18 March 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.

“Growing From The Inside Out”

Please see the news-sheet insert for details of this course which Dundee is to follow (in 4 sessions), facilitated by members of the District Evangelism Group. As Sunday appeared the preferred day, the material, which aims to be widely accessible, will be incorporated into worship, and then continued over lunch & into the early afternoon. The first session is next Sunday. Please bring food for the shared faith lunch; drinks will be provided.

Flower Rota

There are currently five vacancies on the rota for providing the flowers for Sunday worship and pastoral distribution thereafter. If you wish to fill one of these, please contact Elaine.

Children's Group Rota

The April - June rota for adults willing to assist Margaret or Lorna with activities downstairs on a Sunday morning is currently being prepared. Thanks are expressed to “regulars” but additional helpers would also be welcome. If anyone would like to know more, please speak to Lorna or Margaret. There are spare forms to indicate “available dates” on the Vestibule table - please take, complete, and return, as indicated.

Lent

• City Centre Churches : Lent Study groups will meet in Meadowside St Paul's at 7.30 pm, on Mondays to 3rd April. The course will be “Can We Build a better World? Learning from William Wilberforce” - books available from Wesley Owen @ £3.50.
• The Broughty Ferry Churches Group will hold Lent Study Groups as follows, using 'Slave trade abolition' material:
  • Wednesdays from 7 pm to 8 pm in the New Kirk Kippen Hall, St Vincent Street, Broughty Ferry (map) led by the Rev Catherine Collins;
  • Thursdays from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm in St Luke's & Queen Street Church of Scotland, West Queen Street, Broughty Ferry (map), led by the Rev Graham Taylor.
• All are warmly welcome to these Groups.

Charles Wesley 300th Birthday Celebrations - Perth Flower Festival

Our friends in Scott Street Methodist Church, Perth, are organising a Flower Festival from Friday 21st September to Sunday 23rd September, with floral displays illustrating Charles Wesley's life and hymns.

Invitation is given to others within the Circuit to participate by creating a windowsill display based on one of his Hymns - a list of suggestions is available on the Vestibule table 'as a starter'.

Any profits will go towards the VSO project upon which 2 Perth members are to embark. There is, however, an offer of a donation of £15 towards the cost of flowers or the opportunity to order with a 10% discount on all flowers from a local florist.

On the Friday evening there will be a lecture by the Rev Professor Frank Whaling on Charles Wesley and a Musical Concert on the Saturday evening - details to come!

Please note this in your diaries and, if you are interested in creating a display - by yourself or with others - contact Fiona Goudie.

Meetings this week

Support other Organisations

Traidcraft

New catalogues are available on the Vestibule table. Orders may be placed with Margaret.

Scottish Bible Society

Our support through the Bible-a-Month Club is invited in March for work in the Ivory Coast. See library area noticeboard.

Our prayerful attention is drawn this week to :

• launch of the Miskito Bible and work with the Miskito community, street children and teenage addicts in Nicaragua;
• distribution of Scriptures to in- and out- patients in mission hospitals in India;
• distribution to immigrant & indigenous groups, and translation of the Bible into sign language in Costa Rica;
• work of the Bible Society staff in Kompong Chan province, Cambodia;
• continuance of national restoration in Panama.

Forthcoming events

Prayer Points for this week

• the Vice-President of Conference at the Isle of Man Synod, next weekend;
• Lay Workers' Annual Conference, High Leigh, Monday-Friday;
• appointment of a new District Administrator;
• Rural Rehabilitation Association for Afghanistan providing mothers and babies with health-care services (Christian Aid);
• The Leprosy Mission's work through its International Office;
• Télé-Lumière ('TV of Light') in Lebanon replacing destroyed equipment (Feed The Minds);
• Arbroath Church Council tomorrow;
• Bible Society work in Ivory Coast;
• we pray with and for the peoples of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam;
• we remember fellow Methodists in the Hazel Grove and Poynton Circuit (Manchester and Stockport District) and in Kirkcaldy, (Edinburgh & Forth Circuit).

• 11 March 2007
• 25 March 2007

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