number Ten, 10 Constitution Road, Dundee DD1 1LL or email hazel@number10.org by Friday 24th March. |
| Saturday 1st April, 10 am to 4 pm | Perth Christian Centre, 28 Glasgow Road (map) | World-Wise Conference. “World-Wise is the World Development Movement's active
global citizenship education project for adults.” This is a day to
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| Saturday 1st April, 7.30 pm | St John's Kirk, St John's Close, Perth (map) | Glasgow Phoenix Choir presents 'Songs of Praise and Inspiration'. Tickets for unreserved seats, price £10 (£8 concessions) from The Iona Community, 4th floor Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3DH, tel 0141 332 6343. All proceeds to the Iona Community Growing Hope Appeal. |
| Saturday 1st April, 2 pm - 4 pm | St Luke's & Queen Street Church of Scotland, West Queen Street, Broughty Ferry (map) | Broughty Ferry Churches Group - “John Bell Weekend” - “Big Sing”. |
| Saturday 1st April, 6 pm - 7.15 pm | Broughty Ferry New Kirk East Halls | Broughty Ferry Churches Group - “John Bell Weekend” - - a 'family fun event', with 'Big Praise Band' and John Bell's reflections on 'Odd People in the Bible'. |
| Sunday 2nd April, 11 am | St Stephen's & West Church, Broughty Ferry (map) | Broughty Ferry Churches Group - “John Bell Weekend” - United Worship, followed by refreshments. |
Support other Organisations
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland / Feed The Minds
CTBI and FTM are supporting the FTM project 'peacemakers' as a complement to the Lent Course “Easter People in a Good Friday World” which explores stories of hope and transformation in violent situations.
'Peacemakers'
- gives churches and community groups free access to films and other multimedia learning resources
- seeks to encourage audiences to become agents of change for peace
- provides tools to enable development of simple initiatives in local areas
- is carrying out a survey via a 'violence questionnaire' - can be completed online at peacemakers.tv/survey.
Visit the website www.peacemakers.tv to register interest, or contact FTM, 36 Causton Street, London, SW1P 4AU. See leaflet on noticeboard.
Scottish Bible Society
- Our support for work through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in March for Cameroon and in April for Palestine - see library are noticeboard for more details.
- Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to
- Cassette recordings of the New Testament in Bambara and Tamacheq in Mali;
- New office space and progress with Mandinka translation project in The Gambia;
- Translation projects for minority language groups in China;
- Production in Sierra Leone of a Krio audio version of Living in Hope for HIV / AIDS patients and their families.
- 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.
Forthcoming events
| Date & time | Venue | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 4th April | Meadowside St Paul’s (map) | Dundee City Centre Churches Lent meeting - using “Life Balance” |
| Wednesday 5th April, 2.30 pm | Reid Hall, Forfar (map) | “Roll Out the Barrel” - tickets £6.50. |
| Monday 3rd to Saturday 8th April | Whitehall Theatre (map) | Dundee Gang Show - see noticeboard for advance booking details. www.whitehalldundee.co.uk |
| 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: Newcastle District;
- The President of Conference in the Sheffield District and the Vice-President of Conference in the Isle of Man next weekend;
- Resourcing Mission Grants Committee, Friday;
- ordinands to Conference 06 from the Scotland District;
- Perth Stewards' meeting, tomorrow;
- post-tsunami and earthquake work in Nias, Indonesia (Christian Aid);
- the newly-opened Alexandria School of Theology in Egypt initiated by the Anglican diocese but open to students of all denominations in the area (Feed The Minds);
- The Leprosy Mission's partnership with patients;
- Bible Society work in Cameroon and in Palestine;
- we pray with and for the peoples of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia;
- we remember fellow Methodists in the Nottingham Central Mission Circuit (Nottingham & Derby District), and in Kirkcaldy (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit)
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