02 December 2007

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.

Advent and Christmas Worship

Our observing of Advent / Christmas this year will include

• the customary lighting of Advent candles, with accompanying Litany, during morning worship;
• a Faith lunch after worship on the first 3 Sundays in December, during which there will be conversation together on “the trappings of Christmas”: the topic will be introduced by the host each week (this Sunday Heather Dean, next Sunday, Jenny Easson) from material produced by “Alternativity”- everyone is welcome, please bring food to share (drinks provided);

Christmas Tags

Clare Small reminds us that gifts tags are available on the Vestibule table: proceeds to Church funds.

Preaching Plans

Plans for the quarter December 2007 - February 2008 are now on the Vestibule table - please take / distribute.

Flower Rota

There are some vacant Sundays for 2008. If you feel you could help with this, please contact Elaine.”

Thanks are conveyed to all who provide the flowers during the year and to all who use their gifts in floral display, with especial mention of Tom and Elaine.

Warm appreciation is also heard and here expressed for the pastoral ministry of allocation and distribution of the flowers after worship, undertaken by Jean and colleagues.

“Momentum”

The Autumn / Winter edition of this Methodist magazine is on-line www.methodistchurch.org and has also been included with a recent “Methodist Recorder”; copies are also available now in Marketgait from the Vestibule table.

Glenna draws particular attention to the NCH item, which mentions the Dundee Families Project (spot other Scotland-related articles too!)

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Rotary Shoe Boxes

"Many thanks to all those who supported this initiative. Boxes from Dundee contributed to the 700 that were loaded on to 3 pallets at Fife Warehouse Company in Kirkcaldy. Last week we hitched a free ride for the pallets to Preston to join boxes collected from around the UK. Today (29th) they left for Romania and will arrive in time for Christmas. We are promised feedback on how they were received.” Alan Suttie

UNICEF Jars of Grace

This year's theme is “Water for Children”; jars are to be returned today or, later, to Mary F..

Scottish Bible Society

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

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to:

• special outreach programmes for Christmastide, work in Japan;
• meeting of SBS Board of Directors on Wednesday;
• official churches and all Christian in North Korea
• regular use of the Revised Korean Bible in South Korea.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• The President of Conference in the Leeds District next weekend;
• MPH Board meeting, Wednesday;
• Methodist Ministers' widows residing in Scotland;
• projects in the Manchester and Stockport District, church MH representatives (Methodist Homes Prayer Diary);
• partners and projects in Zambia (Christian Aid);
• work of FOWODI, reproductive health organisation, with rural women in Kasese, Uganda ('Feed The Minds');
• Bible Society work in Azerbaijan;
• The Leprosy Mission's work in South India;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Liberia and Sierra Leone;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Barton and Brigg Circuit (Lincoln & Grimsby District), and our friends in St John's, Arbroath (Angus, Dundee & Perthshire Circuit).

• 25 November 2007
• 09 December 2007

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